Your birth chart is a map of your character. It reveals how you mind has been shaped by experience and details the general trends of your life.
It reveals your consciousness development at the time of your human birth and what you can expect if you allow yourself to drift along and ignore its warning signs.
The development of your character and special talent requires a personal curriculum of experience but your birth chart does not map inevitable events.
If you accept the idea that events are inevitable you will lose the power to profit from birth chart and progressed aspect knowledge.
The planets by their house positions allow you to evaluate your thought-cell performance in a particular environmental setting.
In accordance with natural law your thoughts, feelings and impulses move in a direction determined by previous experience. Past conditioning is always an accurate guide to present and future conduct.
A thought-behavior trend, once established, can be constructive or destructive.
Destructive, misguided thought-cell activity represents a problem that needs to be remedied.
Hermetic astrology’s knowledge base includes information on how to change your discordant thought-cell activity.
Your real-life experience replicates unconscious reality as progressed aspects stimulate thought-cells into activity.
Progressed aspects
Progressed aspects are inevitable astrological forces that time your life story.
A progressed aspect is a stellar aerial that supplies the thought-cells mapped by the aspecting planets with planetary energy. This energy works through a medium – your character – and your character acts upon your local environment to produce new events. And you can change your character and your environmental circumstances. So, precise prediction is impossible.
Your objective is not to predict precise events. In fact, as you acquire greater understanding of your birth chart and the energies it depicts the harder it becomes to make precise predictions.
Your thought-cell groups have a normal mode of expression and reaction and express in an environmental setting and this knowledge allows you predict what’s likely to occur if you make no effort to change what’s indicated.
Progressed aspects supply energy and it’s up to you to use the energy constructively.
Your current situation represents an energy potential and it’s what you do with the energy that counts. You have a lot of control over your habitual thought trend and local environment. If your progressed chart signals mishap and misfortune on the road ahead you can take preventative action by managing your thoughts and personal circumstances.
Constructive effort by you can demonstrate a more fortunate and desirable outcome.
You don’t have to speed when your gas tank is full of high-octane aggressive (Mars) energy. You can take precautionary measures and slow down when inclement weather, mapped by discordant Mars progression, makes driving dangerous.
You have the free will to carefully select the road you travel on.
You should view each progressed aspect as an astrological weather event.
Nature is teaching you through the pleasure and pain technique, and it is only when you disobey a danger sign that she will cause you to feel pain. The feeling is sending you an important message: you’re moving in the wrong direction.
Your dominant life trend – your health, personal affairs, work, business affairs, finances, marriage, home life, spirituality and cosmic usefulness and their associated problems – can be predicted from four factors.
Your character at birth as mapped in your birth chart
Modifications to your character that have occurred by events after birth
Your progressed aspects that add energy to and stimulate these character factors into activity
And the resistance or facility offered by your physical environment that either prohibits or supports the occurrence of the specific event that the character factors desire
Your conditioning by experience and present environment – things that you know about better than anyone else – play a key role in what eventuates you.
But even with all this reliable data hitting the nail on the head and predicting the precise particulars of an event is impossible.
Only you know what’s in your best interests. You can use your intelligence to work out the best way to deal with the inclement weather mapped by a discordant progressed aspect and reduce your potential to suffer mishap and misfortune.
But before you do anything, based on your progressed chart, you will have to develop trust in your birth chart and confidence in your ability to do what it advises.
It is only when you have a thorough understanding of nature’s laws as they apply to you that you will be able to make full use of the energies in your birth chart.
While you go with the flow the thought-cells in your unconscious mind – when stimulated into activity – simply have their thoughts and feelings altered and events that match their strength and functional quality occur.
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