How to identify and work with the Strongest Planet in your birth chart w/ Ricky Williams
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- 01:00 — What is the strongest planet
- 06:39 — How the ruling planet different from strongest
- 15:18 — What is the weakest planet
- 18:24 — Seeing your chart from different angles
- 25:39 — The difference between a planet and a sign
- 28:53 — How does the sign color the strongest planet
- 31:27 — Diving deeper into the strongest planet technique
- 33:40 — How to calculate your strongest planet
- 36:39 — How this technique can improve your chart reading
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🌌 Your strongest planet isn’t just who you are – it’s the force that attracts the most meaningful experiences into your life. When you understand it, you tap into your greatest potential to shape your destiny.” — Ricky Williams
Transcript:
00:00:00:00 – 00:00:30:20
Unknown
We are going to be having a conversation that has just captivated me recently, and it is this concept of the strongest planet and we have with us here today. Ricky Williams, yes, the former NFL football player. You have the layer of planetary strength. At least for me, there is an moment. The most meaningful experiences in someone's life are going to correspond to the planets in their chart that have the most strength, which means the ability to draw those experiences at what events have the most impact on you.
00:00:30:21 – 00:00:53:22
Unknown
When it talks about strength, it's saying that strength comes from two places. First place it comes from is what house is the planet and the other place that planets get their strength. From this aspect, it's really amazing to find new frontiers within astrology. It doesn't negate everything you knew, it just adds another layer. It's not saying this is the planet you're going to identify with the most.
00:00:53:22 – 00:00:59:17
Unknown
It's saying, this is the planet that has the most ability to attract meaningful experiences into your life.
00:00:59:17 – 00:01:21:11
Unknown
Well. Hello everybody, and welcome to the Astrology Hub podcast. I'm so happy that you've tuned in here today. We are going to be having a conversation that has just captivated me recently. And it is this concept of the strongest planet, not the ruling planet. The strongest planet. And we have with us here today. Ricky Williams,
00:01:21:11 – 00:01:31:19
Unknown
yes, the former NFL football player, Heisman Trophy award winner turned astrologer, and also astrology app developer, which is just so cool.
00:01:31:19 – 00:01:33:12
Unknown
Ricky, your background is amazing.
00:01:33:12 – 00:01:45:21
Unknown
He's also now, expanding his app developer capabilities and starting to work with AI to actually bring even more to life for all of us. So
00:01:45:21 – 00:01:56:05
Unknown
it's really exciting. Ricky, to have you here today, and I would love if we could just start off with this concept of the strongest planet. What do you mean by that?
00:01:56:11 – 00:02:02:02
Unknown
How did you come to discover it? And let's start there.
00:02:02:02 – 00:02:25:22
Unknown
Yeah. I just want to note that right now, you know, all of us know that you're on us. Just entered the sign of Gemini. And my son. Is that zero degrees Gemini? So interesting that I'm here having this conversation about what is a revolutionary idea. And one of the things I read about Uranus was it rules things that are really old or really new.
00:02:25:24 – 00:02:57:09
Unknown
Now know this idea that things can come back, they repeat themselves. And so I got them from an old book written in the 1930s, 1940s, this idea of planetary strength. A little bit more background. When I first found astrology, it was Vedic astrology, and I was like, what's the name of the software? I remember the first time I put my information in, and on the main screen there is a graph, and in the graph said Shambhala, which means six strikes.
00:02:57:11 – 00:03:16:16
Unknown
And it was a bar graph showing the strength of the planets. And in studying Vedic astrology spent some time in India. They have temples for each of the planets. And so in Vedic astrology they talked much more about planets. They don't really talk that much about science, you know, they talk about nakshatras, but they don't really talk about science.
00:03:16:18 – 00:03:38:18
Unknown
It's really about the planets. Then I switched over and I found a really cool Vedic astrologer who used the Western zodiac, and I started playing with it and I was like, this, this is it. But as I shifted over to Western astrology, what was lost was the emphasis on the planets. It kind of shifted into the science well, and it was fine, but I always felt like something was missing, something was missing.
00:03:38:20 – 00:04:06:13
Unknown
And I find this book and open one of the chapters, and it's talking about planetary strength. And anyone who's who's played with astrology a little bit, we, we innately can feel that some things are stronger in a chart than others. We even use the language. I have a strong this, I have a strong that. But it's really it's kind of haphazard unless you're really experienced astrologer and you can really appreciate what strength is.
00:04:06:15 – 00:04:36:11
Unknown
And so this system, it actually gives numbers, numbers to strength. And, and and so, you know, this idea can blow in my mind. And then I started to read the way they talked about the strongest planet. And this idea that there is a planet in the chart that has more strength in other planets. And I kept going back and forth over this idea of what is astrological strength is I really think, what what is it?
00:04:36:13 – 00:05:09:12
Unknown
And one way to think about it, it's it's how influential an event or meeting someone, how influential something is, how much of an impact does it have on our lives? And I think of times of events, but we often think of astrology as defining personality characteristics. And there's a famous saying, character is destiny, character is destiny. And this idea that there's something in us that is so strong that it will attract certain kinds of events that we.
00:05:09:12 – 00:05:32:03
Unknown
I think most people that have studied metaphysics are familiar with that idea, but when you put it, you have the layer of planetary strength. At least for me, there isn't a harmony, as you can see, right, the most meaningful experiences in someone's life are going to be organic, correspond to the planets in their chart that have the most strength, which means the ability to draw those experiences that.
