Your character is forged in the laboratory of life

Your existence proves there’s intelligence and ability awaiting development and this requires an environmental setting that provides learning experiences.

Fact check: Earth is where souls on developmental journeys evolve an unlimited diversity of intelligence and ability through a huge variety of experiences.

At the start your impersonal soul was devoid of experience. It knew nothing. It did possess an impulse to live (the Sun in your birth chart) and a potential to acquire, develop and upgrade its intelligence and ability through slightly more difficult learning experiences made possible by the diverse array of life-forms on planet Earth.

In accordance with its polarity, as outlined in your Ego’s birth chart, your soul attracted a narrow range of experiences that ensured the forging of its special type of intelligence and ability in the laboratory of life.

The foundation of your soul existence is astral and all the states of consciousness aka thoughts, feelings and impulses that your soul experienced on its developmental journey are permanently saved in astral-soul-substance.

Through struggle and effort your soul constantly upgraded its intelligence and ability till eventually it acquired enough know-how to build and manage a human body and this extraordinary achievement – after starting out knowing nothing – was rewarded with self-consciousness.

With the emergence of objective consciousness, it ceased to be an impersonal soul and became self-conscious. It became aware of its individuality and existence. You proclaim I am.

And now as a human soul with a unique individuality the continued development of your character, intelligence and ability follows the path forged by previous experience.

You were born into a family that has a socio-economic position and a society that has political, religious and kinship practices and you easily learn their customs and rituals. You learn to live by the rules imposed by your local environment.

Your character is being forged by the place where you live and operate. 

The acquisition of objective consciousness sets the scene for thinking and rapid academic learning, but there’s more to your life than getting schooled and educated. 

Your social (Venus) thought-cells continue their development in a personal social setting that has customs and practices regarding fun, enjoyment and the giving and receiving of affection. Your aggressive (Mars) thought-cells continue their development in a personal setting that has rules and regulations regarding strife, conflict, sex and aggressive action. And your utopian (Neptune) thought-cells continue their development in a personal setting that has ways and means for satisfying your desire to dream, scheme, idealize, dramatize and fantasize.

Much of your learning involves imitation and your domestic (Moon) thought-cells facilitate copy-cat learning; and your desire for approval (Sun) inclines you to behave in a manner that is socially sanctioned.

The development of your innate intelligence and ability – see your birth chart’s prominent planets – involves your brain, and its electrochemical activity facilitate objective awareness and the development of your reasoning skills and academic talents.

Other learning experiences involve your physical body and it plays a crucial role in your education. You learn to eat properly and care for your body. Accidents, disease and sickness are due to misguided behavior and these unfortunate experiences have valuable lessons to teach. 

Your life – as a personal agenda of developmental experiences – involves events and conditions that directly influence the continued development of your special type of intelligence and ability.

So, the world – the place where you live – is your early-life learning environment. Your immediate environment facilitates events and determines what you do. It’s the means by which your powerful unconscious yearnings are satisfied through experience.

Your desire to win, exercise authority, work, acquire money, have sex, play games and eat stimulates action and what you do and what happens is determined by your local environment.

Your character, intelligence and ability are being forged in the laboratory of life. They’re emerging from a potential that’s revealed in your birth chart and involve a personal environmental setting that provides events and conditions. 

Self-development is what you’re here for. It’s all about the expansion of consciousness, the elevation of thoughts, feelings and impulses, and the development of a higher grade of competence and expertise.

The emphasis is on personal survival and accomplishment, but the best self-development involves the spiritualizing of your animal impulses into selfless noble endeavor. 

This occurs when you unselfishly develop your special type of intelligence and ability for the purpose of benefiting others. And with a working knowledge of your birth chart and a clear understanding of your personal laboratory of life you can determine what’s best for you and fast track the development of your character and special talent.


Author: DW Sutton

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