The Planets

The Sun is usually associated with the male and the ego and energetically shows us the core personality of the person.

The moon is usually associated with Mother and the emotional aspects or soul of the person.

Mercury is associated with perception. That is receiving and transmitting information.

Venus is traditionally asociated with love but can also be an expression of beauty.

Mars, the ‘Red’ planet provides the primal drives of courage and aggression.

Jupiter was known in traditional astrology as the great benific and provides the energies of expansion.

As Jupiter was the Great Benific in traditional astrology then Saturn was known as the Great Maelific, a planet with the energy of contraction. Saturn is the last of the inner, personal, planets that can be seen with naked eye.

The first of the ‘outer’ planets, Uranus is the planet of individuation and rapid, transformational change.

Neptune is deeply mystical and connects us to intuition and psychic abilities.

Pluto divides the astronomical community as to whether it is large enough to actually be classed as a planet. However, in Evolutionary Astrology it is a fundamental element as it represents the transformation of the deepest parts of the unconscious.