The Mental & Emotional Characteristics Of The Planets.

SUN: responds more readily to emotional than intellectual stimuli, enjoys the limelight, seeks attention and plays to the audience, charismatic, autocratic, ascends to positions of power and authority.

MOON: displays sympathy, modesty, protective of the old and the young, powerful maternal instinct displayed as a desire to defend the weak and the vulnerable.

MERCURY: analytical thinker steeped in knowledge for its own sake, eloquent and skilled in debate, verbose and florid when writing, capable of great manual dexterity.

VENUS: emotions swayed by kind words, essentially sympathetic and attentive, stimulated by art, music and physical beauty, a collector of beautiful objects and lover of luxury, desires wealth and financial power.

MARS: strong emotions, quick to assert their rights and defend their property, powerful paternal instincts, quick tempered. strong leadership instincts, dominates situations, intimidates less robust personalities.

JUPITER: thoughts and feelings tempered by mercy, values integrity, strives to attain moral authority, collector of books, desires wisdom, has a sense of the dramatic, a lover of beauty and has an almost obsessive desire to be of service to others.

SATURN: tremendous power of self-control, power to focus on long term objectives, reserved and potentially inhibited, thinking is practical rather than abstract, easily offended, gruff mannerisms but patient and prudent.

URANUS: spontaneous, gifted and imaginative, driven to undermine the status quo, rebels against restrictions and promotes personal liberty, idealistic and utopian beliefs, seeks justice and social reform, articulate.

NEPTUNE: propelled into action by inexplicable motives, powerful emotions directed toward unconventional ends, peculiar beliefs, poetic, self-sacrificing actions, unworldly ambitions, charitable thoughts and deeds.

PLUTO: power hungry, ruthless, potentially violent outbursts, greatest fear is to be perceived as weak and vulnerable, remorseless and unforgiving, capable of self-transformation, self-regeneration, a born survivor who will nevertheless sacrifice themselves for those they love, a good friend but a bad enemy, a saint who sins.