PLANETELE Planetary Glyphs The glyphs for the planets are composed principally of three symbolic constituents representing

the three cosmic principles of creation that were in conceptual currency when these glyphs were devised. The circle represents Spirit, the masculine polarity of creation, whose function is will, or the concept of creation. It is pure, infinite, in no need of adding to, yet the source of all else. There is disagreement between sources as to whether the cross or the crescent represents Soul, and whether the crescent or the cross represents Matter. According to Moore and Douglas, writing in 1971, the cross represents Soul, whose function is wisdom, or the method for expressing the concept of creation. The cross of Soul represents the channeling and incarnation of Spirit into Matter, and has resonances of crucifixion, through the Spirit's suffering from the confines of material form and being divided between its inner self and the outside world. The Soul, begat of Spirit and Matter, acts as a medium for the conveyance of spiritual impressions between the Spirit and Matter, and a seat of consciousness from which their inter-relationship, and relationships in general, can be handled. The lower crescent represents Matter, whose function is activity, or the production and embodiment of the concept of creation. It is formed from the half of the divided Spirit that is confined to the material world, depicted as the lower half as it is subordinate to the rest. The vertical crescent appearing in some glyphs evokes the Moon, which, like Matter, is regarded as belonging to the feminine polarity of creation, but with the subtle distinction that it is perceived as a reflection through Matter of the energy of Spirit. This is the interpretation to which this article will default on historical grounds. Yet according to Martin Schulman, writing in 1977, the crescent represents the Soul and the cross represents Matter. This interpretation is the one more often cited nowadays. One source describes the Cross of Matter as depicting limiting, external reality, the non-self, reduced to a particular place and time; and the Crescent of Soul as depicting the emerging individuality. Schulman himself, in sharp conflict to Moore and Douglas, regards the Soul as being the source of knowledge that seeks expression on the physical plane via the Spirit. Planetary significators The role of the planets as significators of events, conditions and circumstances dates back to ancient astrology, in which the Greek word sema meaning a sign or token was applied to the planets. Yet, according to Joseph Crane (on whose research findings this section draws), planets were also acknowledged as causing what they signify, unlike in much of late 20th century astrology where they have been regarded merely to symbolise it. Astrology was commonly addressed from the standpoint of particular questions being asked; and whatever was deemed as the significator of the person or matter being asked about would be assessed with regard to its connections by aspect and disposition to other planets, indicating good or ill favour to the matter under consideration. The most important ancient consideration was the governance of the soul. Ptolemy regarded the dispositors of the Moon and Mercury to act together as Lord of the Soul, yet also recognised the importance of the sign and house placements of the Moon and Mercury themselves. [By the Renaissance age, the Lord of the Ascendant was being habitually factored in.] A further interest was in the Lord of Action, indicating career. In assessing career, a

combination of Mercury, Venus and Mars was anciently considered; any of these placed in a temporal house (the 2nd, 6th or 10th) was favourable. But selecting the significator for action was complex. It could be, in descending order of priority: (1) Mercury or Venus if rising in the evening (but not if debilitated by combustion or being under the sunbeams); (2) any of Mars, Jupiter or Saturn if rising before dawn; (3) the next planet (in time) out of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn to be applied to by the Sun or Moon. A combination of either (1) or (2) with (3), and in a temporal house, would be ideal; and preference would be given to Mercury, Venus and Mars over Saturn and Jupiter. Ptolemy instead chose the Lord of Action by the following order of priority: (1) a planet in the 10th whole-sign house; (2) a planet rising visibly (not under the sunbeams) just before the Sun - and especially if this planet is being applied to by the Moon. If there are multiple candidates, whichever is most dignified is preferred but the other(s) are given secondary consideration. In electional astrology, applying aspects of the Moon are of key importance. By trine or sextile to the Sun, it favours making contracts, and mixing with those of high position. By other aspect to the Sun, it causes contention and opposition. Applying to Mercury, it favours scientific work; sending items; transcription; and translation. Applying to Venus, it favours beautification; kindness; love-affairs; marriage; redecoration; and social occasions. Applying by trine or sextile to Mars, it favours absence from home; contests; home renovation; hunting; and warfare. By other aspect to Mars, it causes futility, opposition and violence. Applying by any aspect to Jupiter, it favours everything, but especially alliances; business; contact with judges; and good news. Applying by trine or sextile to Saturn, it favours construction and planting. By other aspects to Saturn, it causes futility, obstacales and opposition. In event figures (those cast at the time of an event to assess its nature), planets rising, culminating or stationary act as significators. In application to the receipt of a letter or news, they bring the following influences: Venus signifies good news or a female scribe; Mars signifies destruction and struggle; Jupiter signifies excellent news; and Saturn signifies very bad news, and constraints. By the 20th century, the most prevalent use of significators had become to shed light on the affairs of the houses over which they are (by dignity) the Lords in an individual figure, with particular regard to the Lord of the Ascendant in a nativity or horary figure as the chief significator of the individual or querent. Venus The glyph for Venus shows the Circle of Spirit on the cross of the Soul without the crescent of Matter, in contrast to the glyph for Mercury. Thus, Venus represents the Spirit freed from the burden of Matter and from the material world, and directly energising the Soul, which is the domain of relationship. Yet since the Soul serves also as a relating point between Spirit and Matter, Spirit is drawn into Matter through it, so channelling aesthetic expression into fine and orderly material designs. According to Martin Schulman's model, the glyph shows the Circle of creative Spirit pouring its energy directly into the material form of the cross of Matter, thus conferring beauty, harmony and love to the material plane. Venus evokes attraction and beauty, which when positively expressed manifest as grace; when negatively, as sensuality. Venus, through its function of attracting and beautifying, serves as a positive, harmonious influence on any point it contacts in a figure, and has therefore been traditionally known as the lesser benefic. Venus governs aesthetic sense; the affections; beauty in nature as an agent of attraction and thus reproduction; the channelling of the instinct for procreation into artistic creativity; courtship rituals; the enjoyment of comfort, elegance and pleasure; extremes of feeling; friendship; the

parental instinct; interpersonal relating; romantic love; society; and the sublimation of sexual desire into socially accepted, harmonious forms of co-operation and joint enterprise. It is absorptive; alluring; amiable; artistic; centrifugal; cheerful but prone to depression; coquettish; devoted; discriminating; faithful; feminine; fond of adornments; fruitful; gentle; graceful and gracious; ingathering; insistent upon propriety; justice-conscious; magnetic; musical; pacific and peaceful; passive; receptive to social concerns; responsive to beauty; self-pitying; sensitive to sex; simple; tasteful; temperate; unreliable in memory; and youthful in approach and perspective; but when denied expression, potentially abandoned; dissolute; extravagant; gaudy; licentious; self-indulgent; slothful and vain. Venus governs adornments, the arts, beauty, fine clothes, coins, conjugal love, dancing, female relations, flowers, the home, jewels, learning, literature, luxuries, marriage, music, money, ornaments, pictures, pleasures, social activities, singing, toys, and women. It also signifies attachments, the favour of women, joy, love affairs, success, and wealth. It confers a finely artistic, bright, cultured, hopeful, gentle, loving, poetical, pleasant-mannered nature, and beauty of the mind and senses. People signified by Venus include artists; botanists; choristers; confectioners; dancers; designers; domestic staff; embroiderers; engravers; fiddlers; florists; gamblers; glovers; illustrators; jewellers; lapidaries (jewel polishers); linen drapers; mothers; musicians; painters; pastry-cooks; perfumers; pipers; poets; silk-traders; seamstresses; singers; textile traders; tailors and vendors of women's apparel, make-up, and other adornments; upholsterers; virgins; and wives. Places described include beds; bridal chambers; dancing schools; fair places of residence; fountains; furnishings; gardens; and wardrobes. Minerals include alabaster; beryl; brass; chrysolite; copper; white and red corals; cornelians; emeralds; lapis lazuli; marcasite; sky-blue sapphires. Colours signified are white; and pale sky-colour mixed with brown or a little green. Flavours are all that are pleasant, sweet, delectable, aromatic, and addictive. Herbs are those of a sweet flavour, gentle effect, and pleasant smell, typically with smoothedged leaves and white flowers. They include alkanet, amber, bean, broad bean, bugle, burdock, catmint, chickweed, clary sage, clover (red), columbine, coltsfoot, coriander, cowslip, cuckoo-pint (lords and ladies), cudweed, daffodil (Narcissus), daisy, dead nettle, devil's bit, dittany, dropwort, ground elder (bishop weed), elder, fenugreek, feverfew, figwort, fleabane, foxglove, frankincense, goldenrod, ground-ivy, groundsel, herb Robert, hollyhock, lady's bedstraw, lady's mantle, lily, maidenhair fern, mallow, marshmallow, mayweed, mercury (annual), millet, mint, mugwort, musk, myrtle, orach, orchid, pennyroyal, periwinkle, plaintain, primrose, ragwort, rocket, rose, sanicle, self-heal, sheep's sorrel, silverweed, skirret, soapwort, sorrel, sow-thistle, strawberry, tansy, teasel, thyme, valerian, vervain, water-parnsip, wheat, wood sage, and yarrow. Trees include alder, almond, apple, apricot, ash, birch, cherry, cypress, date, fig, gooseberry, grape, olive, peach, pear, raspberry, and sycamore. Animals include blackbirds; bulls; calves; small cattle; civet cats; crabs; crows; dogs, dolphins; eagles; goats; harts; hens; nightingales; panthers; partridges; pelicans; wild pigeons; rabbits; sparrows; swans; swallows; thrushes; turtle-doves; wagtails; whiting; and wrens. Physically, Venus rules the appetite; beauty; cell reproduction, substance storage and tissue building; complexion; face; kidneys; navel; neck; nostrils; nutrition; ovaries; renal processes; uterus; thymus; and venous blood and circulation. When prominent, it describes a person of fair but not tall stature; delightful, shapely body; uniform but slightly darkened complexion; lovely, slightly black, eyes, sometimes wandering, others steadfast; smallish, round, fairly fleshy face face with dimpled cheeks; fair, smooth and abundant hair, usually light brown; lovely mouth with cherry-coloured lips; desire for a neat, trim appearance to clothes and body alike; and inclination to amorous enticements.