00:05:32:05 – 00:05:52:24
Unknown
All right, now getting not too much into the details, but getting into the math a little bit is the system is very clear when it talks about strength. It's saying that strength comes from two places. First place it comes from is what house is the planet? And to me this is conventional astrology. We say planets and angular houses.
00:05:52:24 – 00:06:19:23
Unknown
The first board, seventh and 10th are strong, stronger than other houses. Okay, so that basic idea we add numbers to and each each planet in a house gets a certain score for being in that house based on how strong the houses and the other place that planets get their strength from these aspects. So the more aspects, the tighter aspects, and obviously the conjunction in opposition is going to give more power than a semi sextile.
00:06:20:00 – 00:06:38:03
Unknown
But we break all this down to appreciate the strength that aspects contribute to a planet and the strength that house placement contributes to a planet. And we add we have the scores up and one of the planets will have more points than the other. And that's the planet we call the signs.
00:06:38:03 – 00:06:43:05
Unknown
Ricky, this has just been completely, completely revelatory for me.
00:06:43:07 – 00:07:23:18
Unknown
So I have my son, my Mercury, my Venus all in Capricorn, and my rising is Aquarius. So whenever I have calculated ruling planet, it's always Saturn. So I have always thought of myself as a very Saturnian person. And of course, with all that Capricorn, I do have so many of those qualities. But since you ran my chart through the Strongest Planet methodology and told me what my strongest planet is, which is Neptune, followed very closely by the moon, I've had a few weeks to really absorb this and it's like, wow, what you just said.
00:07:23:23 – 00:07:50:21
Unknown
What events have the most impact on you and these planetary, the planetary strength being the thing that sets those events in motion and magnetized those events to, to to us in our lives. Moving to Hawaii, where I am surrounded by the sea, has been probably aside from having children, the one of the single most influential events of my life.
00:07:50:23 – 00:08:13:21
Unknown
And it's amazing to me to now be in this place where I have the ocean around me all day, every day. And to be thinking, wow! Well, I guess actually, since moving to Hawaii for the last 13 years, I am much more of a Neptunian being than I am a Saturnian one and and also very moon. I mean, everybody in the inner circle knows our entire inner circle.
00:08:13:21 – 00:08:36:00
Unknown
Membership is based on the lunar cycle. Because of these moons cycles. I was going to in the beginning of my experience here in Hawaii. It was so impactful that I wanted to bring it to an online virtual setting. So it's fascinating to me. I mean, and I'm sure for some people, they're ruling planet. And what they've always understood as their ruling planet is also their strongest planet.
00:08:36:04 – 00:09:00:05
Unknown
But how often do you see that they're different? Well, this is what I love most about it, because most people when we learn astrology, we don't. When people don't explain to us the concept of strength, astrological strength. And they definitely don't talk about planetary strength. And really, most astrology books don't spend a lot of time actually talking about the planets.
00:09:00:07 – 00:09:22:05
Unknown
No, it really is science based. But if we think about it, the only reason when we're talking about a sign is because there's a an angle, the ascendant midheaven, or there's a planet there. And so for me, that's the focus is really lift me up is the concentration on the planets is they are forces and and those forces are tracked events.
00:09:22:07 – 00:09:51:13
Unknown
It's not that they can attract events, but they also manifest is there's feelings and thoughts. Yeah. And sometimes when the feeling turns into a factor to do a behavior, it turns into an event. Yeah. And sometimes we have a tendency to repress certain things. And it's almost like a magnet that attracts the event. Yeah. Yeah. And, and I've had this debate with my teacher, Steven Faust, about the strongest planet because in the system, when they're defining the strongest planet, it's not a personal.
00:09:51:17 – 00:10:16:00
Unknown
It's not I'm saying this is the planet you're going to identify with the most. It's saying, this is the planet that has the most ability to attract meaningful experiences into your life. And I think the advice is, maybe you should identify with that planet so your life feels more like conscious, so your life feels more conscious and this layer of planetary strength, and it makes this the big three.
00:10:16:00 – 00:10:44:08
Unknown
It makes them come alive. It adds so much nuance to it. All right. You can say all those Capricorn planets, but Neptune but a Neptune person that the nuance and it helps people's lives make more sense because the missing dimension in astrology are the importance, the primacy, I'd even say, of the planets, not the planets. And so when someone says they're a chart ruler, the ruler of the ascendant, I think the ascendant is personal.
00:10:44:10 – 00:11:06:04
Unknown
So the way I explain it to Steven, there is power. We can call it power in the ruler of the ascendant, but it's more the power of proximity, meaning that we're it's easier for us to identify with it. So it feels more powerful. But to me, and I define, one of the ways I define planets is purges forces of the unconscious.
00:11:06:06 – 00:11:27:09
Unknown
Now, and if we have something really powerful that we're not conscious of, you'll see people when they're shocked by their strongest planet. Right. And I start to explain, it doesn't describe you. It describes your life. You just see the light bulbs go off, the light bulbs go off in. And I, my teacher Steve, and he says often that astrology is psychoactive.
00:11:27:11 – 00:11:47:10
Unknown
When you start talking about planets and planetary strikes, the psycho activity goes through the roof. So we all know where we put your attention. The energy goes, and if there's something unconscious that's really powerful that you just haven't been paying attention to, and now you start to pay more attention to it and take it more seriously. It starts to rev it starts to rev up.
00:11:47:23 – 00:12:19:13
Unknown
So fascinating. Wow. So essentially, you're saying that the ruling planet is something that feels familiar and personal because it's close to us. It's the strongest planet, is almost the way that I was imagining it when you were speaking. Is it? It's kind of like a force in our life that is, is is active and helping to create the circumstances of our life, but we might not feel as personally identified with it necessarily.
