Without the Sun there would be no life. It is the driving force behind the whole solar system. It represents Will Power, Vitality, Leadership, Creativity, the urge to Achieve, the Conscious Aim, the Essential and Inner Nature of Man. It denotes those in high authority or of noble birth. It signifies honor, glory, power, the father, the husband (in a woman's nativity). Its action is to illuminate, vitalize, individualize, stabilize, improve, elevate, integrate. When prominent it gives benevolence, dignity, authority, nobility of character
or prodigality, conceit, egoism, ostentatious behavior. It rules Leo, the sign of Creative Power in manifestation; is exalted in Aries, representing Will in Action. Its fall is in Aquarius, where cooperation and detachment are paramount, and it is in detriment in Libra, where the emphasis is on the Not-Self. Its symbol is the circle of limitless potentiality brought to a definite focus in the point.
THE MOON (Diana)
The Sun illuminates our world by day. The reflected light of the Sun enables the Moon to prevent there being total darkness during the night. Day represents the conscious mind, night the subconscious. The Moon represents Instinct and Habit, born of heredity, the Personality, Feeling, Memory, Imagination, Receptivity, Impressionability, Desire for new experience, the Domestic, Protective and Cherishing impulses. It signifies the Mother, the wife in a male nativity, the common people, sailors, women in general, shopkeepers, those whose work is connected with liquids. Its action is to personalize, make receptive, restless. When prominent it gives sensitivity, adaptability, popularity, receptivity, sympathy or if afflicted, a tendency to be passive, cautious, negative, moody, fanciful, inconstant. It rules Cancer, the sign of the Mother Principle, and is exalted in Taurus, representing the perfect receptivity of Virgin Matter. Its fall is Capricorn, the sign of discipline and limitation, and it is in detriment in Scorpio, where matter becomes transformed. Its symbol is the crescent representing the Moon as a lens through which the solar rays may be focused.
MERCURY
Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods is always pictured with wings on his feet to represent the speed of thought and the ceaseless activity of the mind. Mercury represents the Power of Communication, Interpretation and Self-Expression, Intelligence, Reason, the ability to perceive Relationships and to gather Facts, Mobility, Adaptability to Environment. It signifies brothers, young people, writers, travelers, speakers, students, teachers, clerks, editors, transport workers. Its action is to quicken, enliven and add mobility. When prominent it gives quick wits, ingenuity, adaptability, humor and a love of study and argument or if afflicted, a changeable, exaggerating or tricky mind, a nervous excitable temperament, quibbling, superficial and indecisive. It rules Gemini, the sign of immediate relationships (its positive expression), and Virgo, the sign of discrimination (negative expression). It is in its fall in Sagittarius, where intuition is paramount, and in Pieces, where the feelings predominate. It has no sign of exaltation but is well placed in signs ruled by Saturn, which add depth to the mental processes. Its symbol is a combination of the crescent, the circle and the cross, showing receptivity resulting from the exaltation of spirit over matter.
VENUS
The Roman goddess of Beauty was the representative of man's capacity for achieving Harmony, especially through mental activities, study of the Arts, and through the social graces. Venus shows the quality of the native's urge to adapt himself to others and the nature of his affections. It is a general significator of the wife in a male nativity, of young girls, those following artistic and careers, florists, dealers in ornaments, finery, perfumes, confectioners or who cater in some way for those who follow the pursuit of pleasure. Its action is to harmonize, beautify, enhance, soften, pacify. When prominent it gives an affectionate, warmly sympathetic nature and an attractive, pliant personality or if much afflicted, a fondness for being admired, a flirtatious, pleasure-seeking, luxury-loving, acquisitive, lazy, irresponsible and even dissolute disposition. In its negative aspect it rules Taurus, where placid acquiescence is the keynote, and Libra (positive expression) the sign of Harmony. It has its fall in Scorpio, where feeling is at its most intense, and in Aries, where activity is paramount. It is exalted in Pisces, where love reaches its finest expression through renunciation. Its detriment is Virgo, where the element of calculation inhibits its proper functioning. Its glyph is the circle of spirit elevated over the cross of matter.
MARS
As the God of War, Mars represents Passion, Desire, Energy, Assertiveness, Courage, Initiative. It signifies young men, those in the armed forces or the police or who work with fire, iron or steel, surgeons, dentists, athletes, butchers. Its action is to energize, stimulate, intensify, inflame, aggravate. It rules the positive Aries, the sign of outrushing energy, and the negative Scorpio, the battleground of desire. Its fall is in Libra, where adaptability to others is the keynote, and in Taurus, where receptivity is paramount. Its action is exalted in Capricorn, where energy is disciplined through control and experience. It is in detriment in Cancer, where every passing whim can detract from its effective expression. Its glyph represents the cross of materiality oriented in a definite direction, exalted over the circle of spirit.
