You’re influenced by two environments

With your attention riveted on your environment aka the surroundings and conditions in which you live and operate, you’re likely to think that it’s the only player influencing how your life unfolds. But Hermetic astrology is asking you to think again. It teaches that you live and operate in an inner-world and outer-world environment. Two environments are influencing your live and living.

The inner-world environment is the precursor realm. It precedes everything and consists of astrological vibrations. It’s where the astral energies transmitted by the planets and zodiac signs exist and operate. And they influence what happens here on Earth. Its non-physical atmosphere is composed character vibrations, thought vibrations and astral vibrations that express as thoughts, feelings and impulses.

Your inner-world environment comprises all your thoughts and feelings. All the states of consciousness embedded in your not-conscious soul-mind not just those that come to your objective (conscious) awareness and influence what you think, say and do.

The Aquarian age internet will tell you that the inner-world environment theory in psychology refers to the concept of the psyche, which encompasses the totality of your inner live, including your thoughts, feelings, memories, impulses and layers of awareness. It distinguishes between the mind, which is considered a product of cognitive processes, and the psyche, which includes your subjective experience of yourself, unconscious driving patterns, sense of identity and emotional currents. The theory emphasizes the importance of understanding your psychological field which includes your life-space aka environment to fully comprehend your behavior and motivations.

What the internet doesn’t tell you is that the totality of your inner-life aka soul has an astrological replica. It’s your birth chart and the only way you can fully understand your subjective self, emotions, unconscious thought patterns and who you are is through your very own chart.

On the other hand, your outer world environment comprises everything that is external to your soul. It includes people, all other life forms, objects, life-matters, activities, interests and your physical body and its organs, glands, genes and electrical and chemical processes.

Previous experience has set the scene for your life as a human soul and your outer-world environment provides your birth chart with a frame of reference.

So, you’re influenced by an inner-world astrological environment and an outer-world physical environment and it’s estimated they have an equal influence on your life and living.

The inner influences the outer and the outer influences the inner and the influence of each environment is estimated to be the same.

Your life experience – the development of your intelligence and ability – is a mental-physical–mind-matter development enterprise. It’s a co-production involving your character and local environment.

You have to deal with changing inner-world conditions as you’re influenced by people and objects chiefly through their character vibrations rather than physical contact; people and other life forms through their thoughts; and astrological weather events aka progressed aspects through stimulated desire and thought-cell activity.

And you have to deal with changing outer-world conditions as people, objects, customs, rules, regulations, laws and the weather influence what you do. You need food, clothing and shelter. You have financial-economic-work and domestic obligations. health and wellbeing issues and social interests and you’re caught up in the middle of the internal-external action.

Your inner-world environment aka character and mind and your outer-world environment aka external surroundings and conditions are interacting to produce the events and conditions that define your life story.

Rather than act on impulse you try to evaluate what’s going on. You’re making smart decisions to keep your life on track and moving forward. Somehow you have to deal with your thoughts, satisfy internal drivers and successful manage and survive your constantly changing outer-world.

Factcheck what’s going on

You have a physical body and an astral body.

When you were born powerful unconscious urges, acquired through previous experience, direct most of your actions. In response to outer-world circumstance your thoughts and feelings emerge. They’re vibrations in astral substance. Through repeated experience you became a bundle of conditioned habits.

Your soul – the small emergent part being your objective mind and the submerged part your unconscious mind – resides on the inner-world.

It receives and is impacted by inner-world astral vibrations transmitted by the planets. Through your physical nervous system and electromagnetism the thought cells affected influence your physical body.

Your soul and physical body are both influenced by your inner and outer worlds.

A vast amount of carefully checked observation indicates that if you consider yourself to consist of your physical body, your astral body, your mind or soul, and the thoughts you think your inner-world environment – which includes objects, the actions and thoughts of intelligent entities and astrological energies – has as much influence over your thoughts, feelings and behavior as do all your outer-world conditions and energies, including the influence of your associates.

Your mind through electromagnetism and psychokinesis influences the health and wellbeing of your physical body.

You’re influenced by two environments: your inner-world environment and its intrinsic needs, goals and rewards and your outer-world environment and its extrinsic demands, goals and rewards.

In reality they’re intimately connected. Your outer-world becomes the means by which your intrinsic needs and goals are satisfied. Intrinsic rewards are feelings of satisfaction, accomplishment and self-worth. Extrinsic rewards are money and other benefits.

You have two drivers: your inner feelings and external circumstances.

You act to satisfy inner-world desire-urges and to deal with outer-world events and conditions as they arise.  

You’re likely to think that your outer-world directs your behavior but your birth chart proves otherwise.

You’re inclined to think you’ve been shaped by outer-world conditions but the conditions you encountered were attracted by your not-conscious thought-cell activity.

Inner-world astrological events called progressed aspects stimulate thought-cell activity that influences your behavior and works to attract outer-world events.

Every event you experience is the result of your thought-cell activity doing its thing in an environmental setting. Your outer-world conditions replicate how your inner-world thought-cells feel.

The events you experience are just your thought-cell activity doing its thing.

Harmonious thought-cell activity attracts favorable events and conditions that support your endeavors and worthwhile character development.

Discordant thought-cell activity attracts unfavorable events and unsupportive conditions that can restrict and stifle your personal growth.

At all times you’re being influenced by two environments: a non-physical astrological environment and a physical material environment. There’s permanent interaction between the two.

Both are in a constant state of change and as they change you change too. Changing inner-world and outer-world conditions influence what you do and how you develop.

Your life is co-produced by your inner-world thought-cell activity and events and conditions made possible by your outer-world. 

The inner influences the outer and the outer influences the inner and understanding their interaction as it applies to you is powerful information that you can use to enhance the growth and development of your character: your intellectual, emotional and spiritual progress.

Your inner-world soul needs loving care and with birth chart knowledge you can devote time to nurturing your mental and emotional health.


Author: DW Sutton

Astrology for Aquarius – sharing our knowledge

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