Superior planets

Superior Planets
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Superior Planets: Planets whose orbits are larger than Earth's. The term is sometimes restricted to the three outermost planets: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Superior Planets - Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. Also the trans-plutonian "planets" such as Trans-Pluto . Their orbits lie beyond that of the Earth from the Sun.

Superior Planets:
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are so called by Astronomers because they move in orbits which take them to parts of the heavens far from the Sun.

superior planets Planets whose orbits are larger than Earth's. The term is sometimes restricted to the three outermost planets: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Superior Planets. Those which lie outside of the Earth's orbit. v. Planets.
Synodical Lunation. v. Lunation.

The superior planets - that is, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - are at a transpersonal level in contrast to the soul triad where the self of the Sun permits free choice. The Moon or ego level is more or less automatic.

The Major or Superior planets are those that have orbits larger than that of the Earth, and which lie at a greater distance from the Sun. They are: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Also called the Ponderous or Ponderable planets.

When any of the superior planets (planets outside earth's orbit -Mars outward) appear to be in retrograde motion, it is because the faster moving Earth has caught up with, ...

Inferior Planets - Planets orbiting between the Earth and the Sun (Moon, Mercury and Venus and the postulated Vulcan). The orbits of the superior planets, Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars lie beyond that of the Earth from the Sun.

See Superior Planets. PorphyryAn influential 3rd century Syrian mathematician and philosopher who studied in Athens under Longinus and in Rome under Plotinus.

See also: Planet, Sun, Astrology, House, Moon