PLANETARY PATTERNS

Planetary patterns are the positioning of the planets at the moment of birth. There are several types, and we will discuss the splash pattern today.

As many of our readers understand, the Birth Chart is a snap-shot of the heavens at the moment of birth. You could say the Natal Chart is a picture of the planets frozen in time. After the moment of birth, all the planets continue their movement around the Zodiac.

The splash pattern is identified by planets being spread around throughout the whole area of the Chart. The Chart looks like a pie divided into 12 pieces and each piece represents a house. In the case of the splash pattern, there are generally no more than two planets in any of these houses. There are usually not more than three houses that are planet free. A good definition could be to term this Chart as scattered.

As the Chart is divided into degrees and there are 360 degrees in the overall chart, in this type of Chart there are no more than 60 degrees separating any of the planets. Depending on what house division the Astrologer uses, most houses are relatively close to thirty degrees in size. It should be noted that there are several house systems used by Astrologers where the house’s size vary greatly. This, however, does not change the distance between planets. We will touch on the various house systems in a future post.

The splash pattern personality is somewhat similar to the sign of Gemini or similar to a lot of planets located in the third house which is ruled by Gemini. The individuals with this pattern are considered versatile and adaptable and have many interests and capabilities. They tend to scatter their attention and usually acquire knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, although may not be overly knowledgeable on any one particular subject, unless the Chart dictates otherwise. They prefer to invest their energies on many different areas of life rather than focus on just one or two. This can make them stimulating companions that usually always have something interesting to talk about.

Some others planetary patterns found in the birth chart are the bowl, bucket, locomotive, seesaw, bundle or cluster pattern, the fan and the splay pattern. All of these patterns identify fairly basic character traits in individuals, although there are many other influences that have a stronger weight on the personality of any individual. These patterns can be used as a quick reference and describe the individual’s personality quite well.

As Charts are influenced by Transits (planetary movement), the type of Chart pattern is also reflective of activity in your life. The activity can either be spread out or in some cases, events seem to happen one things right after another. Every Chart is unique unto itself and this is why when a Chart is deciphered by the Astrologer, character traits vary greatly from one individual to the next unlike the newspaper Astrology forecasts of the Sun sign.

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LOOKING FOR ASSISTANCE

Some individuals move through life’s journey thinking they need someone to help them make important choices. If you find that you are one of these individuals, ask yourself why you require someone else’s approval. Is it an occasional need to receive reinforcement for your actions?

Are you always searching for approval on many of your actions? If so, perhaps you need to take a closer look at why you feel it is necessary to get someone else’s approval or direction on your course in life.

In many cases after careful consideration and an honest reflection, you may come to the realization that you need approval in order to remove any doubt with your decisions. Are you afraid of making a mistake? Acquiring conviction from outside of the self has to do with self assurance and a negative ego approach. Lack of self assurance causes you to looks for faults in your decisions. Lack of confidence tends to cause the little voice inside to tell you that you may make a mistake, or that you are not intelligent enough to make the decision at hand.

What is the worst that can happen if you do make an error in judgement? You will learn a valuable lesson. You then can move forward in life with more knowledge. How can this be considered a mistake?

Have faith in the birth of your ideas. Did it come from outside influences or were you the one that initiated the process? If your answer suggests that the thought was self-generated then believe in the possibility that your higher self knows that you are capable of finding a solution or initiating an action. Have faith in yourself! Believe in your own ability to move forward with any conscious decision. If you fear failure then move forward with conviction and accept the potential failure as part of a greater learned lesson.

Give yourself the necessary time to go through the decision making process and reach a viable solution. Move forward with the opinion that whatever you wish to undertake would not have presented itself without potential for success or a positive learning tool. If you promote yourself with positive intention and believe that your opinion is the motivating factor, success or failure does not matter. It is the act itself that is important and by believing in yourself without outside influence, you promote a belief structures that you can only benefit from.

