You can only know yourself through an analysis of your birth chart; and it is much better if you can make this analysis for yourself. Elbert Benjamine
In short: Your evolutionary journey generates states of consciousness that are saved in your not-conscious soul-mind as life memory. Your consciousness development aka character when you were born is mapped in your birth chart. It’s a calibration of self-data at a moment in time: a data set that requires analysis and it’s so personal and so important that you’re the best and only person who’s qualified to do it. And while it does take time the gain in self-knowledge is well worth the effort.
An analyst is a person who analyzes or who is skilled in analysis. There are financial analysts, political analysts and psychoanalysts. Meteorologists are data scientists who analyze atmospheric conditions to provide accurate weather forecasts.
A data analyst collects, cleans and interprets a data set using technical and analytical skills in order to learn something. A data scientist deals with the unknown using more advanced data techniques to make predictions about the future.
You can do an online course to become a data scientist or master of analytics but you don’t need a degree in data science or analytics to be your birth chart’s data analyst.
Working with whatever analysis and numbers skills you possess and motivated by a keen interest in yourself and your life you can pilot your way through Hermetic astrology’s set-by-step chart data analysis procedure and build an accurate data-base of self-knowledge.
In fact, you’re the only person who is qualified to analyze its data correctly. You’re the only person you can trust to get it right. When it comes to understanding you, you’re the expert.
Your birth chart
Your birth chart is a data set about you and your life. It’s written in the language of the stars and provides original source material from which you can extract authentic self-information.
By revealing how your character, aka intelligence and ability, and life have been developed and structured through experience up to the time of your human birth your birth chart empowers you. It enlightens you about your reason for being.
There’s a massive amount of self-data to be collected, mined and analyzed and you’re the only stakeholder who benefits from the data analysis. Your life and the events you experience are the outcome of your character acting upon and reacting to your local environment.
The data pertains to your not-conscious soul-self: to thoughts, feelings and desires that hover below objective consciousness waiting to gain conscious awareness in response to circumstance. And includes qualities, behavior patterns, mental traits, likes and dislikes aka character elements.
Your character, as depicted in your birth chart, was conditioned by your birth environment after you were born and only you know about your conditioning by environment. It’s not depicted in your birth chart. This hands-on, first-person experience makes you the only intelligence – real or artificial – who can analyze your chart’s data.
Your real-life experience, as depicted in your birth chart, has been saved in memory and you’re relying on your memory to provide the real-life evidence to support and verify birth chart data.
Chart data collection and analysis
Your birth chart classifies you and your life into factors – your character, health, career, finances etc. – and the data collection process involves the gathering of all the elements pertaining to a particular factor aka life-matter.
Each planet, sign, aspect and house in your chart is a data element.
Once they’re collected they’re analyzed.
Factor analysis considers elements or a cluster of elements that are measured and which can be organized by their strength and functional status.
Your data analysis should be thorough – not superficial.
The data should be analyzed objectively so you need to monitor any tendency towards subjectivity that can result in faulty judgements.
Rid yourself of preperceptions and assumptions. Monitor sentimentality and emotional bias that can distort the meaning and compromise the reliability of the data. Unfounded expectation can over-emphasize the importance of some data.
Data reduction reduces the self-information into a manageable form.
Some data can be ignored if your life circumstances confirm that it’s potential to develop is zero or highly unlikely.
Very often the analyzed data confirms what you already know about yourself and your life. Then there’s special data that you don’t know about, data that takes you by surprise and discord data that needs to be approached with care.
Discord data can be difficult to analyze. It can have you unwisely projecting birth chart potential that has not expressed or revisiting unpleasant memories but it is powerful information that you need to know about.
Discrimination is needed when evaluating the value of the data. Too much or too little is not good. Over time you’ll refine your data findings as you acquire a clearer understanding of the data and yourself.
Your birth chart is about you and your life so you’re collecting, analyzing and evaluating its data to learn about yourself. Your task is to convert the data into self-knowledge
Data verification
You’ll verify chart-data with real-life experience.
Personal truths provided by your chart should be validated within the context of what you know about yourself and life from personal experience.
Some data is easy to verify, some isn’t. Keynote – base-line data – needs to be assessed and reassessed until it lines up with what you know about yourself and your life.
Your backstory is saved in memory and time can play tricks with remembering. You can easily exaggerate the importance of pleasant experiences. The pain associated with unpleasant experiences can distort memory and make them difficult to recall realistically.
Real-life reveals how chart data has manifested; and your memory of experience – pleasant or painful – allows you to visualize and bring chart data to life.
Documenting the data
The end stage of your chart data analysis involves the solidifying of your chart’s data into a definite judgement regarding some life factor. It concludes with a written summary of the data you have analyzed. The analyzed data can then be studied and re-evaluated in the future.
By creating a hierarchy of data you can build a model of your life and a roadmap you can use to navigate yourself to where you wish to be.
What’s in it for you
Your harvesting chart data for a purpose. It enhances your self-understanding and reveals how you can best unlock your natural potential.
You’re engaging in an intellectual analysis of your own character aka consciousness in order to enhance your self-knowledge.
The data analysis provides personal insights that you can use to guide your decision making and life planning. You can make informed decisions about what you’re doing as your intelligence and ability gradually develops through learning experiences: And you can apply effective strategies for correcting and dealing with misguided, ineffective character traits to ensure a better life outcome.
Informed-decision making allows you to invest your time and energy in the life-matters that assure the best possible character development.
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