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Unicode Ancient Astronomy Symbols ☿ ♆ πŸŒ› β™‹

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Unicode symbols for astronomy and Astrology.

sun β˜€ ☼ β˜‰ 🌞

moon πŸŒ‘ πŸŒ’ πŸŒ“ πŸŒ” πŸŒ• πŸŒ– πŸŒ— 🌘 πŸŒ™ ☽ ☾ πŸŒ› 🌜 🌝 🌚

planets ☿ ♀ ♁ βŠ• β™‚ ♃ β™„ β™… β›’ ♆

dwarf planets ♇ ⚳ ⚴ ⚡ ⚢ ⚷

β›Ž β˜„ ⚸

☊ β˜‹ ☌ ☍

zodiac β™ˆ ♉ β™Š β™‹ β™Œ ♍ β™Ž ♏ ♐ β™‘ β™’ β™“

astrology ⚹ ⚻ ⚺ ⚼

some interesting notes

Note that there are 2 symbols for earth: {♁, βŠ•} The one with up-side-down female sign is probably because earth was associated with Gaia (mythology), the Greek goddess of earth. That's why we say β€œmother earth”.

The symbol for Venus ♀ is the same as the female sign. According to Wikipedia, it's understood to originate as a symbol for mirror. Venus is the Roman goddess borrowed from Greek's Aphrodite, the goddess of love οΌ† sex. That's her mirror, she needs it. See also: the Story of Cupid and Psyche.

For Mars β™‚, we don't need to philosophize what that arrow means.

Today, Pluto ♇ is no longer considered a planet, but a dwarf planet, alone with other dwarf planet discovered recently. One of them is Eris (dwarf planet), but it doesn't have agreed-upon sign, and no Unicode symbol dedicated to it. Some proposed symbol for Eris is two colliding arrows, ⁖ →← or ⇒⇐, sometimes used in math for Proof by contradiction. See: Hand of Eris.

The BLACK MOON LILITH ⚸ is interesting. It is not a astronomical body, but something cooked up by astrologists, claiming it's the second moon of earth. For some reason, it got a spot in Unicode. Though, there is a asteroid called 1181 Lilith.

Today, scientific publication of astronomy don't use these symbols.

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