DELINEATING THE BIRTH CHART PART III

We are continuing with our chart delineation topic from August 27 and September 1.  Again, we are touching on the various techniques used or the tools which are used to find and understand the important characteristics and psychological makeup inherent in a birth chart. 

Along with the previous tools mentioned, it is important to also take into consideration the elements (earth, air, fire and water) that the signs and important locations (Ascendant/Midheaven) are in.  Also, determine the modes (cardinal, fixed and mutable) and whether they are emphasized, lacking or well balanced.  If you were to have six or more counts in any particular mode (the Sun and Moon are counted as two and the rest as one), there is an emphasis on that specific element or mode. 

If for example you have an emphasis in water and also an emphasis in cardinal, you would have some Cancer qualities linked to your personality.  If there is only one specific emphasis, you would have to consider this as well.  Cardinal emphasis is linked to someone who could be considered a “doer”.  Someone with a water emphasis has powerful emotions and sensitivity attached to their personality as well as other attributes. This would help in determining some of the character traits linked to this individual.

When you are looking at tight aspects, it is also important to check whether these aspects or planetary links are applying or separating one another.  It is thought that an applying aspect suggests that the energies represented by the planetary bodies in question are specifics that have to be worked on and overcome in this life or are specifics that can be used for the benefit of the individual.  The separating aspects, however, are understood to be elements within the psyche that are already understood and have been worked on prior to entering this life.  As a result, they do not stand in the way of progress.

It should also be understood that the tighter to exact the aspect is in the birth chart (example two planets separated by 15 minutes compared to two planets separated by 7 degrees) the more relevant its meaning and its importance in the individual’s life.  Tight or close aspects between the Sun and Moon have particular relevance in the person’s life and should be give particular attention when deciphering a birth chart. 

Retrograde planets also play a significant role in the birth chart.  Retrograde planets usually indicate energies that aid and add stimuli and energies in the chart.  Several retrograde planets, no retrograde planets or only one retrograde planet has specific implications when deciphering the birth chart. 

On September 8 we will continue with our chart delineations.

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BE TRUE TO YOURSELF

Have an honest look at who you are including all of what you may consider to be your little flaws.  Humour me for a moment.  Now recognize “this” to be you for the moment. 

Next review what you initially thought your characteristics were but remove the minor flaws.  Now ask yourself what this leaves? 

You must realize that no matter how perfect each of us are, we will always be capable of finding little flaws in our personalities....in our neighbour.....in our world. 

Now ask yourself if these flaws describe you as an individual.  Do others see these minor blemishes or are you the only one that knows about them?  Does it matter?  Are you a lesser person because of these minor flaws? 

We need to pay attention to all of our personal attributes rather than spend so much time focusing on our self-admitted faults and the thoughts that these faults are part of us.  If we could spend even half the time we spend analyzing our perceived negative qualities and use this time to focus on our positive qualities, we might recognize and see ourselves in a much clearer light.  These minor irritants are pale in comparison to our positive attributes.  When focused on the positive, we will see ourselves as more of what we would like to be (who we truly are) but have failed to recognize our true selves prior to any exercise of awareness.

The qualities we dislike about ourselves have to be recognized and seen for what they truly are.  After doing some careful analyzing we discover that these characteristics are not as impenetrable and negative as we once perceived them to be.  By changing our focus on what we have within our personality rather than paying so much attention to what we think we do not like or what we feel is missing, we recognize who we truly are and truly see self.

Remember our core personality has all the qualities that we wish we had.  Remember our true nature and understand that we are spirit living in a material body which is unfortunately influenced by ego.  What we perceive as negative has been built up by ego so that it can maintain control.   Letting go of these false beliefs unleashes the true potential already alive within each of us.  This potential is simply waiting to be unleashed. 

Everything we are looking for is already part of our makeup; it is already part of who we are.  We do not have to look outside for confirmation as we simply have to allow ourselves to focus our attention on our life’s objectives and let go of the small insignificant so called impurities that we are now so focused on.  Stop identifying with these. 

The real individual is based on love and compassion and upon realizing that this, we will transcend ourselves into a content individuals rather than individuals that feel incomplete.  We do not need to seek completeness.  We are always complete.  Recognize that the only thing holding us back is our focus or ego’s persistence on what we feel we do not like within ourselves.

Understand ego’s pursuit.  Recognizing its influence is the key to allowing our connection with our higher self.  We are not our ego.  Let go of its grip by recognizing its intent.  Allow the complete, loving individual that you are to shine completely!

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DELINEATING THE BIRTH CHART PART II

We are continuing with our chart delineation topic from August 27.  Again, we are touching on the various techniques used, the tools which are used, to find and understand the important characteristics and psychological makeup inherent in a birth chart. 

Along with the previous tools mentioned in the August 27 post, you will also want to check into chart configurations such as the grand trine.  Remember there are four elements that the grand trine can be found in (air, water, fire and earth) each one speaks of self-sufficiency in the energies of these elements.  They also promote opportunities and often indicate good luck and easy flow.  If the grand trine is found to occupy two different elements such as 2 planets being in Water and the third being Air, this is still considered a Grand trine but it is weakened because it has been split into two elements.

