Clash of the Titans: The Seven Wanderers, Explained | Astrology Ride of the Day
A guest episode with Claudia of Walter Astrology, tracing astrology back to its origin — looking up at the sky before looking down at symbols. Ancient observers noticed five wandering stars plus the two luminaries, the sun and moon, moving along the ecliptic against a backdrop of fixed stars grouped into shapes we now call the zodiac. The sun gives off light; the moon only reflects it — a yin-yang of giving and receiving, soul and body, father and mother. The Greek names for the planets — Hermes (Mercury), Aphrodite (Venus), Ares (Mars), Zeus (Jupiter), Kronos (Saturn) — nearly all reference a type of light, except Saturn, standing at the gate between the visible world and the underworld, ruling night the way the sun rules day. The seven days of the week map directly onto the seven wanderers, and even religious worship days trace back to planetary rulership — Sunday for the sun, Saturday for Saturn. The conversation also digs into why Hellenistic astrologers don't use Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto, since those planets were only discovered in the last 200 years and may not yet be fully integrated into collective consciousness — raising real questions about whether it's accurate to place Pluto in America's founding chart when it wasn't even discovered until 1930. Know thyself. Balance your energy.
Takeaways
1. The seven "wanderers" — the sun, moon, and five visible planets — move along the ecliptic against the fixed backdrop of stars, which is how both astronomy and the zodiac itself originated from simply looking up.
2. Nearly every Greek planetary name references a type of light except Saturn's, which stands at the threshold to the underworld — ruling night and winter the way the sun rules day and summer.
3. Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto were only discovered in the last 200 years, raising real questions about whether it's accurate to retroactively place them in historical charts, like Pluto in America's founding chart, from before their discovery.
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