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Planets

Planets

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Author: Alison Price   –   Updated: January 2026

 ❤️ Basic Natal Astrology

This article is part of my Basic Natal Astrology category and brings all the beginner components of interpreting a natal chart together. This includes signs, planets, houses, aspects and more. Alison

Planets

Planets in Your Chart

Planet Selection

There are many planets used in astrology. Each astrologer may choose to use all or only some of the planets in their work.

 

Visible Planets

Traditional Planets

The seven visible planets are those that can be seen with a naked eye. They are the Sun, The Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. They are known as the traditional or Hellenistic planets.

Outer Planets

Transpersonal Planets

The three outer planets are Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. They are the modern planets.

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Neptune
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The Sun

The Sun is your identity, your heart and your character. It shows where you are honest and true to yourself. It is where you can shine in life. It represents your father.

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More on the Sun

The Sun is masculine, warm, bright and life giving. The Sun represents you, your father and your heroes. The Sun rules the sign of Leo.

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The Moon

The Moon shows your feelings, reactions, gut instincts and your behavior. It rules food, how you care and who you nurture. It represents your mother, mother figures and caregivers.

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More on the Moon

The Moon is feminine, passive, reflective, and moody. The Moon represents your mother, cooks, and caregivers. The Moon rules Cancer.

 

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Mercury

Mercury shows your thinking, talking and communication style. It has to do with all buying and selling. It represents your schoolteacher and neighborhood people.

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More on Mercury

Mercury communicates, trades and is factual. Mercury represents agents, salespeople, youths and teachers. Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo.

 

Venus

Venus shows beauty, art, style, love and money. It has to do with your values and what you invest in both things like jewelry and people. It represents young women and sisters.

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More on Venus

Venus is feminine. Venus loves, acquires and appreciates. Venus represents young women, girlfriends, sweethearts and accountants. Venus rules Taurus and Libra.

 

    Mars

    Mars is about sex, energy, drive, challenges and where you compete in life. It shows when you will get off the couch and do something. It represents young men and brothers.

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    Mars

    Qualities

    Mars is masculine. Mars competes, challenges and acts. Mars represents young men, boyfriends, bad boys, pioneers, firemen and soldiers. Mars rules Aries and Scorpio.

    More on Mars

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      Jupiter

      Jupiter is about growth, expansion, reaching and even overdoing things. It shows your vision and potential. It represents uncles, teachers and preachers.

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      More on Jupiter

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        Saturn

        Saturn is the planet of achievement, honors, control, limitations and fears. It represents your father, older men and authority figures.

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        Saturn

        Qualities

        Saturn limits, times and masters. Saturn represent your father, older men and managers. Saturn rules the two signs of Capricorn and Aquarius.

        More on Saturn

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        Uranus

        Uranus is the planet for the future it rules trends, technology, computers and the space age. It represents adolescents, immigrants, those on the fringes of society and rebels.

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        Uranus

        Qualities

        Uranus changes, breaks and fashions. Uranus represents adolescents, trendsetters, agitators, and immigrants. Uranus rules Aquarius.

        More on Uranus

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        Neptune

        Neptune is the planet of illusion, intuition, mysticism, art, magic and the unknown. It represents the psychic, the invisible, the underdog and the homeless.

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        More on Neptune

        Neptune understands, dissolves and eludes. The people that Neptune represents are dreamers, ghosts, angels and nomads. Neptune rules Pisces.

         

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        Pluto

        Pluto is the planet of power, influence and sex. It represents people who have power over you through your use of their resources or those whom you have the drop on. It represents the loan shark, surgeon, psychiatrist, undertaker, criminal and therapist.

         

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        More on Pluto

        Pluto transforms, buries and rebirths. The people that Pluto represents are crisis workers, the taxman, demons, coercers and the Grim Reaper. Pluto rules the fixed water sign of Scorpio the Scorpion.

         

        Chiron

        Chiron is the planet of wounds and healing. It suggests where you are weak and wanting. It represents people who help you like nurses, teachers, gurus and charity workers.

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        Eris

        Eris is the planet of the female warrior. It represents the fight instinct in women. It suggests those who will fight for you simply because they are on your team, group or crew. It represents sisters-in-arms.

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        Astrology Basics for Beginner’s

        This is part of the special Starzology Astrology Basics series for you all. Many of you ask where to start and here are the planet’s meanings.

        You can check out the rest of the series:

        Jupiter Trine Uranus – Get Fired Up!

        Jupiter Trine Uranus – Get Fired Up!

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        by Alison Price

        We have experienced several challenging planetary placements in recent years. I am of course referring to the Uranus Pluto square which has had astrologers and laymen alike buzzing with excitement.

        Enter the Jupiter Uranus fire trine.

        Whilst it is typical that we have both easy and challenging aspects within the zodiac at any one time, it is the individual and combined mixture of flow and resistance between the planets making the aspects that shape our lives.

        That Uranus appears in both aspects (square Pluto and trine Jupiter) is telling. He seems to want to fit in and stick out at the same time.

        We can live with this.

