Outer Planets
The outer planets are usually defined as those planets whose orbits around the Sun lie outside the earth's: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
Their opposite would be the Inner Planets such as Venus and Mercury.
The Outer planets are usually conceptualized as signifying generational shifts due to the fact that they stay in certain zodiacal signs and configurations for very long periods of time, and thus many people are born with them in similar positions in their birth charts.
In this sense, because Mars moves more quickly and relates more closely to individual life experience, some include Mars and perhaps Jupiter as an inner planet.[2]
This classification of the planets was popularized in the 20th century when Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto were the outermost planetary bodies in the solar system. This was prior to the demotion of Pluto to the status of Dwarf Planet by the International Astronomical Union in 2006. Since that time astrologers have continued to use Pluto in the same way as they did prior to its demotion, and for the most part have continued to refer to it as a simply as a “planet.”
It is unclear how other recently discovered dwarf planets such as Eris will be classified by astrologers, although some have already begun investigating its astrological meaning.[3]
See also
- Generational Planet
- New Planet
- Personal Planet
- Slow-moving Planet
- Social Planet
- Spiritual Planet
- Trans-Saturnians
Weblinks
- Jupiter-Uranus Conjunctions in History, with Richard Tarnas (Brennan's Podcast#344; Video/Interview with Tarnas, 2h39m, 2024)
- Richard Tarnas: The Uranus-Neptune Cycle (Excerpt/ afterword from Prometheus the Awakener, Spring Publications, Woodstock, 1995; CTgaiamind.com)
Bibliography
- Richard Tarnas: Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. Viking, 569 pages, 2006. ISBN 0670032921 Review online (Garry Phillipson, 2006) Excerpt and Interview with Ray Grasse (The Mountain Astrologer, No. 124, Dec/ Jan 2006; PDF)
Notes and References
- ↑ Woodcut by Flammarion (1888)
- ↑ Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas, 1993. The Inner Planets: Building Blocks of Personal Reality, Samual Weiser, Inc.
- ↑ From Chris Brennan's The astrology dictionary. Some parts of his definition were taken for this description.