1. Astrology 101 Lecture 4 – The Planets
Elder High Priestess Tehilah Firewind

2. Solar House vs. Sun sign Also called the “solar month”
Uses the conventional and well-known dates
May differ from the sun sign
If the solar house and sun sign differ, then people all is not as it seems with that person
People will think they are like their solar house, when in fact they are more like their sun sign
Misperceptions and misunderstandings about people
Especially obvious depending on planetary placement, and which sign is rising (next week)

3. Sun Associations: Keywords: 365 day return Element: Fire and spirit
Body Parts: Heart and spine
Sign: Leo
Day: Sunday
Color: Gold, orange, yellow, sometimes red
Keywords:
The individual, will and power, conscious integrating self, outward expression, who you want to be
365 day return
Luminary planet
How the world sees you, how you choose to act, the individual, the creative self

4. Moon Associations: Keywords: 28 day return Element: Water and spirit
Body Parts: Stomach and breast
Sign: Cancer
Day: Monday
Color: Silver, blue, and sometimes purple
Keywords:
Inner waters, thoughts, emotions, memories, subconscious self, life journey, how you feel
28 day return
Some say this aligns with the unconscious, but we need to qualify this statement. The unconscious can be both individual (which is what the moon governs), or collective (which is governed by Pluto).
However, many would argue there is no difference between the individual unconscious and the subconscious, and that anything which exists unconsciously is in the collective sphere.
There is no consensus on what the precise difference between the unconscious and the subconscious is, so subconscious is used here for simplicity, but remember that the moon governs us on a very deep level.
The planet that governs an individual aspect of our worldly existence (in this case the moon governing our individual deeper selves) necessarily cannot describe the way we interact with the part of us that is not in any way individual from the rest of existence (which is what Pluto embodies).

5. Mercury Associations: Keywords: 88 day return
Element: Air, but also water
Body Parts: Nerves and lungs
Sign: Gemini and Virgo
Day: Wednesday
Color: Violet, sometimes yellow
Keywords:
Communication, expression, mentality, nerves, outreach, interaction of any form
88 day return
Mercury excites people, it affects the nerves, so retrogrades can be anxiety, issues with public speaking, etc.
Mercury R encourages people to slow down and think things through before trying to communicate

6. Venus Associations: Keywords: 225 day return
Element: Earth, but also air (sometimes water)
Body Parts: Larynx and throat
Sign: Taurus and Libra
Day: Friday
Color: Green, but sometimes also pink or yellow
Keywords:
Collaboration, balance, refinement, intent to create, expectations, relationships
225 day return
Strength through balance and refinement, knowing when to speak and when not to, diplomacy

7. Earth Associations: Keywords: Return??? Element: Water and earth
Body Parts: Metaphysical self, overall health
Sign: none
Day: none
Color: Brown and blue
Keywords:
Grounding, connecting to ancestral energy, past lives, fusion of animal and divine souls, self manifestation
Return???
Triangle formed from the sign after the sun sign, the opposition to the sun sign, and the sun sign itself.

8. Mars Associations: Keywords: 2 year return Element: Fire
Body Parts: Physical structure and skeleton
Sign: Aries (and historically Scorpio)
Day: Tuesday
Color: Red
Keywords:
Personality, ego, willful intent, self-assertion, progress
2 year return
Triune: gathering enough energy, desire, and will (Mars) to actively contract and expand (Jupiter) as we move through the gates of time (Saturn)
Mars is a call to action, the drive to get to where you need to be by any means necessary and in an impactful way

9. Jupiter Associations: Keywords: 12 year return
Element: Mostly fire, also air
Body Parts: Cell growth and arterial health
Sign: Sagittarius (and historically Pisces)
Day: Thursday
Color: Purple and sometimes red
Keywords:
Urge towards exploration, growth of any kind
12 year return
Monetary gain, increase, abundance, wealth, and new opportunities
Contraction as well as expansion, in the sense that what goes up must come down, and what goes out must come in
Expand and learn a lot of different things, but eventually, must stop to take a breath.
Jupiter placement can indicate pre-disposition for bipolar disorder

10. Saturn Associations: Keywords: 28-30 year return
Element: Mostly earth, also water
Body Parts: Bone, teeth, skin
Sign: Capricorn (and historically also Aquarius)
Day: Saturday
Color: Blue and black, sometimes green
Keywords:
Structure, order, time
28-30 year return
The illusion of time, wasting time, missing people from a past time, etc.
Chaos and order, unstructured structure, reorganization on retrograde
“Hoarder’s nightmare”

11. Uranus Associations: Keywords: 84 year (or 7 year) return
Element: Air, but also fire and water
Body Parts: Nervous system and mental health
Sign: Aquarius
Day: none
Color: Blue and green
Keywords:
Catalyzing collective consciousness, personality, sense of individuality when coming together, social media
84 year (or 7 year) return
A force which affects you on a deep level
Energy that is collectively collected, and how that influences us all in an individual way
Prominent placement can make people “wired” or too energized, combatted only by slowing down and thinking thing through, similar to the Mercury R.

12. Neptune Associations: Keywords: 165 year (14 year) return
Element: Water
Body Parts: Emotional health
Sign: Pisces
Day: none
Color: Light or dark blue
Keywords:
Awareness of the collective consciousness, sense of oneness, clarity through insight, relation to the world
165 year (14 year) return
Knowing the landscape only by how it feels, and how you feel in it
Like a fetus in the womb, there is nothing but water and yet he can move intuitively and interact with the world in an intuitive, almost metaphysical way.
Density and viscosity to the water you are moving through, like primordial soup

13. Pluto Associations: Keywords: No return Element: Spirit, also water
Body Parts: Spirit/soul
Sign: Scorpio
Day: none
Color: Black
Keywords:
Manifestation of spiritual self, call to bring to light subconscious and past thoughts, collective unconscious
No return
Transcendent, imminent, omnipresent
Waystation between lives, wormhole into the imagined world beyond our single reality

14. Other Planets Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt
There are many others (hundreds likely)
Use only the more massive planets
Remember: as humans evolve, these higher, higher resonance planets are able to affect us
Nothing is known about their influence
Need characterization
Requires many, many charts be considered
Interviews instead of readings
Are any dwarf planets contenders?
Eris is actually larger than Pluto!
Ceres: the mass of the earth -> is considered an asteroid in astrology, see pg 139 of the book
Eris:
Pluto:
Sedna:

15. Syllabus Stellarium Demo–Adding the Planets Progress: The Zodiac
Houses
Aspects
Reading and interpreting natal charts
Using electional astrology and divination
Medical astrology

16. Homework Copy down the planets into your chart
From The Astrology Book by James R Lewis
Androgynous Planet, page 24
Neptune, page
Blue Moon, page 91
Planets, page
Collective Unconscious, page 163
Pluto, page
Dispositor, page 202
Saturn, page
Doryphory, page 207
Second Station, page 609
Eclipse, page 214
Sun, page
Ephemeris, page
Sun Sign, page
Jupiter, page
Superior Planets, page 635
Luminaries, page 418
Ultimate Dispositor, page 695
Mars, page
Uranus, page
Mercury, page
Venus, page
Modern Planets, page 458
The Moon, page