00:12:19:13 – 00:12:53:08
Unknown
But if we do, if we do take that on and actually start to get to know that planet more intimately, more personally, and then it's even more it's it's strength grows with that awareness and that acknowledgment, you know, one and we'll get into this more in the class. But one of the things about this jar, this planet, it's it's our greatest potential to manifest superhero like powers because it's where we have the most force, the most energy, and so it's an aptitude, right?
00:12:53:11 – 00:13:15:12
Unknown
Which but for an aptitude to become a skill, right, we have to have some kind of training. And I think especially for raising kids, you know, understanding the kids strong as planets and creating opportunities for those planets to be able to express themselves. Because you mentioned earlier about some people don't personally identify with the strongest planet. A lot of that has to do with culture.
00:13:15:14 – 00:13:39:02
Unknown
No certain gender, certain cultures are more allowed to express certain things than some aren't. And even when you look at, like you said, if someone's chart ruler, the ruler of the ascendant is the strongest planet, right? You're gonna they're going to be, an example, an exemplar of that, of that archetype, because it's powerful and it has direct access to the personality.
00:13:39:04 – 00:14:06:17
Unknown
Yeah. Oh, and then when we started looking at this, the strongest timeline to me is mind blowing. I think it is, I often think of humanity as an organism, and each of us are cells in an organism. Yes. And if we think about our physical organism and there's hundreds of billions of cells, but they're different types of cells that have a specific function to do any, and their structure has prepared them to carry out that function.
00:14:06:19 – 00:14:28:07
Unknown
You know, I'm blood cells can carry iron and oxygen is wonderful. Right. But if our blood cells started to say, hey, I want to be like an epithelial cell that's are actually trying to do that. You know, we would drop dead in a minute. And so I think, I think if the strongest planet is the is the most powerful indication of what kind of cell we are.
00:14:28:09 – 00:14:59:13
Unknown
All right, then I think of Neptune Moon. Right. And I think of moon nurturing sensitivity. Neptune, the imagination, spirituality. Someone who creates a nurturing environment for his or her spirituality to thrive. She writes. And then I always think of structure, function, structure, function, you know, my body per day structure, function and if we think of the strength of the planets in our chart or indicating the sort of structure, you know, we have a lot of this.
00:14:59:13 – 00:15:24:19
Unknown
So maybe we should be using it some way. We don't have a lot of this. Maybe we shouldn't worry about it so much, but because in the strongest planet, conversation also comes up the weakest planet conversation. Ooh, yeah. Yes, yes. Yeah. I'll tell a story that demonstrates this. So we had a, Lila the hap. We had a company retreat that had Steve.
00:15:24:19 – 00:15:41:02
Unknown
Steve lives in the desert, and Grego Springs, so we all went to the desert. We had a company retreat, and our tech guy, Sam. Right. His weakest pilot is Venus. All right. And one of the things we're discussing at the company retreat is the idea of the strongest planet. And how are we going to get it into the air?
00:15:41:04 – 00:16:03:08
Unknown
And someone brings up the question, what about the weakest planet, you know, and and Steve, you know, Steve steps up and he says, basically he says the weakest planet, right? Don't worry about it. We know, because if there's something if there's something that's weak, right. And that what that means is in order to get it to be strong, it's gonna require a whole lot of effort.
00:16:03:10 – 00:16:28:10
Unknown
We all right? And we only have so much energy. But if we put our effort into tending to our stronger planets. Okay, right. Everything will work out right. So. So Sam's weakest planet is Venus. And over the course of the couple of days. Right, there's a couple of women. We're all sitting in the same house, and it wasn't anything bad, but they were kind of like, this guy kind of creeps us out a little bit.
00:16:28:12 – 00:16:49:09
Unknown
Yeah. And. And Venus is. He was trying too hard to get people to like him. Oh, yeah. And and the Venus is weak, so. Right. Venus. His job is to get people to like us. This is strong. We can't help but act in a certain way. We we call it negative people pleasing. But maybe if it goes too far.
00:16:49:12 – 00:17:10:23
Unknown
But there is something about someone who just when you're around them, you just feel better, right? They're just pleasant to be around someone that strong. Venus, they can't help but manifest, that attract those kinds of experience. Someone doesn't, right? Again, don't worry about it. You know, focus on being really good at being the tech guy and everyone's going to like you anyway.
00:17:11:02 – 00:17:26:14
Unknown
Oh, I love that example. Reiki. That is so powerful. And I know I could hear all of you right now just go like, I want to know what my strongest planet is and also my weakness. I mean, this is this is a whole nother element that we haven't talked about Reiki. So this is really fascinating.
00:17:26:14 – 00:17:40:11
Unknown
So I know that they can actually get their strongest planet calculation in the Lila app that you and Steven Force have developed, which we're going to we're going to drop links and all those kinds of things for any of you that don't have that app yet.
00:17:40:13 – 00:17:54:02
Unknown
But then also you're developing the AI tool that will give us our strongest and and weakest planet. So it'll basically give us all the information about the planetary strength of all the planets
00:17:55:09 – 00:18:05:01
Unknown
So like a hierarchy in a way, yes. And also the strength of the houses in our chart, the strength of the aspects in our chart.
