The ancients taught and Hermetic science concurs that life on Earth is a preparatory school which souls attend for training purposes. Each has a special function to perform in the universal organization and yours entered matter to gain its special training.
This initially took place in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms and later in the animal kingdom where the hard and harsh conditions of the jungle built powerful desires for self and race preservation into its consciousness.
And now as a self-conscious human soul these animal impulses provide a foundation for your future growth and development.
Your successful transition into civilized society required smart parenting and your birth as a human soul came with parents who attempted to tame and socialize your wild, unruly animal impulses. They civilized your behavior in accordance with their cultural and religious beliefs and made you socially respectable.
But always lurking in the background is your animal soul and the thoughts, feelings and impulses that emerge from the thought-cell groups mapped by Mars and Saturn in your birth chart.
You can’t tell the evolutionary level of your soul from your birth chart but the strength and functional status of Mars and Saturn reveal data pertaining to your potential to express animal soul tendencies.
If they’re discordant your birth environment may have supported the development of sordid, putrid and vile animal soul propensities.
(Neuroscience associates the animal soul with the ‘reptilian brain’ a term which associates that part of the nervous system that regulates the more primitive instincts and automatic reactions such as fear, aggression or survival.)
Aggressive-Mars-thought-cell activity commonly expresses as anger, irritation, hate, revenge, violence, harshness, cruelty and the urge to destroy. Maybe you desire to hit and hurt. Slapping and hitting are classified as low-level violence.
Maybe you think unkind thoughts and wish other people harm.
Dangerous evil aggression is the realm of unspeakable violence, harsh brutality, torture, blood-sport, intense hatred and violent crime. It leaves a trail of destruction.
Unless controlled energy runs wild and you can view your aggressive-Mars-thought-cells as a wild horse which you’re trying to ride and every time they bolt you get thrown and experience pain and discomfort.
Unless you take steps to retrain these thought-cells by giving them new constructive experiences they will continue to take you in the direction they’ve been trained to go.
They’ll continue to cause you strife, physical harm, infection and disease. They’ll knock you for a six – pitch you over a fence, cause you to fall off your bike, crash your car or be the victim of an unprovoked attack.
Every accident, broken bone, injury, cut, scratch, fall, muscle problem and operation you’ve experienced has been largely due to their whim.
Mars represents the problem of anger, hate, recklessness and violence and Saturn is worse.
It represents the problem of selfishness, greed and poverty in terms of mental misery and psychological torment. High discord selfish Saturn thinking does the most damage.
Where there is selfishness there is no harmony, no joy and no contentment.
Anxiety, worry, fear, guilt, despair and despondency are a sure sign that your Saturn thought-cells are conditioned by destructive feeling energy.
Previous experience will confirm if they possess discordant desire that has caused you to experience physical pain and mental misery.
Your animal soul behavior is an evolutionary development established in response to circumstances encountered on your evolutionary journey and while it’s naturally inclined to express as a human soul it can be alchemized to a higher grade of social expression.
Tame your animal soul
Your Mars thought-cell are doing a fine job when you’re taking the initiative, dealing with difficulties and employing your energy constructively. And your Saturn thought-cells are doing a fine job when you plan carefully and employ foresight, patience and system. But if they’re not, and you continue to act on destructive animal soul impulses, you can expect more of the same physical suffering and mental torment until you make some effort to change them.
It’s likely that whenever these thought-cell groups are activated by circumstance, you go with the flow. You just obey their orders. But how can you feel safe and secure if your life is a continuous pattern of reckless behavior that causes pain and mental misery?
It’s a situation that will continue until you decide not to obey their orders and change their conditioned behavior. You have to link cause and effect and do something to alter the situation.
You can change your anger, recklessness and desire to destroy by training your aggressive thought-cells to build, care for those less well off than yourself, enjoy whatever home life you have, slow-down and take it easy.
Physical exercise can divert your aggressive energies into more harmonious and less dangerous channels of expression. Creative energies can be used up through domestic activities and building things.
You can use your diet to good advantage by avoiding highly stimulating (Mars) foods and condiments and alcohol.
You’ll have to change your self-centeredness too. You need to stop thinking about yourself and unselfishly commit to the welfare of your loved ones and associates.
To spiritualize your selfishness and safety urges try to balance your difficulties and hardships with affection, compassion and artistic refinement.
Social fun and lighthearted social entertainments will antidote damage caused by your selfish thinking but a large dose of confidence and positivity is needed to overcome the negativity of Saturn and its selfish thoughts.
You need to learn how to create a mood of confidence and positivity and launch it into some goal or project that has as its object the building of something that benefits other people.
The key to behavior change is proper conditioning. It changes the feeling energy within the thought-cell group.
Good fortune is due to harmonious thought-cells getting it right and misfortune is due to discordant thought-cells getting it wrong. It’s a natural law that has universal application.
Birth chart and progressed planets do nothing. The energy reaching you from a progressed aspect simply stimulates thought-cells into activity and how you behave, how they feel and what they do has been determined by previous conditioning – not the planets.
The planets only furnish the energy which your thought-cells employ to attract what they desire into your life.
If your life is not going the way you want it’s because thought-cells in your unconscious soul-mind lack the proper conditioning energy.
Rather than seek fortunate events your Mars and Saturn thought-cells have been trained to desire strife, conflict, accident, disease, operation, suffering and misfortune: they lack the harmonious conditioning energy needed to attract pleasant events and conditions.
Taming your animal soul is your job and to do this you'll have to elevate your thinking and change the conditioned desire of your Mars and Saturn thought-cells.
The article contains words written by Elbert Benjamine.
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