Information is defined as facts learned about something or someone and your birth chart provides information about you. You have a Sun-sign, Moon-sign and ascendant-sign.
Knowledge is defined as awareness or understanding gained through experience or study and by applying Hermetic astrology’s evidence-based astro-science to your chart’s data you can produce a state of self-knowing.
Your birth chart depicts the Sun, Moon and eight planets of our solar system – collectively called the planets – and they provide data pertaining to the 10 dynamic thought-cell groups that comprise your character.
The power or strength of each planet is different. Some are strong and some are weak and your chart’s planet power summary, by listing the planets in descending power order, puts you in the know regarding their relative strength. It allows you to know your chart’s planet power profile.
They’re assessed as dominant, prominent, non-prominent or weak.
Your soul is on a mission to acquire intelligence and ability through experience and your birth chart depicts an astro-pic of an evolving story. Experience has built thought-cells into your astral body and when you know your chart’s planet profile, you’ll know why you think, feel and behave the way you do.
Know your chart’s planet power profile
Your dominant planet – the one with the most astrodyne power – maps your dominant thought-cell group. It’s a conspicuous player in your life constantly influencing your thoughts, feelings and actions. More of its thoughts and feelings are flowing through your astral body. There have been more experiences of its type in your soul’s evolutionary past. You can view your dominant planet as the center of your universe.
Your prominent planets – those with more than 8.3% of your chart’s power – map prominent thought-cell groups. They have an above average potential to influence your conduct. You act on their behalf. Their thoughts and feelings regularly attain objective consciousness, engage your attention, propel your behavior and influence what you think, say and do.
They mark for pronounced aptitudes, enduring character traits, habitual behaviors, natural attractions, special interests, constant contact, repeated experience and sustained development.
The planets with above average power depict aptitudes that can be turned into ability.
A planet can be marginally above or marginally below the average and this puts the onus on you to make a judgment regarding its influence based on the astrological data and your personal experience with the planet. Don’t be too concerned about making a wrong first judgment. You can always revise your assessment.
As a planet’s power decreases there’s a commensurate decline in the thought-cell activity it depicts which reduces its capacity to access objective consciousness and influence your thoughts, feelings and actions. So, your non-prominent planets – those with less than 8.3% of your charts power – map non-prominent–less influential thought-cell groups.
Your weakest planet – the one with the lowest astrodyne power score – maps your weakest thought-cell group.
You’re going to spend more time engaging in the type of thinking corresponding to your dominant planet and less time engaging in the type of thinking corresponding to your weakest planet.
Thought-cell activity corresponding to the planets is measured by their relative level of power and described as dominant, prominent, non-prominent or weak.
Your power thought-cells express a desire for power, control, authority, convention, praise, approval, significance, status, esteem, respect, prestige and success symbols: homes, cars, boats, planes and clothing. Its relative strength is measured by the Sun in your birth chart.
Your domestic thought-cells express a desire for everyday living, family life, a home and children, nurturing, home-making, domestic chores, caring for the sick, elderly and those less well off, novelty and gossip. Its relative strength is measured by the Moon in your birth chart.
Your intellectual thought-cells express a desire to talk, communicate, relate, discuss, correspond, write, think, reason, solve problems, make judgements, learn information and study. Its relative strength is measured by Mercury in your birth chart.
Your social thought-cells express a desire for companionship, socializing, giving and receiving affection, fondness, charm, refinement, courtesy, beauty, art and artistic appreciation. Its relative strength is measured by Venus in your birth chart.
Your aggressive thought-cells express a desire for forceful action, fight, combat, conflict, initiative, enterprise, energized effort, risk-taking, adventure, competition, impulsivity and recklessness. Its relative strength is measured by Mars in your birth chart.
Your religious thought-cells express a desire for goodwill, charity, benevolence, generosity, optimism, hopefulness, decency, honesty, morality, wealth, luxury, extravagance and self-indulgence. Its relative strength is measured by Jupiter in your birth chart.
Your safety thought-cells express a desire for security, work, employment, precaution, planning, selfishness, wealth accumulation and protection from loss, poverty, disease, danger and risk. Its relative strength is measured by Saturn in your birth chart.
Your individualistic thought-cells express a desire for difference, originality, independence, autonomy, freedom, liberty, inventiveness, outrage, rebellion, surprise, shock and modern methods and technology. Its relative strength is measured by Uranus in your birth chart.
Your utopian thought-cells express a desire for idealistic conditions, improvement, perfection, creative imagining, fantasy living, wishful thinking, daydreaming, idyllic love and romance, easy wealth, easy living and drama. Its relative strength is measured by Neptune in your birth chart.
