Susannah Bec...Astrology Some Thoughts

For a soul seeking wholeness, enlightenment and understanding, astrology is a lantern bearer.
A reliable guide rope, on the quest for the self.

It leads you into your own dark corners, so that you may uncover the treasure lurking in them.

It has layer upon layer of meaning. As once something has been internalised and understood,
it would seem, another wrapper will appear, it too waiting to be peeled off in our continuing search for understanding. It truly is, an invaluable tool in the understanding of our self and our relationships.

It is a universal language, when the understanding of it has been internalised, it then becomes possible to see the planetary/archetypal/symbolic imagery in everything, and every situation.

It fosters great insight into the make up of personality structures. We each have the same players, coloured differently, and forming our own unique pattern, but a definite identifiable cast of characters/energies.

Astrology has given me a way to access my subconscious. The realm where archetypes and dream images dwell. Where I hang the "family clothing". Where the lens, through which I view my world, is either warped, or polished.

Pure intellect alone, could not have given me entry into that world. For shaman like, I have journeyed into that realm, only to have lost my visions on the threshold of consciousness. Astrology, as a symbolic language, enables me to carry my discoveries safely back. So that my mind, can then set about interpreting the images that are my messages to myself.

The planets and their functions or their individual "personalities" are mirrors of the archetypal forces inherent both in us personally, and in humanity as a whole.

They are contained by and their various positions are plotted within the circle of your birthchart/self.(The circle...a symbol of wholeness)

This is your own cast of characters, each one with its own personality (what sign/element it falls in) and its own interaction with everything/everyone else contained within the circle/self.

As with any bunch of people (planets/signs/principles,) some will get on really famously...(helpful agreeable aspects / lines of energy between them,) and some will cause tension or be ignored /disliked /contained etc. etc.

But, as is the case with anything that is repressed, it will eventually have to be heard/acknowledged/dealt with for wholeness to occur. Or it will be constantly mirrored to you from outside of yourself, in the form of other people or circumstances etc. in order that you learn from it/own it.

Each one of us has a completely unique pattern/ interplay of energies contained within us, but the fundamental drives of humanity are common to us all.

Astrology is a remarkable tool in the understanding of your own particular individuality / birth vision / potential / capabilities.

It helps you...hopefully with understanding and compassion, to mediate between all of the different "characters" in your own play/personality structure.

All is there, naked and vulnerable. No masks. No defences.
If you are willing to look and to understand - it is a mirror of the soul.

From my experience, a new stage of personal growth (usually triggered by transit or progression) is very often marked by the entry into your life, of a person, situation or circumstance that highlights the lesson to be learned.

By triggering a planetary configuration within our chart, or by highlighting the house / area of life where the work will need to be done, it can provide a focus and a clue as to where in our life / personality our attention is needed, to facilitate our continuing personal evolution.

Of course it can also be marked by the exit from your life of someone or something that had a strong stimulating effect on a particular planet / set of aspects within your chart (keeping it to the fore so that it could be worked on).

When this added weight to one bit of our "make up" is removed, it enables the restructuring of our internal "soap opera" to allow another character to come forward, as the previous "characters" storyline has been exhausted for the present moment, and all that could be learned in that particular phase of growth has been done.

I also find it uncanny, when studying the charts of people close to me and comparing the synastry aspects between them, just how it is all interwoven. Even after years of observation and study etc. it still never ceases to amaze and delight me.

I am currently writing an article on the fascinating subject of synastry, and the energy exchanges between people. Using my own life, family and relationships as examples.

So please check back here soon, as I will be regularly updating the website.

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF THE OUTER PLANETS

Uranus gives flashes of pure incisive thought. It slices through the veil. It gives access to the universal mind. I am energised, quickened, excited, sure. I channel myself.

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Neptune comes in pictures, images, sounds, colours and feelings. It links me with the female, the yin, the intuitive.

It gives me a foot in both worlds. It understands and is at home in the world of dreams, archetypes and symbols, for they are its realm. It knows the "reality" behind the reality.
It enables me to see the "bigger picture." The drama that is being played out on earths big screen TV. Neptune hands me the remote control, enables me to switch channels.

I see pictures in everything. I hold the stem of a newly sprouted sunflower seed, and tears spring to my eyes, as I feel and identify with the life force within...striving to become.

I take Pluto's hand. I observe and am transformed by the depths. I have been taken apart, and put back together again so many times, that it makes the descent a little easier. For I know and anticipate, even whilst I am alone in the darkness, the growth and understanding that will be the ultimate reward.

It gives me an understanding into the dynamics of people and of relationships. It shows me behind the scenes, underneath the surface. It reveals what has been kept hidden, Opens closed doors, shines lights into closets, tells secrets.

Pluto...I have been purified by fire and arisen from the ashes.