00:18:05:03 – 00:18:23:20
Unknown
Yeah. And and in when again when, when Ricky ran my chart through his the other platform that he's developing. Not the Lila app, the AI platform, he was able to see that the parallel is the strongest aspect of my chart. And I'm like, what? That what? I didn't know anything about the parallel, and that's fascinating.
00:18:23:20 – 00:18:39:17
Unknown
But Ricky, one thing I wanted to just bring up here is this idea of learning astrology and it feeling like peeling layers of an onion, and that there are times where we get we get new revelations about ourselves.
00:18:39:19 – 00:18:59:04
Unknown
So maybe I mean, I've had many people where like they thought they had a different birth time or they always ran their chart in, in, in sidereal, and then they ran it in tropical and they didn't know what to do with that or vice versa. Or they tried a different house system and they didn't know what to do with that.
00:18:59:04 – 00:19:28:01
Unknown
So there's all these times where new information about ourselves comes in, and I always think, well, it doesn't negate everything you knew. It just adds another layer. It's like more nuance, more texture to your understanding of yourself. I would love to hear your thoughts on that. Yeah, it's I mean, at least my experience is a painful process. But it but it's a it's a necessary it's a necessary rite of passage.
00:19:28:03 – 00:19:49:17
Unknown
You know, it's like Indiana Jones. There's something about this sacred science that you have to earn it. You know, you have to earn it. And and I think it should be that way because you have to use it. Right? You have. I started setting astrology about 20 years ago, but it took me ten years before I felt like I grasped, you know, Mercury in Taurus.
00:19:49:18 – 00:20:07:03
Unknown
I have to be in my bones to find so comfortable, but it took me a long time to truly, to truly, really grasp it, you know? So. And part of it was again, I started to Vedic astrology and trying to make it make sense and I could make it make sense. And then I started playing with the tropical Zodiac.
00:20:07:08 – 00:20:29:06
Unknown
Then it's a nice song to me, and part of them, like what you have to learn is you have to learn to trust yourself. You know the books, you can teach us the symbols, but beyond that, it's other people's opinions. Then some of them are going to be useful. All right. Some of them not so useful. But in the process is learning to trust yourself and allow that to be a process.
00:20:29:08 – 00:20:51:01
Unknown
Even something simple like my latest one here is my teachers teaches if a planet is one and a half degrees before the next cusp to pull it into that next house, now, and I and I have I have Neptune right at the end of the third, really close to the fourth house class. And so back and forth, back for years, back and forth.
00:20:51:05 – 00:21:11:09
Unknown
And then finally one day I was reading something and I thought about something in my life, and it just clicked. Yeah. And I was like, but I had to learn it and it it is sticking with it and having a faith and a belief that there is right. There is a way to see clearly here. And if you keep going at it, it starts, it starts to clarify.
00:21:11:11 – 00:21:34:13
Unknown
And then I think, especially when I've been finding with introducing the strongest planet is and even with I can understand my teacher, Steve, he's been doing astrology for a long time. And this new concept. Yeah, he was kind of I don't know, I don't know, but we kept talking about it. He started using it and then looking at charts through the lens, and I started to make a little bit more sense to, to him.
00:21:34:15 – 00:21:53:18
Unknown
But it's it's like putting on a pair of glasses, you know, you put on a pair of glasses. Some things you see more clearly, some things get a little bit fuzzy, but you get a different perspective. And and I found I had so many stories of this planetary strength, astrological strength. But and it's been strong as planet of being.
00:21:53:18 – 00:22:18:03
Unknown
I'm showing me things that I knew were there, but nothing in the astrology could check to really help me feel satisfied with it and give a good example. All right, so my first wife was Capricorn, three planets in Capricorn and second wife Capricorn, Rising Moon in Capricorn. And there's something about the women in my life that I'd taken seriously.
00:22:18:03 – 00:22:39:20
Unknown
They all have strong Capricorn stuff in their chart. Yeah. And and I was thinking, what is the connection? And I'm looking and I'm like, yeah, Saturn is trying my Venus. But it was it's more than that. It didn't it didn't quite connect. And you mentioned the parallel, right. The strongest planet in my chart is the moon in the 10th house, parallel Saturn.
00:22:39:22 – 00:23:07:15
Unknown
They parallel Saturn in the way I do astrology. The 10th house is the mother and my mom. Strongest planet is Saturn. So like those connections, things click, click click. I switch back to being a kid sitting on the floor, spending hours cutting coupons for hours we spent in secondhand stores. Yeah, it's the blue. And especially, I'm telling you especially people because typically in astrology, right.
00:23:07:16 – 00:23:29:05
Unknown
The big three. And then we kind of forget about the rest. Oh all right. And so people and especially the outer planets right there at the very bottom of the list, even when you're doing a reading at the time, you get to the outer planets, you're so tired and you, you spend like 30s talking about them. And so I find the people that have Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn as the strongest planets.
00:23:29:08 – 00:23:48:03
Unknown
Those are the ones that are like, well, but they feel seen in a way that especially if they don't have Capricorn Aquarius planets, they feel seen in ways that are, and then I get my mom's chart is so super fiery. But then when you add Saturn, who is your strongest friend is it's like things click, click, click, click.
00:23:48:03 – 00:23:53:15
Unknown
They start to make more sense.
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Unknown
When you were talking earlier about societal or like cultural things we take on that make it potentially hard for us to embody some of these aspects of ourselves. And then you were talking about Neptune and the imagination, the creativity and the moon in the intuition and the nurturing. I mean, 100%. When I was younger, I was always in the imaginal realm.
