A planet tells you what is at work in a chart: the drive, the need or the function. The sign shows how it works and the house shows where in life it shows up. The ten bodies below run from the fastest and most personal to the slowest, whose themes are shared by a whole generation.
- SunLUMINARY • IDENTITY
Identity, will, vitality, the conscious self
- MoonLUMINARY • INNER WORLD
Emotion, needs, habit, security, mother
- MercuryPERSONAL
Mind, language, learning, communication, trade, short trips
- VenusPERSONAL
Value, attraction, aesthetics, relationships, money, pleasure
- MarsPERSONAL
Action, desire, anger, courage, competition, boundaries
- JupiterSOCIAL
Growth, meaning, belief, opportunity, expansion, excess
- SaturnSOCIAL • THRESHOLD
Limits, time, responsibility, mastery, structure, fear
- UranusGENERATIONAL
Rupture, freedom, sudden change, originality, rebellion
- NeptuneGENERATIONAL
Dissolution, imagination, compassion, inspiration, loss of boundaries, escape
- PlutoGENERATIONAL
Transformation, power, crisis, what is buried, rebirth