You view the world through your character; and only you know what you see and how you respond to the environment in which you were born.
Your life is about survival, adaptation to current circumstance, the honing of acquired skills, and the development of new skills that permit a more effective level of survival and adaptation.
Adaptation involves making a change in yourself in order to cope more effectively with your environment or changing your environment.
Your birth chart is a map of your character and when you know your birth chart it makes a mere belief in astrology unnecessary.
Through the use of mathematics, you can prove that measures of energy expressing as behavior, actions and events are released by your unconscious soul-mind. It’s a fact.
These energies mapped by the planets were built by evolutionary processes. They can express harmonious or discordantly and used constructively or destructively. They can be purified and raised from their purely materialistic trend to be spiritualized and by correct adaptation you can use their energies more successfully.
Adaptation to life though the planets
Saturn rules your safety urges. It’s the most materialistic planet and the one you’re most likely to blame for all your problems. It relates to your desire to survive, avoid harm and be safe and secure.
If it’s prominent and discordant it brings much hard work, far too much responsibility and many losses. It makes you worry and gives you undue self-interest, the polite way of saying selfishness.
You can harmonize this tendency by having an active social life, enjoying amusements and good entertainment, being cheerful, and engaging in the light side of life with feelings of firmness and self-respect.
You’re using Saturn energy constructively when you’re systematic in life and habits, and working to eliminate waste and inefficiency.
To purify your Saturn urges, remember that lack of something in your life does affect you materially but not spiritually. You’re responsible only for what you can alter and what you can reasonably do.
To spiritualize your safety urges balance all of your difficulties and hardships with affection, compassion, refinement, sympathy and feel a part of all life.
The adaptation of your safety urges needs laughter, joy, beauty, courage and an interest in others. You need to enjoy life and laugh, face difficulties and adversaries with courage, show affection, appreciate music and art and realize that in the scheme of things the interest of all is more important than your interest in yourself.
Jupiter rules your religious urges. It’s the most beneficial planet expressing as optimism, good fellowship, devotion and veneration; and attracting wealth, prosperity and every type of good fortune.
If it’s prominent and discordant it brings poor judgement, over optimism and personal conceit.
You can harmonize this tendency by using your critical faculties, making your feelings more subordinate to reasoning, and avoiding snap judgements.
You’re using Jupiter energy constructively when you’re benevolent and expressing goodwill and charity towards the opinions of others.
You can purify your religious urges by making good use of whatever wealth or plenty you have. You can see wealth as neither good nor bad but as a great responsibility to be used correctly. It must benefit you and society.
To spiritualize an overabundance of Jupiter, analyze your actions, employ keen discrimination and exercise intelligence in what you think and do.
The adaptation of your religious urges needs appraisal, analysis and pleasure in thinking things through. You need to realize that your intellectual powers must applied to fully appraise life and to thoroughly analyze all your experiences. You must use sound judgment and good sense and take pleasure in being an efficient thinking member of universal society.
Mars rules your aggressive urges. It’s all about initiative, overcoming obstacles, fighting enemies, mating and reproduction, and food and eating; and because it attracts strife and conflict, you’re likely to consider Mars a troublemaker.
If prominent and discordant it brings strife, haste, waste of energy, harshness, anger, violence and accident.
You can harmonize this tendency by engaging in domestic activity, making provision for those who are helpless and actively building something for those who are weak and in need.
You’re using Mars energy constructively when you use your initiative in doing constructive work and building rather than tearing down.
You can purify your Mars energies by knowing that criticism and injury from others needs a just response. Others can only injure you if you permit it. Calmness and tranquility should be developed and accidents and operations approached without agitation. And when you get knocked down your resilience will see you through and get you back on your feet.
You’ll spiritualize Mars by enjoying whatever home you have, gaining some dependents and contributing to the welfare of those who are less well off than yourself.
The adaptation of your aggressive urges needs a tempering of your aggression and constructive service to those who need it. You need to tone down your aggressiveness with gentleness, build and construct, and actively care for and protect others. Constructive service to the weak and helpless should be your chief interest.
Venus rules your social urges. It’s all about companionship, affection, friendship and emotional living.
If prominent and discordant it brings pliancy, over compliance, sensitivity, emotional upheavals and affectional crisis.
You can harmonize this tendency by approaching affectional matters with caution, reservation and a dash of self-respect and firmness.
You’re using your Venus energy constructively when you assert strength of character in affectional, companionship and social matters and have an appreciation of art and beauty.
You can purify your Venus energies by knowing that loved ones are not possessions. You can’t bind another! Love cannot be retained by force. You can love your work or a pet if other channels are denied or fail.
You’ll spiritualize Venus by loving reality, working hard, accepting responsibilities and obeying the rule that life is for the benefit of all.
The adaption of your social urges needs calmness, reasonableness and demonstrations of affection. You need to keep calm when emotion undermines your poise, maintain reasonableness when your feelings are hurt, and know that to receive love you must radiate love to others.
