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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Planets and points · Intermediate

Traditional planets

Also called classical planets, the seven planets, visible planets

The seven bodies visible to the eye: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Everything in astrology before 1781 was built on these seven: the rulerships, exaltations, terms, faces and planetary hours. Traditional astrologers still use only these; modern astrologers add the outer planets.

  • Kind: History, Tradition
  • Tradition: Traditional Western astrology
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Outer planets, Rulership, Chaldean order

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

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