Celestial Bodies
Sun
The Sun is our most powerful celestial body in our solar system. It gives us life, warmth and food. Its the force that sustains us on Earth. The Sun is also the most pervasive influence among the celestial group.
The Sun energy, is how others see you. The position of the Sun in your chart governs your individuality and your drive for goals in your life.
Creativity is another great influence of the Sun. Other people can feel your Sun energy just as you can feel the Sun’s warmth as you walk outside.
Moon
The Moon stands for infancy, childhood, dreams, memory, and inner psyche. Because the Moon holds dominion over emotional energy, it influences your receptivity to others and also how they feel about you. The Moon is an extremely important factor in love relationships. The Moon also represents safety and home. People with the Moon and Sun conjuncted in their birth chart, usually have a hard time keeping secrets.
Mercury
Mercury is the planet of mental activities, communication, and intellectual energy. It rules over your intelligence, perception and reason, memory, speaking and writing. It reflects the way you see, hear, and understand information. Day-to-day travel and short trips are under its dominion. It also controls the functions of the nerves, arms, hands, and fingers.
Venus
Venus rules over love affairs, art, beauty, decoration, affection, harmony and friendship. This planet governs higher emotions and happiness. Venus makes life beautiful. Venus rules your ability to love, and share with another person. Being the planet of pleasure, it points to the kinds of amusements you are drawn to and in ways you spend your money.
Mars
Mars governs energy, boldness, the will to win, the ability to turn ideas into action. Its the planet of force and war. Mars influences also bring strife, conflict, tension, anger, destruction, accidents and violence. The Mars energy hates to be ordered around. It also represents quickness and active energy. Mars may force you to be argumentative, and quarrelsome.
Jupiter
Jupiter is known as “The Greater Fortune”. Jupiter’s kingdom is luck, health, happiness, wealth, power, and high position. It rules over knowledge, higher learning, vision, and honesty. Its influence bestows a willingness to partake of life, to gather new experiences. The knowledge that Jupiter imparts is on a philosophical level. Jupiter represents how outgoing and gentle you are, whether you attract money and possessions, and in what career you will have the most luck.
Saturn
Saturn is the planet of diligence, self-control, and limitation. Its domain is patience, stability, maturity, and realism. Its influence is stern and restrictive, cold and severe.
Saturn is called the “Celestial Taskmaster”, for it teaches us the lessons we must learn in life. Saturn does not give us more than we can handle. Under Saturn’s influence, we achieve by overcoming obstacles and hardships.
Uranus
Uranus is the planet of the future, associated with modern science, invention, humanitarian movements, and revolution. It is a planet of sudden upheaval and swift, unexpected happenings. Its domain is all that is new, original, different, and unorthodox.
Uranus relates to your inner will and your secret power. Uranus is a deep-seated energy within the personality, an unconscious purpose that is revealed over a lifetime.
Neptune
Neptune is the planet of idealism and spirituality. Its realm is the subconscious world, hidden memory, intuition, and clairvoyance.
Neptune’s influence represents mystery, artistic imagination, dreams, and visions.
Neptune rules a wide domain of human activity, from motion pictures, drama, dance, poetry, hypnosis, and anesthesia. ESP is a deep nature of Neptune’s influence.
Pluto
Pluto signifies death and rebirth. It is the planet of regeneration, destruction, and then complete transformation.
Pluto wipes the slate clean. Its power is felt in the great tides of history. It influences masses of humanity, enormous groups of people, and large organizations. Mass media and giant conglomerates are its domain. Pluto destroys and creates.