If Venus rises before the Sun, the body will be relatively tall or at least upright; but neatly composed, pretty or handsome, and not corpulent or very tall. If after the Sun, the body is shorter, but still appealing in form and well-liked. Illnesses are those of the abdomen, back, kidneys, reproductive organs, and womb; and toxic blood impurities. They include diabetes, gonorrhoea, hernias, impotency, incontinence, priapism, pustural diseases (measles, smallpox), sores, syphilis, and any arising through inordinate lust. Unto character, when well placed, Venus confers the habitual wearing of clean apparel; a neat and spruce self-presentation; enjoyment of baths; a relatively easy-going disposition with regard to personal beliefs; fondness of drinking; delight in merry meetings, and in masks and plays; a love of mirth in words and actions; musicality; pleasantness and cheerfulness; a disinclination to quarrel or create legal disputes, or to work or otherwise take pains; quietness of manner; a fondness for keeping the company of others; zealous affections; a proneness to love entanglements and the pursuit of sexual indulgence, and to be on the receiving end of jealousy; a virtuous nature deserving of trust, and free from vice. When poorly placed, Venus produces adultery; practical carelessness; the coveting of illicit sexual relationships; disregard for own reputation; faithlessness; fanaticism; incestuousness (potentially); irreligiosity or atheism; meanness and laziness as a companion; overexpenditure, esp. on drinking and among loose, scandalous people; proneness to looseness and lewd company; or riotous behaviour. In ancient astrology, Venus signifies love, marriage and sexuality; agreeability in behaviour and speech; and love of the arts and the good things of life; but when poorly placed, dullness, shyness, sordidness and voluptuousness. As a vocational significator, it produces artists; goldworkers; musicians; and makers of ornaments and other items of beauty. In aspects, it signifies the favour of or involvement with women, or a sexual issue. In a lost-item horary figure, Venus or the Moon show female ownership. Moon The glyph for the Moon is, by Moore and Douglas's model, a broad vertical crescent of Matter connected to a narrower vertical crescent of Matter, forming together the image of a crescent Moon, or partial, incomplete circle of Spirit. According to the reverse model of the crescent and cross, the glyph for the Moon is composed of two crescents of Soul, reflecting the individuality of the person. The Moon is ever-changing; evokes the containment of the Sun's power, and its reflection from a variety of different angles; and stands for the principle of response, which manifests on an experiential level as feeling, emotion or desire, and when positively expressed brings sympathy; when negatively, moodiness. It describes personal experience, the unconscious, the instinctive reactions, and the fate by which these bind one. It shows personal provenance from the past, memories, and what the individual seeks to overcome. The waxing and waning of the Moon in its phases produces on a human level phases of growth and decay. The fast-changing path and circumstances of the Moon is reflected in the rapid changes undergone by human emotion. Although frequently emotion has been regarded in modern times as an agent of hazardous personal instability capable of deceiving those who feel it with regard to reality, in fairness the arousal of human emotion is a healthy response, steering and guiding one towards consciously willed adaptations to the unconsciously perceived and illuminated reality of one's situation, for one's own well-being and benefit. Since the lunar response is thus a key to personal survival via constant circumstantial adaptations, the Moon also serves as a projection of the mother, who has a similarly responsive role early in the life of a child, on that child's behalf. The relationship of the Sun to the Moon in a nativity indicates the extent to which an

individual's will and behaviour (Sun) harmonises or conflicts with his or her emotions, situation and environment (Moon). Referred to sometimes as the 'bowl of heaven', the Moon has been regarded as a vessel for the reception of Spirit as Matter, and for the feeding and sustenance in material form of the will and creations of Spirit. It also governs the masses and the public in general, as they react and respond to changing material conditions. The nature of the lunar influence is capricious; changeable; charitable; concrete and practical in ideas and ingenuity; desirous on a material level; defensive of the defenceless; economical; faithful; fanciful; fluctuating; frivolous; hopeful; imaginative; impressionable; instinctive; kind; lacking in concentration; magnetic; maternal; modest; peace-loving; protective; psychic; reactive to domestic and everyday matters; receptive; respectful; romantic; susceptible to influence; sympathetic; timid; travel-loving; unstable; venerating; and wandering. The Moon governs changes, common people, females, health, home, marriage affairs, liquids, mother, native place, ocean, removals, place of residence, transportation and distribution systems, voyages, water, and worldly condition. It also signifies fancies, mysteries, popularity, public life, romances, and travelling. It confers a capricious, fanciful, inconstant, unsettled nature, with the capability of achieving public honour but a danger of reversals. People signified by the Moon include barmen; brewers; caterers; charwomen; coachmen; common people; dearers in liquids; drunkards; female Royalty and nobility; female officials, taverners and street-sellers; fishers; fishmongers; hackneymen; huntsmen; ladies; maids; malsters; mariners; messengers; midwives; millers; nurses; pilgrims; public commodity workers; sailors; public salespeople; tradespeople; transport workers; travellers; vintners; water-carriers. Places described include baths; bogs and marshes; brooks; deserts; fields; fishponds; fountains; highways; natural pools; port towns; rivers; sea havens; shores; springs. Minerals include crystals; moonstones; pearls; selenite; silver; soft stones. Colours are pale green; white; pale yellow; and silver. Flavours are flavourless; or fresh. Herbs are mostly those having soft, thick, juicy leaves, loving to grow in watery places. They include adder's tongue; agnus-castus; avens; cabbage; chickweed; clary sage; cleavers; colewort; columbine; cuckoo flower (lady's smock); cucumber; dog rose; duckweed; endive; flax (linseed); fleur-de-lys; gourd; grass; hawkweed; hemp; honesty (Lunaria); hyssop; iris (flag); ivy; kale; lettuce; lily (white); loosestrife (purple, yellow); mandrake; mercury (annual); mushrooms; onion; orach; poppy; purslane; rape; reeds; rose (white); rosemary; saxifrage (inc. burnet s.); stonecrop; violet; wallflower; water lily; watercress; and wheat. Trees include melon; palm; privet; pumpkin; willow; and wintergreen. Animals include bats; camels; cats; carrion crows; chameleons; chicks; crabs; cuckoos; ducks; eels; elephants; frogs; giraffes; geese; herons; hogs; lobsters; otters; owls; oxen; oysters; panthers; partridges; pigs; rabbits; rats; ravens; sea birds; snails; swans; tortoises and weasels. Physically, the Moon rules the abdomen; alimentary canal; bladder; breasts; brain function; cell tissue building; cerebellum; cleansing; eye (left in male; right in female); fluids; gastric juices; glands; glandular process; heart functions; left-side reproductive organs; lymph; oesophagus; menstruation; nerve sheaths; palate; pericardium; saliva; swallowing; sympathetic nervous system; thyroid gland; throat; tonsils. When prominent, it confers a fair stature; a corpulent, plump, fleshy body; a pale complexion; grey eyes, with one usually a little larger than the other; a round face; plenty of head and body hair; and short, fleshy hands.

Illnesses signified are abscesses; allergies; apoplexies; catarrh; colic; convulsions; coughs; diseases in the left side; dropsy; emotional depression; endocrine imbalance; epilepsy; eye pain; female disorders; functional ailments; gland inflammation; gout; measles; mental instabilities; nausea; palsy; rheumatic conditions; sciatica; small pox; stomach aches and ailments; stones; and worms. Unto character, when well placed, the Moon confers composed manners; desire to be carefree; fearfulness; flitting tendency; focus on the present; frequent residence change; learning of many different work skills; seeking of and delight in novelties; lack of steadfastness; love of honest and ingenious sciences; peace-loving nature; prodigality; softness; tenderness. When poorly placed, the Moon produces careless or beggarly living; discontent with all conditions of life; dislike of working; drunkenness; idleness; lack of spirit or of future forethought. In ancient astrology, the Moon signifies the sensitive and irrational mind; mothers and women. As a vocational significator, it produces diviners; dream interpreters; magicians; and soothsayers. In horary astrology, it indicates the flow of time. Mercury The glyph for Mercury shows the crescent of Matter above the Circle of Spirit, which in turn is above the cross of the Soul. This represents the influence of Matter upon Spirit or consciousness, in the astrological character of Mercury. The personal will of Spirit is exposed to reflections through the plane of Matter, and the relation of its own subjectivity to the objectivity of material reality, in the conscious processing house of the mind; and it is to these mental processes that Mercury relates. Mercury provides the connection between active Spirit and reactive Matter that is of the essence of conscious human existence. It evokes communication and intelligence, which when positively expressed manifest as discernment; when negatively, as variability. By Martin Schulman's model, the glyph for Mercury features the crescent of Soul, as originator of all self-aware knowledge based on inner perception, pouring its energies downward into the Circle of Spirit, the creative will, which then seeks to manifest this input in Matter. Mercury thus shows the mind functioning as a seat of perception and feeding that perception back into will for renewed application to matter. Mercury governs the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake without regard to practical application or morality; analysis and synthesis; argument and debate; the concrete perceptual faculties of mind, including the perception of colour, form, motion, order, position and weight; the registering and classification of all that strikes the senses; the gathering and quoting of evidence in support of views; intellectual capacity; reason; speech, oratory and intonation; study; technical skill; thought; and understanding. It is active, brilliant, crafty, cunning, dextrous, discriminating, eloquent, excitable, facile, gossipy, hesitant, impressionable, industrious, literary, nervous, proficient, subtle, superficial, vacillating, wayward, witty, and worrisome.. Mercury governs acquaintances, bargaining, business matters, clothing, colleges, food, journeys by land, letters, memory, the mind, mother's relatives, neighbours and their gossip, printing works, publishing offices, schools, scientific and literary organisations, servants, sickness, trading, and writings. It also signifies anxieties, commercial connections, family relating, industries, messages, mental activity, and multiple occupations. It confers a busy, restless, subtle, talkative, wary nature, inclining to oratory, scientific study and writing. People signified by Mercury include accountants, actors, ambassadors, artisans, astrologers, booksellers, carriers, civil engineers, clerks, commissioners, diviners, footmen, fortune-tellers, grammarians, interpreters, inventors, journlists, lawyers, mathematicians, merchants,