Move forward in your quest, whatever it may be without outside influence. Take on that challenge, and have faith in yourself. If you make things work as you had planned, you gain confidence and accomplished what you wanted. If you fail to meet all of the demands of your project (as planned) then you have learned perseverance and important information from the task at hand which you can carry forward so that you can begin again with the knowledge that you ascertained from the past experience.

You will win some and you will lose some but through the experiences, your confidence will begin to build. Follow your dreams. Believe in yourself. Do not allow negative ego to interfere with your growth.

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CATALOGUING OF ELEMENTS

As many of you are aware there are four basic elements in Astrology, fire, air, water and earth. These four elements can further be divided into two groups, fire and air demonstrating dynamic energy and self-expression along with the intellectual ability to find alternative ways of expressing these qualities. Earth and water are considered much more passive by nature and receptive to the influences of the unconscious mind, particularly the element of water.

Since we are still under the influence of the Scorpio Sun sign, we will dig a little deeper into the meaning associated with Scorpio’s element, water. The three water signs are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces; however, planets located in the fourth, eighth and twelfth houses which are considered water houses, will also have a watery temperament about them.

Those with an emphasis of water in their Charts are generally in touch with their feelings, and tuned in to the higher frequencies of life, such as clairvoyance ability and have a mystical approach to life. (Individuals that are more dominant with the element of Earth, [as well as some Fire signs particularly Aries and some air signs, particularly Gemini] may be more in touch with the influence of the rational mind and the material world of success and attainment. This is not to say that the these signs do not have the capacity to reach these higher realms of being, only that they may have to thread their way through material demands and cogent mental processes which they will meet along their life’s route.)

For those Water signs that have allowed the intuitive side of their being to mature and those who have put faith in the unseen, there is potential for them to get more in touch with their unconscious mind or their higher self. When in tune and fully awakened, the Water signs are known as the most intuitive and subliminally sensitive signs of the Zodiac.

Some become so encapsulated with this realm of emotion and sensitive vibration that they tend to loose themselves in their feelings. They, in turn, become vulnerable to outside forces and are susceptible to feelings of hurt and anguish which can lead some into depths of depression. They can be captive agents of their emotions and must find their rational mind which is hidden in the depths of their consciousness. Nurturing their rational mind will unravel all this sensitivity and channel it into constructive outlets, such as in-depth psychoanalysis and the ability to disassociate with inner turmoil.

The positive use of the Water element furnishes an outlet for these individual’s emotional responses. They should channel their sensitivity to assist others undergoing intense psychodrama in their lives. Intuition and psychic potential have their specified place in this world and the best avenue of expression is one of service. These gifts are not to be squandered or wasted on self-promotion or to manipulate their energies for self-gratification and/or intentional control over others so that they benefit from their intuitive perception. Psychic inclinations are best used to assist others and can never be used to promote the self in any way.

Finding their place in the world is paramount for most of these Water individuals and selfless service is the quickest avenue to uncovering their specific role.

Understand the elements contained in your Astrology Chart and unlock your potential.

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True Happiness

What is it you are looking for? Where are you searching? How will you find it?

We live as an individual but share our lives with one another. One of the many things that we search for in life is true happiness. We long for fulfillment, reaching out and hope to find that place where contentment resides. We must believe that we deserve to find this place of serenity, this place of contentment, of true happiness. We truly have to give ourselves permission to feel joy.

Happiness is not a dream. It is not a concept, but it cannot be experienced until we believe that we are worthy of it. If there is a even a minor suggestion within you that proposes that you have done things in your life that removes this opportunity, you allow yourself to be a captive to that belief structure. If you pursue a dream, you can fulfill that dream, regardless of the past. You have to be open, to forgive yourself of past transgressions or events and then move forward with a new vision of yourself.

By allow forgiveness, you ready yourself for a new you to emerge. You can do this at any time. Forgiveness is always attainable, but you have to be the one that initiates the process. Until you awaken yourself and accept the possibility that love and happiness are your birthrights, you withhold your own happiness.

