The first rule of astrology and mental alchemy is to know your planets.
Hermetic astrology teaches that your character development is eternal and that the desires you’ve acquired through evolutionary experience provide a foundation for your life as a self-conscious human soul. Then as you live and learn they’re gradually refined and transmuted into a higher, more elevated mode of expression.
It’s a haphazard process lacking system and order but through the practice of mental alchemy Hermetic astrology invites you to proactively participate in the transmutation of your thought-cell desires.
Mental alchemy is the practice of applying planetary energy to your astral soul-self in order to transmute discordant desire into a spiritual mode of expression. It requires planet and birth chart knowledge.
Hermetic astrology teaches that the planets transmit astral vibrations that express in life as thoughts, feelings and impulses; and the planets in your birth chart map thought-cell groups in your astral body aka unconscious mind.
These thought centers as organized states of consciousness are the dynamic features of your character. They express intelligence and natural ability.
Hermetic astrology provides evidence-based data pertaining to the planets.
They’re classified as masculine, feminine or sexless; electric, magnetic or electromagnetic; positive or negative; or harmonious, discordant or convertible.
Convertible planets exert a harmonious or discordant influence according to the aspects they receive from the other planets.
A planet’s power is measured by its house position and aspects; and its harmony or discord is primarily measured by the aspects it forms.
Each planet in your birth chart maps a desire that can only express in terms of its own essential nature. It can be harmonious or discordant.
The Sun is masculine, electric, positive and convertible. It sources your will to live, vitality, recuperative power, desire for power and significance and sense of self-importance. Your significance life involves achievement, praise, approval, acceptance and pats on the back.
The Sun is dignified, courageous, self-assured, firm, confident, proactive and calm. Its thought spectrum embraces pride, firmness, approbation, conscientiousness and self-esteem.
The thought-elements embedded in your power thought-cells are the deepest and most persistent of all.
The thought-cell group mapped by the Sun is a receiver-transmitter of Sun frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of the Sun in your birth chart and the strength and functional status of your power urge and desire for significance. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
The Moon is feminine, negative, magnetic and convertible. It sources your mentality, everyday consciousness, feelings, domestic urge and desire to care and nurture. Your domestic life involves home, family, kitchen table issues and daily contact with other people.
The Moon is impressionable, inoffensive, lacking in force, changeable, submissive and moody. Its thought spectrum embraces domestic matters, women, offspring, children, the weak and helpless and music.
The Moon maps the most receptive thought-cell group in your astral body. It’s where experiences involving your domestic-daily life enter your consciousness to instantly influence your state of mind.
The thought-cell group mapped by the Moon in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Moon frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of the Moon and the strength and functional status of your mentality and domestic urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Mercury is sexless, electromagnetic and convertible. It’s electric and positive when associated with electric planets, and magnetic and negative when associated with magnetic planets.
Mercury sources your cerebral activity, intellectual urge, intelligence, brain power and desire to reason when solving problems. Your intellectual life involves academic learning, study and communicating your thoughts and ideas in speech or writing.
Mercury is perceptive, intelligent, alert, versatile, talkative, changeable and restless. Its thought spectrum embraces written or verbal communication, calculation, the recognition of size, weight, form and color, the solution of perplexities and travel.
Mercury is the messenger. It rules the electrical currents which carry messages over your nerves, your habitual method of objective thinking and intellectual interests.
The thought-cell group mapped by Mercury in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Mercury frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of Mercury and the strength and functional status of your intellectual urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Venus is feminine, negative, magnetic and harmonious. It sources your social urge, yen for companionship and desire to give and receive affection. Your social life involves company, friendship, outings, dressing up, beauty, art, gaiety and music.
Venus is emotional, affectionate, clinging, yielding, submissive, pleasure-seeking and easily lead. It’s thought spectrum embraces affection, friendship, beauty, art, mirth, conjugality (relating to marriage) and inhabitiveness (living together).
Venus is the planet of love – the magical force that binds all your other thought-elements together.
The thought-cell group mapped by Venus in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Venus frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of Venus and the strength and functional status of your social urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Mars is masculine, positive, electric and discordant. It sources your aggressive urge, desire for combat and sex drive. Your aggressive life involves strife, disputes, fights, competition, risk, adventure, excitement, speed and accidents.