You will want to check to see if there is a grand square.  This configuration is quite different from the grand trine.  The grand square usually suggests challenging conditions when activated through transit or progression.  Often the person will feel stuck and unable to move forward in their life and will need to learn to centre themselves and find an operational outlet.  This is usually found through the energies of the closest easy going aspect (trine, sextile, sometimes the quintile) that is attached to one of the four planets or points involved in the grand square.

The T-square, along with the grand cross or grand square, are challenging configuration but usually provide the stimulus needed to push us forward in life and to overcome obstacles.  People gain momentum when in balance, but are stifled when they are unable to move ahead.  Remember all these configurations have intensity, but are strengthened in their influence the tighter the angle between planets or other important points (Mid-heaven, Ascendant) to one another. 

We need squares and oppositions in our charts to push us and challenge us.  Without these learning aspects we would easily stagnate.  For example, if someone has grand trines in their charts and very few tight squares or oppositions, when they are met with a challenging condition, they are unaccustomed to the pressure and do not know how to handle difficult situations.  Someone with several learning or challenging aspects in their chart is accustomed to stressful conditions and will more easily challenge and overcome the more difficult lessons in life.

People with the Yod configuration in their birth chart often experience life in ways that are challenging and they are forced to confront the issue at hand.  The energy of this configuration can often produce much stress and could be classified as turning points when activated, where we have to make transformations in life which often leads to awareness or life changing condition.  These events often seem preordained.  Life seems to play havoc with anyone with a Yod and they are forced to make changes because it is too difficult to accommodate these trying times. 

All of these configurations referred to will have to be delineated by the house positions and by the planetary energies involved, as well as the story being told by other planets such as Mercury (it rules the mind and how one assimilates life) to determine how these configurations affect each individual.

You can also determine much about individual characteristics by any emphasis by sign and house.  The sign that has several planets located within its limits, such as say five planets in Scorpio, can overpower a softer solar placement, although the Sun still has a role in the our individual makeup. 

It is the same with an influence in specific houses such as say 5 planets in the fourth house.  This particular influence suggests strong Cancer tendencies in the character of this individual.  An individual with 5 planets in the fifth house (naturally ruled by Leo) a rising sign of Leo and a Sun sign of Capricorn would still want to move up the corporate ladder, but may not remain as low key as many Capricorn people would be, as Leo would push the personality out and make this individual very “centre stage” Leo as well as “driven” Capricorn by nature.

We will have more delineations methods to in our next Astrology post on September 3.

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ETERNALLY YOUNG

Take a moment to sit and enjoy watching our young.  Watch their behaviour and pay attention to their attitudes.  Do these behaviours and attitudes in any way match up with yours? 

The first thing we usually notice from children is that they are living in the moment.  They are not concerned about what tomorrow brings.  As a matter of fact, they are not even aware that tomorrow will exists.  If they are content playing, sharing with a friend or simply watching and taking in what you might be doing, they ARE happy and living in the here and now. 

If their attention is somehow swayed from their playing, if their friend stops playing with them or you change your focus to from them to something else, under normal circumstances, the child quickly shift their attention to something else without missing a beat.  They have moved on to something new.  Whatever draws their attention is what holds them in the moment.

They may become upset if they lose a toy, but usually for only a very short time and as soon as their attention in directed elsewhere, they forget their losses and move on.  They are innocent in their actions and do not hold grudges.  They are happy and content with whatever comes next. 

Can you live this way?  Do you dwell on those things that you have lost in life or do you move forward?  Do you adapt to life’s circumstances and move forward with as much enthusiasm as a child?  Do you get stuck on “what used to be”?  Do you have a difficult time moving in new directions?

Just as our children, throughout our lives we will suddenly lose people, opportunities and things and will be forced to make changes in direction.  A new path or opportunity, however, will be place in front of us.  We then will have to choose – will we willingly follow this new opportunity and place our focus on life’s continually changing flow or will we fight for what was and swim against the current causing struggles and exhaustion?  We can become upset and depressed over what used to be or we can choose to move forward on our new route with enthusiasm.  If we can learn to easily change directions and not fight our inevitable course, life has so much more easy flow and the rewards are recognized immediately.

 

We should live as children and accept change when it comes, to move forward with little hesitation, especially when something is taken away from us or when someone has left us.  Many of us can get caught up in the past and when life’s path shifts we fight the changes that are inevitable.  This unfortunately causes us to temporarily lose our direction.  We cannot move forward until we have accepted and let go of the past.  We can and eventually must leave our past where it belongs, in the past.  Once we allow this to take place, we can move forward into the ever-changing moment. 

Learning to swim with our life’s current and not struggling to swim against the current.  Floating or swimming with the current allows us to flow through our lives more readily.  We cannot change the current.  It will flow where it will.  Life will have its turbulent moments and each of us will experience our fair share.  The direction we swim is always our choice. 

