☉ Sun
Core identity — what you are at the centre.
The planets
Ten bodies, ten functions — and the line between personal and generational.
☽ Moon
Emotional nature — what you need to feel safe.
☿ Mercury
Thinking and speech — how you process and explain.
♀ Venus
Attraction and values — what you find beautiful and how you love.
♂ Mars
Drive and anger — how you pursue and how you fight.
♃ Jupiter
Expansion and belief — where you grow and overreach.
♄ Saturn
Limits and discipline — where the work is.
♅ Uranus
Disruption and independence — a generational placement.
♆ Neptune
Dissolution and imagination — a generational placement.
♇ Pluto
Power and transformation — a generational placement.
Personal, social, generational
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars move quickly and differ between people born days apart — these are the personal planets, and they carry most of what a chart says about an individual.
Jupiter and Saturn sit in the middle, changing sign every year or two. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto take between seven and twenty years to cross a single sign, so everyone born within a decade shares them. Reading Pluto in Scorpio as a personal trait is reading a whole generation.