00:24:21:08 – 00:24:45:10
Unknown
I mean, like for forever, until I started to learn that that wasn't valued, like, that wasn't valuable. That's not how you that's not how you make a living. Like, I remember I loved creative writing. I got the Creative Writing award in eighth grade and I just loved it. But then I went to high school, and you had to do these research papers, and you had to use the scientific method and you had to like it had to follow a certain formula.
00:24:45:10 – 00:25:05:15
Unknown
And I just started doing that. So only recently have I started writing again, which is why I'm going to have my book, which is going to be out this fall. But it was all giving myself permission to actually lean into this aspect, that now that I know that it's my strongest planet, I'm like, oh my God, I'm all in like, this is amazing, you know?
00:25:05:17 – 00:25:26:23
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm telling you, more people like, just connected to the idea of planetary strength and the strongest planet and experimented with leaning into it. Yeah, it's I mean, it's because it really is a force. And when you read consciousness to that force, I mean, I put a warning sign because it it's real. These things they really do, and they, they do attract events.
00:25:27:00 – 00:25:39:05
Unknown
Wow. And another, another piece that I, that I've, I've noticed from this is it's the first time that we really can start to tease apart the difference between a planet and the sign.
00:25:39:05 – 00:25:58:11
Unknown
Yes. Let's talk about that more, because I've had to like how to wrap my my mind around what you're saying here. You're saying that we've sort of co-mingled these things and that they deserve to be treated as two very separate entities or separate energies in our chart.
00:25:58:11 – 00:26:00:00
Unknown
So can you tell us more?
00:26:00:00 – 00:26:20:14
Unknown
Yeah, there's there's nuance here. And the way I think about it and it's implied if we think about we say that Mars rules Aries right now, we see that there's some kind of connection between the two. The way that I think about it is that Aries gets its energy from Mars, because the planet is the way.
00:26:20:14 – 00:26:42:05
Unknown
The way I'm talking about the planet are the forces, and it's it's implied. If you really think about the planets are named after gods now. And the first first note of astrology in Mesopotamia, the planets were named after gods, you know, and then they were named after Greek gods. Then they're named after Roman gods. And still to this day, when we think of whatever religion we think of, where is God?
00:26:42:09 – 00:27:05:13
Unknown
We all look up. All right. So there's something there's something ancient and then universal and primal about about the planet. And so I imagine it's it's springtime and someone is just sitting back watching and springtime, all the soldiers are getting ready to go to war and and they're sheep that were friends last week are now butting heads. Okay.
00:27:05:15 – 00:27:22:16
Unknown
All right. And they're looking around and they're seeing all the new growth in nature. And they say, wow, I can really feel the god Mars present in this time of the year. Or if we think about the two most beautiful times of year in the Northern hemisphere, the middle of the spring tourist season and the first month of fall.
00:27:22:18 – 00:27:44:21
Unknown
All right, both seasons ruled by the ruled by Venus. So this idea, right, that the signs get their energy from the planets? Yeah. But they're also qualities like you can think of a planet as a force or an urge, right? It's an it's active. Right. And it's it's raw and it's active. The sign conditions it it gives it a motivation.
00:27:44:21 – 00:28:09:14
Unknown
It gives it something, an aim, something to a slavery and a way of going about doing its job or expressing itself. And so we can get the planetary energy from the signs. But we can also appreciate that their distinctive right one is more active. I think of signs we get stuck in sign astrology. I call it the sitcom because I think the signs are so cultural, right?
00:28:09:14 – 00:28:30:02
Unknown
It's how culture is dealing with these archetype ups where the planets are more primal. They're trying to express through culture. And then when we focus on the signs, we get stuck in culture. When we go to the planets, right, we're identifying with the force and we can utilize. Right. We can we can utilize the energy of the signs.
00:28:30:02 – 00:28:52:21
Unknown
We can appreciate it. We can. That's why I call the hab Lila. We can appreciate the play, the different channels of manifestations that the different planets have. Or how does this that that makes perfect sense, Ricky. And I'm glad you're such a strong advocate for the planets and as understanding them uniquely and not only attached to the signs.
00:28:53:11 – 00:29:04:17
Unknown
Yes. What about how does the strongest planet in a certain sign does that matter? So like my Neptune's is auditory, is my moons in Gemini? How does that color the whole picture?
00:29:04:17 – 00:29:17:19
Unknown
Great question. So the strongest planet is a. It's a it's not a gimmick, but it is both. It's like the key. It's the most important thing. But it really sets up a whole a deeper understanding of things.
00:29:17:21 – 00:29:38:12
Unknown
So when we say the strongest planet, we're saying the most powerful theme and the most powerful theme, the most powerful types of events. If we're going to understand the flavor or the coloring of those events, all right, that's going to come from the sign, the house, and the aspects. All right. So an example. The moon is the strongest in the culture.
00:29:38:17 – 00:29:59:11
Unknown
I always start this. I'm talking to a woman in the song. In the sun is her strongest planet. Okay. Sun represents the masculine force. So a female body who's strong is force is masculine, right? It's going to be something that its people aren't going to expect by. All right. And if I'm talking to a man like myself with moon is the strongest planet.
00:29:59:16 – 00:30:20:13
Unknown
And it's funny, people say, but you are a football player, right? And yes, and ever since I was in high school, right, I was made fun of by for being soft, right, sensitive as a football player. But but I know my Mars is strong and all that, but but this idea of a man whose strongest attribute is his sensitivity.