messengers, junior ministers, money exchangers, notaries, orators, philosophers, poets, postal workers, printers, researchers, registrars, schoolmasters, scientists, scribes, sculptors, secretaries, solicitors, stationers, tailors, telecommunications workers, thieves, usurers and writers. Places described include bowling alleys, commons, fairs, public halls, markets, schools, tennis courts, and tradespeople's shops. Minerals include agates, amber, coral, coxcomb, emeralds, flint, haematite, mercury, tin, topaz, turquoise, vitriol, and all stones of varied colours. Colours are mixed and new. Flavours are mixed; subtle; those penetrating without conscious awareness; ones that quicken the mind. Herbs are mostly those of mixed color; loving sandy soil; bearing seeds in husks; connected in uses with the tongue, brain, memory or lungs, or with divination and the muses. They include acacia, adder's tongue, anise, beans, bittersweet, blackberry, bracken, cabbage, calamint, caraway, carrot, wild celery (smallage), cinquefoil, coriander, cotton lavender, cow parsnip (Heracleum), cubeb, dill, elecampane, endive, fennel, fenugreek, ferns, flax, fleawort, fumitory, garlic mustard, germander (wall), good King Henry, ground pine, hog's fennel, black horehound, white horehound, hound's tongue, houseleek, knotgrass, lavender, lentil, lily-of-thevalley, liquorice, love-in-the-mist (Nigella), lungwort, maidenhair fern, mallow, mandrake, marjoram, melilot, mercury (dog's), moneywort, myrtle, oat, parsley, pea, pellitory, pimpernel, restharrow, rock samphire, rose, saffron, savory (winter, summer), scabious, senna, southernwood, spleenwort (wall rue), trefoil, valerian, and vervain. Trees include alder, cypress, elder, hazel, honeysuckle, mulberry, palm, quince, sumac, and walnut. Animals include adders, ants, apes, aquatic birds, bees, blackbirds, camels, civet cats, cockatoos, cranes, crickets, donkeys, ermines, falcons, foxes, greyhounds, hares, hyenas, jackdaws, larks, locusts, linnets, mules, mullet, nightingales, parrots, pigeons, pyes, serpents, spiders, squirrels, starlings, swallows, and weasels. Physically, Mercury rules the brain; bronchial tubes; ears; excitation; feet; gall; hair; ileum; intellect; larynx; limbs; lungs; memory; mind; mouth; nervous system; perception; senses; shoulders; thyroid gland; and tongue. When prominent, it describes a high stature; thin, straight body; olive or chestnut complexion; fair eyes between grey and black; long, narrow face; high forehead; plenty of head hair between dull brown and black; little chin hair; thin lips; long, thin nose. If Mercury rises before the Sun, the stature is shorter but well-jointed; omplexion honey-coloured to swarthy-brown; eyes small; and hair sparse. If after the Sun, the body is lank and dry; eyes hollow, sparkling and red or fiery; face tawny; and limbs small and slender. Illnesses signified are anxiety, brain disease, congestion, dumbness, dry coughs, fantasising, giddiness, goitre, gout, hoarseness, insanity, lethargy, memory defects, nervous disorders, respiratory impairments, excess saliva, stammering, stress, tongue problems, tuberculosis, and vertigo. Unto character, when well placed, Mercury confers cogitation, intellect, sharpness, subtlety and genius to the mind; argumentative, logical and political ability; tireless imagination; inclination to learning, usually without need for a teacher; occult curiosity, and an interest in divination; ambition for scientific excellence; resourcefulness as a tradesperson; desire for travel, including abroad; and wit. When poorly placed, it produces a frenetic nature; trouble brought by antagonistic speech and writing; easy and foolish credulity; tendency to boast, feign knowledge, gossip, lie, cheat, thieve, or interfere; inconstancy of location or opinion; trifling mind; excess of words unmatched by action; or attraction to necromancy and dark occultism. In ancient astrology, Mercury signifies the intellectual mind; custom; fidelity; law; debating skill; inventiveness; prudence; and thoughtfulness; but when poorly placed a foolish, inconsiderate, inconstant, precipitate, untruthful nature. As a vocational significator, it produces academics,

architects, astrologers, bankers, businesspeople, diviners, merchants, mimes, orators and writers. It has a potentiating effect on the benefic or malefic nature of other planets in a configuration. Sun The glyph for the Sun is composed of the circle of Spirit with a central dot indicating the manifestation of Spirit in the microcosm as individual autonomously creative beings. The Sun is constant, evokes a reserve of power, radiated outwards in all directions, and stands for the principle of individualisation, which when positively expressed brings magnanimity; when negatively, egotism. It describes the conscious, the ego and core identity of any person, and his or her function as a centre of creative self-expression, and awareness of a destiny to attain or purpose to fulfil. It shows personal direction into the future, and what the individual endeavours to become. Yet it reminds of the connection of every individual to the macrocosm of Spirit, and of the unity and common goals of all beings. By analogy, the Sun represents the life-source at the heart of any system. This includes the sense of personal identity, the innermost will and how it is best channeled (shown by the placement of the Sun in the figure), and also any male authority figures such as fathers and leaders. The Sun's influence is ambitious and executive, and desirous of acquiring power. It is authoritative, creative, dignified, forceful, generous, grand, honest, masterful, organised, strongly individual, truthful, vital, wilful, wise-seeming, and worldly; but if ill-placed, potentially ceremonious, despotic, ostentatious, pomp-loving and ritualistic. It brings fame, honour, influence, power and pride in the areas of life shown by its position. The Sun governs advancement, the constitution of the body, fame, the father, honour, monarchs, nobles, occupation, and rulers. It also signifies celebrity, elevation, glory, health, high patronage, power, and public offices. It confers an artistic, free, generous, glory-desirous, honest, judicious, noble, wise nature. People signified by the Sun include courtiers; crafters and sellers of ornaments, pottery and metals; directors of public utilities; governers in high office; gentlemen; great huntsmen; male royals; money-lenders; nobles; physicians; senior judiciary and police; tyrants; usurpers; writers; and anyone desirous of preferment or honour. Places described include all magnificent buildings; princes' courts; dining rooms; halls; houses; and theatres. Minerals include adamant, chrysolite, diamonds, etites, fire, garnets, gold, hyacinths, rubies, and topaz. Colours are yellow; gold; scarlet or clear red; purple. Flavours are aromatic; and a blend of sweetness with some sharpness, bitterness or sourness. Herbs under its dominion are those of pleasant smell, good flavour, a love of open, sunny places, majestic form, and yellow or reddish flowers, with uses connected with the heart, the eyes, resistance of poison and evils, and comforting of the vital organs. They include amber, angelica, balm, barley, burnet, burning bush, butterbur, celandine (greater), centaury, chamomile, chick pea, cinnamon, cinquefoil, cumin, daffodil, elecampane, fenugreek, feverfew, frankincense, galangal, garlic, ginger, eyebright, hellebore, lavender, leek, lovage, maize, marigold, marjoram, onion, paeony, pepper, pimpernel, radish, rice, rosemary, rue, saffron, spikenard, St. John's wort, storax tree, sugar cane, sundew, tormentil, vervain, viper's bugloss, and water-lily. Trees include ash, bay, cedar, citrus (lemon, orange), heliotrope, ivy, juniper, laurel, mistletoe, mulberry, myrrh, palm, vines, and grape vines. Animals include baboons, boars, bulls, buzzards, deer, donkeys, gazelles, glow-worms, goats, hawks, horses, larks, leeches, lions, peacocks, phoenixes, rams, ring-doves, sheep, shellfish, starfish, and swans. Physically, the Sun governs the arteries; blood in organs ruled by its sign; back; brain (in

