The Lights and Planets
of our inner life. Remember, Mercury is an inner planet
to earth, so it is sensed within or inside us, rather than in
the external world—outside us.
It is similar with Venus, another inner planet that
establishes its rhythm within us at an early age—at less
than one year. Venus has to do with our likes and
dislikes, how we care for and cherish things—with love,
if you will.
Earth is where we live, so we are that. We start walking
around at about one year. It is the planets outside the
orbit of the earth, such as Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn,
that we will look to and find their effect outside our skins,
so to speak, finding it somewhere out there, in the
external world around us. As we get to the planets
beyond earth's orbit, it takes longer and longer to make
a cycle, and we are caught up with the freshness of
each of these cycles for many years. We will have more
to say about this later on. We are measuring these
cycles heliocentrically, since they are the actual orbits of
the planets around the Sun. No ‘body’, other than the
Moon, orbits the earth.