The practice of mental alchemy requires knowledge pertaining to the Moon in astrology and your birth chart.
Hermetic astrology teaches that the Moon cuts the energy fields set up by the Sun and Earth and transmits wave-lengths and astral frequencies into space that exert an influence that is plastic and receptive.
It rules the magnetic life currents and represents the molding, formative attributes of the astral world, where your mind or soul resides. It gives the power to fructify and nourish so your mind molds, nourishes and gives form to the impressions it receives.
In your daily life it’s all about your domestic ties that give rise to ideals, the expression of emotion, and an appreciation of the sublime.
The Moon is mediumistic and easily influenced by its surroundings. It is changeable, submissive, kind, and gentle. It’s strongly associated with the domestic side of life and influences all your domestic impulses and all your experiences with the home and parenthood.
The Moon rules silver, liquids, commodities, food, hotels, the common people and the female sex in general.
Silver – the mother of all metals – is a precious metal which is used for currency among civilized nations. It’s a medium of exchange which keeps homes supplied with food and the wheels of industry turning.
It is not perishable or easily tarnished under ordinary conditions, though it may be decomposed by certain acids; and the maternal principal within the human breast is not perishable except under the demoralizing influence of artificial conditions.
In method the Moon inclines to everyday business in the retail trade, and is at its best when meeting with large numbers of people.
Its domestic though-elements are the source of time, tune, sublimity, and the love of offspring.
The Moon in your birth chart
In your birth chart the Moon determines your relations in general with the female sex and common people and furnishes experiences which associate you with domestic relations, the home, children, dependents and food.
It maps the most receptive planetary terminal in your astral body: the place where impressions from both the external world and inner-astral-plane readily reach your unconscious mind.
This is a negative region where energy of great volume, regardless of its character, is picked up and transmitted to your astral form. So, any aspect reaching it, as mapped by an aspect to the Moon, or even by the swiftly recurring progressed aspects of the Moon, carries the energy of the indicated planet freely into your astral body.
The Moon awakens your feelings and gives you the ability to sublimate them into lofty endeavors. It confers an appreciation of the finer side of art and nature. In music, it lends itself to time, tune and melody although it doesn’t confer the ability to carry a tune or melody.
Like the waters of the sea, which ebb and flood in sympathetic response, the Moon’s fluctuating astral currents give your unconscious mind a general polarity or trend that’s shown by the sign and decanate occupied by the Moon in your birth chart.
You have the capacity to grasp information of a certain order and every aspect received by the Moon indicates a kind of information that flows in through an open channel and is readily received by your unconscious soul-mind. The Moon maps your mental capacity.
Infinite mind is the most creative agent in the whole universe and your finite mind is yours.
Thought is a vibration in astral substance and according to the manner in which it enters your unconscious mind it forms into a compound which works from the four-dimensional plane to attract fortunate or unfortunate events.
If the thought-feeling is harmonious it enters a favorable compound which works from the four-dimensional plane to attract good fortune and happiness. And if its discordant it enters into an unfavorable compound which works from the four-dimensional plane to attract misfortune and unhappiness.
Develop mental force and spiritual power
Because the Moon’s terminal in your astral body – your domestic thought-cell group – is open to both harmony and discord it has an unusually important influence over your life.
Every experience adds new motions to your astral form, and these motions when definitely organized into thoughts become the source of your mental force. Whatever their nature they can be made a mental asset; but whether an experience becomes a constructive factor in your mentality, or a destructive factor, depends upon your mental attitude towards it.
If you view the experience as a source of pain, or as something merely interfering with your desires, it sets up discordant and disintegrative vibrations in the astral body that tend to attract material/physical misfortune.
But if you welcome the experience as an opportunity for progress, and seek out its pleasant or beneficial features, it sets up harmonious and integrative vibrations in your astral form that tend to attract material fortune.
By using the proper attitude toward every experience, you can add energy to your mental organization in a way that not only increases your mental force, but leads to spiritual power.
Your character at any given time is the result of your combined thoughts and experiences at that time. So, you can cultivate thoughts and desires that will build the kind of character you desire: and as your character is changed, so is your destiny.
When your creative energies are active you can direct the force being generated by noble thoughts and high aspirations which will build your true character and contribute to the building of your spiritual body.
The Moon’s benefic influence largely expresses in your domestic life as love of home and offspring.
To the extent your tender emotions of family life and your thoughts and feelings concerning the welfare of others find expression they’ll displace family discords and other thoughts and feelings that relate strictly to yourself.
These tender feelings and emotions in connection with your home life and parental love can then be expanded to embrace some larger section of the community and build your spiritual body.
Your domestic life is much more than a social expedient. It is the material shadow of glorious possibilities on a higher spiritual plane of life.
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