THE PLANETS
THE PLANETS
The Sun
The Sun is ruled by Leo. It embodies warmth and illumination on Earth. It symbolizes energy, enlightenment, radiance, and illumination. It further signifies the core of each person's world, representing the self or the ego. The Sun is active and has masculine energy.
The Moon
The Moon is ruled by Cancer. It reflects the light of the Sun and symbolizes reflection and receptivity. It symbolizes the cycles and flowing nature of existence. The Moon has feminine energy.
Mercury
Mercury is ruled by Gemini and Virgo. It symbolizes speed, as the fastest-moving planet. It is the planet of communication, mentality, and rationality. Mercury is inconstant and vivacious and has masculine energy.
Venus
Venus is ruled by Taurus and Libra. It is the planet of beauty and love, harmony and balance. It represents attraction, romance, and fertility. Venus has feminine energy.
Mars
Mars is ruled by Aries and Scorpio. It symbolizes confidence, self-assertion, energy, sexuality, strength, ambition and impulsiveness. and aggression. It has masculine energy.
Jupiter
Jupiter is ruled by Sagittarius and Pisces. It symbolizes growth, expansion, prosperity, and good fortune; and a person's inner sense of justice and morality and their ideals and higher goals.
Saturn
Saturn is ruled by Capricorn and Aquarius. It symbolizes limitations, restrictions, boundaries, practicality, reality, and structures. Saturn governs ambition and career, and a person's sense of responsibility, and concerns physical and emotional endurance during hardships.
Uranus
Uranus is ruled by Aquarius. It symbolizes innovation, freedom, and individuality. Uranus is unpredictable, imaginative, intellectual, and humanitarian.
Neptune
Neptune is ruled by Pisces. It symbolizes the subconscious, illusions, escapes and fantasies, intuition, and compassion. Neptune purifies and cleanses.
Pluto
Pluto is ruled by Scorpio. It symbolizes intensity and rebirth, the cycle of beginnings and endings. Pluto embodies life, and death, and transformation. It is a catalyst for change.
