THE DESCENDANT

The Descendant in an Astrology chart is the opposite axis of the Ascendant and lies on the cusp of the seventh house.  The Rising sign or Ascendant is the sign coming over the horizon from the east at birth, while the Descendant is the sign descending on the western horizon at birth.  The natural rule of the Descendant is Libra, which is the sign associated with creating balance.  This is what the Descendant’s energies pertains to--the need to integrate self with others.

Depending on the sign on the cusp of the seventh house which is always exactly 180 degrees from the Ascendant, it will define how we relate to others.  As you can imagine, Aries on this cusp would be very different from let’s say Libra on this cusp. 

The Descendant also defines what we seek in a relationship, what we are looking for in an individual and how we will react to them.  On a deeper level, it is said that the sign on the seventh house cusp or Descendant describes the unconscious part of ourselves that we need to seek from within and work on in order to become complete.  It is not that these qualities are lacking only that they are hidden or not acknowledged.  We have to come to terms with these qualities and bring them to the surface or remove them from our makeup.

Through relationships with others, we build on and develop ourselves.  The sign on this cusp often describes the type of person we are attracted to, good or bad.  It describes the type of person we seem to keep meeting up with, over and over again.

An example of this might be if you have Virgo as your Ascendant.  You would express yourself in an organized manner.  You would be very precise and your attention to detail would be impeccable.  You would easily see the faults or shortcomings in others as well as within yourself.  You would undoubtedly use this information to decipher yourself as well as others.  If your Ascendant were Virgo, your Descendant would be Pisces.  With Pisces, you would be attracted to dreamy people, mystical people or people that you feel you need to save in some way.   You may be drawn to people who have a difficult time in the so called “real world” and it would be easy for them to use alcohol and drugs to try to escape reality.  They would be a very gentle person with an ability to accept others without restriction.  They could be psychic, spiritual or an escapists and usually hard cold facts are not easily digested.  These energies obviously would vary depending on the overall condition of the Natal chart and the emphasis in certain houses.  A detailed examination of the Natal chart is required in order to get a full and clear picture.

As you can imagine, we can learn a lot from these ever gentle people and perhaps through these people we can learn not to be so judgemental or find within ourselves the ability to locate only the good aspects of in others and ourselves. 

We can find out a lot about ourselves through close personal contacts and business relationships, as this would fall under the Descendant as well.  We may find that the sign on the Descendant could describe our perfect business partner for a prosperous business or perfect lover eventually leading to marriage.

Discover more of yourself by carefully analysing the Descendant in your Natal chart and find hidden characteristics that if allowed to bloom will complete who you are as an individual.  This is the highest qualities working at its best from this placement.

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ENHANCING YOUR ENERGY FIELD

What is your energy field?  How does it affect me?  Does it range in frequency?  What can we do to enhance its qualities? 

Your energy field is your life’s force.  Through thoughts, attitude, and things that we ingest, etc., we affect our energy fields.  What we expand around us in our daily life is mirrored in us.  This field varies in frequency by how we relate to our environment and it releases what we feel through vibration.  Our fields vary day to day.

Attitude plays a large part in the process as does our response to life and to life’s circumstances.  These are reflected in our vibrations and constantly expand into the world.  Once again, we will use the image of a wave on water and how it moves along on its own, affected by weather or climate (life circumstances) and passing vessels (information coming through and our reaction to others in our lives).  We experience the climate we live under (which is not in our control but how we continue our lives under such weather is our choice).  Life circumstances around us influence our lives whether we are aware of it or not.  Once we become aware of these influences, we can utilize the tide in such a way that we are in control of how we react to these transitions in our lives.

By channeling our focus in directions that add to the overall well-being of self and our immediate world, we create our energy field in these directions and emit whatever facet of ourselves we choose to.  By focusing on love and compassion and helping those around us, we feed our energy field of love and peace.  This radiates from our core.  It is also reflected in our surroundings and our environment.

Our energy field is a reflection of how we live our life, how we view our life and how we care for and aid those around us.  The further we move towards our gentle caring side and use our passion for the general good, the higher we raise our frequency.  We have to radiate at the level of source, which is pure love, to get the greatest results.  By making love the most important ingredient in our lives, the energy field expands.

Meditation and practising visualization will push us in our intended direction.  We will open doors to perception and understanding as we process our intentions first within and then outward as we become acquainted with our true purpose of life.  Nothing can be more important than the sharing of love (with ALL living things including Mother Earth).  With time, we will raise our vibrations on such a level that its waves of energy will be felt far and wide.  Others will become aware of our energy that is omitted from our core.

It does take time but with persistence and work, we can open the door to perception, understanding and truth.  Each of us is being called to this perpetual, conscious evolution.  Open up your heart and your mind.  Emit at your highest frequency.

