| Sun | Moon | Mercury | Venus | Mars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
The Sun rules your will, your pride, your determination, your heart, health and vitality, the recognition you receive for work well done, your sense of purpose, and motivation for future goals.
The Sun is your ego, governing how you see yourself, your self-esteem.
This planet also determines how others view you.
An essentially masculine force, the Sun also wields influence over the significant men in your life, especially those in positions of authority. This may be your father, your current boyfriend or your husband, a guy-friend, or a male boss or client.
The Sun rules all daylight. In the same way it rules public recognition and self-image by illuminating who we are, the Sun also clarifies the characteristics any planet it touches and reveals truths about that planet.
For example, if the Sun and Jupiter communicate in a special configuration, Jupiter's goodness would be illuminated and made even more brilliant by the Sun. Under the nurturing light of the Sun, Jupiter's strengths intensify, as do the benefits it bestows upon us.
The Sun takes one year to move through all twelve constellations (signs) of the zodiac. The Sun guards the heart.
It is the ruler of the sign of ♌Leo.
The moon drives your deepest feelings, the fine-tuning of your character, your instinct and intuition, your emotions, and your reactions.
The moon also rules your private life, especially your home.
Since the moon is feminine in nature, it rules your mother and how you perceive her, and does the same for any other important females in your life, including your wife, girlfriend, or a female boss, your grandmother, girlfriend or wife.
If the Sun represents where you are going, the Moon signifies where you've been. More specifically, the moon rules your history, your background, emotional development, and your roots.
Your ability to get in touch with your feelings is dictated by planetary aspects to the Moon.
The dynamics surrounding the moon can also indicate the state of your health, especially if you are female.
The moon, which takes approximately 28 days to orbit the zodiac, spends two to three days in each sign every month.
The moon rules the sign of ♋Cancer, the stomach and breasts, and the light of night (obviously, moonlight).
Every month there is a 🌑new moon. Depending where it falls in your horoscope, it shows which areas would be favored for new beginnings.
A 🌕full moon arrives two weeks after the 🌑new moon; depending on where that moon falls in the chart, it could be time to reap the benefits or consequences of earlier actions.
This little guy is the mythological messenger, communicating information to one and all.
Mercury represents non-emotional, highly rational, objective thought.
Its placement in a sign determines that sign's intellectual style.
As a quickly moving planet, Mercury is flexible, responsive and adaptable.
A big part of Mercury's job is to disburse information; as such it rules perception, language, writing, editing, research, speaking, all kinds of learning experiences and learning styles and the assessment of data.
It rules telecommunications, computing, software, electronic gadgets, the postal service, shipping, couriers, and all forms of transportation.
This planet has a LOT of responsibility.
When Mercury retrogrades, it scrambles information, causes static and confusion. Its effects are felt universally. Mercury retrograde episodes are highly unreliable to sign contracts, complete important transactions, access accurate information or make big decisions.
The sign and house in which Mercury resides in one's chart reveals a great deal about that person's natural style of gathering and giving out information.
Mercury also rules sibling relationships, maps, letters, travel plans, appointments, roadways, vehicles, advertising, publishing, sales, and public relations.
Mercury spends about two-three weeks in each sign, but when it retrogrades, which it does three to four times a year, it can stay in one sign as long as ten weeks.
Never far from the Sun, it takes about one year to circle the zodiac.
Mercury rules both ♊Gemini and ♍Virgo.
Venus rules your affections, your heart, love life, and your pleasures, including gifts.
This feminine planet also rules beauty, fashion, adornment, and art. The planet of grace makes the world more attractive and fun.
There is another thing about Venus that not many people know about: Venus placement in a chart can also bring strong financial favor and material gain.
Venus is the governess of all that is beautiful. Venus can bring to us opportunities to hear music, eat good food, enjoy a beautiful perfume, appreciate a good wine, or be motivated to see a great art exhibit.