Mars is forceful, combative, fiercely competitive, penetrating, selfish, courageous and passionate. It’s thought spectrum embraces construction, destructive, initiative, aggression, combat, sex, eating and drinking.
Mars is the planet of race preservation, which prompts you to mate.
The thought-cell group mapped by Mars in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Mars frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of Mars and the strength and functional status of your aggressive urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Jupiter is masculine, positive, electric and harmonious. It sources your religious urge, desire for wealth and prosperity and charitable impulse. Your religious life involves faith-based trust, moral guidance, worship, reverence, fair play, justice and equality.
Jupiter is optimistic, jovial, benevolent, helpful, profoundly respectful, tolerant, merciful and forgiving. Its thought spectrum embraces benevolence, veneration, hope, devotion, selling, goodwill and generosity.
Jupiter is the planet of abundance, which has you wanting more.
The thought-cell group mapped by Jupiter in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Jupiter frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of Jupiter and the strength and functional status of your religious urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Saturn is masculine, negative, magnetic and discordant. It sources your safety urge, desire for work and impulse to flee and hoard. Your safety life involves self-protection, security measures, insurance, employment, earning money, financial planning, economy and worry.
Saturn is selfish, fearful, reflective, envious, subtle, patient, crafty, cunning, solitary, cold, reserved, melancholy and repentant. Its thought spectrum embraces safety, secrecy, acquisitiveness, covetousness, comparison, greed, fear, worry, anxiety, selfishness, casualty, system, order, persistence, economy and trading.
It’s estimated that Saturn is the cause of one half of all your problems.
The thought-cell group mapped by Saturn in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Saturn frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of Saturn and the strength and functional status of your safety urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Uranus is sexless, electromagnetic and convertible. It’s electric and positive when associated with electric planets, and magnetic and negative when associated with magnetic planets. Its aspects influence its harmony or discord.
Uranus sources your individualistic urge and desire to be different, original, and inventive. Your individualistic life involves original thinking, independent living, breaking with precedent, disruption and sudden, unexpected change.
Uranus is independent, radical, rebellious, unconventional, charismatic and intuitive. Its thought spectrum embraces independence, originality, invention, unconventional ideas and new and unusual methods,
It confers the ability to understand and utilize planetary energy.
The thought-cell group mapped by Uranus in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Uranus frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of Uranus and the strength and functional status of your individualistic urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Neptune is masculine, magnetic, negative and convertible. It sources your utopian urge, idealistic yearnings, fanciful impressions and visionary dreams. Your utopian life involves schemes, perfection, dreams of easy wealth, romantic yearnings, promoting and escaping harsh reality.
Neptune is idealistic, dreamy, emotional, sensitive, social, dramatic, psychic and prone to exaggeration. Its thought spectrum embraces wishful thinking, fantasy thinking, daydreaming, idealistic visions, thoughts of easy wealth, living in your imagination, promotion and apprehension.
It confers the ability to feel extrasensory perceptions.
The thought-cell group mapped by Neptune in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Neptune frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of Neptune and the strength and functional status of your utopian urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Pluto is masculine, electromagnetic, positive or negative and convertible. It sources your universal welfare urge and desire to contribute to the common good through group activity. Your universal welfare life involves groups, cooperative effort, teamwork, welfare work and noble endeavor.
Pluto is extreme. It can be highly spiritual or exceedingly wicked. It’s intense, resourceful, cooperative and drastic or insidious and coercive. Its thought spectrum embraces groups, statistics, inner-plane conditions, the inside of things, gang methods, cooperation, coercion and universal welfare.
Pluto is the planet of transition and your transition from selfishness to altruistic spirituality is a step-by-step process involving mental alchemy.
The thought-cell group mapped by Pluto in your birth chart is a receiver-transmitter of Pluto frequency astral energy.
There’s a correlation between the power, harmony and discord of Pluto and the strength and functional status of your universal welfare urge. Discord indicates a need for harmony therapy.
Your birth chart provides you with a blueprint for living. It’s a map of the dynamic urges that comprise your character and the application of mental alchemy and mental antidotes aims to spiritualize discordant thought-cell activity. It requires birth chart knowledge and an understanding of the planets.
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