The Planets and Their Role in Your Birthchart


The Sun






The Sun represents our vitality and self-expression

Some Facts
The Sun rules over Leo
It's associated with the metal Gold
The Sun rules the heart

A well placed Sun encourages generosity of heart, creativity, joy, affection, and healthy self-esteem.  A badly placed Sun may encourage self-admiration, selfishness, and conceit.  Those with a strongly placed Sun are generous and often found in positions of influence and power.


The Moon






The Moon represents your instinct, intuition, and your emotions

Some Facts
The Moon rules over Cancer
It's associtated with the metal Silver
The Moon rules the lymph glands

Powerfully linked to the subconscious, the Moon encourages natural instinctive behavior, strongly aggexts the emotions, and is associated with imagination and sesitivity.  When the Moon is strong in a birth chart the individual is likely to be rather inward-looking, sensitive and impressionalble.


Mercury






Mercury represents your intellect and communication

Some Facts
Mercury rules over Gemini and Virgo
It's associated with the metal mercury
Mercury rules the hands, arms, lungs, and nervous system

When Mercury is strongly placed in your birth chart it encourages quick and agile thinking, good communication skills, perceptivness, imagination and analytical ability.  Badly placed, it may also incline an individual towards overcriticism, arguementiveness, sarcasm and deceit.


Venus






Venus represents love, harmony and consensus

Some Facts
Venus rules over Taurus and Libra
It's associated with the metal copper
Venus rules the body as a whole

Strongly placed, it encourages gentleness, friendship, tact, diplomacy and romance.  Badly placed, Venus inhibits communication and encourages laziness.


Mars






Mars represents your physical energy and initiative

Some Facts
Mars rules over Aries
It's associated with the metal iron
Mars rules the head

A strongly placed Mars encourages hard work, optimism, and dynamic energy.  Mars also encourages a quick temper, anger, and rudeness.


Jupiter






Jupiter represents expansion

Some Facts
Jupiter rules over Sagittarius and Pisces
It's associated with the metal tin
Jupiter rules the hips, thighs and liver

Strongly placed, it encourages a positive, expansive outlook, optimism, loyalty, justice, and fidelity.  Badly placed, it can encourage self-indulgence, a lack of inner and outer discipline,  and a weak moral character.


Saturn






Saturn represents stability, restriction, limitation and control

Some Facts
Saturn rules over Aquarius and Capricorn
It's associtated with the metal lead
Saturn rules over all the bones in the body

A strongly placed Saturn encourages high preacticality, dependability, and honesty.  Badly placed, it can dampen or obstruct any positive feelings and actions.


Uranus






Uranus represents change, disruption and shock

Some Facts
Uranus rules over Aquarius
It's associated with the metal aluminum
Uranus rules over shins, ankles, and circulatory system

Strongly placed it can encourage heightened levels of originality, and independence.  A badly placed Uranus encourages eccentricity, rebellion, crime, and violence.


Neptune






Neptune represents cloudiness and unreality

Some Facts
Neptune rules over Pisces
It's associated with the metal platinum
Neptune rules over the feet

Strongly placed it encourages pure idealism, great imagination and keen sensitivity.  Neptune is associated with artists, writers, poetry, and dancing.


Pluto






Pluto represents elimination and eruptive change

Some Facts
Pluto rules over Scorpio
It's associated with the metal steel
Pluto rules over the genitals

Strongly placed it encourages individuals to confront and overcome obstacles.  Badly placed it encourages cruelity, criticism, secretiveness, deviousness, criminality and obsessiveness.
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