The Ten Planets - Key Concepts & Definitions of Astrology

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THE TEN PLANETS

KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGY
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PRINCIPLE	URGES REPRESENTED	NEEDS SYMBOLIZED
SUN: Vitality; sense of individuality; creative energy, radiant inner self (attunement of soul); essential values	Urge to be and to create	Need to be recognized and to express self
MOON: Reaction; sub-conscious predisposition; feeling about self (self-image); conditioned responses	Urge to feel inner support; domestic and emotional security urge	Need for emotional tranquility and sense of belonging; need to feel right about self
MERCURY: Communication; conscious mind (i.e., logical or rational mind)	Urge to express one’s perceptions and intelligence through skill or speech	Need to establish connections with others; need to learn
VENUS: Emotionally-colored tastes; values; exchange of energy with others through giving of self and receiving from others; sharing	Social and love urge; urge to express affections; urge for pleasure	Need to feel close to another; need to feel comfort and harmony; need to give of self’s emotions
MARS: Desire; will toward action; initiative; physical energy; drive	Self-assertive and aggressive urge; sex urge; urge to act decisively	Need to achieve desires; need for physical and sexual excitement
JUPITER: Expansion; grace	Urge toward a larger order or to connect self with something greater than self	Need for faith, trust, and confidence in life and self; need to improve self
SATURN: Contraction; effort	Urge to defend self’s structure and integrity; urge toward safety and security through tangible achievement	Need for social approval; need to rely on one's own resources and work
URANUS: Individualistic freedom; freedom of ego-self	Urge toward differentiation, originality, and independence from tradition	Need for change, excitement and expression without restraint
NEPTUN: Transcendent freedom; unification; freedom from ego-self	Urge to escape from the limitations of one's self and of the material world	Need to experience a oneness with life, a complete merger with the whole
PLUTO: Transformation; transmutation; elimination	Urge toward total rebirth; urge to penetrate to the core of experience	Need to refine self; need to let go of the old through pain