The Lights and Planets
in the world around you. We have, however, left out
planet Earth, which, arguably, it the planet of most
importance to us.
The Earth/Sun
When we talk about Earth, what we are referring to is
the Sun in the natal chart, since it is the Earth/Sun
relationship which gives us the sun signs we use all the
time. It is easy to forget, when looking at the natal chart,
that it is Earth that is at the center of it all. It does not
appear in the chart because the natal chart is a diagram
of the heavens around the Earth. The symbol of the Sun
is what is used in the astrological chart to represent this
Earth/Sun relationship, because it is the Sun as seen
from Earth which gives us our "sun sign." For example,
having been born in the middle of July, my sign is the
zodiac sign Cancer, which means that when I was born,
(from our perspective on Earth at that time, according to
Earth’s orbit around the Sun) the Sun appeared to be in