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DEFINING WHO YOU ARE

Do you consider yourself to be a unique individual?  Do you feel you are somehow different than most others?  This belief structure can make some people feel segregate from society and although in many ways we are all quite unique, we should have a deeper look at who we truly are.

In many ways each of us are different from those around us, but are we actually that different?  Looking at ourselves from a scientific perspective we all consist of the same physical composition.  We differ in body structure and appearance details but if we have a look under a microscope we all look the same.  So why is it that we believe ourselves to be different from others and why do some of us feel disassociated?

In a family tree, we are all brothers and sister if you look back far enough.  On a spiritual level we are all brothers and sisters born of our Source and by some it is assumed that we eventually link back up as one with Source when we move into the higher, final realms of evolution.  So defining who we are as an individual, or as a joint unit, seems to be somewhat of a challenge.

Perhaps it is only important to realize our own personal unique part in life’s process and our ongoing personal journey.  We all have our particular part to play in the process, but as we moves as an individual our energy initiates the movement of other energies on a global scale.  It could be symbolized with the waves on a lake.  As a boat passes by, it creates waves and although it may be minute, it eventually reaches the shoreline.

We are joined together as one in many ways and yet we are as individualistic as snowflakes.  We are brothers and sisters sharing this earthly journey joined by spirit in an evolving state of consciousness and in the evolution of mankind.  Our identity is linked and we move as a whole generating an overall effect in our immediate surroundings which also spreads into unknown areas of life.  We are joined in consciousness and evolving as a unit, separated only by the belief that we are individuals and unique unto ourselves.

You ARE unique.  You are special and an individual unto yourself.  However, you are joined to the masses at the same time especially by love and compassion.  These are our greatest attributes and by spreading love, forgiveness and compassion to our siblings through Source, we will manifest harmony and peace for all.  How can we want anything different, when each person we share this existence with is actually an extension of ourselves?

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THE COMPOSITE CHART IN ASTROLOGY

The Composite chart is a chart prepared for two individuals for how they will interact as a couple, either through a romantic relationship or business partnership.  This chart can also be used to determine the union between any two individuals, even for a parent and child relationships as a Composite Charts defines any personal relationship between two individuals.

The chart is prepared using the birth chart of the two individuals involved and focusing on the midpoint between each planetary placement as well as the midpoint between the ascendants and midheavens. 

For example let’s say one individual has their Sun in Capricorn at 15 degrees and another individual has their Sun at 25 degrees Aquarius.  There are forty degrees between the two solar locations and dividing this in half you would come up with 20 degrees, making the midpoint 5 degrees Aquarius.  You would include the minutes as well as the degrees to come up with a midpoint system.  This is completed for the Moon’s midpoint, and all of the other planets midpoints, as well as the ascendant’s and midheaven’s.  Most astrological sites can provide you with this chart as long as you have the correct birth times for each individual involved.

Upon completion, you would have one chart which could be viewed as an auxiliary natal chart setting out a description of the union of these two individuals involved.  This chart describes the assets and the challenges that are apparent within the relationship.  It describes how the two interact as a couple internally as well as on an external level.  Much can be defined as to the overall condition of the relationship and how the two will mingle and interact as a whole.

Many couples commission this chart when beginning a meaningful relationship or starting a business.  It provides a comprehensive look at the overall compatibility between these individual and if there are deficiencies within the union that could be insurmountable.  There are always strengths and weaknesses within all horoscopes.  If the energies required are applied by both parties involved in a unified and appropriate fashion, this will promote a lasting and positive union that so many individuals seek.

Although this chart is very descriptive and definitive, as always, we have free will and if both parties are willing to make the compromises necessary within the union, the chances for survival and longevity will be greater than if one of the parties decides not to function on a level that the relationship needs to survive.  This description will identify such shortcomings and apparent roadblocks that can be met and conquered during the forming and maintaining of any meaningful relationship.  This chart also offers potential solutions for shortfalls within the union that once recognized can be faced head-on, challenged and then overcome, that is if both parties are willing to make adjustments for the betterment of the union.

Some relationships seems to have all of the right ingredients for a long and loving partnership or prosperous venture, while others seem to present the individuals with obstacles and challenges that will require a lot of hard work.

Investigate the potential between any two individuals and gain insight into the easy flow energy and the more difficult energies.  This chart will assist to alleviate friction or activate the potential that will enhance the relationship and produce the ultimate possible outcome.

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LIFE BEYOND TODAY

Where will you be with true certainty in twenty-five years?  How about ten years?  What about tomorrow?  Is it really important to clearly understand what the potential is for you in years to come?  Does it truly matter today?

Most of us assume that everyone has a plan for their future.  This apparently has a place in today’s affairs.  Planning for what lies ahead has been made very important in human existence and having goals can make us strive higher. 

