Sun: The Greater Light, source of vital energy, regulator and principle source of the life forces; rules Leo and the 5th House. The action of the Sun is hot, dry, fiery, inflammatory, electric, positive, barren, masculine, diurnal, life-giving, constructive, expansive, variable and vital. The Sun is concerned with the brain, heart, blood circulation and physical vitality. The Sun’s rays feed the nerves of the brain and supply vital energy through the spleen. Any planet within two degrees of the Sun is “combust,” that is, the sun absorbs its influence.

Physical Body: Anabolism, back, barrenness, birth defects, blood, brain structure, cell nuclei, circulation, constructive energy, dorsal spine, genes, heart, heat, heredity, internal diseases, memory, oxygen in the blood, pons of the medulla oblongata, sinews, sympathetic nervous system, vitality, vitamins.

Plants, Herbs & Remedies: Act upon the cerebrospinal fluid, central nervous system and circulatory system. Almond, calendula, chamomile, citrus, eyebright, grape, laurel, lemon, marigold, meadow rue, mistletoe, mustard, olive, orange, peppermint, rice, rosemary, saffron, sunflower and walnut.

Metals & Minerals: Carbuncle, chrysolite, gold and hyacinth.

Moon: The Lesser Light, planet of fecundation, fertilization and impregnation. Rules physical function. Generates moisture and produces putrefaction and relaxation. The action of the Moon is negative, reflective, feminine, magnetic, cold, moist, fruitful, changeable, lymphatic, romantic and wandering.

Physical Body: Abdominal cavity, acute disease, alimentary canal, bowels, brain function and substance, breasts, cellular tissue building, cerebellum, childbirth, constructive functions, corpulence, digestion, edema, epilepsy, esophagus, fertilization, glands, heart functions, inspiration of breath, intermittent fevers, intestinal canal, lachrymal ducts, lactation, lymph and the lymph system, menopause, menses, mucous surfaces, nerve sheaths, ovaries, palate, pericardium, peristalsis, pregnancy, saliva, stomach, swallowing, sweat, sympathetic nervous system, synovial fluid, tears, throat, thyroid, tonsils, urine, uterus or womb.

Plants, Herbs & Remedies: Action is emetic, alterative, cold and moist, and affect the sympathetic nervous system. Betony, cabbage, chickweed, cucumber, dogtooth daisy, duckweed, geranium, honeysuckle, iris, lettuce, lily, moonwort, mouse-ear, pumpkin, purslane, pyrethrum, salvia, saxifrage, trefoil, wallflower, yellow water lilies, water violet, white violet, white lily, white poppy, white rose, willow, wintergreen, woodbine.

Metals & Minerals: Aluminum, emerald, moonstone, selenite and silver.

Mercury: The planet of mind, reason, logic and mental faculties; filter through which passes all incoming data; mental bias. Mercury’s action is nervous, excited, quivering, subtle and ceaselessly in motion; variable and irregular, cold and dry.

Physical Body: Bile, brachial plexus, brain functions and substance, bronchial tubes, right cerebral hemisphere, cerebrospinal nervous system, chylification, pulmonary circulation, coordination, ears (hearing), eustachian tubes, mental faculties, voluntary nervous functions, gall, hair, innervation, small intestine, larynx, lips, lungs, memory, motor segment of spinal cord, mouth, nerves, nerve fibers, nerves of the arms, bowels, genitals, hands, hearing, heart, legs, stomach, urinary tract, nerve impulses to muscular action, optic nerve, pulmonary circulation and innervation, respiration, sensory nerves, shoulders, sight, small intestines, thyroid gland, tongue, touch, trachea, vocal cords and vocal organs, voluntary nervous system, windpipe.

Plants, Herbs & Remedies: Action is alterative, nervine and cephalic. Anise, azalea, balm, bittersweet, caraway, carrot, celery, endive, fennel, fern, echinacia, hazel nut, horehound, lavender, licorice, lily of the valley, marjoram, may apple, mandrake, mulberry, myrtle, oats, parsley, savory, valerian.

Metal: Quicksilver (mercury).

Venus: The Lesser Benefic, planet of beauty, harmony, rhythm, desire and love. Its action results from intemperance, and is centripetal or creates a vortex. Its chief quality is coalition or union. Rules nutrition and proliferation; is moist and hot.

Physical Body: Abdomen, appetite, atrophy, aural ducts, venous blood, breast, cell reproduction, cellular tissue building, cheeks, chin, complexion disorders, diuretics, eustachian tubes, face, generative organs, growth, kidneys, liver, naval, neck, nostrils, nutrition, olfactory nerve, ovaries, ovum, renal papillae, renal process, reproduction, semen, seminal vesicles, spine, stomach veins, throat, thymus gland, tissue building, umbilicus, upper lip, uterus, veins, venereal diseases, venous blood and circulation.

