The planets
Ten planets, ten questions
Each planet in your chart answers one question about you. The sign says how; the house says where.
☉︎Sunwho you areIn astrology, the Sun stands for your core identity: the things that light you up and the person you keep growing into over a lifetime.☽︎Moonwhat you needYour Moon sign describes your emotional needs, including how you react when something stings and what helps you feel safe enough to relax.☿︎Mercuryhow you thinkYour Mercury placement describes how your mind works, from the way you learn something new to the way you word a text message.♀︎Venushow you loveVenus governs love and taste in a birth chart: it describes how you express affection and what you find beautiful enough to make time for.♂︎Marshow you actMars is your drive in astrology, the part of your birth chart that describes how you go after what you want and how you handle anger and desire.♃︎Jupiterwhere you growWhere Jupiter sits in your birth chart is where you tend to grow and feel lucky, and also where you're most likely to overdo it.♄︎Saturnwhere you work hardestSaturn marks the part of your birth chart where you feel tested and where you build things slowly, through steady effort, over many years.♅︎Uranuswhere you break rulesUranus is the planet of freedom and surprise; in a birth chart it shows where you break from tradition and need room to do things your own way.♆︎Neptunewhere you dreamNeptune points to where you dream and idealize in your birth chart, the part of life where imagination runs high and plain facts can feel slippery.♇︎Plutowhere you transformPluto describes deep change in a birth chart: the area of life where you deal with power and with starting over after something ends.ACRising signhow you come acrossYour rising sign, or Ascendant, is the zodiac sign coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born, and it shows how you come across and how you start things.