Astrology II: The Horoscope Natal Wheel – Birth Chart (Part Three)

 

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One of the fundamental components of Astrology is that of planetary aspects

The symbolic relationship between the planets and ourselves is profound and insightful, signifying our basic unconscious drives.

Their significance is dependant on their various positions (locations) in the Astrology Natal Wheel (Birth Chart). They show themselves with different qualities in the twelve signs of the Natal Wheel and the twelve houses. They dictate how they and zodiac signs interact, showing the inter-relating forces at play that exists between them. These celestial bodies reveal whether the relationship (the parts of our lives they symbolise) will be one filled with accord or discord.

Astrology II: The Horoscope Natal Wheel – Birth Chart (Part Three)

 

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One of the fundamental components of Astrology is that of planetary aspects

The Planets and their location give profound and insightful information to an individual.

The symbolic relationship between the planets and ourselves is they signify basic drives or urge in the unconscious.

In the Astrology Natal Wheel (Birth Chart), planet significance is dependant on their various positions. They show themselves with different qualities in the twelve signs of the Natal Wheel and the twelve houses - they bind the relationship between planets and astrological signs.

In other words, they dictate how planets and zodiac signs interact and show the forces at work that exist between them. They tell us whether that relationship between the planets (the parts of our lives they symbolise) will be one filled with harmony or disharmony.

Previously, The Planet Aspects, THE MOON: LUNA (the second largest planet and fastest moving celestial body in the sky - ‘A King in Constellations’). The Moon is the mediator between the inner world and the outer world. Luna infuses the past into our lives through feelings, ‘plays out’ what lies beneath the surface (our most private selves) and has power over people’s masses. Responsive and receptive the Moon regulates the rhythmic ebb and flow of activity and energy. The gentle, emotion-driven Moon is the subtle, compassionate, nurturing, and nostalgic mother-figure of the Astrologer’s chart.

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THE PLANET ASPECTS - continuation

Planets show WHAT

MERCURY

The fundamental underlying interpretation

Intuitively rules the Star (Zodiac) Signs GEMINI and VIRGO

Keyword: Communication - Gemini and Virgo represent the different sides of Mercury’s expression: Gemini is output while Virgo is input

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Introduction

 

INNER MOST PLANET OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

Mercury, the smallest place in the solar system yet the ‘messenger of the gods.’

The messenger in astrology, an opportunistic planet, Mercury, is decidedly unemotional and curious. Mercury is the transmitter of the chart. Anything that must be moved from point to point relies on the energy of Mercury. Also, it can transmit musical inspiration as well as ingenious creativity.

Mercury’s ‘charge’ is to take things apart and put them back together again.

 

Significant Features (Fundamental Essence)

In the Natal Wheel, Mercury colours the planets' aspects with a desire to communicate and exchange information. Astrologically speaking, it governs transmitting material. This heavenly body is all about transmission, expression, reason (logic-rationality) and intellect.

Ruler of the mental sphere, Mercury characterises our mode of communication. It affects how we communicate and share information. It tells us a lot about how we gather, process and transmits information. What and how we say it. Further, it tells us about how we think, talk, and manage our time and schedule. It represents day-day expression and interaction.

This essential Solar System inhabitant dictates our speech and/or written words, whether we are concise in our choice of words, flowery, and or business-like in our communications.

Mercury personifies our coordination through thought processes, ideas, and sensory information from conscious and unconscious sources. All that needs to be coordinated and understood. Mercury analyses, sorts, groups, and makes sense of things. How we handle nervous energy? How we express and convey our thoughts? How we approach others and information to learn and exchange ideas? Mercury uses its smart intellect and relentless curiosity to analyse, sort, and classify, helping us synthesise and articulate complex ideas.

Further, Mercury reigns over transportation, travel, the five senses, youth, reading and writing.

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Mercury’s position in our Natal Chart

BY SIGN shows our ability to communicate, explain, and understand, exposing how we listen, read, write, and talk

BY HOUSE shows where we seek to have a voice-influence and which areas of life we tend to intellectualise and give a lot of thought.

To sum up

When we are “enacting out” our Mercury positively, we are inquisitive, curious, communicative, and versatile. Negatively, we can be high-strung or nervous, nit-picky, indecisive, and overly technical. An overactive Mercury can stimulate stress through a tendency to worry incessantly.

Mercury is where we see how we apply ourselves to learning situations and what impressions other people pick up when we open our mouths.

In bringing our quick trip to Mercury to an end, I close with the evocative description below that befits this stimulating celestial body.

Words can bring emotions to the fore in the 'blink of an eye,' “aptly I am Mercury, my energy is quick, witty, full of liveliness, curious, fleeting and often fickle.”