You deserve to be happy! You deserve to find peace! You are not here by chance or a prisoner of a life of hurt and pain. Find your place of serenity, of contentment. It is yours if you allow. Your belief system is what forms your reality. You are at the mercy of your intentions and your expectations. Ensure that they focus on something worthwhile. Why spend your life captured by false principles and allowing yourself to become a slave to the agony that can encompass you if you allow it to exist. If you can feel pain and sorrow, if you can feel regret and inhibit your own growth, surely you can also allow yourself a place where love and happiness flourish.

Why is it acceptable to experience pain and suffering, but it is not okay to immerse yourself in happiness? Ponder this. View this concept with clarity. Allow yourself to lovingly move forward into happiness. Allow this concept to exist internally and then release it into your world and watch it grow.

You are the master to your destiny. You and you alone hold the key. Unlock all the potential that dwells within your tethered soul, for you are here to join forces with love and unlock your own personal happiness. This is the intent of your life; this is your mission.

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PSYCHIC AND MEDIUM POTENTIAL

For those of you with psychic and/or medium abilities (there are countless individuals intent on developing this potential), it is important that you understand the concept of moving as a joint force. Most of you who are already on the path of enlightenment and share God’s gifts of psychic and medium abilities perform significant work individually, but if we act in unison and join hands this pursuit imagine the strength and impact we could have motivating the universal force.

If we work singularly with our guides, we have profound effects on those we encounter along the way. If we understand, and most of us do, the significance of working as a group and the impact we can have as a collective one, our gifts will have a far reaching affect.

As you enter into your collective state with your guides, say a prayer and ask for the assistance of others in your chosen work. Understand that this will have a much more overall effect of encouraging others and assisting those with their lessons along life’s road. By joining forces (on a large scale) and asking for assistance from those with similar abilities, God centred individuals, we will have a much stronger impact, not only on the individuals we come in contact with, but also in the overall movement on a grand scale--helping to move the whole world together as a unified force.

By joining hands with many, we impact the overall evolution of everyone regardless of distance.

For those who are beginning this journey of enlightenment, please allow the forces of all good intension to enter your cosmic vibration. This will assist in your overall spiritual growth. We have come here for a purpose and this can be captured in one word, enlightenment. By encompassing love and compassion for each and every person we encounter (evolved or not) and working as a group, we can move mountains.

Unified with our creator and intact with the whole, we will move forward with great strength and purpose which can only help strengthen the resolve in our collective consciousness. By living within today, within its every moment and placing our effort in an integrated conscious state, we limit nothing and create concrete results that further the evolution of everyone connected to the greater whole. We are all unified with this greater whole. We are one.

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URANUS IN LIBRA ENTERING MIDLIFE (born 1968-1975)

If you are part of the Uranus in Libra generation, born between October of 1968 and September 1975, less a few weeks in May and June of 1969, you are now entering into midlife and the Uranus opposition to its Natal position. As each sign is a continuation and development of the previous sign and lays the groundwork into the next, Uranus in Libra is all about finding balance. It is the finding of balance in life between the individualization of each person and the molding of our consciousness into the collective. Uranus in Libra wants to find balance and harmony in life through relationships and entering into a collective agreement between couples. One aids the other and finds the ultimate connection in a union through a sharing of higher principles and knowledge gained through life’s experience.

The Uranus opposition to its Natal position is considered one of the most powerful and influential transits of your life. It usually begins around the age 40 and is complete by the time you are 44. This time span often includes many transformations on an inner level as opposed to the outer changes that you would have made in order to provide yourself with the required sustenance into your retirement years.

