Personal Planets: How You Think, Love, and Act

The Sun supplies a core and the Moon an inner world. Everyday details, how you speak, who attracts you, and what you do when angry, involve three close companions: Mercury, Venus, and Mars. These personal planets turn broad solar and lunar themes into daily life.

Following the Sun and Moon, these planets move much faster than Jupiter and the planets beyond it. Mercury and Venus average roughly a degree per day, like the Sun; Mars averages about a degree every two days. People born in the same year can have different placements, revealing personal detail.

Mercury and Venus also have an astronomical constraint. Their orbits lie inside Earth’s, so they always appear near the Sun: Mercury within about 28 degrees, Venus within about 47 degrees. They therefore often occupy the Sun’s sign or a nearby one: