New Moon on Monday Astrology

The Inner planets are the ones that move fast:  The Sun and the Moon (which are actually stars not planets but we’ll say “planets” anyway, for simplicity’s sake), Mercury, Venus and Mars.  Most of these planets typically move through one sign a month - except for Mars, which usually spends about two months in each sign. 

Then there’s Jupiter and Saturn - they’re kind of the middle ground.  Jupiter typically stays in one sign for about a year, Saturn for two and a half years. 

The Outer planets are the ones that move super slow:  Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.  The planet Uranus typically stays in one sign for about seven years.  Neptune stays in one sign for about 14 years, and Pluto - the biggest badass of all, stays in one sign for anywhere from 14-30 years. 

So there’s a big difference in the way Inner and Outer planets affect us, both by transit and in a birth chart.  

The inner planets move the fastest, so they’re the ones that build our basic personality in a chart.  The Sun is our essence, the Moon is our emotions, Mercury is how we communicate, Venus is what we’re attracted to, Mars is our basic energy drive.  These things all shift a bit from day to day, making every single birth chart unique.  

The outer planets, on the other hand, move so slowly that we all tend to have them in common.  Chances are, if you’re reading this blog, you have Pluto in Virgo, Libra or Scorpio.  Everybody born around the time you were born will likely have Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in the same sign as you.  They’re generational.  As the outer planets shift signs, the general flavor of the world and what we’re all going through shifts as well. 

We’re in the middle of this process right now, in 2011, with the planet Uranus freshly in Aries, Neptune on the cusp of Aquarius and Pisces, and Pluto in the earliest degrees of Capricorn, and staying there for another 13 years.  Things are shifting all around us as the outer planets move into brand new territory. 

The inner and outer planets also affect us differently by transit.  Transits from the inner planets: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury and Venus, typically affect our chart for a day or two (the Moon only for a couple of hours!).  Mars moves a bit slower, so those transits can affect us for about a week. 

Transits from outer planets, on the other hand, can affect us for years and years and years. They bring weather that changes us, gradually but suddenly, we’re always different on the other side.  Transits from outer planets aren’t typically easy, but they always make complete sense in retrospect.

Happy Stars, 

Adeline

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