male); brain structure; cellular excitation; cell nuclei; circulation; dorsal spine; etheric fluid; eye (right in male; left in female); heart (in male); memory; oxygen in blood; right-side reproductive organs. When prominent in the nativity, it describes a healthy consitution; strong, thick, fleshy, wellproportioned body; large, round forehead; ruddy or saffron complexion; yellowish hair, but fastbalding; flourishing beard; large, sharp, piercing eyes. Illnesses are brain diseases; catarrhs; cramps; eye troubles; fainting; fevers; halitosis; heart disease, palpitations; mouth diseases; pimples; organic ailments; spleen ailments; tissue generation, and upper spine ailments. Unto character, the Sun confers honesty, high-mindedness, good-heartedness, humanity, and a spirited nature. When well placed, it favours affability; confidence; emotional self-control; faithfulness and deserving of trust; industrious ambition for honour and wealth; good judgement; graceful acceptance of losses; grave, concise, deliberate manner of speech; keeping of promises and secrets; majestic or stately bearing; prudence; punctuality; reflective nature; distaste for the sordid; love of luxury and splendour; and easy tractability. When poorly placed, it produces arrogance or pride; financial dependency; disdain; domineering or troublesome temperament; extravagance, overexpenditure and wastefulness; foolishness; a lack of gravity or sobriety; poor insight and judgement; and restlessness. In ancient astrology, the Sun signifies the father; the light of the mind; our intelligent consciousness; the perceptual faculties of our souls; friendship; leadership; rank; and public authority. Well-placed, it confers honour and glory; poorly placed, dishonour and unknown. In horary astrology, the Sun is regarded as the administrator of the figure. The Sun and Moon as horary significators show a lost object as being close by the querent or in a bright place. Mars The glyph for Mars was originally a cross of the Soul over a Circle of Spirit - an upturned arrangement of that for Venus, showing the Spirit struggling under the load of the pained consciousness of the Soul, which exists at the juncture between the spiritual and material realms of existence. Yet equally this glyph, with the crescent of Matter completely absent from it, shows the desire of the conscious Soul to focus on creative Spirit to the exclusion of material restrictions, and thus to vanquish and defeat the limiting conditions of corporeal existence. The modern glyph showing an upwards-tilting arrow emerging from the Circle of Spirit highlights the more aggressive, forward-thrusting, passionate desire of creative Spirit to fight for its aims and pierce all obstacles and defences in their way. Martin Schulman also notes that the original glyph featured a cross over the Circle, but interprets it according to his view that the cross represents Matter, and deduces that it shows the need for material fulfilment dominating over and even somehow fulfilling the Spirit. Schulman also perceives the slant of the arrow on the modern symbol to signify an imbalance or incompleteness requiring fulfilment from external sources, whether they be personal or transcendent in nature. The relationship between Venus and Mars in the nativity is a key to social adjustment, describing the balance between intake and output, passivity and assertion. The opposing nature of these two forces also makes them natural mutual complements in sexual and romantic attraction, with Mars making the moves and Venus calling. The position of Venus on the near side of the Earth and Mars on the far side from it relative to the Sun in their orbits around it is thought to account for Venus being experienced as a pulling force and Mars as a pushing one.

Mars evokes projection and forcefulness, which when positively expressed manifest as vigour; when negatively, as aggression. Because of its confrontational, strident manner, Mars has conventionally been perceived as serving as a negative, disharmonious influence on any point it contacts in the horoscope, albeit an energising influence too; and it has therefore been known as the lesser malefic. The nature of Mars's influence is acquisitive; active; angry; ardent in pursuit; combative; concerned with physical achievements; ambitious; assertive; careless; centripetal; courageous; desirous; destructive; determined; direct; domineering; dynamic; enduring; energetic; enterprising; enthusiastic; expert; fearless; fraternal; fretful; hasty; high-spirited; indiscriminately sexual; indomitable; inflammatory; intolerant; mentally sharp and penetrating; patriotic; passionately loving; powerful; protective of self and kin; ruthless; self-assured; striving; unhesitating; unrestrainable; and unswerving; but when denied expression, potentially coarse; cruel; egotistical; quarrelsome; sarcastic and vulgar. Mars governs adventures, athletics, cutlery, death, dexterity, energy, enterprise, fevers, fires, hurts by violence, kilns, madness, male relatives, mortuaries, poison, prowess, quarrels, sharp tools, slaughter houses, sports, steel, and weapons. It also signifies burnings, calumnies, sudden deaths, enmities, enthusiasm, glory in battle, sharp pains, poisonings, strifes, thefts, treasons, and wounds inflicted by fire or metals. It confers a brave, cynical, demonstrative, often destructive, expert, fearless, impulsive, independent, irascible, reformist, witty nature. People signified by Mars include alchemists; armourers; apothecaries; armaments manufacturers; barbers; bailiffs; bakers; barbers; bear-keepers; butchers; carpenters; chemists; cobblers; new conquerers, and tyrannical or oppressive rulers; cooks; cutlers of swords and knives; dentists; dyers; engineers; gamblers; gunners; hangmen; leather finishers; marshals; merchants; metal workers; military personnel, esp. high-ranking officers; physicians; smiths; surgeons; tailors; tanners; thieves; usurpers; watch-makers. Places described include chimneys; forges; furnaces; slaughterhouses; smiths; shops; and anywhere where bricks or charcoal are burnt. Minerals include adamant; multi-coloured amethysts; antimony; arsenic; bloodstone; brimstone; jasper; red lead; magnetite; ochre; touchstone; vermilion. Colours signified are red, yellow, and all fiery and shining in appearance. Flavours are bitter, sharp, and those seeming to 'burn' the tongue. Herbs under its dominion are mostly those red in colour, with sharp, pointed leaves, a caustic, burning taste, and a love for growing in dry places, with a corrosive, penetrative action on the human body, generating a subtle heat. They include wood anemone, asarabacca, basil, bindweed, brooklime, broom-rape, butcher's broom, Scotch broom, goldilocks buttercup, bryony, cayenne (chili), lesser celandine, chick pea, chive, cress, crowfoots, cuckoo-pint, cumin, daffodil, dame's rocket (Hesperis / eveweed), eggplant, erysimum (treacle mustard / wormseed mustard), fenugreek, fleabane, frankincense, galangal, garlic, gentian (Autumn), geranium, (wall) germander, ground pine, hedge hyssop, hedge mustard, hellebore, hop, horehound (white), horseradish, leek, lettuce (wild), madder, marjoram, marrow, masterwort, mustard (black and white), nettle, onion, pepper, Polygonum spp, radish, restharrow, rhubarb, rue, saltwort (Russian thistle), sanicle, sarsaparilla (Smilax), sowbread (ivy-leaf cyclamen), spurge, squinancy, tarragon, teasel, cotton thistle, holy (or blessed) thistle, sowthistle, star thistle, toadflax (flaxweed), tobacco, weld, sweet woodruff, wormwood. Trees include bitter almond, barberry, chestnut, cinnamon, gorse, hawthorn, pear (wild), pine, gum tragacanth, savine (dwarf juniper), tamarind, and all that are prickly. Animals are those that are bold, ravenous and warlike, including barbels, bats, bears, comorants, cranesbills, crows, dogs, donkeys, flies, foxes, gnats, goats, hawks, horses, kites, lapwings, leopards, mastiffs, mules, ostriches, owls, panthers, pigs (wild), pikes, pyes, ravens, scorpions, sharks, tigers, vultures, wasps, wolves, and stinking worms.

Physically, Mars rules the assimilation; blood manufacture, red corpuscules, haemoglobin and iron; left cerebral hemisphere; diaphragm; digestion; left ear; forehead; gall bladder; ganglia; external genitals; hepatic process; motor function of spinal cord; motor nerves; muscles; nasopharynx; rectum; sinews; sympathetic nervous system; urethra. When prominent, it describes a medium stature with a relatively lean, strong, large-boned body; a ruddy or brownish complexion; sharp, piercing, hazel eyes; a round face with a bold, confident countenance; red or sandy flaxen hair, often crispy or curling; an active and fearless manner. If Mars rises before the Sun, the complexion is a bit paler; the height a little greater; the body hairy; and the character valiant. If after the Sun, the complexion will be very ruddy; the stature shorter; the body smooth, not hairy; the hair yellow and stiff; the head smallish. Illnesses signified include abcesses; blisters; burnings; sudden distempers in the head; dysentery; recurrent, or pestilent and burning facial scars; fevers; fistulas; frenzies; gallstones; genital diseases and wounds (in men); haemorrhages; high blood pressure; infections; inflammation; injuries inflicted by iron; jaundice; migraines; the plague; ringworms; shingles; smallpox; and all illnesses connected with an excess of anger, choler or passion. Unto character, when well placed, Mars confers boldness; bravery; a tendency to challenge others to act honorably; confidence; a contentious nature; a disobedient, non-submissive nature; a fearless facing of danger; immovability; invincibility; prudence in personal affairs; selfpublicisation; scorn for any who surpass oneself; valiance; and a victory-seeking, war-loving spirit. When poorly placed, Mars produces cheating and dishonesty; faithlessness; fury; immodesty; inhumanity and lack of care for people; a love of quarrels and killing; obscenity; oppressiveness; perjury; an inclination to promote commotions, frays, and public disorder and rebellion; rashness; thanklessness; thieving or traitrous, treacherous tendencies; turbulence and wavering of spirit; and violence. In ancient astrology, Mars signifies action; energy; troubles; when well placed, an audacious, noble but irascible character; but when poorly placed, boisterousness, cruelty, drunkenness, mischievousness, overexpenditure, rapaciousness, tumultuousness, and a precipitate, ruffianlike temperament. As a vocational significator, it produces military people, and workers with fire. In a lost-item horary figure, Mars as significator suggests its violent theft or destruction (as through a burglary). Sun The glyph for the Sun is composed of the circle of Spirit with a central dot indicating the manifestation of Spirit in the microcosm as individual autonomously creative beings. The Sun is constant, evokes a reserve of power, radiated outwards in all directions, and stands for the principle of individualisation, which when positively expressed brings magnanimity; when negatively, egotism. It describes the conscious, the ego and core identity of any person, and his or her function as a centre of creative self-expression, and awareness of a destiny to attain or purpose to fulfil. It shows personal direction into the future, and what the individual endeavours to become. Yet it reminds of the connection of every individual to the macrocosm of Spirit, and of the unity and common goals of all beings. By analogy, the Sun represents the life-source at the heart of any system. This includes the sense of personal identity, the innermost will and how it is best channeled (shown by the placement of the Sun in the figure), and also any male authority figures such as fathers and leaders. The Sun's influence is ambitious and executive, and desirous of acquiring power. It is authoritative, creative, dignified, forceful, generous, grand, honest, masterful, organised, strongly individual, truthful, vital, wilful, wise-seeming, and worldly; but if ill-placed, potentially ceremonious, despotic, ostentatious, pomp-loving and ritualistic. It brings fame, honour,

