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Sun
Governing faculties, inheritance and equipment, The Sun in a chart deals with your sense of being an individual. It is the essential you behind the mask that the rising sign projects. The essential you can, depending upon the placement of the Sun in your chart, also project power and leadership, radiating charisma like the Sun.
Moon
The moon sign and the house it resides in influences your basic emotional nature and your physical reaction to events. The Moon and its placement also govern our instincts as well. Our emotions are often the first reaction to an event before our intellect can engage, and so is our bodies. We cringe, we cry, we shudder, we feel a cold chill down our back.

The moon also rules the essential feminine. Women's emotions fluctuate with hormones, the tides, the various stimuli surrounding her. One reason is that the essential feminine has to do with nurturance, whether it's people, pets, ideas. This requires an especial sensitivity to subtle cues regarding those being nurtured. Also it often means physical contact and sensitivity, fostering the unconscious relationship between nurtuer and nurtured-the communication through the senses rather than the intellect.

Mercury
Mercury is the everyday mind, the mind that reads, writes,calculates, communicates face to face. It's how we get around the neighborhood, and the ideas we get from our immediate environment. Harmony through conflict. Intellectual faculties. Interpreting experience, fosters the growth of the intuition. The illumined mind, relating soul and personality. Accumulating concepts. Personality and the environment.
Venus
Venus besides ruling personal affection, also rules the distribution of money and resources. The distribution of money and resources is often dependent upon relationships, whether that be natural relationships like family members, or the fleeting attraction that customer and salesperson may have. Venus, and the love of beauty often leads to acquisitiveness as we try to create beauty and harmony and physical comfort. The personal relationships Venus also creates often leads us to feel possessive about our partners as well, and to see both personal and physical beauty in them. We also beautify ourselves to attract such a partner as well. In Alice Bailey's Esoteric Astrology, Venus also rules the intelligent mind, the harmonizing of ideas into concepts. It also rules the tenacious faculties, those faculties that lead us to continue a relationship or a situation for the long haul.