Remember a new door always opens when an old door closes.  This is not an ending but a new beginning.  Each new life experience builds from the previous ones.  Our life’s current is continuous and this is our path.

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Pisces Full Moon

The emotions of the moon and the spirituality of Pisces come together in harmony to push us to face our true reflection.

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YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE PERFECT

There are many of us who strive to fulfill our life’s purpose and in doing so we can become wrapped up in the preconceived notion that we have to make ourselves perfect in the eyes of others and in the eyes of God.  I know, some people have an issue with the term God, so we can use the names source, humanity as a unit, love, peace.  Use whatever name you are comfortable with. 

In our attempt to create the perfect individual that we perceive we should be, we lose sight of the fact that source is not the one judging whether we are perfect or not.  We are link eternally to Source and have been created exactly as we need to be.  With this understanding how can we possibly believe that we are not perfect on the deepest level? 

Yes we are currently human and it is fine to recognize those qualities we do not view as perfect but they are just that, qualities and these qualities do not create us.  If we are failing in our attempt to create this perfect picture, perhaps we need to realize that within each of us this perfection, in real terms, already exists.

This is our dilemma.  We fail to see the perfection that is us; it is who we are.  If we are seeing imperfections and little flaws in our characters then perhaps we need to stop identifying with these imperfections and our thinking that the imperfections IS us. 

We are perfect.  We were born perfect.  The flaws that we perceive are simply lessons to be learned and are not a part of who we are.

Our source does not judge or evaluate our evolution; we do.  Source already understands and accepts us in human form and terms.  Source knows the turmoil we experience because of this.  We are not suggesting that we stop moving forward or stop striving for clearer understanding, but we should not feel as though we are a failure because we have not met all of our expectations concerning the varying levels of development we have placed on ourselves.  Many of these lessons could persist throughout the course of this lifetime.  This one lifetime is but a grain of sand compared to the full shoreline of your soul. 

Do not allow your expectations to cause you disappointment or worse.  Simply keep your focus.  Move forward the best way you know how. 

In human form, it is impossible to be perfect but in the eyes of our source, we are just that.  We are our own judges created as a result of our ego.  The ego will always insist that we are not good enough and never will be.  We can either identify with the ego’s onslaught of pessimism or relish in the truth of our soul.

Live with the understanding that we are in pursuit of whatever comes next, whatever is in the moment and the ever-changing evolutionary process at hand.  We are perfect for where we are in our evolution and we will move forward regardless of intrusive ideas that ego places on us.  Live with the knowledge that we will advance at the pace we are meant to and always in the direction we need to go.

Allow the love that is ours to share.  Dwell in the eternal moment.  Find the peace that radiates from within always. 

Do not live in fear.  Do not live in doubt for we are love and love is perfection at its peak.

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TECHNIQUES IN DELINEATING NATAL CHARTS

We are going to touch on various techniques used in delineating an Astrological birth chart.  These are tools (which are not necessarily in any order of importance) used to find and understand the importance characteristics and psychological makeup inherent in a birth chart. 

The Sun sign and its house placement play an important role in defining who we are on the inside.  This placement deals with our core personality and usually holds great importance in determining who we are.  It indicates our strengths along with the path we have chosen to pursue in life.  It is often our drive and, along with the placement of Mars, will determine how aggressive we pursue our purpose and identify our needs.

The Moon sign and its house placement define our inner emotional response to the world.  It defines our sensitivity, our compassion and our need for nurturing as well as our need to nurture others.  It is our emotional response to the world and our reaction to life’s events on an emotional level.  The Moon by sign and house also define where we can use these energies and tendencies and to what end they might result. 

The Ascendant is often our initial reaction to life and the people we meet.  It often differs greatly from our Sun sign in that it is how we portray ourselves to the world.  It often defines who we are on the outside and may even describe our appearance.  Look not only at this sign placement but also at the ruling planet’s position in the birth chart.  For example, if your rising sign is Sagittarius, look to see where Jupiter is located and how it is aspected in the chart.  This will help define more clearly how you relate to the world and what expression you utilize.

The Sun, Moon and Ascendant have a powerful influence in defining us as individuals.  These three factors will go a long way in describing an individual and often lead the way to deciphering the birth chart.  Make sure that you take into consideration the sign and house position but also take into consideration the aspects that the Sun, the Moon and the Ascendant are receiving.  These will determine aptitude, perseverance and life attributes or deficiencies in the makeup of the individual.

You can look at patterns in the chart.  This is the pattern that the planets are forming as far as location in the chart.  There are several different patterns to take into consideration.  Some of these would be the bucket pattern, the bowl pattern, the locomotive pattern and splash pattern.  These help to characterize the personality in greater detail and each pattern differs significantly from one another. 

You can look for hemispheric emphasis, along with if there is a Stellium found within the birth chart.  The Stellium will emphasize a specific area of the chart and when a transiting or progressed planet is influencing these planetary positions, there will be an array of energy targeted at this house for an extended period of time, until the transit or progression is finished making its influence known.

We will continue delineating the chart in our next Astrology post in two days.   

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