influence, power and pride in the areas of life shown by its position. The Sun governs advancement, the constitution of the body, fame, the father, honour, monarchs, nobles, occupation, and rulers. It also signifies celebrity, elevation, glory, health, high patronage, power, and public offices. It confers an artistic, free, generous, glory-desirous, honest, judicious, noble, wise nature. People signified by the Sun include courtiers; crafters and sellers of ornaments, pottery and metals; directors of public utilities; governers in high office; gentlemen; great huntsmen; male royals; money-lenders; nobles; physicians; senior judiciary and police; tyrants; usurpers; writers; and anyone desirous of preferment or honour. Places described include all magnificent buildings; princes' courts; dining rooms; halls; houses; and theatres. Minerals include adamant, chrysolite, diamonds, etites, fire, garnets, gold, hyacinths, rubies, and topaz. Colours are yellow; gold; scarlet or clear red; purple. Flavours are aromatic; and a blend of sweetness with some sharpness, bitterness or sourness. Herbs under its dominion are those of pleasant smell, good flavour, a love of open, sunny places, majestic form, and yellow or reddish flowers, with uses connected with the heart, the eyes, resistance of poison and evils, and comforting of the vital organs. They include amber, angelica, balm, barley, burnet, burning bush, butterbur, celandine (greater), centaury, chamomile, chick pea, cinnamon, cinquefoil, cumin, daffodil, elecampane, fenugreek, feverfew, frankincense, galangal, garlic, ginger, eyebright, hellebore, lavender, leek, lovage, maize, marigold, marjoram, onion, paeony, pepper, pimpernel, radish, rice, rosemary, rue, saffron, spikenard, St. John's wort, storax tree, sugar cane, sundew, tormentil, vervain, viper's bugloss, and water-lily. Trees include ash, bay, cedar, citrus (lemon, orange), heliotrope, ivy, juniper, laurel, mistletoe, mulberry, myrrh, palm, vines, and grape vines. Animals include baboons, boars, bulls, buzzards, deer, donkeys, gazelles, glow-worms, goats, hawks, horses, larks, leeches, lions, peacocks, phoenixes, rams, ring-doves, sheep, shellfish, starfish, and swans. Physically, the Sun governs the arteries; blood in organs ruled by its sign; back; brain (in male); brain structure; cellular excitation; cell nuclei; circulation; dorsal spine; etheric fluid; eye (right in male; left in female); heart (in male); memory; oxygen in blood; right-side reproductive organs. When prominent in the nativity, it describes a healthy consitution; strong, thick, fleshy, wellproportioned body; large, round forehead; ruddy or saffron complexion; yellowish hair, but fastbalding; flourishing beard; large, sharp, piercing eyes. Illnesses are brain diseases; catarrhs; cramps; eye troubles; fainting; fevers; halitosis; heart disease, palpitations; mouth diseases; pimples; organic ailments; spleen ailments; tissue generation, and upper spine ailments. Unto character, the Sun confers honesty, high-mindedness, good-heartedness, humanity, and a spirited nature. When well placed, it favours affability; confidence; emotional self-control; faithfulness and deserving of trust; industrious ambition for honour and wealth; good judgement; graceful acceptance of losses; grave, concise, deliberate manner of speech; keeping of promises and secrets; majestic or stately bearing; prudence; punctuality; reflective nature; distaste for the sordid; love of luxury and splendour; and easy tractability. When poorly placed, it produces arrogance or pride; financial dependency; disdain; domineering or troublesome temperament; extravagance, overexpenditure and wastefulness; foolishness; a lack of gravity or sobriety; poor insight and judgement; and restlessness. In ancient astrology, the Sun signifies the father; the light of the mind; our intelligent

consciousness; the perceptual faculties of our souls; friendship; leadership; rank; and public authority. Well-placed, it confers honour and glory; poorly placed, dishonour and unknown. In horary astrology, the Sun is regarded as the administrator of the figure. The Sun and Moon as horary significators show a lost object as being close by the querent or in a bright place. Mars The glyph for Mars was originally a cross of the Soul over a Circle of Spirit - an upturned arrangement of that for Venus, showing the Spirit struggling under the load of the pained consciousness of the Soul, which exists at the juncture between the spiritual and material realms of existence. Yet equally this glyph, with the crescent of Matter completely absent from it, shows the desire of the conscious Soul to focus on creative Spirit to the exclusion of material restrictions, and thus to vanquish and defeat the limiting conditions of corporeal existence. The modern glyph showing an upwards-tilting arrow emerging from the Circle of Spirit highlights the more aggressive, forward-thrusting, passionate desire of creative Spirit to fight for its aims and pierce all obstacles and defences in their way. Martin Schulman also notes that the original glyph featured a cross over the Circle, but interprets it according to his view that the cross represents Matter, and deduces that it shows the need for material fulfilment dominating over and even somehow fulfilling the Spirit. Schulman also perceives the slant of the arrow on the modern symbol to signify an imbalance or incompleteness requiring fulfilment from external sources, whether they be personal or transcendent in nature. The relationship between Venus and Mars in the nativity is a key to social adjustment, describing the balance between intake and output, passivity and assertion. The opposing nature of these two forces also makes them natural mutual complements in sexual and romantic attraction, with Mars making the moves and Venus calling. The position of Venus on the near side of the Earth and Mars on the far side from it relative to the Sun in their orbits around it is thought to account for Venus being experienced as a pulling force and Mars as a pushing one. Mars evokes projection and forcefulness, which when positively expressed manifest as vigour; when negatively, as aggression. Because of its confrontational, strident manner, Mars has conventionally been perceived as serving as a negative, disharmonious influence on any point it contacts in the horoscope, albeit an energising influence too; and it has therefore been known as the lesser malefic. The nature of Mars's influence is acquisitive; active; angry; ardent in pursuit; combative; concerned with physical achievements; ambitious; assertive; careless; centripetal; courageous; desirous; destructive; determined; direct; domineering; dynamic; enduring; energetic; enterprising; enthusiastic; expert; fearless; fraternal; fretful; hasty; high-spirited; indiscriminately sexual; indomitable; inflammatory; intolerant; mentally sharp and penetrating; patriotic; passionately loving; powerful; protective of self and kin; ruthless; self-assured; striving; unhesitating; unrestrainable; and unswerving; but when denied expression, potentially coarse; cruel; egotistical; quarrelsome; sarcastic and vulgar. Mars governs adventures, athletics, cutlery, death, dexterity, energy, enterprise, fevers, fires, hurts by violence, kilns, madness, male relatives, mortuaries, poison, prowess, quarrels, sharp tools, slaughter houses, sports, steel, and weapons. It also signifies burnings, calumnies, sudden deaths, enmities, enthusiasm, glory in battle, sharp pains, poisonings, strifes, thefts, treasons, and wounds inflicted by fire or metals. It confers a brave, cynical, demonstrative, often destructive, expert, fearless, impulsive, independent, irascible, reformist, witty nature. People signified by Mars include alchemists; armourers; apothecaries; armaments