Venus can even help you seduce your lover. What a dreary world it would be without Venus!
Venus is alluring, magnetic and receptive. This is one planet that is never aggressive. (Assertiveness would be left to Mars, her cosmic lover; they make a great pair!) Venus is able to get her way by using charm instead of force.
Some see this planet as a bit hedonistic; it's true Venus tends not to be deeply thoughtful, ethical or moral.
Thinking about consequences is a job left to Saturn. Deciding what is just is left to Jupiter. Cold hard analysis of facts and data is Mercury's job. (The information you get from Mercury is usually quite reliable, because its observations are completely unemotional.)
Like Mercury, Venus stays close to the Sun. It remains in a sign for two to three lovely weeks unless it retrogrades, in which case it can stay in a sign for as long as five months.
This planet typically takes from ten to twelve months to tour all twelve signs, though it can take longer if it retrogrades.
Venus is the natural ruler of ♉Taurus and ♎Libra.
Mars is the planet that energizes other planets or houses of the zodiac.
This is an aggressive, assertive, forceful, energetic, courageous, competitive, and daring planet.
This Red Planet governs the whole spectrum of masculine elements, from sex to war.
Known as the Warrior planet, Mars is known for its courage, passion, pure strength and stamina. As such, Mars is also famous for its ability (when in harmony) to help you outlast and outdistance adversaries.
Mars governs all sharp instruments, fire, and anything combustible.
Mars must be in a harmonious placement to be of help for any endeavor that requires endurance and determination. When its rays are positive, Mars has an ability to lend survival instincts to any situation.
Mars allows you to keep progressing even when the going gets rough.
If Mars is too energetic, an emotional outburst could erupt, or there may be danger of a physical accident.
If you are looking for a sense of spirit or gusto in just about any endeavor, Mars could provide that.
Mars takes two years to go around the zodiac, and stays in each sign for six or seven weeks. If it retrogrades back and forth in a sign, it can settle in for as many as seven or eight months.
It is the natural ruler of ♈Aries, and the co-ruler of ♏Scorpio.
Jupiter is known as the planet of good fortune.
It expands opportunity and the benefits within the house it is visiting.
This fortunate planet also rules wealth and solid, financial and material gain.
Additionally, Jupiter brings vision, faith, optimism, loyalty, justice, confidence and wisdom.
Jupiter paints a broad picture and makes you want to think big.
Think about this: take all the planets in the solar system except the Sun, which is really a star, and put them together. Jupiter is physically larger than all those other planets put together.
That's why we call Jupiter the expansive planet. This is the Great Benefactor.
Jupiter allows us to philosophize and find a higher meaning or purpose in the sector it visits.
It encourages reflection, study, and the attainment of higher education.
This happy planet takes twelve years to circle the zodiac. Each sign gets its blessings for one full year.
Since long-distance travel is a factor of the education sector, having Jupiter in your sign may inspire you to travel far and wide, or much more frequently than usual.
Jupiter is the natural ruler of ♐Sagittarius.
Saturn is the planet of concentration, permanence, tangible rewards, tenacity, ambition, and productivity.
This taskmaster planet also rules caution, delay, constriction, limitation, responsibility, rules and regulations, pain, fear, authority, discipline, control and denial.
Before you say, "Ugh!", consider this: Without Saturn, we would see little or no progress.
We live in a tangible world, and Saturn urges us to deal with reality. Without Saturn we would have no gumption, no standards, or controls, no structure; just chaos.
Saturn grabs us by the collar and forces us to confront reality.
When Saturn touches a specific area in your chart, that area experiences a kind of slow-down, or freeze.
Saturn is cold and icy. This planet is also considered heavy or leaden.
Saturn, the Great Teacher planet, brings maturity and teaches us the value of patience and sacrifice.
It takes 29 years to circle the zodiac, and stays in each sign for two and a half years.
