Assess your character

In short: Your birth chart is a map of your character and your character is the sum total of all your past and present mental states. It’s composed of states of consciousness organized as thought-energy centers aka thought-cell groups in your astral body. It’s being built by experience. Every thought, feeling and impulse aka state of consciousness you’ve experienced on your evolutionary journey is permanently saved in the organization of thought-cells which constitute your soul. These mental factors determine your conduct.

You – the individual – proudly proclaim I am and you have a character that expresses traits, qualities and attributes. What you think, say and do and what happens is largely the result of your character doing its thing. You go where your character takes you.

Your outstanding character traits, both good and bad, are subject to constant development through habitual use and expression. You run on a well-established habit-system.   

Deep-seated character traits are difficult to change or modify. Weak traits remain obscure throughout your life unless you make some unusual effort to increase their activity.

Your character attracts fortunate and unfortunate events. Routine daily life triggers habitual thoughts and feelings so there’s not much character development going on. Major new life events trigger constructive or destructive thought-cell responses. Character development takes place through pleasant or painful experiences.

Your character is a bundle of thoughts, feelings and impulses that can be proper and effective or misguided and ineffective. The only way you can make your life better is to improve the functional status of your character.

Your birth chart is a map of your character

Your character is composed of thought-cell groups (planets), common thought-cells (signs) and thought-cell structures (aspects) and your birth chart reveals how your character has been formatted by experience (houses) at the time of your birth. It details the kind of stellar organization aka thought-cell group occupying each compartment of your astral body when you were born a human soul.  

Your birth chart allows you to assess your outstanding character traits. Their strength and mode of expression, as proper and fortunate or misguided and unfortunate, closely matches the strength and functional status of their birth chart markers.

By reviewing past and present conduct you can verify how your character, as depicted in your birth chart, actually expressed in real-life. Real-live evidence should be reviewed calmly and objectively and discord data should be reviewed and verified in a sensible, matter-of-fact, way. 

Self-understanding is the key to validating chart data. It allows you to scan yourself and your life to determine how birth chart harmony and discord actually worked out.  

Your character, as depicted in your birth chart, won’t tell you if you are honest or dishonest or if you are inclined to lie or engage in anti-social conduct. It won’t tell you if you are trustworthy and have a standard of ethics that can be trusted to fulfill the duties and obligations you attract. These traits are chiefly acquired through your conditioning by environment as a child/teenager. They are things that only you know about.

Factor analysis of your character

  1. Your dominant planet: consider its harmony or discord.

Your dominant planet is your chart’s keynote marker. Due to its strength aka power it maps the most active thought-cells in your astral body. More energy of its type is stored and flows through your unconscious mind aka soul. It depicts pronounced traits, qualities and attributes.

Its harmony or discord aka functional status is influenced by the aspects it forms with other planets.

If it has a harmony score you’re inclined to express its better, finer qualities: if it has a discord score you’re inclined to express its noxious, inferior traits.

The aspects formed by your dominant planet have power and harmony or discord scores; and you’re inclined to express the finer qualities of a planet that forms a harmonious aspect and the inferior traits of a planet that forms a discordant aspect.

Each aspect’s power data is analyzed to determine its real-life relevance. The traits and qualities of the planets that form aspects with high power scores are more pronounced with their harmony or discord influencing their mode of expression.

Your dominant planet is polarized in the decanate of the zodiac in which it is located. It provides valuable information pertaining to your spiritual destiny.

  1. Your Sun sign: consider its harmony or discord.

Your Sun sign maps the most deep-seated and permanent thought-elements aka traits and qualities in your unconscious mind aka astral body.

If it has a harmony score you’re inclined to express its better, finer qualities: if it has a discord score you’re inclined to express its noxious, inferior traits.

Aspects to the Sun indicate deep-seated traits of character.

You’re inclined to express the finer qualities of a planet that forms a harmonious aspect with the Sun, but predisposed to express the inferior traits of a planet that forms a discordant aspect.

Each aspect’s power data is analyzed to determine its real-life relevance. The traits and qualities of the planets that form aspects with high power scores are more pronounced with their harmony or discord influencing their mode of expression.

Your individuality – not to be confused with your individualistic urge ruler by Uranus – is polarized in the decanate of the zodiac occupied by the Sun in your chart. It provides valuable information regarding your spiritual destiny.

  1. Your Moon sign: consider its harmony or discord.

Your Moon sign maps your mentality aka mind, mental capacity and mental attitude. It’s composed of traits, qualities and attributes and maps a type of impression that is most easily and readily received by your not-conscious soul-mind.

If it has a harmony score you’re inclined to express its better, finer qualities: if it has a discord score you’re inclined to express its noxious, inferior traits.

Aspects to the Moon indicate mental traits.

Your mentality aka mind is inclined to express the finer qualities of a planet that forms a harmonious aspect with the Moon, but predisposed to express the inferior traits of a planet that forms a discordant aspect.

Each aspect’s power data is analyzed to determine its real-life relevance. The traits and qualities of the planets that form aspects with high power scores are more pronounced with their harmony or discord scores influencing their mode of expression.

Your mentality is polarized in the decanate of the zodiac occupied by the Moon in your birth chart. It provides valuable information regarding your spiritual destiny.

  1. Your ascendant sign and rising planet or planets: consider their harmony or discord.

Your ascendant (rising) sign maps your personality. Also consider any planet in house 1 or any planet in house 12 that’s conjunction the ascendant aka your rising planet.

Your personality is composed of surface traits, qualities and attributes that are easily observed by other people. And your character must express through your personality.

If your ascendant sign has a harmony score you’re inclined to express its better, finer qualities: if it has a discord score you’re inclined to express its noxious, inferior traits.

If your rising planet (or planets) has a harmony score you’re inclined to express its better, finer qualities: if its discordant you’re inclined to express its noxious, inferior traits.

Aspects to the ascendant and rising planets (if applicable) map personality traits.

Your personality is inclined to express the finer qualities of a planet that forms a harmonious aspect with your ascendant and rising planet/s, but predisposed to express the inferior traits of a planet that forms a discordant aspect.

Each aspect’s power data is analyzed to determine its real-life relevance. The traits and qualities of the planets that form aspects with high power scores are more pronounced with their harmony or discord scores influencing their mode of expression.

Your personality is polarized in the decanate of the zodiac occupied by the ascendant in your birth chart. It provides valuable information regarding your spiritual destiny.

The assessment of your character requires the systematic analysis of chart data and keen discrimination to determine its measurable influence.

You’re analyzing chart data, taking notes, merging chart data with real-life data and building an accurate and thorough profile of your character.


Author: DW Sutton

Astrology for Aquarius – sharing our knowledge

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