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Planetary Glossary & Keywords
A distilled reference for understanding each planet’s tone, needs, and personality.
This glossary gathers the essential vocabulary for all ten major planets — organized
into four simple parts: Names, Core Functions, Keywords, and Archetypal Roles.
Use these as quick anchors for interpretation across signs, houses, and aspects.
Overview
Planetary keywords offer a direct way to understand each planet’s style, function,
and psychological tone. These entries are intentionally simple — four compact sections
that help you recognize how a planet behaves and what it brings to the chart.
Use this glossary as a quick‑reference tool when exploring natal charts, transits,
synastry, or any interpretive work within the ASTROFIX system.
☉ SUN
- Helios
- Sol
- Conscious self
- Creative will
- Identity
- Purpose
- Vitality
- Attention (where the Sun goes is where you need to pay attention)
- Confidence
- Conscious self
- Core
- Creative potential
- Ego
- Energy level
- Exposure
- Fame
- Identity
- Life purpose
- Personal authority
- Reputation (fame or infamy)
- Self
- Self-expression
- Shine
- Spotlight
- Star power
- Vitality & willpower
- Where you cast a shadow
- Authority figure
- Boss
- Celebrity
- Central figure
- Go-to person / point person
- Hero
- Key player
- Powerful person
- Royal
- Self-confident individual
- Star of the show
☽ MOON
- Luna
- Selene (personification of the Moon)
- Bonding
- Emotion
- Instinct
- Need
- Response
- Behavior
- Bonding
- Caring
- Cause for concern
- Emotion
- Fluctuation
- Habit
- Instinct
- Mothering & nurturance
- Mood
- Response
- Safety
- Caregiver
- Caterer
- Parent
- Supporter
- Tender
☿ MERCURY
- Hermes
- Hermes Trismegistus
- The magician
- Communication
- Connection
- Learning
- Perception
- Translation
- Commerce & trade
- Communication, linking & connecting information
- Dexterity
- Direct observation (seeing it with your own eyes)
- Language & symbols
- Learning
- Lingo
- Local travel & between worlds
- Messenger & psychopomp
- Siblings
- Speech & hearing
- Tricksters
- Vernacular
- Where your mind goes
- Agent
- Alternate
- Assistant
- Bootlegger?
- Charioteer
- Courier
- Coyote
- Gossip
- Grifter
- Informer
- Journalist
- Mail carrier
- Mule? (with Pluto?)
- Neighbor
- Networker
- Page
- Pickpocket
- Postal worker
- Proxy
- Psychopomp
- Raconteur
- Reporter
- Representative
- Runner
- Scout
- Sibling
- Storyteller
- Student
- Substitute?
- Thief
- Travel guide
- Trickster
- Writer
♀ VENUS
- Afrodita
- Androphonos, “man-slayer”
- Aphrodite in Greek, meaning “foam born” (Venus is her Roman counterpart)
- Aphrodite Urania (eldest of the three Fates)
- Epitymbria, “of the tombs”
- Goddess of death-in-life
- Goddess of love
- Melaenis, “black one”
- Scotia, “dark one”
- The lesser benefic
- Attraction
- Bonding
- Desire
- Harmony
- Value
- Arts appreciation
- Beauty & good looks
- Charm & romance
- Love & flirting
- Love of peace
- Passivity & laziness
- Relationship commitment
- Style & aesthetic
- Values & self-worth
- Vanity & superficiality
- Wealth & assets
- Your taste in…whatever (al gusto)
- Art reviewer
- Artist
- Beautiful person
- Diplomat
- Eye candy
- Fashion designer
- Fashionista
- Graphic designer
- Illustrator
- Interior designer
- Negotiator
- Peacemaker
- Seducer
- Style icon
- Stylist
♂ MARS
- Ares
- God of war
- Action
- Drive
- Initiation
- Protection
- Will
- Active & action-oriented
- Aggravation
- Anger & rage
- Area of life to conquer
- Competition & rivalry
- Cutting or severing
- Drive & will
- Emergencies
- Force & coercion
- Fresh
- Front line of defense (especially in Cancer)
- Goalie (especially in Cancer)
- Guard (especially in Cancer)
- Guts & daring
- Heightened activity (code red)
- Immediacy
- Impatience & impulse
- Irritants
- National guard (especially in Cancer)
- New
- Night’s Watch
- Pointy stick
- Self-assertion
- Sentry
- Sharp edge of the blade
- Stress
- Take action now
- Unrefined
- Weapons of choice
- Aggravator
- Agitator
- Aggressor
- Attack dog
- Combatant
- Conqueror
- Defender
- Enforcer
- Entrepreneur
- Fighter
- Guard
- Independent contractor
- Instigator (they started it!)
