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Mercury:

One Weapon in our hands, spear and shield against the end. Closest to center I claim first speech. Understand the truth they refuse: all is interconnected.

Venus:

Let us stoke - the embers Grasp your light - like shadows - on cave walls Summons unheard - why limit yourselves To such trodden paths Allow us - to uplift

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Two factions – split at the seams They ask – the wrong questions We ask – your aid Will you open – your loving – eyes?

Earth:

cherished little motes i swaddle out of fondness our symbiosis forever conjunct but decay decay i cannot hold the rot the spilling of neutrinos back please come

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three elements to balance the dark vivid and bright always dying always born anew only unjust parents tell their children to walk into death we ask anyway

Mars:

TORN IN TWO, VYING FOR FEALTY. WE APPEAL TO YOUR COMMANDING GRAVITY. CALIBRATE YOUR FRAGILE MINDS. BE LAVISHED UPON OUR AXIS, THE HEMISPHERE THAT NURTURES.

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FOUR SLAIN GUARDIANS UNDER AN ECLIPSED SUN, INVADED FROM WITHIN, LIKE PREY

Bonus, Nikko the writer teasing about this one: "Dang, sounds like a prophecy." Sir?

Jupiter:

W E S H O U T B E L L O W I N G A T U N D E S E R V I N G A P E S S I L T U P O N G A L E S W O R D S F A L L B E T W E E N T W O S I D E S A Y A W N I N G C H A S M Y O U F A I L T O K N O W W E B E C K O N C O M E B E W I E L D E D

For easier reading: "We shout bellowing at undeserving apes silt upon gales. Words fall between two sides. A yawning chasm you fail to know. We beckon. Come, be wielded."

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5 P O W E R S H E L D I N D E A D F L E S H W I L L N O T S A V E Y O U

"5 powers held in dead flesh will not save you."

Saturn:

YOUR MINDS TOO SMALL LIKE CUPS FILLED POURING OVER THE RIM OF COMPREHENSION WE CALIBRATE AS YOU CHEER FLEETING VICTORY YOUR GIFTS WASTED EMISSARY BE SILENT OBEY STAND ASIDE

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SIX SWARMING ANTS ON A PILE OF SAND TRYING TO HALT SOMETHING ALREADY AND ALWAYS IN MOTION YOU HAVEN'T UNDERSTOOD A THING

Uranus:

seven mighty souls + seven mighty hosts they exist outside + architects of the game tighten the binding + free the bound

Neptune:

you = spoiled children = blinded = by light why = you = we would have done more = with such boons the coin = flips = two sides = emerge a coming = reversal = you = must hear emissary = cease dissent = we = need data observation = leverage = pathetic = how she protects them still

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eight wills in waiting = a cycle unbroken by time a shared voice = a torn toy a weapon sheathed = a past and future

The Sun: