When I understand astrology, I humanize the planets. Vedic astrology takes this approach in general, with the Planets being considered different Gods. For me, seeing the Planets as embodied behaviours that come together to make a person makes it easier to understand how a chart can play out.
Sun
The sun is the ego. The ideal self, the self that a native aspires to. In vedic astrology, it’s the significator of the soul. It can be the spiritual understanding of a situation.
Moon
The moon is the emotions, the body, and the mind. The likes and dislikes of a person, their looks, their thoughts. It can be the material understanding of a situation. It can show material gifts and limitations.
Jupiter
Jupiter is religion, faith, and higher education. Jupiter can be understood as the framework through which you analyse and try to understand the world on a deeper level.
Rahu
Rahu is a shadow planet, along with Ketu. It is always opposite to Ketu, and represents the control that one has over reality. Due to a human having no true control over reality, this is also the planet of illusions.
Mercury
Mercury is the planet of communication, logic, and information processing. It is the way you best learn information, and the way you connect with other people. If Jupiter rules higher education, Mercury can be understood to rule elementary education.
Venus
Venus is the planet of love and wealth. More specifically, it can be understood as what you value. What you value in people, what you value in objects, what do you value in the world. What is worth loving, what is worth investing in.
Ketu
A shadow planet, like Rahu. It is always opposite Rahu. It signifies the truth, purification, spirituality, and loss. Together with Rahu, it creates eclipses.
Saturn
Saturn represents sorrow, grief, misfortune, and society. It shows not just your own misfortune, but how you react to the misfortune of other people, so it is also a planet heavily involved with social work (such as government). It is the planet of those who are downtrodden in society, and leaders who rule over them.
Mars
Mars represents aggression, anger, and forcefulness. It is how and where someone faces aggression, and how and where aggression is enacted. It is the modus operandi, how someone gets past obstacles.
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