Planets, Micro, and Macrocosms

The natal chart contains ten planets, which can be organized into two levels, or groups. The first, the inner planets: sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, each of which describes a component of our personal psyche. Our ego, our emotional core, our cerebral sense, our values, our passions.

Moving outward from that core group of planets, we encounter planets increasingly more distant from the Sun, planets that begin to direct us to the collective, the transpersonal.

Jupiter and Saturn act as intermediaries between the inner and outer planets, governing qualities both deeply personal as well as ways of engaging with power.

And the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, invite us into the realms of invention, of dreaming, and of rising, phoenix-like, from shared circumstances.

And although these planetary bodies have varying degrees of personal-ness and impersonality, they are always weaving in and out of each other’s orbits, fertilizing one another with new ideas, fresh perspectives.

This is a place where the microcosm meets the macro, in an ever undulating story of discovery of the soul.