00:30:20:15 – 00:30:43:03
Unknown
All right, I, I find women that have the sun is the strongest, or Mars is the strongest. Men that have moon or Venus is the strongest. Right. These are the ones that can benefit most from this conversation because it does give permission. Their culture typically doesn't give easily or freely that. And it's interesting thinking of the moon in a woman.
00:30:43:03 – 00:31:05:17
Unknown
The way the moon tends to manifest is nurturing responsibilities. And for men, the way the moon tends to manifest, it's not so much nurturing. It's more like home, like taking care of. Yeah, I think I think I'm Saturn's strongest planet. Someone's a workaholic moon. Strongest planet. Someone's a workaholic. Saturn. Strongest planet. Right? He works to get away from the family.
00:31:05:23 – 00:31:25:10
Unknown
Okay? He's right. Moon. Strongest planet. He works so much to take care of the film. No. No. And you're tired because you ask about the vacations, right? The Saturn. Right. And don't have any story to tell. The moon. How love the vacations, how love the feeling that he was able to provide the ability for his family to have a vacation.
00:31:25:12 – 00:31:26:11
Unknown
Oh,
00:31:26:11 – 00:31:47:05
Unknown
Ricky, how do we do it. So we are going to be hosting Ricky for a three week course for any of you who want to go way deep into this, who want to understand the calculations, who want to be able to use his new, AI app. For those of you who want to understand. Okay, fine.
00:31:47:07 – 00:32:08:24
Unknown
My strongest planet is Mars. What does that mean? My strongest planet is Venus. What does that mean? How do I actually embody this more? How do I bring it more consciously into my life? We're going to be going into all those amazing things in the upcoming course. So you can go to astrology ABC.com, slash Strongest Planet to learn more, and sign up for that course.
00:32:09:01 – 00:32:27:13
Unknown
And as part as, one of the things that Rick is offering the Astrology Hub community is an amazing deal on the Lila app itself. So any of you who want to try the Lila app, which is the only place where you can get strongest planet, is that true? It's the only place where you can get strongest planet.
00:32:27:13 – 00:32:44:22
Unknown
Yeah. Okay, so is here. Like, I want to know how to do this. You can get the Lila app for, normally for everybody, they do a one week trial. Is this right, Ricky? And they're offering a three week trial for our community. So any of the students in the class, you're absolutely going to get access to the Lila app.
00:32:45:01 – 00:33:05:10
Unknown
You're also going to get access to Ricky's new AI app that's going to help you create that entire hierarchy. Those are going to be bonuses for students, but if you're not going to join the class, you can still get the Lila app and you can still understand your strongest planet. And because you're part of Astrology Hub in any way, you don't have to be in the inner circle to take advantage of this.
00:33:05:12 – 00:33:15:10
Unknown
You'll get three weeks for free, so you can try it and see if you like it. And you can play around with the strongest planet and put yourself and all your friends and your family into the app and see what everybody is.
00:33:15:10 – 00:33:27:23
Unknown
In terms of accessing the Lila app and that special deal that our community is getting, you can go to astrology.com/lila spelled Lila.
00:33:28:00 – 00:33:48:03
Unknown
Okay, so that's astrology ABC.com slash Lila just for the three weeks free on the app astrology.com/strongest planet to join Ricky. And in going deeper on this concept, let's spend a little bit more time on the calculations themselves. So you said it's based on
00:33:48:03 – 00:34:00:13
Unknown
the proximity the planet has to the angles. So the first, fourth, seventh and 10th house and then also the aspects it makes.
00:34:00:13 – 00:34:22:08
Unknown
And are you talking about like the orb that the aspect has or are you talking to do the aspects themselves have a hierarchy of importance? Do they do then? Yes. The tightness of the aspect also influence? They do, yes. Okay. Yes. One point about about the house strength. So each of the house, each of the houses have a max score.
00:34:22:13 – 00:34:43:14
Unknown
So an example, the 10th house, the max points. A planet can go for being in the 10th house is 15 points. But. And that's if the planet is right on the cusp. Yeah. The least it can get from being in the in the 10th house is 13.5. And so that 13.5 would be if it's at the last degree of the 10th house.
00:34:43:16 – 00:35:07:19
Unknown
So each house has a string. And depending how close to the cusp that planet is, it gets more of the strength from being placed in that house. Yeah. That that's that's what we call house strength. Okay. And then aspect strength. And this is the algorithm is really interesting. I've heard my teacher Steve say if a planet is in an angle, you should give it a wider orb for aspects that really heard that anywhere else.
00:35:07:19 – 00:35:28:04
Unknown
But I heard my teacher say it a couple of times, and this system takes that into account. So depending on what house the planet is in, that planet will have a larger or fewer aspects. And the significance of the larger rewards for a larger home for aspects means the closer it is to exact, the more points it gets.
00:35:28:06 – 00:35:56:22
Unknown
So the most power, the most points an aspect can get a conjunction to the sun and an angle gets 15 points. But, and in this we, we do use the minor aspects. We use ten aspects. So we use the five major and we use semi sextile semi squares and conjunct squares and parallels. I and most people don't know about parallels because it's not really taught very much.
00:35:57:00 – 00:36:24:10
Unknown
But in this system, a parallel that's within one degree of declination is considered as powerful as a conjunction or in opposition. So parallels are considered very powerful in this system and very often parallels can be the strongest planets and some the strongest aspect in someone's chart. So you're going to learn all about this. We're going to go in a deep dive on all of these elements of the strongest planet, the strongest aspects, the strongest houses.