manufacturers; barbers; bailiffs; bakers; barbers; bear-keepers; butchers; carpenters; chemists; cobblers; new conquerers, and tyrannical or oppressive rulers; cooks; cutlers of swords and knives; dentists; dyers; engineers; gamblers; gunners; hangmen; leather finishers; marshals; merchants; metal workers; military personnel, esp. high-ranking officers; physicians; smiths; surgeons; tailors; tanners; thieves; usurpers; watch-makers. Places described include chimneys; forges; furnaces; slaughterhouses; smiths; shops; and anywhere where bricks or charcoal are burnt. Minerals include adamant; multi-coloured amethysts; antimony; arsenic; bloodstone; brimstone; jasper; red lead; magnetite; ochre; touchstone; vermilion. Colours signified are red, yellow, and all fiery and shining in appearance. Flavours are bitter, sharp, and those seeming to 'burn' the tongue. Herbs under its dominion are mostly those red in colour, with sharp, pointed leaves, a caustic, burning taste, and a love for growing in dry places, with a corrosive, penetrative action on the human body, generating a subtle heat. They include wood anemone, asarabacca, basil, bindweed, brooklime, broom-rape, butcher's broom, Scotch broom, goldilocks buttercup, bryony, cayenne (chili), lesser celandine, chick pea, chive, cress, crowfoots, cuckoo-pint, cumin, daffodil, dame's rocket (Hesperis / eveweed), eggplant, erysimum (treacle mustard / wormseed mustard), fenugreek, fleabane, frankincense, galangal, garlic, gentian (Autumn), geranium, (wall) germander, ground pine, hedge hyssop, hedge mustard, hellebore, hop, horehound (white), horseradish, leek, lettuce (wild), madder, marjoram, marrow, masterwort, mustard (black and white), nettle, onion, pepper, Polygonum spp, radish, restharrow, rhubarb, rue, saltwort (Russian thistle), sanicle, sarsaparilla (Smilax), sowbread (ivy-leaf cyclamen), spurge, squinancy, tarragon, teasel, cotton thistle, holy (or blessed) thistle, sowthistle, star thistle, toadflax (flaxweed), tobacco, weld, sweet woodruff, wormwood. Trees include bitter almond, barberry, chestnut, cinnamon, gorse, hawthorn, pear (wild), pine, gum tragacanth, savine (dwarf juniper), tamarind, and all that are prickly. Animals are those that are bold, ravenous and warlike, including barbels, bats, bears, comorants, cranesbills, crows, dogs, donkeys, flies, foxes, gnats, goats, hawks, horses, kites, lapwings, leopards, mastiffs, mules, ostriches, owls, panthers, pigs (wild), pikes, pyes, ravens, scorpions, sharks, tigers, vultures, wasps, wolves, and stinking worms. Physically, Mars rules the assimilation; blood manufacture, red corpuscules, haemoglobin and iron; left cerebral hemisphere; diaphragm; digestion; left ear; forehead; gall bladder; ganglia; external genitals; hepatic process; motor function of spinal cord; motor nerves; muscles; nasopharynx; rectum; sinews; sympathetic nervous system; urethra. When prominent, it describes a medium stature with a relatively lean, strong, large-boned body; a ruddy or brownish complexion; sharp, piercing, hazel eyes; a round face with a bold, confident countenance; red or sandy flaxen hair, often crispy or curling; an active and fearless manner. If Mars rises before the Sun, the complexion is a bit paler; the height a little greater; the body hairy; and the character valiant. If after the Sun, the complexion will be very ruddy; the stature shorter; the body smooth, not hairy; the hair yellow and stiff; the head smallish. Illnesses signified include abcesses; blisters; burnings; sudden distempers in the head; dysentery; recurrent, or pestilent and burning facial scars; fevers; fistulas; frenzies; gallstones; genital diseases and wounds (in men); haemorrhages; high blood pressure; infections; inflammation; injuries inflicted by iron; jaundice; migraines; the plague; ringworms; shingles; smallpox; and all illnesses connected with an excess of anger, choler or passion. Unto character, when well placed, Mars confers boldness; bravery; a tendency to challenge others to act honorably; confidence; a contentious nature; a disobedient, non-submissive nature; a fearless facing of danger; immovability; invincibility; prudence in personal affairs; selfpublicisation; scorn for any who surpass oneself; valiance; and a victory-seeking, war-loving spirit.

When poorly placed, Mars produces cheating and dishonesty; faithlessness; fury; immodesty; inhumanity and lack of care for people; a love of quarrels and killing; obscenity; oppressiveness; perjury; an inclination to promote commotions, frays, and public disorder and rebellion; rashness; thanklessness; thieving or traitrous, treacherous tendencies; turbulence and wavering of spirit; and violence. In ancient astrology, Mars signifies action; energy; troubles; when well placed, an audacious, noble but irascible character; but when poorly placed, boisterousness, cruelty, drunkenness, mischievousness, overexpenditure, rapaciousness, tumultuousness, and a precipitate, ruffianlike temperament. As a vocational significator, it produces military people, and workers with fire. In a lost-item horary figure, Mars as significator suggests its violent theft or destruction (as through a burglary). Jupiter The glyph for Jupiter shows a vertical crescent of the Moon connected at its lower end to the left edge of a cross of the Soul, indicating the elevation of Matter to quasi-spiritual status, and its outpouring through experience (the Soul). This is a product of human evolution, whereby the lunar mechanism of response to material sense perceptions gradually develops into more sophisticated personal feelings and social responses, leading in turn to the growth of the higher mind with its abstract capabilities. Thus, Jupiter represents wisdom arising through a long chain leading ultimately from response to sense impressions of the material world. Schulman interprets the glyph as showing the crescent of Soul rising from the West of the cross of Matter (the West symbolising maturity), denoting the assimilation of early material learning into later soul wisdom. Jupiter assimilates the sensorily absorptive, material and family values of the Moon with the qualitative, aesthetic, social values and inspirations of Venus to generate an abundance of explanations, morals, and wider-ranging civic relationships. It is confined only by Saturn's restraining handle. It evokes expansion and foresight, which when positively expressed manifest as optimism; when negatively, as extravagance. Through its high-minded, expansive nature, it serves as a very positive psychological influence on any point contacted in a nativity, and therefore has conventionally been regarded as the greater benefic. Jupiter governs the abstract creative faculties; the acqusition of wealth; the appreciation of beauty on a grand, artistic scale; the balance of feeling with thinking; comparison; common sense; the desire for social service; growth; generalisation; good fortune; harmony, in physical form as health, in social form as law, and in spiritual form as religion; idealism; impersonal argumentation; order; positive thinking; profit; satisfaction derived from material mastery and ownership; the search for deeper meaning, purpose and understanding; and sound judgement. It is benevolent; broad-visioned; devoted; dignified; dramatic; free from miserliness; generous; genial; good-natured; honest; hopeful; integrity-conscious; law-abiding; merciful; open-minded; peace-loving; philosophical; prestigious; prophetic; prosperous; reasonable; religious; respectable; respectful; ritualistic; self-controlled; sociable; temperate; and vital; but when denied expression, potentially boastful; complacent; dissipating; gambling; hypocritical; procrastinating; and proud. Jupiter governs charitable and philanthropic movements and institutions, the clergy, clothing, devotion, duties, education, expansion, the father's relatives, good fortune, growth, godfathers, guardians, increase (esp. in wealth), legal affairs, long journeys, public assemblies and functions, religion, social gatherings, theatres, and wealth. It also signifies friends, happiness, honours, plenty, productiveness, protection, success and supremacy. It confers an ambitious, courtly, generous, humane, jovial, prudent and sympathetic nature. People signified by Jupiter include bankers; chancellors; clothiers; councillors; drapers of woollen fabrics; judges; lawyers (esp. civil); legislators; ministers; philanthropists; physicians; priests and clergy; provision dealers; restaurant workers; young scholars and university or

college students; and senators. Places described include altars of churches; courts of justice; neat and pleasing places; oratories; public conventions; convocations; synods; and wardrobes. Minerals include amethyst; crystal; emerald; freestone; hyacinth; marble; sapphire; and topaz. Colours signified are ash-colour; sea-green or blue; green mixed with yellow; and purple. Flavours are those sweet and well-scented, with inoffensive, mild smell. Herbs under its dominion include agrimony, alexanders, asparagus, avens, balm, barley, basil, beet, betony, bloodroot, borage, bugloss, bur marigold (Bidens spp.), centaury, chervil, chick pea, chicory, cicely (sweet), cinquefoil, colewort, costmary (alecost), daffodil (narcissus), dandelion, endive, feverfew, flax, garlic mustard, hart's tongue, houseleek, hyacinth, hyssop, liverwort, lungwort, marjoram, meadowsweet, milk-thistle, milkweed, mint, ox-eye daisy, oxtongue, paeony, pimpernel, pinks, Polygonum spp., self-heal (all-heal), rhubarb, rice, rose (esp. red), sage, samphire, scurvy grass, squinancy (quinsywort), St. John's wort, stonecrop, strawberry, violet (sweet), water figwort (water betony), wheat, and willowherb. Trees include almond, apple, apricot, bay, beech, bilberry, birch, (sweet) chestnut, clove, fig, gooseberry, hazel, linden (lime), liquorice, manna, maple, mulberry, nutmeg (inc. mace), oak, olive, peach, pear, pine, pistachio, spruce, sumac, thorn-apple, and (grape) vine. Animals include bees; does; dolphins; eagles; elephants; harts; hens; larks; oxen; partridges; peacocks; peahens; pheasants; pigeons; serpents; sheep; snipes; stags; storks; tigers; unicorns; whales; and all that are mild, gentle, beneficial and well-suited to humans. Physically Jupiter governs the adipose tissue; adrenal glands; arteries; arterial circulation; assimilation; right auricle; blood haematopoiesis, and fibrin; breath; cell division and tissue building; digestive organs and functions; fat disposition; feet; filtration; genito-urinary veins; glycogen; growth; hams; liver; lungs; nutrition; phagocytes; ribs; sides; starch; sugar; teeth; thighs; and viscera. When prominent, Jupiter describes a tall, straight, upright stature; a large, deep belly; a lovely, ruddy or brownish complexion; large grey eyes; a long or oval, full or fleshy face; long, awkward feet; a high forehead; soft, auburn-brown hair, and abundant beard; strong, wellproportioned thighs and legs; and an inclination to sober speech and grave discourse. If Jupiter rises before the Sun, the body is fleshier; the eyes large; the skin clearer; the complexion is honey colour or white-red; the right foot usually has a mole or scar. If after the Sun, the complexion is purer and lovelier; the hair light brown or close to dark flaxen; the stature shorter; the temple or forehead smooth and bald. Illnesses include acidity; apoplexies; congestion; cramps; heart palpitations and trembling; liver infirmities; low blood pressure; lung inflammation; pleurisy; quinsy; rib diseases; spinal pain; and vein and blood diseases and disorders. Unto character, when well placed, Jupiter confers affability; bashfulness; charity; a desire to benefit all people and to relieve the poor; a distaste for sordidity; fairness and justness; faithfulness; glorious achievements; honorable, high aspirations and nature; indulgent treatment of spouse and children; liberalisn; magnanimity; prudence; religiosity; reverence for the aged; sweetness in conversation; thankfulness; virtue; and wisdom. When poorly placed, it produces carelessness; divisiveness; a gross, dull mind; hypocritical religiosity, with tenacity to false religious tenets; ignorance; self-abasement in company; and the wasteful expenditure of one's inheritance. In ancient astrology, Jupiter signifies benefit; magnificence; opinion; and sociability; when wellplaced, generosity, graciousness, loftiness and piety; but when poorly placed, the absence of these particular virtues unless other indications produce them (as Jupiter can only confer them, not deny them, by its placement). As a vocational significator, it produces administators,