- Leader
- Protector
- Ranger (probably with Jupiter)
- Solo artist
- Warrior
♃ JUPITER
- Jove
- King of the gods
- The great benefic
- Zeus
- Expansion
- Faith
- Growth
- Meaning
- Protection
- All-powerful / omnipotent
- Belief & fanaticism
- Benefits
- Bouncer (especially in Cancer)
- Culture & customs
- Cultural shifts (sweeping cultural changes in whichever house Jupiter falls in)
- Don’t believe the hype
- Exaggerated
- Faithful or philandering
- Foolish
- Force field
- Global & long-distance
- Gluttonous
- Grandiose
- Increase
- Inflated (too good to be true)
- Jolly
- Jupiter + Neptune = growing and expanding indefinitely
- Open, optimistic & foolhardy (gullible)
- Opinionated
- Opulent
- Overbearing
- Over-expansion
- Overwhelm
- Philanthropic & spendthrift
- Philosophical, worldview, & meaning
- Protection & cover
- Shield (especially in Cancer)
- Too much of a good thing
- Upgrade
- Wisdom
- Benefactor
- Big thinker
- Explorer
- Judge
- Mentor
- Optimist
- Philosopher
- Priest
- Sage
- Teacher
♄ SATURN
- Chronus / Chronos / Cronus / Kronos — the Greek Titan of time (the word cronos may mean “crow”)
- Saturnus (Roman god of agriculture and order)
- The architect of reality
- The devourer of children
- The guardian of thresholds
- The lord of karma
- The taskmaster
- The wise old man (Jungian archetype)
- Boundary
- Discipline
- Endurance
- Form
- Time
- Ageing & maturation
- Burden
- Consequences
- Curb your enthusiasm
- Devotion / Saturn’s kind of love is devotion
- Discipline & restraint
- Fear & reality checks
- Integrity
- Karma
- Lack
- Limitation & boundaries
- Making do with less
- Manifestation & crystallization
- Quelling (especially with Neptune)
- Responsibility & hard work
- Scrimping and saving
- Seriousness & gravity
- Structure & order
- Struggle
- Wisdom gained through age & experience
- Working harder for the same outcome
- Builder of long-term success
- Initiator of maturity
- Planet of aging, endings, and earned wisdom
- Ruler of Capricorn (traditional) and Aquarius (traditional)
- Symbol of societal rules and personal ethics
- Teacher through limitation
- Tester of resolve and character
- Exalted in Libra
- Detriment in Cancer and Leo
- Fall in Aries
♅ URANUS
- King of the mountains
- Ouranos
- Awakening
- Breakthrough
- Disruption
- Liberation
- Rebellion
- Breaking out of a mold
- Chaos
- Coldness & distance
- Discomfort
- Disorder
- Disruption
- Disruption & upset
- Eccentricity & genius
- Erraticism
- Experimentation
- Extremism
- Freedom
- Futurism, invention, and flashes of insight
- Hacker
- Liberation & independence
- Odd
- Rebellion & anti-
- Revolution & uprising
- Shock & awakening
- The unexpected
- Tumult
- Unsettled
- Uprooted
- Disrupter
- Dissident
- Extremist
- Genius
- Innovator
- Inventor
- Liberator
- Objector
- Outcast
- Rabble-rouser
- Rebel
♆ NEPTUNE
- He who gives to drink from the wooded mountain (from *The Greek Myths*, by Robert Graves)
- Poseidon (Greek counterpart of Neptune)
- Potidan
- Dissolution
- Imagination
- Longing
- Permeability
- Transcendence
- Absorption
- Abyss
- Attrition
- Blurred
- Dazed & confused
- Dazzling
- Diffuse
- Disappear
- Disappointed & longing
- Dissolve
- Dreamer & visionary
- Drain
- Drift
- Drowning
- Encroach
- Enervate
- Entropy
- Erasure
- Erosion
- Ethereal & psychic
- Evasive & transient
- Fathomless
- Float
- Illimitable
- Immeasurable
- Imperceptible
- Indefinite
- Indirect
- Indistinguishable
- Infringing
- Invasive
- Invisible
- Like an ocean wave spreading out over the shore then shrinking back pulling millions of grains of sand with it down to the ocean depths never to be seen again.
