Planets in Astrology
Planets describe functions. Signs describe style, houses describe fields of life and aspects describe how functions interact.
Sun
conscious authorship, vitality and the organizing center of identity
☽Moon
emotional regulation, memory, embodied habit and need
☿Mercury
perception, language, comparison and the machinery used to classify information
♀Venus
value, attraction, pleasure, reciprocity and the capacity to establish what is worth approaching
♂Mars
assertion, pursuit, heat, separation and the ability to move against resistance
♃Jupiter
expansion, meaning, confidence and the tendency to enlarge whatever it joins
♄Saturn
limit, time, obligation, endurance and the reality test of what can actually be sustained
♅Uranus
disruption, individuation, innovation and abrupt reorganization of a system
♆Neptune
imagination, permeability, idealization and experiences that blur ordinary boundaries of meaning
♇Pluto
compulsion, concentrated power, taboo and deep reorganization under pressure