Your universal welfare thought-cells express a desire for group activity, cooperative effort, teamwork, inclusivity, democratic decision making, equal opportunity, respect for human rights and spiritual endeavor; or coercion, dictatorial authority, crime, threats, intimidation, vileness and skullduggery. Its relative strength is measured by Pluto in your birth chart.
The planets in your birth chart reveal what already exists in your not-conscious soul-mind as thoughts, feelings and impulses aka character traits at the time of your birth.
They map a relative level of corresponding thought-cell activity that doesn’t change throughout your life but is stimulated into activity as the planets in your chart form progressed aspects.
So, knowledge pertaining to your chart’s planet power profile plays a vital role when appraising your progressed aspects.
A few words about weak planets
You can confidently rate the planets in your chart with low astrodyne power scores as weak. They mark for thought-cell groups that are expressing proportionally less thought-cell activity – they’re not pounding with desire – and with proportionally less psychokinetic power their capacity to access objective consciousness and influence your thoughts, feelings and behavior is reduced. They’re more inclined to play a support role to the dominant planets that are the stars of the show.
The weakest planet in your chart has the lowest power score. Its influence is usually restricted to the life-matters and activities ruled by the house it occupies and its strongest aspect. Its corresponding thought-cell group has the smallest evolutionary imprint.
Of all the thought-cell groups in your not-conscious soul-mind it has the least power. With less desire power there’s less push so there’s less interest and a reduced level of effort. And with relatively less psychokinetic power its capacity to influence objective consciousness is seriously reduced. Weak desire expresses a feeble attempt or no attempt at all.
Its weakness indicates a type of intelligence and ability aka aptitude that is lacking which can seriously reduce the quality of your living and job performance. As a handicap it should be strengthened by the deliberate cultivation of its thoughts and feelings through experiences of its type.
Your life is an expression of not-conscious thought-cell activity. It’s acquired through experience, expresses a special type of intelligence and ability and is continually evolving in the direction determined by previous experience.
If your weakest planet is conjunction the Sun, Moon or Mercury what’s generally indicated can be significantly modified.
If the Sun is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge to exercise power and control. It’s a big problem. There’s a lack of confidence, a deficit of firmness, low self-esteem and a shortage of vitality. You need to build up your vitality through healthful living and accumulate self-esteem by doing something that earns the respect of your family, friends and associates.
If the Moon is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge for a home and domestic ties. Your desire to care and nurture is weak. There’s low level association with the common people and a disconnect with those who are less well off. A lack of adaptive intelligence may be a problem affecting your everyday-family life and low resistance paves the way for sickness. It needs building up through a healthful diet.
If Mercury is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge to think, learn read and study. You don’t have an active intellectual life. Your desire to express yourself, talk, correspond and communicate is weak. A lack of alertness and intellectual intelligence may be a problem when difficult problems require quick thinking and detailed solutions based on sound reasoning.
If Venus is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge to give and receive affection. Your desire for companionship is weak. You won’t have an active emotional life. Love isn’t on your mind. You lack artistic appreciation. Social activity is not a priority but an absence of social intelligence and competency may be a problem when forming a romantic relationship.
If Mars is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge for aggressive action and combat. Your desire to fight opponents and obstacles is weak. You’re not adventurous or inclined to take risks. There’s a reduced potential to experience strife, conflict and accidents, but a lack of energy, enterprise and initiative is a problem when there’s adversity and opposition to be overcome in a highly competitive world.
If Jupiter is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge for goodwill and prosperity. Your desire to do good and acquire wealth is weak. There’s a shortage of benevolence, generosity, hope, optimism, charity, gratitude and tolerance. Live and let live is not your motto and a lack of religious intelligence may be a problem when hopefulness and faith are needed to deal with discord and despair.
If Saturn is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge for safety and security. Your desire to feel safe is weak. Fear, anxiety and greed are not on your mind. Hardship, poverty and heavy responsibility are not on your agenda. There’s less stress and serious loss but a lack of persistence, diligence and organization may be a problem when performing important tasks.
If Uranus is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge for originality and independence. Change and reform are not on your mind. Your desire to depart from established custom is weak. You’re not unconventional. There’s less complexity, and the chance of sudden, unexpected disruption is reduced, but your inability to keep up with progressive fast-changing times may be a problem.
If Neptune is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge for idealism and perfection. Your desire for more perfect conditions is weak. You’re not inclined to engage is flights of fancy and wishful thinking. There’s a reduced potential to be deceived and experience confusion but a lack of vision and imagination is a problem when the humdrum of the ordinary requires creative solutions.
If Pluto is your weakest planet you don’t have a strong urge for group activity and universal welfare. Your desire to join a group and cooperate with team members is weak. You’re not inclined to contribute to the common good. There’s a reduced potential to engage in noble, spiritual endeavor but a lack of humanity and selfless giving is a problem when we’re all in this together and self-interest courts disaster.
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