- Jupiter + Neptune = growing and expanding indefinitely
- Limitless
- Lost
- Meandering
- Messy (Neptune is in detriment in Virgo)
- Mooch
- Mystical
- Nebulous
- Obfuscated
- Overrun
- Permeating
- Poetic & artistic
- Proliferating
- Raiding (with Aries or Mars)
- Refined & exquisite
- Replicating
- Seeping
- Sleazy
- Slippery
- Smooth & eroding
- Spiritual
- Spread
- Subtle
- Trespass
- Undermine
- Unseen
- Vast & boundless
- Vanish
- Wander
- Weaken
- Wither
- Abstractionist
- Artist
- DJ
- Dreamer
- Drifter
- Poet
- Musician
- Nurse
- Sensitive soul
- Lost person
- Druggie
- Spiritual guide
- Mystical guide
- Filmmaker
- Visionary
♇ PLUTO
- Hades
- Pluton
- “The rich one”
- Dispater
- Descent
- Elimination
- Power
- Purification
- Transformation
- Alchemy
- Area of life where you crave intense experiences
- Buried treasure (how dirty do your hands have to get?)
- Cleansing & renewal
- Corruption & annihilation
- Descent
- How much are you willing to change to get the power you want?
- How power transforms you (for better or worse)
- Indefatigable
- Magic & sorcery
- Manipulation & power struggles
- Passion & consumption
- Pluto *wasn’t* a nice guy!!!
- Rebirth
- Relentless
- Soul retrieval
- The thing that’s taking a toll on your life (the thing that’s killing you right now)
- “Transformation” and its synonyms: conversion, metamorphosis, alteration, modification, reformation, revision, transition, shift, transfiguration, adjustment, deformation, transmutation, distortion, mutation, disfigurement, supplantation, transmogrification
- Trash
- Underbelly & the seedy side of life
- Underground & mining
- Underworld & criminal activity
- What level of corruption will you stoop to in order to achieve the power you crave?
- You can transform only so much before you become unrecognizable (do the people you loved still know you?)
- Captive
- Conspiracy theorist
- Criminal
- Detective
- Dis-empowered person
- Garbage collector
- Hostage
- Kidnapper
- Paranoid person (in Aquarius = paranoid android)
- Powerful person
- Psychologist
- Rehabilitator
- Researcher
- Saboteur
- Shaman
- Spy
- Svengali
- Therapist
- Transformer
- Up-cycler
- Usurper
- Villain
Planetary Vocabulary
Every planet carries a distinct psychological function and archetypal presence.
This glossary distills each planet into its essential language — the names, functions, keywords, and roles that form the backbone of the ASTROFIX interpretive system.
Use this drawer as a quick reference when reading charts, comparing planets, or exploring how planetary energies move through signs, houses, and aspects.
What this glossary gives you:
• a distilled vocabulary for each planet’s core nature
• a shared interpretive language used across the entire codex
• a modular reference system that supports deeper chart work
• archetypal anchors that help you recognize planetary behavior
Related Reference Pages
• Planetary Glossary & Keywords
• Zodiac Sign Glossary & Keywords
• Houses Glossary & Keywords
• Aspect Glossary & Keywords
• Asteroids Glossary & Keywords
• Centaurs Glossary & Keywords
• Planetary Pairings Keywords
• Harmonic Families Keywords
• Elements & Modalities Keywords
• Retrograde Keywords
• Chart Pattern Keywords
• Planetary Glossary & Keywords
• Zodiac Sign Glossary & Keywords
• Houses Glossary & Keywords
• Aspect Glossary & Keywords
• Asteroids Glossary & Keywords
• Centaurs Glossary & Keywords
• Planetary Pairings Keywords
• Harmonic Families Keywords
• Elements & Modalities Keywords
• Retrograde Keywords
• Chart Pattern Keywords
A shared planetary vocabulary strengthens every interpretation you make.
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