businesspeople, priests and religious authorities.. Saturn Saturn's glyph consists of a vertical crescent of the Moon (or Matter) connected at its top end to the bottom of a cross of the Soul. The crescent hanging heavily from the cross of the soul represents being burdened or crucified by the weight of material responsibilities. Schulman sees Saturn's glyph as a crescent of Soul connected at its top end to the southern point of a cross of Matter, symbolising the requirement of the Soul's desire for self-expression to be united with Matter; the consideration of how much of one's Soul can be manifest as Matter; the desire for one's actions to reflect one's inner self, and thus the feeding of one's actions back into the nature of one's Soul; and the Soul's discriminating evaluation of Matter with a view to selecting what to integrate into itself and what to leave out. Saturn's glyph also resembles a sickle: the instrument of death through time, which closely corresponds to the functions of Saturn. An ancient mythological analogue of Saturn is Chronos, the father of the Horae (hours). Time bounds human corporeal existence; and in the ancient understanding of space no slower-orbiting planet was known than Saturn, so it was the greatest marker of time. Through its restrictive, dampening and sometimes lethal influence, Saturn has conventionally been regarded as a very negative conditioner of any point it contacts in a figure; and therefore it has been known as the greater malefic. It curbs Jupiterian optimism and bars Martian drive. It evokes limitation and restraint, which when positively expressed manifest as discipline; when negatively, as repression. Saturn governs the ability to express thought in material form; achievement through disciplined, dutiful adherence to rules; aging; awareness of the separateness of the individual ego; the concrete creative faculties and mental awareness; the desire for self-preservation; emotional inhibition; hard times; the imposition of restrictions to ensure personal survival and growth; learning through hard experience; mathematics; scientific research; senility; seniority; strenuous self-exertion; and termination. It is ascetic; binding; cautious; cold; compressive; conscious of justice and injustice; constant; conservative; contracting; conventional; customary; death-dealing; defensive; deliberate; demanding of hard labour and self-control; desirous of authority; detailed; disciplinary; exacting; experience-valuing; faithful; fearful; firm; hard; inhibited; isolating; jealous; karma-dealing; laconic; law-setting; moralistic; non-committal; noncommunicative; obedient to rules and higher authorities; oppressive; orderly; persevering; protective; prudent; reactionary; realistic; reserved; rigid; secretive; separative; serious; slow to arouse; solidifying; steadfast; tough; unaffectionate; and wilful; yet potentially also avaricious; enslaved by tradition; fatalistic; inexorable; materialistic; narrow-minded; pessimistic; tyrannical; and ultra-conservative. Saturn governs sound advice, ascetism, bruises, cemeteries, chronic ailments, churchyards, corpses, countryside, darkness, debts and their payment, decay, disease, earth, physical falls, fasting, the father, friendships, habits, hermits, hindrances, karma, longstanding ties, misers, mountainous and hilly places, old plans and people, poverty, practicality, restrictions, and widowhood. It also signifies defects, delays, falls from position, fatalities, hurts to women and children, impediments, melancholy moods, misfortunes, secrets, and sorrows. It confers a cautious, habit-governed, independent, jealous, miserly, secretive and unhappy nature. People signified by Saturn include animal farmers, such as herdsmen and shepherds; beggars; bricklayers; brick-makers; bridge-makers; builders; candle-makers; carters; clowns; colliers; corpse-bearers; day-labourers; dealers in land, property or earth-produced commodities; ditchers; dyers of black cloth; fathers; gardeners; grandfathers; gravediggers; jailors; Jesuits; labourers; lead-dealers; leather-finishers; malsters; miners; monks; old men;

plumbers; police; potters; scavengers; adherents to sects; security guards; sextons; stablemen; sweeps; tinners; underground workers; undertakers; and night-time workers. Places described include ruinous buildings, burial places, caves, church-yards, coal-mines, dens, deserts, dirty places, holes, mountains, obscure valleys, office buildings, sinks, stinking muddy places, wells, and woods. Minerals include ugly, unpolishable stones, and those of a sad ashy or black colour; dust and rubbish; lapis lazuli; lead; and sapphire. Colours signified are black, dark brown, indigo. Flavours are sour, bitter and sharp. Herbs under its dominion include aconite (monkshood), amaranth, angelica, baneberry, barley, beet (red), belladonna (deadly nightshade), birdsfoot trefoil, bistort, burdock, cabbage, candytuft, castor oil plant, lesser celandine (pilewort), cleavers (goosegrass), comfrey, cornflower, crosswort, cudweed, cumin, bearded darnel, dodder, ground elder (bishop's weed / goutweed), endive, ferns (Asplenium), Royal fern, fireweed, flax, fleawort, fumitory, stinking gladwin, hare's ear, hawkweed, heartsease, hellebore, false hellebore, hemlock, hemp (cannabis), henbane, horsetail, houseleek, knapweed (greater), lentil, mallow, mandrake, marrow, mullein, nightshade (common), parsnip, pepper, buck's horn plantain, polypody, poppy (inc. corn / field), rue, rupturewort, meadow saffron, saffron, sage, shepherd's purse, Solomon's seal, starflower, melancholy thistle, toadflax (flaxweed), tutsan, valerian, vervain, water-parsnip, water-violet, willowherb, and dyer's woad. Trees include acacia, blackberry, blackthorn, box, buckthorn, caper, elm, holly, ivy, myrtle, olive, pine, poplar, quince, savine (dwarf Juniper), sloe, tamarisk, turpentine tree, willow, yew. Animals include adders, bats, bears, beetles blackbirds, cats, cranes, crocodiles, crows, cuckoos, dogs, donkeys, eels, elephants, gnats, grasshoppers, hares, hogs, lapwings, mice, moles, ostriches, owls, peacocks, scorpions, serpents, shellfish, swallows, thrushes, toads, tortoises, weasels, wolves, and all kinds of creeping creatures that breed in putrid conditions. Physically Saturn rules the left auricle; blood composition, circulation and coagulation; bones, joints; calves; cartilaginous tissue building; contractions; right ear; gall, gall bladder; hair; knees; leukocytes; liver; constrictor, peripheral and sympathetic nerves; ribs; skin; spleen; teeth; tendons; and urinary organs. Illnesses of Saturn include agues with recurrent fevers; apoplexies; atrophy; circulatory impairment; consumption; debility caused by falls; dropsy; impediments in the right ear; gout; hazardously fluctuating haemorrhoids; black jaundice; leprosy; malnutrition; melancholia; palsies; rheumatism; skin disease; streaming from the nose or eyes; spinal ailments; subnormal temperature; tooth decay; tremblings; and vain fears and fantasies. Saturn, contd. When prominent, it describes a medium stature; a cold, dry body; a short, lank belly; a pale, swarthy or muddy complexion; an unpleasant, lumpy countenance; large ears; small, dark, downturned eyes, with lowered, hanging eyebrows; a broad forehead; black or sad-looking, hard or rugged hair, but a sparse beard; an inclination to hold the head forward or stoop; thick lips and nose; large, broad, often crooked shoulders; and lean, spare, short thighs, with ungainly knees and feet. If Saturn rises before the Sun, the stature is shorter but the body is well-composed. If after the Sun, the body is leaner, the complexion is darker, and the hair is sparser. If Saturn is of little declination, the body is leaner; if of great declination, fleshier or fatter, especially if northern, when it is also hairier; if southern, smoother. If Saturn is stationing retrograde, the body is a little fatter; if stationing direct, much fatter, weak, and illfavoured. Unto character, when well placed, Saturn confers austerity; a profound imagination; patience in work; reserve in speech and giving; seriousness and gravity in disputation and argumentation; a severe manner of acting; and a studious and solicitous approach to acquiring wealth.

