Your birth chart is a very large data-base of self-information. There’s data pertaining to the planets, their aspects, the zodiac signs, their decanates and the houses and you’re trying to assemble each bit of data into an authentic narrative of your character, abilities, life story and purpose.
Hermetic astrology teaches that the planets are the dynamic – most influential – factors; and the planets in your birth chart with above average power are rated prominent.
Each one corresponds to a not-conscious desire-urge that has been built into your soul-consciousness by a type of experience ruled by the planet.
They indicate thought-cell groups which express powerful desire-urges that psychokinetically attract events into your life by influencing your thoughts, feelings and actions.
Your prominent planets include your dominant planet. It’s the one with the highest astrodyne power score. It depicts a dominant thought-cell group that expresses a type of thinking and feeling that has a dominant influence on your mental world and life. It marks for a dominant life experience.
Your life story is scripted by your strongest desire-urges. Only you know how you feel their prompts and what you’re inclined to do to satisfy their push to do this, that or the other.
So, the data provided by your prominent planets is very important and you need to know and understand your prominent planets.
The Sun is all about control and gaining and maintaining status
A prominent birth chart Sun indicates that your desire for rulership, praise and approval is a powerful driver. Major events involving power and significance will feature in your life story. If the Sun has a harmony score your power conduct is inclined to be confident, considerate and firm; but if it has a discord score you’re inclined to be authoritarian and arrogant and your tendency to brag, boast and belittle is an indiscretion that needs fixing.
The Moon is about home, family and everyday affairs
A prominent birth chart Moon indicates that your desire for domesticity, children and caring is a powerful motivator. Your mentality aka everyday mindset lacks positive force and is impressionable, inoffensive, curious and timid. If the Moon has a harmony score you’re inclined to be moody and adaptable; but if it has a discord score you’re inclined to be inconstant, fickle and unstable and your tendency to drift is a misguided habit that needs fixing.
Mercury is about intellect and expression
A prominent birth chart Mercury indicates that your desire to think, talk and maybe reason and write is a powerful driver. Your habitual method of objective thinking is perceptive, alert, witty and enterprising. If Mercury has a harmony score you’re thinking is inclined to be intelligent and focused; but if it has a discord score it’s inclined to be restless, changeable and unreliable and your tendency to overthink situations is an indiscretion that needs fixing.
Venus is about affection and companionship
A prominent birth chart Venus indicates that your desire to give and receive love and affection is a powerful driver. Your emotional needs are satisfied through social contact with friends, family and loved ones. If Venus has a harmony score you’re inclined to be amiable, refined and courteous; but if it has a discord score you’re inclined to be easily led, permissive and frivolous and your tendency to pliancy is a misguided behavior that needs correcting.
Mars is about conflict, forceful action and competition
A prominent birth chart Mars indicates that your desire for aggressive action, combat, energized effort and construction or destruction is a powerful driver. Your local environment is a battlefield where obstacles and opponents have to be challenged and defeated. If Mars has a harmony score you’re inclined to take the initiative and fight constructively for what you perceive is right; but if it has a discord score you’re inclined to anger, antagonism and abuse and your tendency to harshness is a destructive behavior that needs civilizing.
Jupiter is about religion, wealth and optimism
A prominent birth chart Jupiter indicates that your desire for abundance, prosperity and religious devotion is a powerful driver. Benevolence, loyalty, fidelity, honesty, good cheer and hopefulness are natural attributes. If Jupiter has a harmony score you’re inclined to be open minded, generous and tolerant; but if it has a discord score your inclined to be self-indulgent, extravagant and thoughtless and your tendency to conceit is a misguided behavior that needs correcting.
Saturn is about work, self-interest and security
A prominent birth chart Saturn indicates that your desire for safety and security is a powerful driver. There’s an incessant need to prevent hardship and loss so you work, save money, hoard, plan, economize and take precautionary measures. If Saturn has a harmony score you’re inclined to be efficient, organized and patient; but if it has a discord score you’re inclined to be fearful, envious and greedy and your tendency to selfishness is a dangerous indiscretion that needs correcting.
Uranus is about individuality, difference and freedom
A prominent birth chart Uranus indicates that your desire for original thinking and independent living is a powerful driver. It’s unpredictable and can attract unexpected events and sudden changes that take you by surprise. If Uranus has a harmony score you’re inclined to be unconventional, inventive, innovative and progressive; but if it has a discord score you’re inclined to be abrupt, extreme and erratic and your tendency to eccentricity is a misguided behavior that needs mending.
Neptune is about schemes, dreams and great expectations
A prominent birth chart Neptune indicates that your desire for ideal living, easy money and escapism is a powerful driver. Your utopian thoughts idealize current reality and weave fanciful images of perfection. If Neptune has a harmony score you’re inclined to be idealistic, dedicated and sensitive; bit of it has a discord score you’re inclined to be lazy, gullible and easily fooled and your tendency to vagueness is an indiscretion that needs fixing.
Pluto is about groups, cooperation and coercion
A prominent birth chart Pluto indicates that your desire for group activity, team work and mutual benefit is a powerful driver. Through groups you can contribute to the common good and benefit human welfare. If Pluto has a harmony score you’re inclined to be cooperative, agreeable and persuasive; but if it has a discord score you’re inclined to use threats, intimidation and skullduggery and your tendency to coercion is a destructive behavior that needs mending.
The desire-urge pertaining to each planet is common to human nature and your life journey is just the desire-urges mapped by the prominent planets in your birth chart doing their thing in your local environment.
The data provided by these planets is personal truth. It reveals what you’re doing right… and wrong, and what you have to fix to enhance your success, wellbeing and happiness.
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