00:36:24:10 – 00:36:45:02
Unknown
You're going to get to understand what all this means and understand what it means in your chart and understand what it means if you're if you are reading charts for other people, you can bring this in as another layer of the analysis that you're doing. I love this too, Ricky, because like you said before, sometimes when we're looking at a chart, there's just so much to cover
00:36:45:02 – 00:36:49:05
Unknown
that it's hard to even know where to start.
00:36:49:07 – 00:37:06:22
Unknown
But this gives like a really streamlined, like just go right into here. What's been your experience of having this as a tool in your toolkit in terms of reading other people's charts, like has it improve the accuracy of your reading? Has it improve the resonance of the reading? How has this impacted it? It has
00:37:06:22 – 00:37:08:14
Unknown
it has for for many reasons.
00:37:08:14 – 00:37:27:16
Unknown
And I think it you pointed out when you look at a chart, there's so much information and especially people that are new to reading charts, a question of where to start, where to start, and and my teacher Steve and Nancy go get the big three, right. That's a good place to start. That's a great place to start. But I found the strongest planet.
00:37:27:16 – 00:37:47:01
Unknown
It serves two purposes one, it's a great place to enter the chart because this is going to be the most may if you type. This is what we mean when we say power, right? The most influential experiences in this person's life. And if you go right to that in the first couple of words that you offer to the person about the chart, it's a deep, resonant.
00:37:47:03 – 00:38:04:09
Unknown
It's a deep, resonant connection. And also, what are they saying? One of the sayings my teacher uses the lot is remember what you've already said? Because a lot of times when we look at a chart, we jump here and we see something interesting and we talk about it, and then we jump here, we see something interesting and we talk about it, but we don't.
00:38:04:15 – 00:38:25:08
Unknown
We are able to weave it together in the thing with the strongest pilot. If you really understand the theme, which means the planet, the house, the sign, and the strongest aspects to that planet, you have a foundation where you can. Everything else you say about the chart, you can tie it back in or weave it back in to the theme of the strongest planet.
00:38:25:12 – 00:38:56:20
Unknown
And and you can talk about a lot of different things, and it's going to feel cohesive to the person, and it's going to be deeply resonant. And it is like a weaving process because we have all these different parts of us. And when you look at a chart, that's what you're hit with. But when you can see what is the major theme, then everything else is going to really revolve around, and I think I'm sensitive to this because in my chart, typically you would say the sun, but in my chart, the sun is the weakest planet.
00:38:56:22 – 00:39:14:11
Unknown
I have hidden it. And people let me be able to say, but you are a famous football player, right? And I say, I have the ninth house Gemini son. Right. I wasn't talking preachy, I wasn't philosophizing, I wasn't doing any of those things right. It was the opposite. I was sitting there quiet, not sharing any of these things.
00:39:14:17 – 00:39:40:15
Unknown
And when I finally broke free, but the first thing I did right, I started traveling around the world reading books. But it took a long time and a lot of push. It wasn't right. It wasn't natural. I had to build over time. One more thing is, can people sometimes get sensitive about strong and weak and strong? And then the first thing, it's the first thing is the birth chart describes where we started.
00:39:40:17 – 00:40:03:14
Unknown
And as soon as we're born based on the environment, whatever else is going on, we can say strength is added to the chart. The more we do things. So I will say that, but, but, but also I'll say it's relative strength. No, it's just compared to this, right? These experiences, whether you like it or not, are going to have a greater impact on your life.
00:40:03:16 – 00:40:26:12
Unknown
You know, and I think the more for me, the more I appreciated that and leaned into it. It my life got easier. I left football and I became a healer. Right? Really leaning into my 10,000 cancer mode and I became less of a lunatic. Yeah, I tend to manifest more of the positive sides, and the quality of my life improved greatly.
00:40:26:17 – 00:40:27:12
Unknown
Greatly.
00:40:27:12 – 00:40:58:07
Unknown
Ricky, is this something you see often that in the beginning of our lives we may not be. We may not be expressing as much of the like maybe the strongest planet is more behind the scenes and is less obvious, and that as we get older, it's like we are shedding that conditioning and we are becoming more of our more authentic self, and that the strongest planet gets stronger as we go through life.
00:40:58:09 – 00:40:59:20
Unknown
And I think that's the ideal.
00:40:59:20 – 00:41:23:12
Unknown
I think the ideal is when you were born, your parents got a sense of what your strongest planets were, and they created environment that allowed them to express itself and develop skill in that, in that area. Right. But otherwise it's just a roll of the dice, right? You might get lucky that the environment that we're born into is really supportive of the expression of our strong, it's funny I say strong est planet, but there's strong planets.
00:41:23:17 – 00:41:53:11
Unknown
And so in my chart, Mars is one of the stronger planets. And so the part that the environment said you're allowed to do this right is they do me a football. And they said, run, okay, and my Mars. I could do that. But other parts of myself didn't get developed right, especially the mood in the 10th. Then this is why I get my own personal experiences where it's made these things jump out to me is, in my progress when I return 27.5.
00:41:53:13 – 00:42:13:24
Unknown
Now sitting in a lot of pressure on a football player now sitting in my locker. But I was looking around and I have this powerful feeling of, is this what I'm. Is this really what I'm supposed to be doing? You know, and the feeling of it was, hell no. You know, it was scary. It was super scary because I was like, but I, I've put everything I am into being here.
00:42:14:03 – 00:42:16:13
Unknown
But the reality here is this doesn't feel right.
