About Planet

The planets in the solar system impart a significant impact on human lives. The solar System consists of the Sun and other planets, which revolve around it. In total there are nine planets, which are generally considered for astronomical purposes. Now, scientists claim to locate the tenth planet, which is yet to be named. Sun is actually a star and has light of its own. All other planets get its light from the Sun. The planets forming part of the Solar System are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Some planets have their natural satellites, which revolves around it. In our case Moon is our satellite and it is the closest heavenly body from earth. Therefore, its influence on human beings is quite significant. Vedic astrology considers moon as the governor of mind. This consideration gave rise to the practice of naming a child with corresponding Rashi or Moon sign.  The effect of planets on human life is now under consideration even by open-minded physical scientist community. It is a well-established fact that various cyclones or floods and high tides are generally seen to occur on a full moon. It has been further clarified as a result of modern researches on the subject that Earthquakes is generally seen to occur at the time of eclipse. The reason being that at the time of eclipse Sun, Moon and the earth is in the same plane. Therefore, the combined gravitational pull is the maximum at that point of time. 

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Vedic astrology excludes planets like Uranus, Neptune and Pluto and include two  Shadowy Planets namely Rahu and Ketu. These Shadow Planets  Rahu and Ketu however give the same effect. The reason why these planets have been excluded was probably because these planets stay in one Rashi (Sign) for a very long time. 

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Everyone is curious to know about the order of planets and how is it formed into our solar system? These are the questions which everyone might have in his mind. However, our science, based on Astronomy, couldn’t answer these questions. While Vedic Astrology is the science which already described about the planets and their motions in Vedas or ancient creations a long time ago. Our Rishis has already discussed about the planets and their impacts on Earth. In Astrology, only seven major planets are considered to influence life on Earth. The list of the seven Major planets are as follows with their distances in ascending order from Sun.

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Sun (The King Planet) and the other major planets, which revolve around the Sun, are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Apart from this, one more object is added in Vedic Astrology as a Planet named as "Moon", though we all know it is a satellite of planet "Earth" but Astrologically, Moon also affects the life on Earth as it is very closer to our planet. It is the main object in the Universe which affects the "Mind" of a person.  There are two nodes defined in Vedic Astrology named as Rahu and Ketu. Rahu is known as "North node of the planet Moon" and Ketu is known as "South node of the planet Moon". These are basically considered as Head and Tail of the "Demon".

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Therefore, Planets in Astrology are very important to know the results of any activity. It shows how the life on earth is being operated through Divine. Objects, present in the universe, are affecting to other masses and hence our earth is also getting that influential energy from these masses. An Astrologer must study and analyze carefully all these planets placed in one’s horoscope in order to provide the right prediction.

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