The Planets

The planets are the actors in your chart. Each one personifies a way of being — Mars as initiative and friction, Venus as attraction and aesthetic, Saturn as boundary and consequence. They are not forces that act upon you; they are languages your psyche already speaks, made visible. Aurathea works with ten planets. The seven traditional planets — the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn — were known to every culture that watched the sky, and form the core vocabulary of every astrological tradition from Hellenistic to modern. The three modern planets — Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto — were discovered after the telescope and joined the conversation in the last few centuries. Each carries themes the older tradition didn't yet have a name for: sudden change, dissolution, deep transformation. In a chart, each planet sits in a sign (which colors how it expresses), in a house (which tells you where in your life that expression most often shows up), and in aspects to the others (which shows how the planetary voices speak to one another). A reading begins with the planets — who is present, where they stand, what they ask of you. The Sun, Moon, and Ascendant — often called your Big Three — are the first place to look. The Sun for the core identity you are growing into. The Moon for the inner life that holds you. The Ascendant for how you meet the world. From there, the rest of the chart reveals itself. The planets are not your fate. They are the dramatis personae of an inner play that only you can stage.