        Aspects

        One way to interpret an astrology chart is by a technique called aspects

        Astrological aspects are the angular distances between the planets.

        Every planet has a measurement in degrees with the other planets but only certain angles are noted in astrology charts.

        By dividing the circle of 360 degrees by any whole numbers we get the aspect angles.

        The Trine Aspect

        If you divide 360 by 3 the result is 120 degrees (360/3=120) and this is the size of the trine aspect.

        Two planets that are 120 degrees apart in the zodiac will be in trine to each other.

        The aspect degree does not have to be exact but can be within 8 degrees (the orb) either side of 120.

        So when the two planets become between 112 to 128 degrees apart they are considered to be trine to each other.

        Transiting Jupiter Trine Uranus

         

        When the slower planets like Jupiter and Uranus trine each other it is to be noted.

        It is a phenomenon that only happens around every six years then there is a gap of seven years before the next trine.

        The elemental sequence is fire, earth, air then water. With two trines in each element, one waxing and one waning trine. Then it slowly shifts into the following element.

        The Jupiter Uranus Synodic Cycle

        Jupiter and Uranus have a fourteen year synodic cycle.

        This means they are together and Jupiter (which is quicker off the mark) races off around the zodiac as Uranus moves forward slowly. Jupiter will catch up with Uranus around fourteen years later.

        In 2010 Jupiter was conjunct Uranus at zero Aries. They will next be conjunct in 2024 at twenty-one Taurus.

        Looking further forward in 2037 22 Cancer direct and in 2038 at 20 Cancer retrograde.

        This shows the conjunction moves around either 30 degrees when at the retrograde three pass conjunction, or around fifty-one to fifty-four degrees and fourteen years during a one pass direct conjunction.

        Because there is a trine in place for such a long period, when planets pass through the other fire sign of Sagittarius, they will create a fire grand trine when they trine both Jupiter and Uranus.

        The most frequent planet to do this is the Moon.

        It will provide huge opportunities and original approaches to how you can use that planet in Sagittarius.

        The trine from Jupiter offers good things in line with your natal planet being aspected and the trine from Uranus offers unique and up-to-date solutions which allow things to move forward with ease and flow.

        Get fired up!

        Fire is all about inspiration. It gets the juices flowing and everyone hot under the collar. It gets people raving about things and issues. It creates fireworks and burning issues. We can get incandescent and want to burst. We are filled with bright ideas and get excited about anything with fire in it like dragon’s breath, candlelight, torches, barbecues and camp fires.

        Make the most of this special fire trine.

         

        The Sixth House and Herb Gardens

        The Sixth House and Herb Gardens

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        The 6th House and Herb Gardens
        

        Herbs and herb gardens are shown in your sixth house.
        

         
        

        Uranus conjunct Neptune
        

        During the Huge Conjunction of 1991/93. Uranus conjoined Neptune for the first time in 170 years this time in Capricorn.
        

        At the time I was a mamber of the Cape Town Astrologroup.
        

        They had a particular meeting to celebrate the conjunction of Uranus and Neptune.
        

        The activity that night was to get into huddles depending on which house the conjunction occurred in our natal charts.
        
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        6th House
        

        For myself it was the 6th house.
        

        I joined with the other astrologers in the clutch who had the Uranus Neptune conjunction in their 6th houses as well.
        

        This is not the most exciting house in a chart because it is about health, daily rituals, service and work.
        

        They began discussing their work and how busy they were, but it did not resonate with all the group members.
        

        Someone said they had started gardening.
        

        Well that was the catalyst for an animated discussion as we all had taken up gardening recently.
        

        Then we got onto herbs… 🌱
        

         
        
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        


        
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        My First Herb Garden – Cape Town
        

        I was able to tell them about the new herb garden I had recently designed and had constructed in my garden.
        

        It was down a narrow strip of land behind our house.
        

        I explained how herbs had suddenly had more meaning for me.
        

        That year I had been growing and cooking with fresh herbs and making interesting meals for my family.
        

        Cooking with fresh herbs was something I had never done before.
        

        It was glorious. I loved it.
        

        Small plants are shown in your 6th house.
        
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        My Second Herb Garden – Phalaborwa
        

        We later moved to another house right on the Tropic of Capricorn (that is another story) and again the garden needed care.
        

        My husband and his guys laid out a beautiful 10m x 10m square herb garden with appropriate circles and a birdbath in the middle.
        

        At the time of construction, we made sure that money, yes cold hard cash, was buried below the concrete of the water feature.
        

        This was to provide for the garden.
        

        A nice touch.
        

        I often wonder what those gardens look like today having had thirty and twenty-five years to establish themselves.
        
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        Inspiration
        

        The inspiration for both layouts was based on the designs in Margaret Robert’s book Guide to Growing Herbs in South Africa.
        

        Below is a simple plan for a four square herb garden.
        

        See more about the sign elements and herbs.
        
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        


        
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
			
        
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
			
        
			
        
				
				
				
				
				
        
				
				
				
				
				
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        Alison encourages you to explore your unique creativity and live a satisfying life through your personal astrology. She offers her insights from the heart and with a sense of humor.
        

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