In reality, however, all we have is today-- this actual moment.  No matter how we prepare for our future we will not know the outcome until that time comes and many events leading up to that specific time in the future will, without doubt, change continually making the actual outcome obscure to say the least.  So again we ask, Is planning important or are we just to take life as it comes?

Planning for our goals does provide us with structure, possible comfort and even enjoyment.  If we build on these plans in one degree or another, potential is heightened to fulfilling some sort of outcome.  Living in the moment however is even more relevant as when we are always focused on the future, we tend to lose sight of the ever-present now.  We do not learn to have gratitude for all of our current blessings as we are forever concerned about what we need for the future.  Experience itself passes us by as we are so busy preparing for our foreseeable future that we forget to enjoy this moment.

 

Pay attention to the life you are living today--the life you are living this moment.  Enjoy the fruits of what you are experiencing in this moment.  Make plans for your survival but stay focused on the here and now.  Life beyond tomorrow is not a guarantee.  Tomorrow never comes and although it is important to physically survive during our earthly life and create a solid foundation, it is even more important to experience life now and enjoy what is right in front of us.

What lies ahead will be determined by our current life’s focus and our expectations.  Building on a life that promotes happiness, success on a personal level, not necessarily linked to our profession and material rewards, is the key to unlocking our potential as life passes.  We are building on the here and now in our lives by channeling our focus on what is real in this moment, rather than what is missing or what has yet to unfold.

We build our future from today’s focus.  If we focus on all the good in life and what we are, as opposed to what we are not, we will automatically build on what is.  Our focus on now builds from our current gratitude.  Forever planning for more in the future is based on the fact that “now” is lacking that which we are planning for.  Visualizing what it is we want for our future does create that potential, but being happy and content with what we have will only add more of the same in our lives.  Gratitude puts us in a place of abundance.

What lies beyond this moment is yet to come and may never materialize.  What has passed has created what is but is no more.  The moment is constant although ever changing.  It is right in front of us always. 

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THE IMUM COELI OR IC IN ASTROLOGY

THE IMUM COELI

The Imum Coeli more commonly known as the IC is usually found on the fourth house cusp (depending on the house system used by the Astrologer).  In the equal house system, it can also be found in the second, third and fifth houses, which will alter the influence of its meaning.  In most house systems, the IC is found on the cusp of the fourth house indicating a parent, arguably either parent, but in this Astrologer’s opinion, it involves the more submissive, mothering, caring parent.)  The fourth house cusp or IC also deals with the home, the family and your roots.

It is known as the basis or foundation of our life and although this area of the chart is considered quite private, it still has a dominant affect in our lives, especially when transiting planets make aspects to this area.  It should also be understood that this highly influential area while in aspect will not only affect our home and family (fourth house matters), but will also affect the opposite end of the spectrum, the MC (10^th house matters).  Transits to either of these areas of the Chart will affect the opposite ends of the Chart.  So when the home and family are being affected in our lives and security wavers, it may be due to demands from the MC, which deals with one’s status, occupation and ambitions.

When either the IC or the MC is receiving a conjunction from a transiting or progressed planet or a luminary (the sun or moon), the opposite will be receiving an opposition.  When one of the IC or the MC is receiving a square from a planet or luminary, the other will also be receiving a square.  When one is receiving a trine, the other will be receiving a sextile.  Hence the impact of a transiting planet or progressed planet will affect both areas of the Astrology chart.

The IC describe our most personal needs, as it is connected to the natural sign ruling the fourth house, which is Cancer, ruled by the Moon.  As a result, it defines emotional needs, nurturing characteristics, and our attitude towards family.  It will be coloured by the sign ruling the fourth house cusp, as well as any planetary links found within the fourth house, particularly when a planet is conjunct within 2 degrees of the cusp on either side.  A planet or luminary within four degrees in the third house will also affect the IC.

If, for example, Uranus was conjuncting the IC then it would be in opposition to the MC.  We could, as a result, expect changes sometimes drastic in nature to the home and family, such as a move and influences in our occupation and status in life.  These changes could be of a rather sudden nature and a need for freedom and breaking free in order to create change would be on the agenda.  Much would depend on the overall conditions of Uranus in the birth chart and its location by house and sign.

The IC and MC, particularly in early life, depict incidents linked to the parents which in turn will affect the child.  This parental influence on a child shifts as we mature.  The influence widens in such a way that we are no longer just influenced by the parents that dictate our lives, but we are also now affected by an extended version of the family and our place in the overall structures of life.

Much emphasis is given to the MC and the Ascendant in an Astrology chart.  We also, however, have to consider the IC and the DC when deciphering what impact planetary movement will have in our lives.

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