The practice of mental alchemy requires knowledge pertaining to the Sun in astrology and your birth chart.
Hermetic astrology teaches that the Sun represents the vital principle of all life. It’s the central governing authority, the foundation of the financial structure of society, and the source of your physical and spiritual power. It rules gold.
In your birth chart the Sun maps the dynamic thought-center in your astral body which picks up and transmits an energy that is vitalizing, energizing, and life-giving. It sources your pride, self-esteem, approbativeness (love of approval and praise) and conscientiousness which enter into the thought-structures of the dynamic thought-center designated as your power urges.
Its astrodyne power score indicates its relative strength. If it’s prominent the thoughts and feelings constituting your power urges are powerful, well organized and sufficiently active to transmit the energy received from the Sun in large volume and high intensity.
If the Sun is non-prominent or weak your power urges are less active.
Whatever your personal state of play, positive thoughts of pride, confidence, dignity, firmness, conscientiousness, approbation and self-esteem give you the ability to attain a position of power and authority and to lead and direct the efforts of others; but if your ambitions and talents are directed to self-aggrandizement instead of the welfare of others, any position of power and authority you attain becomes a spiritual liability.
Through power abuse you’ll slay the quality you’re depending on to bring you big rewards. The gold within your finer constitution, which is the basis for spiritualizing all your powers and possibilities, and for transmuting all your experiences, is tarnished, and the true purpose of your life is lost to sight.
Gold is the highest form of mineral life, and in your astral constitution it represents the principle or divine spark which is eternal and indestructible. Consequently, it is the standard of human value; for insofar as your spiritual Ego manifests its divine power through your physical actions are you useful to yourself and society.
The Sun’s house position or the house it rules by sign indicates the life-matters, activities and social relationships aka department of life that will play an important part in your life. Events involving these life-matters sustain the development of your power urge and sense of self-importance and relate to power, leadership, appointment, preferment and prominence.
If the Sun is afflicted these experiences can be a source of trouble and difficulty. They can be denied, or given and taken away but, whether afflicted or not, there is some opportunity present which carries with it an influence for spiritual advancement.
Loss of employment, or discredit and disgrace, only injures your soul when you have made an error in your viewpoint. Yet through such experiences you can learn and gain a better understanding of yourself and others.
The Sun in your birth chart – whether prominent or weak – indicates that you have an ever-present opportunity to exercise an influence for betterment and when you grab it the gold it represents is quickly transmuted.
Then, when it’s combined with other transmuted metals represented by the experiences associated with the other planets, it provides the spiritual material necessary for building up your imperishable spiritual form.
The Sun has no mental antidote to counteract its discordant expression but it is desirable to neutralize any thought elements that have combined with it through the formation of discordant thought compounds mapped by discordant aspects.
The harmonious expression of your power thought-elements is desired for they tend to strengthen your vitality and lengthen your life. Your thoughts, like metals, can be properly fluxed or blended so that one group harmonizes with, or neutralizes, the other.
Your life at all times offers opportunities to obtain spiritual values.
By directing all your powers and possibilities – the essence of your character – into doing something that maintains human or other life, you not only render valuable service, but in your doing you transmute all your experiences into worthwhile material gain, and high spiritual reward.
By viewing all your experiences in their proper light you can combine them in their proper proportions, transmute them into a purer and more refined product, and gradually build your spiritual body.
As the Sun refracts to all the planets, and changes the direction of the energies they pick up and transmit, so the Sun experiences acquired by your soul on its evolutionary journey, as mapped by the Sun in your birth chart, give you the necessary materials for transmutation.
These experiences provide you with essential metals with which to work when building your future spiritual home.
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