I look forward to our next fortnightly rendezvous. Bye for now.

Note
Mercury is the first planet to have power over intelligence.

Astrology II: The Horoscope Natal Wheel – Birth Chart (Part Three)

 

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Astrology's strong point is its ability to uncover areas where cosmic energies support a myriad of possibilities. 

One of the fundamental components of Astrology is that of planetary aspects

On the most basic level, astrology is about a symbolic relationship between the planets and ourselves.

The planets signify basic drives or urge in the unconscious. They define themselves with different qualities in the twelve signs of an Astrology Natal (Birth) Chart and the twelve houses.

The Significance of planets is their various positions in our horoscope bind the relationship between the planets and astrological signs. They dictate how planets and zodiacal signs interact and show the forces at work that exist between them. They tell us whether that relationship between the planets (the parts of our lives they symbolise) will be in harmony or disharmony.

Through these aspects, the Astrologer slowly develops a story about an Astrology Natal (Birth) Chart , an individual - they give profound and insightful information.

The planetary effects on human behaviour create different temperaments, which manifest in different ways. These planets have a natural force that affects the biological, physical, mental-emotional states of the individual. 

Previously, The Planet Aspects, THE SUN: SOL (the most powerful of all the planetary figures at play) – the ‘Boss Planet’ of our chart directs us. Where we must meet and deal with the areas of our life to find ultimate fufillment.

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THE PLANET ASPECTS - continuation

Planets show WHAT

THE MOON (Luna) 

The fundamental underlying interpretation 

Intuitively rules the Star (Zodiac) Sign CANCER 

Cancer – the sensitive, protective water sign that defines nurture, comfort and security 

 

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Introduction 

A KING IN CONSTELLATIONS

Luna is in the second largest place in the solar system and the fastest moving celestial body in the sky. This intriguing orb moves the ocean's tides, and its combined shifting new to full phases creates an energy that is fluctuating and often somewhat unstable.

The Moon in the chart represents vital needs, controlling our emotions, feeling, instincts, feminine energy, security, and power over people's masses.

Significant Features (Fundamental Essence)

 

In astrology, the Moon is the mediator between the inner world and the outer world.

Luna is one of the most significant indicators of personality and emotional response that exists in the chart. It represents our emotional inner world, symbolising everything beneath the surface. This heavenly body represents the spiritual retreat of our most private selves. It is the soul and emotions of us presiding over our spontaneous and instinctual emotional reactions, responses and feelings that often seem beyond our ability to control effectively.

It is responsive, receptive, and reflective. Hence, the Moon regulates the rhythmic ebb and flow of activity and energy.

The Moon also infuses the past into our lives through feelings. This essential Solar System inhabitant rules our habitual behaviours and prejudices. 

Belonging to the Moon are our Modes of expression that are truly our deepest selves. Our moon sign, focusing inward, reveals our emotional core and determines how we process our feelings and moods, and understanding. It characterises our deepest personal needs, our essential habits and reactions, and our unconscious.

The Moon sign expresses how we instinctively react or respond to problems. What we feel we need for a sense of security. It shows how we protect ourselves and make ourselves feel secure, comfortable, and safe. When the emotional life is out of control, The Moon transmits a powerful temptation to stay in the comfort zone.

Further, the Moon is that which gives us animation.

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The gentle, emotion-driven Moon is the subtle, compassionate, nurturing, and nostalgic mother-figure of the Astrologer's chart. ‘She’ represents our inner emotions, the parts within us that we cannot express. In other words, the Moon governs over the shadowy, more vulnerable sides of ourselves. We do not show the intimate parts of us to others unless we feel intimate and safe with them, particularly the things we need to feel protected, comfortable, and emotionally secure.

Also, the Moon personifies the female energy that exists within each of us. So, it is associated with the mother as well as the domestic scene in general. Luna is both our inner child and our inner mother. ‘She’ reigns over our maternal side, our mother (issues), our memories, childhood experiences, upbringing in general and even what foods we enjoy."

The Moons’ position in our natal chart

BY SIGN shows how we portray emotion and respond to our environment and our instinctual habits, especially in our homes and private.

BY HOUSE, the past and areas of life where we function out of intuitive awareness, those areas of life where we sense the most comfortable.

To sum up, the best effect of the Moon is nurturing and sensitive, and the worst effect can denote immaturity and a reluctance to leave the past behind.

When we are “enacting out” our Moon positively, we are inventive, creative, spontaneous, sentimental, flexible, reflective, and caring. Negatively, we can be moody, restless, and irrational. 

Whenever insecurities arise, and our feelings become involved, we tend to bring the traits (the sign) of our Moon into play. The Moon is like our security blanket.