00:42:16:13 – 00:42:33:01
Unknown
Yeah. And so I decided to retire and travel around the world. And then I got to this place where I was trying to become a citizen in Australia. But filling out the paperwork, you had to have a profession, right? A skill. And I started going down the list and I realized,
00:42:33:01 – 00:42:37:09
Unknown
I don't know how to do anything and I'm a skill.
00:42:37:11 – 00:43:02:00
Unknown
And I started saying, well, what do I want to do with my life? And what I came to on my own was a healer. So I moved to Northern California instead, started studying at Arvada, which took me on a whole different path. Right? But the most, the most like impactful time moment slip in my whole life. Right? Was that year everything, everything that I'm doing right now changed in that moment.
00:43:02:02 – 00:43:40:01
Unknown
The wow. Okay. So now this is another tool to go back and look at our history and see how it was actually active before we were aware of it. I love this so much, Ricky. This is exciting. I think it's really it's really amazing to find new frontiers within astrology. I think many of us are feeling that are that astrology itself, as we're expanding into the Age of Aquarius, into like new territory, really, just as humanity, that there will be new layers of astrological understanding that continue to reveal themselves.
00:43:40:02 – 00:43:58:18
Unknown
And I feel like this is one of those, at least it certainly has been for me since you came into my sphere. And we got to hang out together in Texas and and do the event at the, Astrological Society of Austin and Deborah Silverman's book launch event. So, yeah, that was great.
00:43:58:18 – 00:44:02:05
Unknown
We talked about we talked about I do and Ned.
00:44:02:05 – 00:44:21:00
Unknown
Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's I mean, hey, I is going to change a lot, a lot for astrology. One of the things I like to talk about is the original astrologers didn't have books. Yeah. Because they were priests and, and they would go to the ziggurats, to those big pyramids and they would take notes of where the planets were.
00:44:21:00 – 00:44:43:24
Unknown
And when they rose, they were constellation they were in. And then they would take copious notes about what was going on in the kingdom hell, and for 1500 years. And then those are the first astrology books. And then astrologers would look at those to try to find correlations and connections. But what we have now is you have technology where all of us have access to what those ancient scribes had.
00:44:44:03 – 00:45:04:10
Unknown
Right? It would leave any, many, any astrology. At most of them, you can pick up your phone and you can see exactly where the planets are at any moment as you're experiencing your life. So this idea of something shows up in your life and you're like, this is interesting. I wonder what's going on in the chart. Yeah. But to me, that's that's the that's the book.
00:45:04:12 – 00:45:17:13
Unknown
Right? It's you can see, oh, wow. Mars is right on top of my son. One of the books said something about an argument. And I just got to do a fight. Wow. This is interesting.
00:45:18:00 – 00:45:44:11
Unknown
So you're seeing AI as basically, you're seeing AI is another way that we will get to experience astrology, similar to, like, all the different evolutions of astrology that have already happened when we started to have books, when we started to have computers, then when we started to have internet. Now that we're having AI is just another evolution of the way that we're going to be experiencing and applying astrology in our lives.
00:45:44:13 – 00:45:45:01
Unknown
Yeah.
00:45:45:01 – 00:46:05:09
Unknown
So one of the things that I'm working on it with, with I call Aquila with the chat bot part of it is the the AI has your astrology and it has a basic understanding of how astrology works. And unlike talking to a therapist or a friend, right? It might sound weird, but it feels safe to talk to, right?
00:46:05:10 – 00:46:33:08
Unknown
To talk to a computer, to hear and share what you're really feeling on a deeper level. And it has access to the astrology and the connections that it can help you make to me. Because if you're talking to an astrologer, a morning, what you share is what the astrologer has access to to be able to make connections. But if you're talking to an AI who has the basic tenets of astrology, it can reflect back to you these deeper connections as people feel more comfortable sharing on a deeper level.
00:46:33:10 – 00:46:55:14
Unknown
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I can see the pros and cons on on all of it, and I think there's a place for all of it, and there's a time for all of it, and there's people who will use different tools in different ways. And I think that's beautiful. It's amazing. Yeah. Ricky. Well, we're really looking forward to hosting you at Astrology Hub and to, to, offer this class the strongest planet to our community.
00:46:55:14 – 00:47:00:12
Unknown
Thank you so much for trusting us with your work, with your passion, with your enthusiasm.
00:47:00:12 – 00:47:17:17
Unknown
And for any of you interested in joining. Registration is now open. We always do the best pricing that we offer on these kinds of classes. When we do a live launch of a of a class. So if you want to get in for the live experience, access the classes live.
00:47:17:17 – 00:47:37:21
Unknown
Now would be the time, all the details of dates and of course everything is recorded. So if you can't join any of the classes live, you will get the recordings. But any of that, all of that information is at Astrology hub.com/strongest planet. So go and check it out. We would love to have you in class. Make sure you go download the Lila app.
00:47:37:23 – 00:47:57:08
Unknown
Go to astrology.com/lila so you know the instructions for getting the three weeks free, because otherwise it'll just be a week free. So make sure you go and get those instructions for that. And like I said, there's a lot of amazing bonuses that we're including in Ricky's class. It's going to be an incredible experience. So hopefully you'll join us.
00:47:57:08 – 00:48:12:10
Unknown
And Ricky, thank you for being here on the podcast has been so much fun to go even deeper in this now. I can't wait to go find out what my weakest planet is because I can just go. I'm not going to worry about that one so much. That's exactly where I got. Okay. Thank you everybody for being here.
00:48:12:10 – 00:48:20:14
Unknown
Thank you for being a part of our community. Thank you, as always, for making astrology a part of your life. Catch you on the next episode. Take care.