The Planets - The Grahas

The Sun – The higher Sun is the Soul, the lower is the ego. The Sun is the only light in the chart and in life. The other planets merely reflect the Sun’s Light. It is the ONE – often referred to – that connects all things – the ocean of light in which we live. When we remember our true nature as self, joined to the Cosmic Sun, we illumine everything around us. It is only when we forget our true nature, and seek to be illumined from without, that we suffer and are in darkness.

Keywords: Soul nature and energy, Confidence, Self - growth and development, Ego, Father

The Moon – The higher Moon reflects the spirit of joy and sharing that comes with having peace of mind, the lower Moon reflects the withdrawal and fear we experience when faced with losing that peace. The Moon represents our mind (consciousness) and feeling potential. Our capacity and desire for peace and receptivity. The Moon is how our soul feels connected to existence. It is our basic desire to have peace of mind. When we seek peace outside, in the temporal we lose it, when we seek it inside, in the eternal, we find it.

Keywords: Connection to our Body and sense mind, Peace of mind, neglect, others, the public, Mother

Mars – The higher Mars is the spiritual warrior, stopping at nothing to know the truth so as to free the soul from bondage – the Lower Mars is the debasing, combative and opinionated nature to which we can be reduced. Mars is the capacity and desire of energy to transform itself. When his energy is directed toward higher purposes, he has the energy to liberate of our soul, when directed toward lower purposes he can becomes the very energy we are struggling against. 

Keywords: Vital energy, aggression, logic, innocence, recklessness, friends, Brothers, competition

Mercury – The higher Mercury is the god of discrimination, the capacity of the mind to be fair and balanced. The lower Mercury can drain our mental energy through over stimulation and trivia. Mercury is discrimination either good or bad. Mercury can create a web of trivia and sensory data, which ensnares the soul, or it can create a ladder of virtues through which the soul can ascend.

Keywords: Speech and communication, skills, intellect, dexterity, equanimity, neutrality, curiosity

Jupiter – The higher Jupiter is Divine grace, wisdom, ethics and creativity, the lower Jupiter can be a haughty showman, concerned with appearance, status and the admiration of others. Jupiter is where we find grace in life. It is our desire to do good. One must align their sense of duty and virtue, with divine purposes to elevate the soul’s expression, not to just doing good things to gain the approval of others.

Keywords: Knowledge, Expansion, (children, education, spirituality) teachers and teaching, doing good 

Venus – The higher Venus is Divine Love, the lower Venus is hedonism and over indulgence in sensory pleasures. The main issue with Venus is happiness. We all want it, but it is in where we look for it that determines how Venus will manifest. We can seek it outwardly in the form of pleasure, or inwardly as joy. We can seek it is transient things and lose it, or in the eternal and truly find it. Most of our lives are spent involved with Venus energy.

Keywords: Pleasure, love, sex, happiness, sensual desire, service, devotion

Saturn – The higher Saturn is a Monk in meditation, the lower is a cold, ruthless individual, disconnected from his feeling nature. Saturn represents the power of our actions. Each action sets forth ripples of karma that spread out and magnify over time. Saturn shows our ability to practice what we have learned, not just acknowledge it mentally. It gives the focus to carry out what we have started and bring it to completion. We must direct Saturn’s energy inward toward the divine so as to perfect ourselves, rather that externally, rigidly seeking control over others, outer circumstances, or our own feelings.

Keywords: Ambition, fear, responsibility, capacity for hard work, stress, isolation, Old people

Rahu – Rahu (North Node) represents the illusory power of our unfulfilled desires, which work on a subconscious level to distort our perceptions. This powerful and creative force can be very useful for meditation once we have gotten control over it. Rahu teaches us to accept what is, in the present moment, beyond our illusory desires for the future.

Keywords: Obsession, attachment, distorted perception, blowing things out of proportion, psychic ability 

Ketu – Ketu (South Node) represent the illusory power of our fears and attachments that prevent us from positive action in the present. It’s clinging to the past shows the fear of death, from which we flee in life. This death is not actually physical, but it is a death of the ego we are truly fleeing. It is only until we embrace death a creative force, that we are able to escape its shadow.

Keywords: Dissatisfaction, detachment, solitude, over – scrutinizing, anonymous, hiding things