Saturn is the ruler of ♑Capricorn. It rules the base structure of everything, from teeth and bones to the organizational hierarchy of a company. It governs historical, artistic, or archeological artifacts.
Uranus rules surprise and all things unexpected.
It also rules the future and new technology, including all that is newly invented and all that is unimagined and yet to come. Uranus is the father of electricity.
Innovative, unpredictable, resourceful, imaginative, idiosyncratic and experimental, Uranus also rules creativity and scientific genius.
Uranus' job is to break rules and demolish established patterns or structures, creating sudden-even radical-change.
Uranus always works in sudden ways, and is called the Great Awakener.
Uranus gives a strong impulse for rebellion, independence, and even shock.
Exciting and liberating, Uranus will overturn anything traditional, conventional or orthodox that it deems has outlived its usefulness.
This planet produces quick, liberating results, blending fact with intuition in its quest to discover universal truths.
Uranus is considered the higher octave of intellectual Mercury, and is strongly objective and brainy, with no emotional side.
Those people with strong Uranian influences in their charts are trailblazers and forerunners in their communities.
Since Uranus also holds sway over social change, it also regulates the global brotherhood of man and all humanitarian concerns, including environmental issues.
This planet stays in a sign for seven years and therefore takes 84 years to circle the zodiac.
Uranus rules the ♒Aquarius.
Finally, Uranus rules astrology.
Neptune is the planet of inspiration.
The higher octave of Venus, Neptune brings beauty to a higher, more spiritual level.
It also holds sway over dreams, the subconscious, illusions, fantasies and all things magical and enchanting.
Neptune intensifies intuition and teaches us to be deeply compassionate.
Neptune often asks us to sacrifice for the greater good or for love of another.
Neptune refines, purifies, and cleanses. Any planet visiting Neptune will come away purer.
This planet cannot bear coarseness. Highly sensitive Neptune gets us more in tune with subtlety, and therefore increases the artistic side of one's personality.
Neptune rules all visual communication, whether with symbols or gestures, such as photography, film, ballet and other dance arts, music, painting and poetry.
Neptune also rules the sea and all other bodies of water. It governs rain, ice, and liquids of all kinds 'including beverages and alcohol.
Neptune also rules drugs -- both the bad ones, which make us suffer, and the good ones, which make us well.
Neptune is known as the Planet of Mist.
It makes us want to escape mundane, everyday reality and to enter a more ideal, heavenly state. It urges us to excel and to exceed boundaries, to reject any and all limitations.
But since Neptune alters reality and clouds our perceptions of it, there are times that Neptune complicates issues and makes it hard to decipher facts.
Neptune can make us deceive ourselves (or be deceived by others), or just make us misunderstand or be misunderstood.
It rules all that is glamorous and sparkling. Bear in mind that Neptune's visions are not always real. (It's Saturn's job to give us the cold, hard truth.) We need a planet to inspire us. That is Neptune's province.
It takes 146 years to circle the zodiac, with a stay of about fourteen years in each sign.
Neptune is the ruler of ♓Pisces.
Pluto rules transformation.
It is the father of the phoenix as it rises from the ashes, the symbol of rebirth.
Pluto governs the act of ultimate survival in the never-ending cycle of beginnings and endings.
Pluto's quality as a catalyst for change and metamorphosis cannot be overemphasized.
If its cycle is active in a chart, this planet can aid an individual in triumph over the odds.
Pluto intensifies and strengthens any sector or planet it touches.
It also rules obsessive behavior, taboos and compulsions, even crisis.
This planet covers many fundamental issues, including life and death, the ultimate transformation of energy.
Pluto rules all that is hidden, unseen or buried, including secrets, undercover work (such as detective or spy work), strategic planning, and even the roots of plants or vegetables.
It also drives the unearthing or unmasking of whatever has remained concealed.
Pluto takes 246 years to circle the zodiac, with a stay ranging from eleven years to thirty-two years in a sign!
The sign of ♏Scorpio is under Pluto's domain.