To understand the relation of the planets to your life you must know and understand (1) the types of energies they transmit; (2) their influence over your thoughts and experiences – the essence of your character building; and (3) the part your character plays in attracting events and conditions into your life.
You’re constantly influenced by two different environments: (1) the inner-world astrological environment and (2) the outer-world physical environment; and to skillfully direct your efforts and energies into the most harmonious and beneficial channels you must know about these worlds.
From a study of the human body, and its reaction to certain stimuli, it is found to be an aggregation of physical elements which have combined according to the laws of chemical affinity. It is directly affected by certain physical conditions.
And from a study of the astral body, it is found to be composed of thought-cells aka energy-centers which are organized into states of consciousness, or mental elements which have combined according to the laws of mental affinity. It is directly affected by planetary vibrations, thought and other inner-world energies.
These mental elements and the manner in which they are organized at birth are the result of your soul’s contacts and experiences with the outer-world environment during its cyclic journey up the scale of evolutionary life.
Energies of specific kinds, resulting from specific experiences, are stored in the stellar cells and four-dimensional structures, and through the law of mental affinity energies of a specific kind are grouped together into definite structures.
The most powerful structures, in their ability to influence the life, are mapped by the planets in your birth chart.
Your planets
Each family of thoughts, because of the elements of which it is composed, is ruled by one of the ten planets. There are ten distinct organized groups of thoughts; and each is a radio-like receiving and transmitting set capable of picking up and handling energies dialed to the frequency of its corresponding planet.
The Sun energy-center is dialed to the frequency of the Sun: it rules the power group of mental elements. The aggressive group of mental elements is dialed to the frequency of Mars; the religious group to Jupiter; the social group to Venus; the domestic group to the Moon; the intellectual group to Mercury; the safety group to Saturn; the individualistic group to Uranus; the utopian group to Neptune; and the universal welfare group to Pluto.
These stellar structures, accurately mapped by the planets in your birth chart, provide a blueprint of your life, indicating how it will normally express if left to run an undirected course.
The network of aspects – trines, sextiles, squares, oppositions etc. – formed by the planets, which are stimulated into action by the major and minor progressed aspects, give you a road map throughout your life, and a most valuable guide and energy-directory if properly understood and used.
The discordant aspects formed by the planets indicate thought-compounds that have been formed in response to unpleasant outer-world conditions. They have been conditioned by pain and discord. Their tendency, if followed spontaneously, will lead to failure, distress and disintegration.
Opposition and square aspects map thought-compounds that possess conditioning energy that is intense and discordant. The activity of these thought-cells is highly detrimental. Sesquisquare and semisquare aspects map thought-compounds that possess discordant conditioning energy which works to attract detrimental environmental conditions.
The harmonious aspects indicate thought-compounds that have been formed in response to pleasant outer-world conditions. They have been conditioned by pleasure and harmony. Their tendency is to attract good fortune and pleasant, harmonious conditions.
Trine aspects map thought-compounds that possess conditioning energy that is buoyant and harmonious. The activity of these thought-cells is highly beneficial. Sextile aspects map thought-compounds that possess harmonious conditioning energy which works to attract favorable environmental conditions.
Every thought and experience, according to the pleasure or pain that accompanies it, enters into a mental compound, or adds energy to an already existing compound in your unconscious mind, which is either harmonious or discordant.
Every incident, due to the thoughts and emotions it gives rise to, adds energy to a mental complex or organized state of consciousness within your astral constitution.
These compounds work energetically from the four-dimensional inner-world to attract fortunate or unfortunate conditions from both the astral and physical worlds. These organized energy-centers attract events and conditions corresponding to the way they feel.
Your environment
Since your life is constantly influenced by astrological stimuli from the inner-world environment, and physical stimuli from the outer-world physical environment, you need to pay close attention to any development taking place in both your astral constitution and your outer-world environment.
Your current outer-world environment did not instantly develop and it’s likely that your prevailing environmental conditions have had a conspicuous influence on your Mars and Saturn thoughts-cells; and your age is part of your physical environment that influences the activity of your soul’s thought-cells.
Whatever your life’s circumstances your best manner of behaving will cause your unconscious thought-cells to work for conditions and events that are beneficial rather than detrimental. And there usually is an opportunity present to make adjustments to your outer-world environment, or to select an outer-world environment that will reduce the potential for disagreeable events and increase the potential for favorable events.
If you permit your unconscious desires to remain in their original state of power, harmony and discord, as indicated in your birth chart, you’re drifting with the tide. And when you permit the planets and environment – either your mental inner-world or physical outer-world – to stimulate these existing compounds at different times into greater activity, without doing something about it, you are not exercising the prerogative possessed by all human beings: to decide and control your own destiny.
You should continually work to overcome the defects in your mental organization aka character. You should realize that you alone are responsible for your character and the kind of individual you are and will become in the future. You should realize that your life is whatever you desire it should be.
When learning how to handle both birth chart and progressed aspects remember that your astral body is the mold of your physical body. It is the place where thoughts, feelings and emotions are conditioned to work on higher planes. Your character is the expression of these unconscious urges and every event that comes into the life is the result of your character influencing, and operating on, your outer-world environment.
Two things are involved in every event or condition in your life: (1) the organization of mental factors aka thought-cells within your astral body which constitute your soul or character and (2) the outer-world environment on which these thought-cells operate and to which your character reacts. But what is attracted into your life is primarily determined by your character.
Your character also determines your special abilities.
Your birth chart maps the mental factors which make up your basic character; and progressed aspects are inner-world environmental factors which add energy to certain inner-world energy-centers, stimulating them into activity at times which can be predetermined.
The activity of these inner-world desires in association with the outer-world physical environment attracts events.
When stimulated by a specific kind of major progressed aspect the thought-cells can do far more work than they normally can. The stimulation of both the conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings attracts a specific condition or event.
The event or condition attracted is indicated by the nature of the planets forming the aspect, the type of aspect, and the departments of life ruled by the planets involved in the aspect. But your basic character must not be overlooked when determining what effect to expect.
If you change the thought organization of your character what happens will be different even though your environment stays the same.
Change the thought-structures of your astral body and progressed aspects that indicate misfortune can be made to divert their energies into channels that will attract good fortune.
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