JUPITER
Planet of good luck, optimism, success and generosity. Brings joy to life.
Identified with idea of expansiveness and abundance. Jupiter's Kingdom is luck,
health and happiness, wealth and worldly goods, power and high position. Rules
over knowledge, higher learning, breadth of vision and honesty. Influence
bestows a willingness to partake of life, to gather hew experiences. Influence
can make you extravagant, lazy, luxury-loving and blindly optimistic. Planet of
blessings.
SATURN
Planet of responsibility and symbolizes the ethics of hard work. Influences that
a person's character is strengthened through trial and difficulty. Planet of
diligence, self control and limitation. Domain is patience, stability, maturity
and realism. Influence is stern and restrictive, cold and severe. Effect is to
delay rewards until they are earned. Bestows an ability to wait. Planet of
courage, steadfastness and integrity. Negative influence is over ambition,
calculating and selfish, solitary, inhibited, and unhappy associated with
inflexibility, cruelty, humorousness, and pessimism. Represents illness,
handicaps, and misfortune, our destiny. Rules fate, things we cannot escape and
payment that must be made for what is received.
URANUS
Planet of change and originality, symbolizing the element of surprise. Brings
sudden events and opportunities. Awakens, shocks, revolutionizes. Responsible
for the flash of human genius that creates something new. Planet of the future,
associated with modern science, invention, electricity, humanitarian movements,
and revolution. Planet of sudden upheaval and swift, unexpected happenings.
Domain is all that is new, original, different, and unorthodox. Relates to inner
will and secret power. The guiding force behind the visionary. Tends to make one
eccentric in behavior, undisciplined, reckless and perverse. Brings change, new
situations, and new people into our lives. Gifts are sudden and ephemeral, take
immediate advantage before they flash by. Message is to move with change and not
be afraid of the future.
MERCURY
Communication, intellect, skills. Planet of intelligence and the mind.
Associated with speed and agility. Rules over intelligence, perception and
reason, memory, speaking and writing. Reflects the way you see, hear, understand
and assimilate information. Day to day travel, short trips, and the various
means of transportation have under it's dominion. Controls functions of the
nerves, arms, hands and fingers. Also rules the voice. Negative side produces
tendency to be critical, sarcastic, argumentative and sly.
VENUS
Planet of love and pleasure. Rules capacity to express affection and to enjoy
beauty. Rules over love affairs, art and beauty, adornment and decoration, the
social graces, affection, harmony, and friendship. Governs the higher emotions.
Venus makes life beautiful. Rules ability to love and to share with another
person. Other side of influence is encourages more importance on pleasure, ease
and luxury then on self discipline. A strong streak of narcissism and lack of
will power indicates negative side is stressed.
MARS
Planet of physical energy. Governs sex drive, forcefulness and aggression.
Governs energy, boldness, the will to win, the ability to turn ideas into
action. Planet of passion, sexuality and force. Signifies ambition, desire,
courage and strength. Governs the sex organs. Influence also brings strife and
conflict, tension and anger, accidents and destruction. It rules heat, fire,
earthquakes, violence and war. Negative side can cause sudden injury or illness.
Represents unleashed energy and human will.
NEPTUNE
Planet of mystery and illusion. Power is that of the imagination. Represents
your dream life and you mystic qualities. Planet of bewitchment. Planet of
idealism and spirituality. Realm is the subconscious world, hidden memory,
intuition and clairvoyance. Positive side of influence represents glamour and
mystery, artistic imagination, dreams and vision. Negative side is characterized
by deception, confusion, fraud, treachery and sham. Rules over a wide domain of
human activity, from motion pictures, drama, dance and poetry to hypnosis and
anesthesia, hospitals, institutions and prisons, poison and drug addiction.
Brings one into contact with a higher place of consciousness. Symbolizes
perfection. Represents unselfish ideals, your spiritual quest, and sear for the
Impossible Dream.
PLUTO
Planet of awesome power, but is still found largely inexplicable and difficult
to understand. Brings to light things hidden in the depths of your subconscious,
releases dormant forces, and causes suppressed energies suddenly to erupt.
Signifies death and rebirth. Planet of regenerative forces, of destruction and
annihilation, and then complete transformation. Key word is elimination. Pluto
wipes the slate clean. Influences masses of humanity, enormous groups of people
and large organizations. Rules over disruptive elements in nature as earthquakes
and volcanoes. It's power has been likened to that of nuclear fission, which
both destroys and creates. Governs the uncovering of secrets of the past in
order to clear ground for the future. Force is felt as an undercurrent of
turbulence and uncontrolled energy. Strong negative power may cause one to be
cruel, sadistic, treacherous or even lead a life of crime. Represents the
highest and lowest of which mankind is capable. Governs impulses in our secret
psyches that we do not yet fully understand.
The Planets
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