The ten planets
The ten planets
Western astrology uses ten "planets" — the Sun and Moon (the luminaries), the eight true planets, and Pluto, still counted for its astrological weight. Each one is a different verb in the chart: a function, a drive, a way the psyche moves. Click any planet for the full guide.
- Sun The core of who you are — your conscious identity, your will, your essential self.
- Moon Your inner emotional life — what you need to feel safe, how you self-soothe, how you love and are loved.
- Mercury How you think, learn, communicate, and process information.
- Venus How you love, what you find beautiful, and what you value.
- Mars Your drive — how you take action, what makes you angry, and what you fight for.
- Jupiter Where you grow, where you find meaning, and where life tends to be generous to you.
- Saturn Where you face limitation and, through facing it, build mastery.
- Uranus Where you break conventions, see the future, and refuse to inherit your worldview.
- Neptune Where you dissolve into something larger — imagination, mysticism, art, illusion.
- Pluto Where deep transformation happens — what dies in you, what gets reborn, where you face power.
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Planets are the verbs. The signs colour their tone, the houses place them in life, and the aspects describe how they speak to one another.