Plants, Herbs & Remedies: Action is diuretic, emulcent and emetic. Alder, apple, artichoke, asparagus, beans, bear berry, birch, black alder, bramble, burdock, cherry, chestnut, chickpea, cloves, coltsfoot, columbine, cowslip, daisy, elder, figwort, foxglove, goldenrod, gooseberry, holly, indigo, marshmallow, mint, mugwort, penny royal, plantain, plum, poppy, rye, silverweed, sorrel, spearmint, strawberry, tansey, thyme, verbena, vervain, violets, wheat, yarrow.

Metal: Copper.

Mars: The Lesser Malefic, planet of war, anger and aggression. Second to the Sun in providing heat and energy, its action is dry, barren, acute and violent. Rules pungent odors, astringents, hot acids. It is caustic, inflammatory and centrifugal in motion.

Physical Body: Accidents, anger, assimilation, astringents, bile, red blood corpuscles, blood fibrin, blood-making, burns, cerebral ganglia, left cerebral hemisphere, constructive energy in the body, cuts, diaphragm, digestion, ductless glands, elimination of wastes and poisons, eruptive action, excretion of urine, face, fevers, fibrous tissue building, gall and gall bladder, external genitalia, growth, muscles of bowels, hemoglobin, head, heart muscles, inflammation, injuries, intercostal muscles, intestinal ganglia and plexuses, iron in blood, liver, motor segment of spinal cord, muscles, nasopharynx, motor nerves and sympathetic nervous system, palpitations, rectum, smell, taste, tension, testicles, urethra.

Plants, Herbs & Remedies: Action is aphrodisiac, caustic, stimulating and tonic. Senna, aloe, anemone, barberry, basil, bayberry, butcher’s broom, capsicum, capers, cassia, cayenne, cinchona, civet, garlic, gentian, hawthorn, hops, horseradish, leeks, madder, mustard, nettle, onion, pepper, pine, pineapple, rhubarb, strychnine, tobacco, witch hazel, wormwood (absinthe).

Minerals & Metals: Cinnabar, iron and steel.

Jupiter: The Greater Benefic, the planet of expansion and joy, its nature is positive, masculine, electric, warm and moist.

Physical Body: Adipose tissue (fat), adrenals, amniotic fluid, arteries and arterial blood and circulation, assimilation, carbohydrates, cellular tissue building, defensive forces of the body, digestive organs and function, conservation of energy, feet, glycogen, hands, lungs, nutrition, phagocytes, pleura, ribs, starches, sugar, storage of fat, teeth, transforming functions in the body.

Plants, Herbs & Remedies: Action is antispasmodic and emollient. Apricot, balm, balsam, white beet, betony, bloodwort, chervil, cinnamon, angelica, dandelion, dock, endive, fig, ginseng, hyssop, maple, myrrh, oak, sage, thistle, tomato.

Minerals & Metals: Aluminum and tin.

Saturn: The Greater Malefic, the planet of contraction, karma, structure and death. Its nature is masculine, cold and dry; chastening and corrective, binding and limiting.

Physical Body: Abortion, age, arthritis, astringents, atrophy, auditory organs, barrenness, bladder, bones, bruises, calcification, cartilage and cartilaginous tissue-building, catabolism, cervical vertebrae, chronic diseases, circulation, clots and clotting, coagulation, congestions, constrictor nerves, cramps, crystallization, decay, deficiencies, degeneration, depression, emaciation, fractures, hypochondria, joints, knees, leukocytes, ligaments, liver, miscarriage, peripheral sympathetic nerves, pernicious anemia, pneumogastric nerve, retention in the body, ribs, senility, skin, spleen and splenic action, teeth, tendons, uric acid, urinary organs, vagus nerve, vertebrae.

Plants, Herbs & Remedies: Action is astringent, sedative and antipyretic. Aconite, aspen, belladonna, barley, beet, blackthorn, boneset, comfrey, heartsease, hemlock, henbane, holly, horsetail, marijuana, mullein, pansy, psyllium, poplar, prune, quince, rye, sloe, wolfsbane.

Metals & Minerals: Coal, graphite and lead.

Uranus: Planet of inspiration and intuition. It is sudden, spasmodic and neutral in nature.

Physical Body: Abnormal growth, appendix, aura, circulation in kidneys, glossopharyngeal nerve, membranes of the brain, spinal cord and stomach, pituitary, respiratory action, valves of the heart.

Plants, Herbs & Remedies: Action is electric and vibrational. Amber, croton oil, compressed gasses, ether, nitroglycerine, radioactivity.

Metals & Minerals: Resins, amber, radioactive ores, lodestone and zinc.