When poorly placed, it produces outward concealment of feelings; condemnation of women; covetousness, envy and jealousy; ill-content; secret lying; malice; mistrust of others; murmuring; a repining nature; sluggishness; sordidity; stubbornness; suspicion; and timorousness.. In ancient astrology, Saturn signifies constraint and restriction; degradation; disappointment; ignorance; and necessity; when well-placed, austerity, depth of thought, frugality, hard work, quietness, righteousness, seriousness, and solitariness. As a vocational significator, it produces customs officers; dock and harbour workers; farmers; labourers; tax-collectors; and all working of necessity in areas of little interest to them. In a lost-item horary chart, it indicates a dirty, incomplete or old quality to the item. Uranus The glyph for Uranus evokes a circle of Spirit beneath a cross of the Soul, with two vertical crescents of the Moon connected one to either side of the cross, veering outwards from it towards their tops and bottoms and closest to it at their centres. It resembles the original glyph for Mars but with the attachment of two crescents of Matter. It is Mars-like in its assertiveness, but much more intensely powerful. However, the glyph originally represented the first letter of the surname of the discoverer of Uranus, William Herschel. Schulman interprets the glyph as two Crescents of Soul interconnected via a Cross of Matter. He likens the crescents facing in opposite directions from each other to different phases of the waxing and waning Moon, presenting two different perspectives on life, but both of them necessary parts of the whole, and both exposed by Uranus, highlighting its unusual insights. The conventional Cross of Matter is tugged at by the two Crescents of Soul in new, hitherto unmapped directions, as the Soul wishes to discover and experience what is not yet known, risking stability in the quest for possibility and for liberation from Matter. Seen sometimes as a 'higher octave' of Mercury, Uranus enables communication without the conventional mechanism of speech and physical conduction methods. It is therefore associated with radio waves, electromagnetic radiation and electricity, and nuclear radiation. It evokes originality, which when positively expressed manifests as inventiveness; when negatively expressed, as deviance. Uranus confers contempt for conventional conceptions of morality; distaste at being controlled and at arbitrary forms of outside authority; executive ability; flashes of intuition; perspicacious and reliable insight into others' personal motivations; interest in the principles of religion and science, and in scientific investigation of material phenomena; an inclination to part with customs; and mechanical ability that favours engineering. It is aloof; altruistic; cool; critical; crushingly assertive; conscious of personal authority and power; directed by inner impulses; eccentric; erratic; firm-opinioned; frequently fatalistic regarding personal destiny; heroic; iconoclastic; illuminating; imaginative; impersonal; impulsive; ingenious; insistent upon independence; innovative; inventive of new ideas, methods, moral codes and occupations; liberating; moved by new circumstances; off-hand; organising; peculiar; positive; persevering when faced with obstacles to surmount; power-conscious; promoting; prone to sudden changes of mind and view; prophetic; revolutionary; romantic; self-centred; self-reliant; spasmodic; spontaneous; unbendingly wilful; unsentimental; variable; and violently reactive against potential privations of freedom of thought and action; but when restricted, potentially anarchistic; bohemian; eccentric; fanatical; and invective and sarcastic without provocation. Uranus signifies everything anomalous or unconventional; and the sudden smashing and transformation of outdated established Saturnian structures and restrictions. It also signifies bereavements, blind impulses, catastrophes, changes (especially sudden changes), constructive and mechanical ability, enemies, estrangements, exiles, people in power or authority, public affairs, romances, sudden events, sorrows, suicides, tragedies, and uncertain

fortunes. People signified by Uranus include antiquarians, astrologers, aviators, electrical and scientific goods traders, electricians, discoverers, electrictrians, engineers, government or civic officials, inventors, lecturers, mesmerists, metaphysicians, original thinkers, patentees, phrenologists, pioneers, psychologists, public functionaries, radio technicians, spirit mediums, travellers, and all pursuing uncommon forms of work. Physically, Uranus governs the appendix; aura; brain and stomach membranes; breathing; electromagnetic forces; eyes; heart valves; motor nerves; nerve fluids; and the growth of long bones. When prominent, it confers a pleasing though ascetic or effeminate appearance; slim body; large, light, brilliant, keen eyes; and irregular features. Illnesses include fractures; inflammations caused by mineral deposits; lesions; ruptures; and spasmodic disorders. Neptune The glyph for Neptune is the symbol of a trident, which stands for rulership over the sea. Neptune in mythology has a strong connection with the sea; and Neptune the planet in its influence resembles an ocean in its boundlessness, fluctuation and emotional pulls, and its function as a repository for the undifferentiated, anonymous and unknown that becomes a mysterious source of individualised life under certain conditions, only to serve later as an unforgiving void into which what once appeared vital dissipates and dissolves, and thus as an agent of death through release from the confines of matter. But it also can be interpreted as a cross of the Soul intersected in its upper part by a Crescent of Matter, resembling the glyph for Mercury but without the Circle of Spirit. On this basis, it is perceived as a representation of the Soul of Matter, and the principle of feeling and psychic receptivity, detached from any creative will or ego. From Schulman's perspective, Neptune's glyph is a crescent of the Soul above a cross of Matter, showing the desires of the Soul as being of greater importance than Matter, and consequently the readiness of the unwanted components of Matter for dissolution, freeing the Soul to exert its dominance, and thus rendering the planet Neptune its mystical nature. Sometimes considered a 'higher octave' of Venus, Neptune liberates one from intellectual consciousness, bringing extremes of beauty and love to the senses and emotions. It transcends and escapes Saturnian boundaries altogether, elevating consciousness and sensory perception to defy conventional material restrictions and personal separateness, and instead merge with all that there is to be aware of in the world. It challenges the individual to differentiate between subtle and barely conscious essential truth, on the one hand, and tantalising mirage, on the other - since it presents both. It evokes vision, which when positively expressed manifests as idealism; when negatively expressed, as escapism. Neptune is aesthetic; amorphous; attuned to the finest nuances of beauty, feeling and mind; blissful; compassionate; diffuse and at times subjectively unclear or confused; dreamy; enthusiastic; ethereal; highly emotional; imitative; impressionable through extra-sensory channels; intuitive; mystery-loving; mystical; peaceful; pulled by powerful motives towards abstract or sentient ends; romantic; self-deceptive; spiritually sensitive; unconsciously socialising; subtle beyond fitting words; unstable; and highly sympathetic; yet when denied a desired outcome, quick to renege on an undertaking. It inclines to finer artistic sensibilities, and responds favorably to dance, harmony, poetry, rhythm, stringed instruments, and symmetry. Neptune signifies ambushes; the artistic faculty; chaos; covert alliances; deceptions, including deceptive schemes and ventures; democratic and popular movements; desire; disguises; dreamers; emotion; erotic appreciation; exiles; false hope; feeling; frauds; illusion and delusion; imagination; impositions; intangible emotions; intrigues; intuition; many changes; mass

movements and emotions; mobs; morbidity of outlook; proneness to succeed or fail through the influence of women; psychics; the psychic faculties; saintliness; the secrets of the life; secret societies; social unrest; sudden death; susceptibility to drugs; uncertain fortunes; visions; and wanderings. People signified by Neptune include all those engaged in aesthetic, artistic, inspirational, literary, occult and psychic vocations (including mediums and mystics), or those connected with water. Physically, Neptune governs the cerebral ventricles and pineal gland; cell development and reproduction; glands; intuitive perception of a psychic genesis; poisons; nerve fibres; nutrition; optic nerves; psychic and telepathic functions; respiratory and throat tissues; spinal fluid; tears; and white corpuscule formation. When prominent, it confers a slim, orderly body; a mysterious expression; hypnotic eyes; sharp, almost cruel features; and a long head, bald at the temples. Illnesses include anaemia; catalepsy; drug addiction; energy depletion; glandular imbalance; hypochondriasis; neuroses; oxygen deficiency; and wasting disesases. Pluto The glyph for Pluto is a cross of the Soul, atop which sits a horizontal bowl-like Crescent of Matter, within which nestles a Circle of Spirit without direct contact, seen by Moore and Douglas as the 'seed of the Sun or Spirit', cradled by the 'chalice of the Moon', a 'husk of the past'. Thus, Pluto's function as an agent of regeneration from the death of the old, and transition between states of existence, is symbolised. Pluto is closely linked to the urge for reproduction to perpetuate life beyond death, and thus to the drive for sex, which operates unconsciously through its influence, and in so doing confuses sex with death in the psyche. Schulman interprets the glyph for Pluto as the Circle of Spirit 'soaring free' above the crescent of Soul that lies atop the cross of Matter, indicating a journey into the unknown being required before the deepest self-understanding can be achieved. The disconnection of Spirit from the Soul and Matter leaves the individual prone to suffering base energies. The challenge faced is to 'transcend oneself', in rising from lower ways of life to connect to and embody the purity of Spirit and Light that encapsulates goodness. In leaving behind what is of no further value to one's own growth, one is channelling the Plutonian energies in the most constructive way possible on a personal level. Sometimes considered a 'higher octave' of Mars, Pluto is similarly powerful and penetrating, but on an unconscious and psychological level. It gradually permeates the subconscious with its drives, leaving the conscious unaware until suddenly and explosively it emerges in an instinctive response that brings sweeping and often devastating change in the psyche and way of living. It can thus be a force for great personal good or ill. It evokes the principles of resurrection and determination, which when positively expressed bring resolution; when negatively expressed, coercion. Pluto governs the conversion of apparent lost causes into successful projects, but at times the receding of objectives when their point of realisation seems imminent; cycles of death and rebirth; disregard for vested interests; extremes of good and bad (including luck); the frustration and annihilation of plans; idealistic socially motivated organisations; ideas ahead of their time; the inspiration to put an end to failing conditions; involvement in organised groups and movements desirous of social reconstruction, which may include altruistic interest groups, political parties and think tanks, professional associations and trade unions, and also gangs and underground organisations; the negation and transformation of conditions; non-recognition of the legitimacy or impositions of officially established authorities; righteous indignation on behalf of social causes; and the voluntary relinquishment of worldly interests in order to advance spiritual development, or of home, country or fortune for marriage. It manifests in writers and dramatists who seek to inculcate reformist doctrines into their literary works. It is

compulsive, intense, and sometimes manipulative. People signified by Pluto include aeronauts, anonymous writers, archaeologists, leaders of large organisations and movements, nuclear scientists, sociological writers, space explorers and scientists, television engineers and technicians, those working underground, and weather forecasters. Physically, Pluto governs metabolic balance, and the nerve centres connecting the solar plexus with the sacral plexus and the top of the spinal column with the pineal gland. When prominent, it confers medium stature; a rugged, sturdy build; delicate skin; and fine, soft head hair but little body hair. Illnesses include ailments resulting from mineral deposition caused by acidosis; arthritis; and arteriosclerosis.