Sunday, September 5, 2010

Quick Reference Guide

Source:http://www.livingskillfully.com/
PLANETS

('Planet' is a loose translation of the Sanskrit word 'Graha': an entity that seizes you into incarnation)

Sun

  • Spirit which continues one lifetime to the next
  • Will
  • Ambition
  • Individuality
  • Energy that Rules
  • Vitality of the Body
  • Father
  • King
  • Government
  • Bones, Spine, and Metabolism
  • Sun rules Leo

Moon

  • Emotions
  • Instincts
  • Intuition
  • the Senses
  • the Public and the Public's Mind
  • Energy of Change
  • Mother
  • Homeland
  • Childhood
  • Chest, Breasts, and Fluid in the Body
  • Moon rules Cancer

Mercury

  • Intellect
  • Rational Mind
  • Discrimination
  • Speech
  • Communication
  • Business
  • Adaptability
  • Nerves, Upper Chest, and Hands
  • Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo

Venus

  • Planet of Relationship
  • Love
  • Sociability
  • Energy of Attraction
  • Beauty
  • Art
  • Music
  • Sensuality
  • Pleasures
  • Luxuries
  • Vehicles
  • Wife
  • Kidneys, Bladder and Genitals
  • Venus rules Taurus and Libra

Mars

  • Planet of Action
  • Courage
  • Aggression
  • Tools and Weapons
  • Injury
  • Accident
  • Enemy
  • Siblings
  • Blood and Muscle of the Body
  • Mars rules Aries and Scorpio

Jupiter

  • Planet of Prosperity
  • Optimism
  • Opportunity
  • Generosity
  • Wisdom
  • Guru
  • Beliefs
  • Good Fortune
  • Husband
  • Indulgence
  • Fat, Lymph, and Liver in the Body
  • Jupiter rules Sagittarius and Pisces

Saturn

  • Planet of Difficulties
  • Restriction, Responsibility
  • Time, Longevity, Older People,
  • Fate
  • Separation
  • Endurance, Durability
  • Meditation
  • Joints in the Body
  • Saturn rules Capricorn and Aquarius

Rahu

  • Desire
  • Obsession
  • Material Success/ Failure
  • Transformation
  • Toxins
  • Delusion
  • Deception
  • Psychic Disturbance
  • Foreigners
  • Unusual People
  • Rahu does not rule a sign

Ketu

  • Spiritual
  • Mystic
  • Connection to the Past and Past Life
  • Idealism
  • Dissatisfaction
  • Changes
  • Surrender
  • Loss
  • Spiritual People or (materially) Unsuccessful
  • Ketu does not rule a sign

Note: the following 'outer planets' are not part of traditional Vedic Astrology, but are used by 'modernist' Astrologers.

Uranus

  • Sudden Change
  • Unexpected Events
  • Novel, Unusual
  • Inspiration
  • Independence
  • Revolutionary
  • Iconoclast
  • Disruptive

Neptune

  • Imagination
  • Idealized
    Non-rational
  • Hopes, Dreams
  • Delusion
  • Confusion
  • Victim
  • Humanist

Pluto

  • Destruction
  • Transformation
  • Controlling
  • Renovation
  • Evolution
  • Extreme
  • Inevitable

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