Whatever we feel is most deeply our-self, whether or not change is possible in the exterior world, is controlled by our Moon and the sign it occupies at birth.

It is wise to give our Moon neither too much nor too little importance in our life for true happiness in life.

In closing our journey around the Moon, upon departing, below is an evocative description that aptly describes this intriguing planet that commands our souls.

Our thoughts that lie too deep for tears are the thoughts of our Moon’s nature.

Until we take our next journey around the Planets together, cheers for now.

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For some of us, our Moon seems to drive our personalities more than the Sun does .

Astrology II: The Horoscope Natal Wheel - Birth Chart (Part Three)

 

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In 2020, under the Basic Structure of the Horoscope Natal Wheel – Birth Chart (Part I), Core Aspects, we looked at The Horizon Line, Midheaven Point and Hemispheres. Under Part II, we then moved on to discuss the Twelve Houses Aspects.

Commencing this week, I will be running a series of short bi-weekly articles on the individual Planets, focusing on what they denote – the fundamental underlying interpretation tone they exemplify.

Astrology's strong point is its ability to uncover areas where cosmic energies support a myriad of possibilities. Keeping this in mind, to continue, we now centre our discussion around the Planet Aspects and their specific influences (what they represent).

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THE HOROSCOPE PLANET ASPECTS

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Astrology - A brief Backdrop 

A Science and Art

Over thousands of years, dating as far back as the Babylonian times around 3,000 BC, we have looked to the stars to make sense of our very existence, seeking answers to what is happening in our lives and why and for understanding the complexities of human nature.

The Babylonians, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, Old India, Greeks, and Romans all used the stars as a calendar, compass, and way to measure something and or as a source of divine communication.

Astrologers believed the cosmos as having a supernatural, metaphysical, and divine essence that actively influences world events and personal lives. Put another way, the stars' position (planets) directly affect, if not determine, our personality and future.

So in effect, Astrology has played a significant role in creating the very foundation our world stands upon and has shaped our roots - our belief system and society today.

This is why Astrology is essential. It is viewed by many past and present as a great doorway to incredible knowledge to understand ourselves and live a successful and fulfilling life.

Special Feature: Celebrating Christmas - Unveiling the World of Jesus

 

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

One Day in a Year - Remembering

More than a millennium has passed. Nonetheless, different people of different persuasions of different beliefs still talk about His Glorious Resurrection.

Celebrated globally, Christmas is a time of festivities when people of many denominations come together to rejoice. 

COMMEMORATING CHRISTS BIRTH

December 25, Christmas day is celebrated as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a spiritual leader whose teachings form Christianity. A sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon for two millennia, we observe it with traditions and practices around the world.

But, what do we know about Jesus, and what is the true meaning of Christmas?

Who is Jesus, and why is he important?

Astrology II: The Horoscope Natal Wheel – Birth Chart (Part Two)

 

THE HOROSCOPE HOUSES ASPECTS - continued

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The Core Aspects in Astrology

As mentioned, the horoscope houses are closer to the earth plane experience and refer to the more material or tangible experience. They represent experiences actualised through the material realm, showing us an arena of life where we will experience a particular urge and expression style. Each house represents something distinctive (see below).

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The Houses to date, a brief recap:

Astrology II: The Horoscope Natal Wheel - Birth Chart (Part Two)

 

THE HOROSCOPE HOUSES ASPECTS - continued

The Core Aspects in Astrology

Previously the Natal Wheel (Birth Chart) has 12 houses. The Houses show where we will experience a particular urge and expression, and each house represents something unique (as shown below).

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The Houses so far:

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THE HOROSCOPE HOUSES ASPECTS – continued

The Core Aspects in Astrology

Before carrying on looking at the Houses aspects, to recap, the astrological Natal Wheel (Birth Chart) is divided into 12 houses beginning with the first house, represented by the sign of Aries, and goes clockwise around. The Houses define the specific (exact) areas of our life. They show where we will experience a particular urge and expression style. Each house represents something unique (see below).

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What we have covered so far:

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THE HOROSCOPE HOUSES ASPECTS – Continued

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The Core Aspects in Astrology

 

As previously discussed, The Horoscope Houses show WHERE. The arena of life where we will experience a particular urge and expression style (shown below).

From looking at the houses and what they represent, we can understand our approach to many areas of our lives and gather insight into our life patterns and potentials.

 

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A summary of the Houses so far:

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THE ASTROLOGY HOUSES ASPECTS

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Previously under the Basic Structure of the Natal Wheel (Part I), The Core Aspects in Astrology,

adopting the Horoscope Natal Wheel example below, we looked at The Horizon Line, Midheaven Point, and Hemispheres Aspects.