JUPITER
This planet has been called the greater benefic (the lesser is Venus) and represents the Higher Mind, Wisdom, Enthusiasm, Expansiveness, Optimism, Spontaneity, Willingness to gather Experience, Benevolence, Generosity. It signifies uncles, those in the professional classes, especially those connected with the Law, the Church of Universities; big businessmen, bankers, those in confidential positions. Its action is to expand, multiply, preserve and bring increase on all levels. It rules the positive Sagittarius, where desire for a
wide variety of experience can lay the foundations of true wisdom, and the negative Pisces, the sign of Charity. Its fall is in Gemini, the sign of the Lower Mind, and in Virgo, where preoccupation with detail precludes expansive action. It is exalted in Cancer, the sign of protectiveness and nourishment, where its preservative qualities find their best expression. It is in detriment in Capricorn, where crystallization restricts expansiveness. Its glyph represents the crescent of receptivity rising in the East (waxing) as a focus of
material activity (the cross).
SATURN
Saturn is the Tester (Satan) whose function is to perfect character through constant trials. The rings of Saturn symbolize the limitations imposed by Saturnian action that operate as a harsh external discipline until we have learned to discipline ourselves. It represents the principle of Contraction, Crystallization, Concentration, the ability to impose Limits; Ambition, Self-Preservation, Conventionality, Caution, Pessimism, Sense of Lack, Integrity, Responsibility, Justice, Perseverance, Stability, Endurance. It represents Time as a crystallization of Eternity. Saturn, or Satan, is thus shown as the enemy of God, who dwells in Eternity. Saturn is the planet of old age, where the life processes are slowed up. It signifies old or serious people, the father, those in responsible positions, farmers, builders, civil servants. Its action is to limit, conserve, test, deepen, perfect, inhibit, delay, restrict. It rules the negative Capricorn, where material organization and practical ambition reaches its peak, and the positive Aquarius, where detachment is paramount. Its fall is in Cancer, where it becomes hypersensitive, and Leo, where its ambition is boundless. It is exalted in Libra, showing exact Justice perfectly balanced. It is in detriment in Aries, where impetuosity is the enemy of Stability. Its glyph shows the cross of matter elevated above the crescent of receptivity, symbolically placed at the Nadir (assimilation, pull of the past).
URANUS
This planet acts to break up the crystallizations of Saturn. It represents Originality, Inspiration, Dynamic Self-Expression, Independence, Will, Inventiveness, Eccentricity., Ability to Synthesize. It signifies unusual people, inventors, electricians, those with transcendental interests or who introduce an element of novelty into the native's life. Its action is to electrify, galvanize, vivify, awaken, mobilize dynamically, innovate, shock, break down established conditions. It often works in a spasmodic, unexpected fashion. (Appropriately, its polar axis is almost at right angles to those of the other planets.) It shares with Saturn the rulership of Aquarius, the storehouse of knowledge and has its fall in Leo, where its revolutionary spirit clashes with established sovereignty. It is exalted in Scorpio, the sphere of Regeneration and Transformation and is in detriment in Taurus, where its electricity is most effectively earthed. Its symbol shows the cross of matter above the circle of spirit between the twin columns of Good and Evil.
NEPTUNE
The God of the Oceans was allocated these domains because they symbolized the boundlessness of space. Neptune is the planet of Intuition, Hypersensitivity, Imagination. It represents the ability to transcend boundaries, Limitless Expansion, Idealism, Sympathy, Compassion, Renunciation, Self-Sacrifice, Maneuverability, Glamour, Illusion, Decay. It signifies those of an artistic, mystical or highly sensitive nature, those who tend the sick, criminal or mentally deranged, or who are engaged in occupations having an element of
unreality – film actors, photographers, pilots; those whose work is connected with alcohol, narcotics, drugs, oil or chemicals. Its action is to loosen, to dissolve boundaries, refine, etherialize, sensitize, idealize, make intangible, expand enormously, distort, inflate. It is the co-ruler of Pisces, the sphere of Chaos and Dissolution, and has its fall in Virgo, where particularization is paramount. It works effectively through Sagittarius, the sign of Inspiration, and is inhibited in Gemini, with its emphasis upon the gathering of everyday facts. Its glyph shows an upward extension of the vertical of the cross (aspiration) shielded by an extended crescent (sensitivity) to produce a Trinity exalted above matter.
PLUTO
The planet named after the God of Hades represents the Underworld of man's consciousness, those elements in his nature that have not yet been redeemed and integrated with the rest of his being. Pluto's eccentric orbit shows him to be not yet completely in tune with the rest of the Solar System. His function is to bring to the surface those hidden conditions that have lain dormant in the subconscious, so that they may be transformed into a new source of power. Pluto represents the urge to Transform, to Regenerate; New Beginnings; the Group as a source of Power. It signifies those who work beneath the surface, either literally, as miners, or figuratively, as psychologists and healers; those who work deals with death or refuse; uniformed workers, underworld characters; atomic scientists, who study the changes in matter. Its action is to isolate, bring to the surface undermine, eliminate, transmute, transform, reinforce, intensify, obsess, add a new dimension to, purge, destroy, renew, regenerate. It is the co-ruler of Scorpio, the sign of Regeneration, and has its fall in Taurus, where rigidity renders transformation hazardous. It has an affinity with Aries, the sign of Resurrection and an antipathy with Libra, for Harmony may have to be temporarily sacrificed while the destructive and purgative forces of Pluto prepare the way for regeneration. Its glyph shows the seed of potentiality (the circle) poised above the crescent of receptivity elevated above the cross of materiality.
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