The Sun symbolises your essential character, your ego and your sense of self, the characteristics that consciously you manifest and how you are about being yourself. Its position shows the features you would like others to recognise you for, and the main areas in which your attention tends to focus.
The Moon rules your feelings and emotions, your habit patterns, underlying temperament, any behaviour that is instinctive, conditioned and inherited, also how you respond in an emergency when you don't have time to think. Its placing illustrates on a fundamental level, what it is that you really need from your life.
mercury
Mercury rules your rational mind, what you think about and how you communicate, whether through speech, in writing or via other more subtle means. This planet shows your logical side, represents your thought processes and links with skill, intelligence, dexterity, aptitude and the learning process.
venus
Venus shows your attitude towards relationships, your love nature and your power to attract. It shows what you find loveable in others and the ways you might demonstrate your real affections. Venus is connected with money, comfort and pleasure, your value system and aesthetic sensibilities.
Mars shows drive, energy, your wants and desires, initiative, leadership, physical activity, assertion, aggression, war, combat and your sex drive. This planet shows where conflict happens and why. Since Mars rules physical urges, it also plays a big role in your sexual preferences, predilections and performance.
Jupiter shows abundance, expansion, good fortune, success and all kinds of positive experiences. It helps with the development of a deeper personal happiness, tolerance and understanding, and brings luck and material benefits too. The downside revolves mainly around a tendency to excess and waste.
Saturn shows where you most need structure and organisation. Frustrations, problems, duties, limitations and responsibility, all foster an increased sense of patience, maturity, wisdom, knowledge and discipline. Saturn governs the super-ego and the later adult impact of your own paternal influences.
Uranus rules freedom and individuality. It often shows surprise, originality, anything new, unique and unusual. You can expect the unexpected wherever it is found, together with a need for liberty and self-determination. Uranus is connected with astrology, all new technologies, the Internet and computers.
Neptune rules the intangible and amorphous, spirituality, self-sacrifice, intuition and mysticism, but also delusion, dissolution and deceit. Its placing shows where you are most sensitive, imaginative and idealistic, but again where you are most prone to over-idealism, disillusionment and some disappointment.
Pluto is linked with regeneration and transformation, with changes that are ponderously slow, but are ultimately final. Its effects are subtle and gradual, but invariably unstoppable and total in the end. Pluto shows where you will always be evolving, but also where you might experience control issues.
