‘Observing your progressed aspects and estimating the conditions and events they are apt to bring is merely the extension of your habitual commonsense observation, to note what is happening and what is apt to happen in your life, to embrace the equally important and powerful inner-plane environment so that you can adjust yourself better to its conditions.’ Elbert Benjamine
If you have some extrasensory perception skill, you’re likely to use your birth chart as a divinatory instrument, but your chart has a far more important function.
As a map of your soul’s thought structure – your character – it times when progressed aspects will stimulate thought-cell groups into activity.
Hermetic astrology does not deal with foreordained events, but with the activity of character factors and their stimulation by astrological events at definite times that can be predetermined.
When you can see your future, you can prepare for what’s foreseen.
Foreknowledge allows you deal with inevitable progressed aspects in the best possible way. You can anticipate discord and take precautionary measures. You can change an unfavorable event in the direction of your choice.
What comes into your life under a progressed aspect is due to your thought-cell activity exerting pressure upon, and receiving stimulation from, your physical environment.
Both your conscious thinking and environmental circumstances are significant in the event that results. So, if you deliberately change the trend of your conscious thinking and environment the events you attract will be markedly different.
Before assessing your progressed chart, you must resolve to keep your imagination aka fantasy thinking under control and avoid a fear response. A fear reaction to a progressed square or opposition aspect involving Mars or Saturn is misguided and ineffective.
All progressed aspects supply energy and Hermetic astrology is here to teach you how to control your energies.
You should look on a major progressed aspect as new inner-world experience that will bring new events and conditions. And this year’s progressed aspect may never occur again. So, you should grab the new supply of energy and turn it into achievement and accomplishment.
Follow the assessment rules and procedures and you will have amazing accuracy; break the rules and you will make faulty judgements.
Your birth chart does not foreshow events which are inevitable. It maps thought-cell activity which influences your thoughts and behavior and exerts psychokinetic aka extraphysical power on your environment in such a way as to make certain events probable.
When you apply deductive reasoning to appraise your progressed chart you can reach specific conclusions from established facts provided by your birth chart, real-life and your progressed aspects. But your objective is not to ascertain or foretell an inevitable event but to influence what actually happens. This is made possible with scenario planning involving several different events.
Your birth chart is the outstanding factor to be considered. It provides essential data pertaining to the power and harmony or discord of your birth chart and progressed planets.
What happens depends upon three things: (1) your basic character as mapped by your birth chart; (2) the conditioning energy built into the thought-cell groups that are being stimulated and (3) the environment in which you function and its resistance to happenings of a given type or types.
Your task is to correctly weigh your character (as mapped by the birth chart) with the new mental stimulation that’s occurring (progressed aspects) and assess how this stimulation will affect your character.
The event’s importance is proportional to the amount of energy being supplied by the planets and is judged by the power of the birth chart planets being stimulated and the power of the progressed aspect.
A progressed aspect adds energy to several houses of your normal progressed chart and if you know their normal progressed power and harmony or discord you can make a better appraisal of its probable fortune or misfortune.
Knowledge of your basic character energies, as mapped by the planets and zodiac signs in your birth chart, and how they will be accentuated during definite periods of time, as shown by the progressed aspects, is essential if you are to work intelligently to divert the energy releases into channels which are more fortunate.
You need to understand that the complex energy being received can be directed into desired channels.
You’re appraising thought-cell desire and its strength.
You’re appraising the power and harmony or discord of the stimulus being provided by a progressed aspect.
You’re appraising modifications to thought-cell activity which influences the fortune associated with an event using data provided by your birth chart and progressed aspects.
You’re appraising your physical environment to estimate its capacity to resist the efforts of your thought-cells or to divert your thought-cell activity into other events that are easier for them to demonstrate.
And you’re appraising your level of astrological knowledge to influence the desires of the thought-cells to express in a more productive and beneficial manner.
You must consider your birth chart, your progressed aspects, and the previous conditioning of the thought-cells now given unusual activity by a progressed aspect. How energetically can they work to get what they desire?
You’re appraising the potential of thought-cell desires to work from the inner-plane to influence your behavior and to bring a certain type of event into your life. Your thought-cell activity can only demonstrate events by acting upon your physical environment.
The planets are providing you with energy which energizes thought-cells to work to attract events. So, when thinking about astrological energies, always place the emphasis on your thought-cell activity.
Hermetic astrology teaches you to view progressed aspects as a personal weather forecast, not as fortune-telling or fatality.
As you’re educated in progressed aspects it will become more difficult for you to predict definite events.
This article contains words written by Elbert Benjamine.
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