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