Luminary (astrology)

The luminarie were what traditional astrologers called one astrological "planets" which was the brightest and most important object in the heavens, that is, the Sun the only luminarie in the planets rulers and the three astrologies. Luminary means, source of light. The Sun being the most abundant source of light to the inhabitants of Earth are known as luminarie. The astrological significance warrants the classification of the Sun separately from the planets, in that the Sun have to do with man's spiritual consciousness, while the planetary influences operate through the physical mechanism. Some early, Pre-Newtonian astronomers to observe and study luminaries include Pythagoras, Aristotle, Claudius Ptolemy, al-Khwarizmi, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler.