Planets

Each planet stands for a force in your chart: how you shine, how you feel, how you think, how you act. These pages walk through them one by one, from the Sun and Moon to the slow planets.

In a birth chart the planets are the main characters, and each one stands for a part of the personality. The Sun speaks of identity, the Moon of emotions, Mercury of the mind, Venus of affection and Mars of action. Jupiter and Saturn show how you grow and where you set limits, while Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move so slowly that they colour whole generations.

There is a page for each of them, and also for the points modern astrology reads alongside them: Chiron, Lilith, the lunar nodes and the Part of Fortune. Each page explains what the planet or point symbolises and how it is usually read in a chart.

A planet is never interpreted on its own. The sign it occupies tells you how it acts, and the house tells you in which part of life. So once you finish a planet's page, the natural next step is to look it up in your sign and your house among the interpretations.

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Each planet shifts in tone with the house it sits in. See the interpretations of each planet across the twelve houses.

Each planet across the twelve houses

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