The Planets- History Of The Heavens

The Planets- History Of The Heavens

As the shepherds of old watched the starry arch of the night wheel majestically overhead, they took great comfort in the apparent constancy of the heavens. Save for an occasional meteor whose brilliant trail flashed across the void of space each heavenly lamp stayed firmly fixed in its niche. But as ancient astronomers mapped the skies they found five "stars" that were strangely different. Most stars always held the same position in the same constellation, they appeared to be fixed in place. These particular five "stars" did not appear stationary, instead they wandered through a certain band of constellations. Also while the fixed stars shone with a twinkling light, the five shone with a light that was steadier. The Greeks called them planets, or wanderers because unaccountably and mysteriously they drifted from night to night across the winking field of lights in their own fashion, coming and going, sometimes disappearing for weeks at a time. The Greeks did not realize then that these orbital bodies were only reflecting the light of the only star in our solar system, i.e. the Sun. The Romans gave them the names of their gods: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were discovered as astrology and astronomy continued to decipher information about the universe. From the earliest recorded times, astrologers ascribed mystical qualities to these celestial bodies, as well as to the sun and the moon, teaching that they affect the destinies of nations and kings.

The planets move through the signs of the Zodiac and so through the houses of the horoscope changing their influence as they travel from sign to sign and house to house because this varies their relative distance from earth and influence thereon, e.g. Mighty Jupiter's influence on earth is much greater as its orbit brings it to its closest distance from earth than its farthest. This is true of all the planets. In this course you will be instructed in a concise method of delineating the effect of each planet as it passes through each house and sign. Such delineation is based upon the thousands of records of effects on things and humans since astrology first began. You will refer back to this countless times during your career as a professional astrologer. Years of research has gone into this material and we feel it is the best available.

In their movements the planets form aspects to one another and to the Sun and moon. They also shape other important factors such as the midheaven and ascendent of the horoscope. The planets do not move along at the same speed. The planet's speed varies according to its distance from the Sun. The farther away from the Sun the slower it travels and vice versa, the closer it is the faster it travels, e.g. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and also the fastest moving of all the planets as it takes only 88 days to pass through the entire Zodiac. Pluto on the other hand is the farthest planet from the Sun and also the slowest spending 247 years to pass through the Zodiac.

It is interesting to note that the ancients believed that the earth stood still, while all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. It was convenient for them to believe that their earth was the center of the universe for then man was the master of the universe. Unfortunately this was not so and as the instruments developed by astronomers became more intricate and efficient the Sun slowly evolved as the center of the universe. The man who cut through this problem was the Polish astronomer Copernicus. He worked out a new system which placed the Sun at the center of the universe. This was a daring idea, for at that time an attack on an earth-centered universe was considered an attack on the church. So the process of acceptance for Copernicus' work was slow and painful yet nonetheless successful although grossly in error. Since then knowledge of the planets has been progressing at a monumental pace. Astronomers have not only plotted out the exact orbits of each planet but have made enormous strides in determining the size, atmosphere and make-up of all nine planets. They have found that the planets fall into two distinct classes, determined by size and density. Density is a measure of the amount of matter in a body of a certain volume. (A baseball and a tennis ball, for example, are about the same size. But the baseball is much more dense; there is more matter packed into its volume.) One class consists of small solid planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Pluto. Earth is the largest of these. All have an average density several times that of water. The other class is made up of the giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The largest of these Jupiter, has a diameter almost eleven times greater than the earth's. Neptune, the smallest, has a diameter three and a half times that of earth. However, the densities of the four giants are low. So it follows that they must be made in part of gas or liquid.

Man is not a part of the planet earth alone. He is a part of the universe just as the earth and the other planets are, hence, man is not only subject to the aging process of earth, but to the aging process of the universe. This concept is one of the foundations of astrology, constantly reminding us that the planets all have an important part to play in our lives. Let's then explore our Sun centered solar system and the planets that orbit around it, with their satellites

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