The seven classical planets
Sun
King, judge, hero and the god reborn every morning: Ra, Helios, Apollo, Shamash, Amaterasu. Gold and the lion.
Moon
Mother, maiden, crone; calendar, tide and night: Nanna, Selene, Artemis, Hecate, Thoth. Silver and change.
Mercury
Messenger, thief, scribe, guide of souls: Hermes, Thoth, Nabu and Odin. The planet of mind and speech.
Venus
Love, beauty, desire and, surprisingly, war: Aphrodite, Inanna, Hathor, Freyja. The morning and evening star.
Mars
Warrior, hero, dragon-slayer: Ares, the Roman Mars, Nergal, Tyr. The red planet, iron and will.
Jupiter
King of the gods, lawgiver, thunder and abundance: Zeus, Iuppiter, Marduk, Thor, Brihaspati. Tin and expansion.
Saturn
Time, the sickle, the boundary and the old sage: Cronus, Saturnus, Ninurta, Shani. Lead, melancholy and the golden age.
Modern planets and Chiron: no rulership
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Chiron are discoveries of the telescope age; the myths they are named after are told here. In classical astrology these bodies have no rulership, exaltation, sect or joy; the domiciles of the seven planets do not change. In this school they are seen in the chart but do not rule.
Uranus
Sky father Ouranos, Anu, Nut, Varuna; the first planet found with a telescope, in 1781. No rulership in classical astrology.
No rulershipNeptune
Poseidon, Neptunus, Enki, Nun, Varuna; the planet calculated on paper and then found, in 1846. No rulership in classical astrology.
No rulershipPluto
Hades/Pluto, Ereshkigal, Osiris, Yama, Hel; the underworld and wealth. The dwarf planet found in 1930. No rulership in classical astrology.
No rulershipChiron
The centaur Cheiron: teacher of heroes, the wounded healer; the small body found in 1977. No rulership in classical astrology.
No rulershipFamily trees of the mythologies
The families of these gods: who is whose child, which lineage they come from.