Astrology's strong point is its ability to uncover areas where cosmic energies support a myriad of possibilities. Keeping this in mind, to continue, I now centre this discussion around the Astrology Houses Aspects.

Commencing this week, I will be running a series of short weekly articles on the individual Horoscope Houses, two at a time, focusing on what they denote – the underlying interpretation tone they exemplify.

Astrology II: The Horoscope Natal Wheel (Birth Chart) - Part One

In my first article on Astrology' A Suggestive Enquiry into Astrology' (back in July), to provide a solid grounding on Astrology's background, we discussed Astrology' A Controversial Subject' - its Roots, Origin, and History.

Today we look at the Horoscope The Natal Wheel - Birth Chart, the foundation for a Personal Astrology Reading.

We will examine the Basic Structure of the Wheel, The Core Aspects, as understood in Astrology. Broken down into four  parts, shown below, I will discuss the Core Aspects over a series of weekly articles.

Part One       Introduction: What is a Horoscope Natal Wheel?
                      The Horizon Line, Midheaven Point, and Hemispheres Aspects

Part Two       The Astrology Houses  

Part Three    The Planet Aspects

Part Four      The Astrological Signs
 

So let's begin. What is a Horoscope Natal Wheel?

The Heart of Tarot: Part Two

In the Language of Tarot – A book of Symbols

Further to my previous article, 'The Heart of Tarot, the Tarot is a book of Symbols founded upon Five Archetypal Worlds: The Animal, Human Creation, Garden, Landscape and Spiritual World. These Worlds, through their symbols, communicate, carry various messages.

For example, let's take the card 'The Emperor,' the Symbols found within, such as the Eagle (Animal World), Sword, Scepter and Crown (Human Creation World), signify - convey the meaning of Spiritual Evolution, Power, Authority, Discipline, Success, etc.

As discussed, Five Cohorts support The Archetypal worlds. Their primary role is to help make the symbols come to life. To (accentuate), embellish, describe, add, reinforce their meaning, and incite emotion. Their purpose is to create a more robust attachment in us towards the symbol's message whereby we marry our senses - link our subconscious with our conscious of igniting insight (significance - the relationship of the cards meaning in our life).

The Five Cohorts are Colour, Numbers, People (images), Words, and Signs

The role the Five Cohorts play will become more evident as we discuss them in-depth below:

The Heart of the Tarot: Part One

In the Language of Tarot...

I am the body of knowledge, 

     of long ago. 

Tales of worlds, I tell, 

     from far and wide. 

Listen carefully, 

     delicately I speak. 

I talk in symbols, 

     with much to say. 

I am witness to time, 

     ideas, objects and values. 

Of five worlds, I belong, 

     five cohorts keep me strong. 

Bound, I impart, 

     stories plentiful. 

Be patient, endure, 

     wisdom, shall be.

                                                                        

So it is

An Introduction to Numerology

The Principle Behind Numerology

Numbers

Ancient History - dating back thousands of years

Numbers are mankind’s oldest symbols, fundamental to measurement and abstract ideas.  Numbers are more practical than words and are everywhere we look.

Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician, and philosopher who lived from 569-47B.C. is said by many to be the Father, the originator of much of what we call Numerology today.  Pythagoras believed the world to be built upon the power of numbers.  He based this on the broader concept that the entire universe is composed of mathematical patterns, and all things can be expressed in numbers that correspond to Universal Vibrations.  He reasoned that the entire universe could be expressed numerically, creating a transcendent system.

Astrology - A Suggestive Enquiry

Astrology a controversial subject! 

You only have to bring up the subject to the Scientist, non-believer or layperson and a fervent argument often pursues about its validity. 

When considering that it’s been around for decades what makes it such a touchy area of debate?  Mind you if I read the daily star signs frequently dished out by the media I have to admit I too would be a bit suspect.

Taking a closer look at what lies at its roots, origin, and history, I ask some critical questions to see what I discover and whether perhaps as a society we should adopt a different stance in our approach.  Not be so hard on how we view it, mainly ‘phoney’ fit only for light entertainment. 

Tarot an Inquisition

Opening a curious picture book of symbolism, that is believed to cross the boundaries of time.

 Living Tarot

I make no apology that I am an ardent believer in the power of the Tarot!  But this has not always been the case.  If someone had said to me years back that I would become a Tarot reader, I would have said “you are completely off your rocker”.  Today ‘I eat my words’.

My personal ‘slant’ - Much more than ‘meets the eye’.

When I first encountered the Tarot (Cards) I was certainly a non-believer. 

Brought up as a Christian I must confess at first I was also a little scared of them, thinking of them as ‘sinful’.   Although hesitant, having a somewhat dare devilish character, my curiosity got the better of me. 

This is how it all began…