Neptune rules your utopian urges. It’s Venus’s big brother and is all about living an easy life, daydreaming, fantasy thinking and escaping harsh reality.
If prominent and discordant it brings vagueness, negative imaginings and undue sensitivity.
You can harmonize this tendency by facing cold hard practical facts and engaging in painstaking practical endeavor. You view what is practical in the light of past experience and you build vital courage by doing not dreaming.
You’re using your Neptune energy constructively when you bring your idealism into practical expression and realize the plans and schemes your imagination weaves. You physically build what your imagination creates.
The adaptation of your utopian urges needs a reality check and courage, confidence and calmness. You need to face reality courageously, confidently and calmly.
Mercury rules your intellectual urges. It’s all about perception, memory, selection, the recognition of size and shape, language, your habitual method of objective thought and the way you think.
If prominent and discordant it brings disturbed and difficult thinking, indecision and restlessness.
You can harmonize this tendency by having a benevolent attitude, faith and reliance in a higher power, and applying philosophical thinking to difficult problems.
You’re using your Mercury energy constructively when you concentrate, use you’re your mind to analyze problems and give expression to your thoughts and ideas in speech or writing.
You can purify your Mercury energies by knowing that annoyance and irritation are truly useless, that you can only do your best at any time and that you can act constructively in the midst of errors.
You’ll spiritualize Mercury by smiling kindness, laughing and joking, giving financial assistance where it really helps and, if it suits your temperament, praying.
The adaptation of your intellectual urges needs a reliance on a high power and confidence and trust in Deity. You need to rely on a high power to conclude those things when you have done your best, and realize that happiness, benevolence and confidence and trust in Deity work for good in your life.
Uranus rules your individualistic urges. It’s Mercury’s big brother and is all about individualism, being different, unconventionality, independence, rebellion, departing from the old way of doing things and adopting new customs.
If prominent and discordant it brings discontentment, extreme viewpoints, eccentricity and unfortunate sudden events and unexpected change.
You can harmonize this tendency by having a greater spirit of give and take, a greater tolerance for the views of others and a broad optimistic philosophy which relies on a higher power to cause things to work out as you think they should.
You’re using your Uranus energy constructively when you express your originality through moderate viewpoints and tolerance and avoid all kinds of extremes.
The adaptation of your individualistic urges needs to focus on the good in others and realize that change and reform are a slow one step at a time process.
Moon rules your domestic urges. It’s all about sustenance and comfort for the young, home and home-life conditions and everyday affairs.
If prominent and discordant it brings domestic turmoil, inconstancy and unduly changeable attitudes.
You can harmonize this tendency by doing things that require courage and initiative when assisting the weak and helpless.
You’re using your Moon energy constructively when you adapt to your domestic life and relations with the public and persist in what you do to the point of exceptional ability.
You can purify your Moon energies by realizing that children are not your property and that it is your privilege to assist them in their development and welfare. Domestic harmony is a lesson in sympathy, understanding and non-attachment to that which changes.
You’ll spiritualize the Moon by taking a firm stand for what benefits all in the home and larger society; and struggle furthering causes that benefit the weak and helpless,
The adaptation of your domestic urges needs constructive, positive action and associating your own needs with those of others. You need to protect all those who need you and relate their welfare to your own purpose and interest.
Pluto rules your universal welfare urges. It’s all about teamwork, division of labor, specialization and group welfare.
If prominent and discordant it brings group turmoil, coercion and undue negativeness.
You can harmonize this tendency by doing a positive work which benefits a large group of people. Engaging in an active campaign that benefits a section of society takes initiative and courage.
You’re using your Pluto energy constructively when your spirituality is focused on joining others and you’re using your energy and resourcefulness to benefit all.
The adaptation of your universal welfare urges needs a work that goes beyond the daily round of duty, assisting in a larger effort. You contribute to universal welfare.
Sun rules your power urges. It’s all about authority, leadership, significance, ride, firmness and self-esteem
If prominent and discordant it brings impaired vitality, dictativeness and a desire to unduly assert your authority.
You can harmonize this tendency by working conscientiously, acquiring some knowledge or ability that gains the admiration of others and heightens your self-esteem, facing difficulties with joy in accomplishment and liking yourself.
You’re using your Sun energy constructively when you control your environment with due consideration for the views of others.
You can purify your Sun energies by recognizing that better positions, appointments and preferment come to some and not others, accepting your current position as an indicator of your educational needs, striving for higher things, and gratefully using whatever influence you have for what it might accomplish for the common good.
You’ll spiritualize the Sun by using all your power, prestige and station for the common good. You can assist universal life.
The adaptation of your power urges needs consideration for others, confidence when facing problems and the active expression of light, life and love. You need to conduct your life with dignity and consideration for others, be self-assured knowing you’re part of the whole, and know that you can deal with any problem confidently.
Astrology for Aquarius – sharing our knowledge
