3. The Planets. Introduction

Here are presented some features of the planets viewed linked one with another. We found out about planetary pairs like Sun-Earth, Moon-Mercury, Venus-Mars or Jupiter-Saturn. Sun and Earth are two centers of the Solar System, Sun the objective center and Earth the subjective center (from our perspective). Mercury and the Moon are two modulators for the Sun and Earth. Mars and Venus are also linked, Mars represent “I”, the energy that separates one from another and Venus represent “Thou” and the development through relations.  Jupiter means support, social expansion, social order and Saturn signify resistance, rules, tests.

Then, the transcendental planets, represents energies that are out of the ordinary reality, so not everyone can express them. In fact, these planets require a telescope to be seen.

The last part is about retrograde planets, the whole mechanism of being retrograde is explained and we can see, for example, that retrograde planets are always closer t the Earth and generates greater involvement and a sort of lack of vision. All the explanations are there!

4. The Planets: Core Meanings

It is, probably, the best chapter from this book (ok.. not just from this book...). Let see... What is happening here? Mainly we found that planets are not just some spots on the sky who generates some good or bad things to us. Ntzzz…

It is here, in this chapter, a much deeper explanation of the planetary energies. Rob writes about the Sun like a “yang” symbol, the hero archetype and the Moon like a “yin” symbol (the origin and the medium where energy can manifest). And beginning with these ideas he explains many things about the relation between those two planets, what happens when one have a strong Moon and a weak Sun or vice versa. Also we can see this relation in the world: generally speaking, we lost a lot of “yin” values and appreciate only “yang” values (we can see that firms hires only young people who are dynamic, full of energy, leaders) which is bad and make us lose until we won't evaluate yin and yang, the Moon and the Sun with the same measure.

The explanation for Mercury it is really special. He sees two functions for Mercury: communication and the power of symbol-making. Signifies the nervous system because the nerves enable the organs to communicate. Signifies sensing, experiencing or language because all these processes are made by assigning symbols to some things. When we see a tree it is, practically, our visual impression of a tree, not the tree itself. It is what is focused on the retina of the eye. So it is a symbol of the tree. And when we say “tree” we use another symbol. The word “tree” it is a symbol for the symbol assigned with what we think is a tree. This is Mercury… Assigning symbols to enhance communication, learning, discovering the world, get information, create maps.

Venus is about unifying  two things, persons for a better creation. Mars, contrary, individualize, magnify differences.

Jupiter has two types of energies: expansion and integration and Saturn is the planet who says stop to Jupiter expansion. Saturn sets bounds, structures, rules. Saturn shows age and death is the moment when you have nothing more to develop, when you must stop.

Then, the transcendental planets, destroy the order created by the former planets. So, when you learned the lessons for the material world, when you are fully developed here, know to act, to love, to work, to think, to take a social position comes those energies and tells you: “No, you are not good. And even more, you must destroy everything and take a new way, this world it is not real, just seemed to be real” And here we learn about Uranus, Neptune and Pluto energies, who are all destroying Saturn`s reality (Earth reality) and connects us to other realities.

Here is an interesting quotation:

“Neptune is often described as illusion, while Saturn is said to represent truth. The relation is actually the reverse: Saturn is the illusion  that there is a reality that is true; Neptune is the truth that there isn't”.

And a last idea from this chapter:

“If one really masters Neptune, one probably does not incarnate into this world”.

Hmm… I am not sure about that…