New age science talks about personality but doesn’t say much. Its materialistic-biological research provides a gene-environment based theory. It’s very popular and has fostered a cult of personality. It’s all about surface stuff.
Your personality is the sum total of your observable behavior. It’s what other people see. You put your personality to the test everyday as you go about your business. It plays an important role in your face-to-face relations. It indicates your approach when dealing with people.
Your personality is your habitual manner of activity. It’s a set of traits embracing attitude, motive, ability, likes and dislikes that are enduring and easily observed. Genes, endocrine glands and environment are involved but the genetic and environmental factors are controlled by the thought-cell activity taking place in compartment 1 of your not-conscious soul-mind aka astral body.
On your evolutionary journey your personality was sculpted by experience. Its structure represents the particular manner in which attitude, motive, intelligence and ability have organized into a unique mode of personal behavior.
As a human soul the culture of your birth place and the astrological age in which you are born influence its expression. You’re a child of Aquarius.
Your personality has been with you from the get-go. It gradually developed through infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. It’s closely associated with your physical make-up and influences what you can do. If you’re seven feet tall you’re suited for playing basketball. If your five feet tall you’re suited to be a jockey.
Your personality is unique so you can’t compare yourself with others.
Your personality is not your character. Your character, embracing your individuality (Sun-sign and aspects), mentality (Moon-sign and aspects) and mental ability (Mercury-sign and aspects), expresses through your personality.
Only you know if your personality has served you well.
You’ll find the roots of your personality in the astro-data pertaining to house 1 in your birth chart and your personality assessment is an attempt by you to evaluate your own personality based on the data.
The planets and signs associated with house 1 have best and worst qualities and their harmony or discord indicates a birth chart predisposition that’s inclined to develop and express.
House 1 discord indicates behavior indiscretions that require your attention. There’s work to do correcting misguided intelligence and ability.
Your personality is a complex arrangement of astrological energies and your objective is to sift through the astro-data and filter it by power in order to determine your dominant personality traits and qualities.
Planets map thought-cell groups and aspects map thought compounds and their influence is measured by their astrodyne power scores. Those with high power scores should get your attention. Those with weak power scores can be ignored. Your focus is on creating a concise personality profile. Potential building is all about the development of your personality’s best traits and qualities and the harmonizing of the discordant traits.
Step-by-step personality assessment
Chart-data: Planets and signs associated with house 1.
The degree and minute of the zodiac located on the cusp of house 1 – your ascendant – acts like a planet.
Data points are: a planet in house 1, your ascendant, the sign on your ascendant, its ruling planet or planets, an intercepted sign in house 1, its ruling planet or planets, and a planet in house 12 that’s conjunction the ascendant. Each has a power, harmony or discord score.
Their power scores measure their strength and level of influence. Their harmony or discord scores measure their functional status.
House 1 planets take precedence. Note their power, harmony or discord.
Consider a planet (or planets) in house 12 that is conjunction the ascendant. Note its power, harmony or discord.
Consider the ascendant and its power, harmony or discord score.
Consider the planet or planets ruling your ascendant sign and their power, harmony or discord.
Filter data by power to determine the chief ruler of your personality. Its harmony or discord score reveals its functional status and your tendency to express its best or worst qualities.
The sign on the ascendant defines your personality as an attitude-motivation. An intercepted sign maps a secondary attitude-motivation.
If there are no planets in house 1, or in house 12 conjunction the ascendant, your ascendant sign is the chief ruler of your personality. Its attitude-motivation defines your personality.
The traits and qualities of a planet in house 12 that’s conjunction your ascendant indicate a hidden side to your personality. You’re naturally inclined to keep its interests and abilities a secret.
Planets that aspect the ascending degree, the ascendant sign’s ruling planet and an intercepted signs ruling planet depict personality traits. If the aspect is harmonious you’ll express the planet’s constructive qualities. If it’s discordant you’re inclined to express the planet’s destructive qualities.
Filter data and give aspects with high power and high harmony or discord scores keynote relevance.
House 1 data pertains to your personality, personal affairs, appearance, physical wellbeing and health. The house where the planet ruling your ascendant sign and the planet ruling a house 1 intercepted sign are located indicate a department of life directly influencing these life-matters.
Your personality provides you with a special way of viewing the world. You have likes and dislikes, a personal point of view and a personal set of values.
Your personality is polarised in the ascendant decanate.
Your ascendant’s rate of motion in relation to the Midheaven’s rate of motion influences your personality’s speed of development.
If your ascendant is moving slower than the Midheaven your personality won’t develop its qualities fast enough to deal with the demands of your environment in the most effective manner.
If your ascendant is moving faster the Midheaven it will develop fast enough to take advantage of all the opportunities presented by environment.
If it’s fast the full force of your personality will express early in your life; and if its slow its full force will express later in your life.
Astrology for Aquarius – sharing our knowledge
