The Planets & Our Key to Personal Growth

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There are ten Planets used in Astrology.

Each of us is identical in that all ten of these Planets are located in one’s birth chart.

The sign containing each Planet and the house in which that Planet is located varies with each individual, yet each of us, is working with the same Planets.

The Planets represent and define the ten basic and distinct urges found in each of us. An urge refers to the desire to express and experience a unique and specific energy.

These major Planets can influence our personality, and by understanding where and how they can impact our lives brings us greater awareness and opportunities for learning and growth. 

The Sun: Key to full self-expression

  • Signifies power and talent in individual, creative self-expression

  • Defines the key for manifesting personal power and talent in ways that inspire others to express their creativity and unites your leadership abilities with theirs, thus promoting feelings of fellow-ship and love for all concerned.

  • Reveals that process by which you may unconsciously express personal power in a way that leads to resentment from others.

  • Show the area in life where your talents can be spontaneously expressed.

  • Shows how you can increase physical and emotional vitality through the instinctive expression of the warmth and the enthusiasm of your nature.

  • Shows your area of radiance, creativity and your child-like joy.

  • Indicates in what area you need to express spontaneously in order to attain and maintain personal vitality.

  • The Sun is your core energy, it represents YOU within your environment, your Ego and identity.

The Moon: Key to Emotional Security

  • Defines your deepest personal, emotional needs.

  • The process through which you may separate yourself emotionally from other people, thereby depriving yourself of the closeness and intimacy you need for a sense of personal security.

  • Discloses the unconscious process by which you attempt to manipulate people through dependencies and sensitivities, and by expressing emotional needs in a way that repels others.

  • Shows the path to inner fulfilment and illuminates your ability to integrate change without being disrupted.

  • Where you need to nourish yourself, and others

  • Habits of survival dependency from childhood that results in insecurity and a lack of true inner satisfaction when carried into adult life.

  • Describes your ability to adjust emotionally to the changing situations of life

  • Mothers and Motherhood

  • The Moon is your emotional responses, she shows you why and how you feel things.

  • Your emotions, the connection to your “Soul”, fertility, instinct and nurture.

Mercury: Key to Rewarding Communication

  • Signifies your talent for verbal communication with others.

  • Illuminates the motives that cause you to withhold yourself verbally.

  • Displays the process by which you may create endless mental worries, and negative expectations that lead to isolating and withholding yourself from true contact with others out of fear.

  • The nature of your mental talents and intellectual approach.

  • Shows the way to communicate with others that inspires a sense of affinity and mutual sharing with other people.

  • The messenger of the Gods

  • How you receive and transmit information, learning, thinking and the mental process

Venus: Key to Personal self-worth

  • Points the way that social harmony can enter your personal life.

  • Indicates where you may lose confidence and self-esteem in social situations.

  • Our Feminine side, and feminine instincts.

  • Shows your natural talent for experiencing and expressing pleasure that can be shared with others in the spirit of harmonious interaction.

  • Defines your natural gift for putting others at ease in social situations, contributing to an atmosphere of open sharing through contributing your own brand of warmth.

  • Sensuality, How you receive and give out pleasure

  • Possessions, money and security and your beliefs about them.

  • Your Self-worth and feelings of worthiness

  • Desires, beauty and expression of love.

Mars: Key to Personal Assertiveness 

  • Your unique skills in Initiative, Your personal assertion and leadership.

  • Your courage, strength and ability to deal with conflict and adversity.

  • Masculine side, and masculine instincts.

  • Reveals the process by which you may unintentionally separate yourself and alienate others.

  • Denotes the area in which self-assertion leads to joyous independence and renewed physical energy.

  • The God of War

  • Your ability to take action, motivate, and drive to succeed

  • Passions, energy and determination.

Jupiter: Key to Social Opportunity and Reward  

  • Defines the means of building trust and faith in yourself, and consequently in others.

  • Represents that key of understanding by which you can independently and actively create value and personal growth out of any circumstances that life presents.

  • Where you see the larger prospective, which leads to a sense of faith in life and confidence in yourself.

  • Trust and faith in yourself.

  • Your natural good fortune.

  • Your areas of growth and expansion

  • Where you reap the rewards of effort

  • Luck, growth, opportunity, and your areas of expansion and optimism.

Saturn: Key to Public Achievement 

  • Shows the process of fulfilling your sense of social obligations in a public way that results in a sense of personal achievement.

  • Indicates the process by which fears may deflect you from fulfilling your ambitions.

  • Pinpoints the areas of your greatest desire and fears.

  • Your self-discipline, responsibility, and endurance.

  • Where your power of personal commitment contributes to society.

  • Illuminates the area of purpose, direction and social responsibility in your life, showing those factors that can lead to a life direction that brings the respect of others for your natural authority in the world.

  • The Father

  • Your discipline and limitations

  • Your resilience, reservation and resolve

  • Where the Lessons, boundaries and structures are present.

Uranus: Key to Independence and Freedom

  • Shows the area in life where you must experience a sense of personal independence and assume responsibility to safeguard and express your need for freedom in a way that does not alienate others.

  • Reveals the manner in which your unconscious expression of careless, eccentric indifference to other people can lead to unexpected situations of emotional disruption, separation and alienation.

  • Rebellion, change, and embracing your individuality.

  • Denotes the area in which you have the potential to express innovative ideas that can alter situations that no longer meet people’s needs.

Neptune: Key to Emotional Ecstasy 

  • Removes the illusion and reveals the truth.

  • Shows the self-defeating and confusing patterns where your expectations are the highest and disappointments are the most intense.

  • Your self-deception and emotional illusions

  • Signifies the area of life offering the strength, serenity and ecstasy of a Divine contact, and a vision and trust in the workings of the universe.

  • The process of trusting the universe in order to fulfil an idealistic desire, or where you allow the universe to manifest, according to its standards of perfection, by releasing your preconceived pictures, personal standards, and ideals.

  • Your dreams, fantasy’s and ability to use your imagination

  • Inspiration and expression of the “Arts”.

  • “King of the Sea”

Pluto: Key to Self-Mastery   

  • Reveals where you resist change; where a willingness to change will have the biggest impact on your life and will result in a realization of fearlessness.

  • Depicts the part of yourself that is the most difficult to face and to expose to others.

  • Transformation, death and rebirth.

  • Sexuality.

  • Fears, obsessions, and addictions.

  • The area you are constantly challenged to use your power to alter stagnate situations drastically.

  • Indicates the area in which you need to be willing to die psychologically in order to be reborn into an experience of life on a whole new level.

  • God of the Underworld

  • Represents our areas of transformation, power and regeneration

  • The ability to surrender and strip back