You may also confront aspects of life that have reached a culmination point, such as your relationships and occupation that you have pursued thus far. If you find any of these areas of life obstructive and/or constrictive (this would include all relationships and any field of work that has fulfilled your life until this point), you may now be faced with making substantial alterations to these areas. If you are not happy with where you are in your life, you will be forced into having a closer look in order to see what you think can be done to satisfy the need for change. You will, however, need to go inside to see what you can do personally to change things. Never put the onus on someone else. It is not others that need to change. The change must come from you or your attitude towards the situation.

Many feel that this point in life revolves around a state of emergency and will urgently seek resolution to their predicament. It feels as though there is not much time left and things need to be attended to now!

If you, on the other hand, have been living life according to longstanding and ridged ideologies and have been planning your life in one pursuit rarely swaying from the intended path, this transit will not be that challenging. You may now discover the fruition of all your hard work and planning. You confront the idea of old age and retirement which now seems to just lie ahead.

You may now, however, turn your attention inward as all the preparation has been started and out the foundation seems solid enough that you can now turn to internal focusing. You may have spent much of your life preparing for retirement and planned vigorously barely noticing the concept that there is a whole other inside world that also needs attending too. You may discover hidden parts of the self that you were never aware of before, because you never took the time to study who you were. You may now decide after careful scrutinizing that you need to make some adjustments and create a new sense of purpose for yourself.

Many would compare this time in their lives to an awakening stage. You view yourself more clearly and perhaps for the first time. You may begin coming to terms with what needs to be done in order to adjust the conditions of self. The upcoming time period will be separate from the outside world of obligation to success. You are now confronted with an obligation to mold yourself into the individual you want to be. Accomplishment in the external world is now miniscule to what you see within yourself. During this phase, the strength gained in a structured and material way rarely changes, but your concept of what that world means to you under goes a great transformation.

This period initiates the start of the new individual strengthened by internal confrontation and staying committed to the required changes that will propel one into the future.

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Men and Women

Let’s explore the male and female counterpart of human nature. To begin, I would like to share the fact that our readers are primarily women and although our male readers are beginning to increase in numbers, the women still outnumber the men two to one.

Men and woman are quite different in their psychological makeup, a well-known and studied fact. How well do the opposite genders understand the other? How well do they understand themselves?

In general, most people believe that women use their senses to a much greater extent than men. It is believed that women are emotional in their makeup and rely more on their feeling nature. Women tend to be nurturing, sensitive, feeling and adept at handling the needs of others. They are caring and often place other people’s needs before their own. They are sensitive to their environment and pick up the subtleties from those around them. They tend to react from these instinctual feelings. Do you believe this to be true?

Studies show that woman freely express feelings of love, compassion and sympathy for example far more than men. Men tend to suppress these types of emotions and try to deal with these situations by using logic and physical effort.

Men feel all emotion just as women do but they tend to keep their emotions of compassion and giving under wraps. I have read that men are three or four times more likely to emotionally react out of anger than women. These are the type of emotions that men tend to show openly. Is this due to the stifling of their compassionate emotions or is it due to the fact that society has taught us that it is okay for men to ONLY show the non-compassionate personal emotions?

Woman, though they show the giving, caring emotions, tend to suppress emotions of anger. Could this be linked to higher incidences of women suffering from depressing or is it due to their higher emotion response to life?

Due to our emotional responses as dictated by society, it is thought that man’s strength comes from his reasoning ability and his ability to use logic to sum up the situation. It is assumed that man lacks emotion. Due to society, it is thought that women’s strengths come from their nurturing, caring emotions and tend to use less logic and more emotion response when dealing with situations.

Do you believe that men tend to rely on logic and women tend to use a more emotion response when dealing with life and its events?

We, as individuals not matter what our gender, provide strength to those around us. Our interlinking qualities with our many types of partners (whether male or female) in this life make up the whole. Often, in any type of relationship, what one partner lacks, the other partner can offer and it goes far beyond emotion and instinct. If you view your relationships without ego, you will find that strength of character resides in being open to dialogue between all participants in this life and one person’s void is filled by another person’s input.

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