Conceptualizing The Outer Planets

In the astrology world, we’ll often hear the outer planets—Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto—as being described as the “higher octave” of another planet, namely Mercury, Venus, and Mars respectively. Whilst this may work for many, it’s not a conceptualization that has sat well with me. Here I explore another way of looking at the outers from the philosopher-scholar Robert Schmidt.