Social conditioning is defined as the process of training or accustoming a person or animal to behave in a certain way or to accept certain circumstances.
Hermetic astrology teaches that conditioning is a learning process which gives direction to unconscious desires, thoughts and feelings and that having some understanding of the process by which the thought-cell groups mapped by the planets in your birth chart are conditioned by your environment is useful.
Fact check: Your character at birth, as depicted in your birth chart, was conditioned by your environment so the association of these two dynamic forces explains how you got to be you.
You – the planets and zodiac signs in your chart – and your environment – the houses – can’t be separated. You are one.
The conditioning process began at birth and during your formative years thought-cell desires embedded in your greater soul-consciousness were conditioned by regular experience aka constant reinforcement.
Today how you engage with life and behave was determined by your conditioning by environment. Everything from the thoughts you think to your aspirations and the foods you eat is the result of your conditioning. You do what you were trained to do. You’re a bundle of conditioned habits.
Thought-cell conditioning
Your intellectual and emotional development involves environment. The thoughts, feelings and emotions embedded in your soul emerge and develop through experience.
Through repeated reinforcement thoughts and feelings, mapped by the planets and zodiac signs associated with a particular environment mapped by a house, develop a mode of expression that locks in as a conditioned behavior.
Pleasant events and situations triggered the emergence of pleasant states of consciousness and unpleasant events and situations triggered unpleasant states of consciousness. Only you know what happened.
The thought-cells mapped by a planet with a harmony score had a potential to experience harmonious, proper conditioning and those with a discord score had a potential to experience discordant, misguided conditioning.
The repeated reinforcement of harmonious thought-cells enhanced their potential to express constructively and to use their psychokinetic power to attract fortunate events and conditions.
The repeated reinforcement of discordant thought-cells enhanced their potential to express destructively and to use their psychokinetic power to attract unfortunate events and conditions.
How you feel in a particular situation is determined by your conditioning by environment and previous experience.
Know-how and knowledge are gained through experience with environment.
Your mental attitude towards things and the skill of your performance involves thought-cells that were conditioned by experience with environment.
Your body’s biochemical activity is the result of your not-conscious thought-cell activity and its functional status is determined by thought-cell desires conditioned by environment.
Unfortunate, misguided conditioning resulted in harmful thought-cell activity that exerts a great deal of power and is hard to change. It takes you where it wants to go. Hard facts and evidenced-based information won’t change it and behaving in the same old ineffective way won’t solve the problems it causes.
Your conditioning by environment
Your character, intelligence and ability develop in an environment that’s defined by place and time and your birth environment gave direction to your soul’s thought-cell desires mapped by the planets in your birth chart.
Your conditioning by environment began the moment you were born.
From the get-go your character and behavior, as mapped in your birth chart, were shaped aka conditioned by family pressures, social norms and other environmental cues.
Your parents or primary care-givers, your home-life and your family’s socio-economic position were all-powerful environmental forces.
You were conditioned by your care-givers according to your sex: male or female. They had expectations and powerful social pressures influenced their nurturing. They lived in a society that had well established guidelines regarding what was acceptable, and unacceptable, behavior.
You were trained to do what their beliefs sanctioned: to follow behavior codes, eating codes and dress codes. Your successful integration into community life required conformity and as you grew and developed thought-cells trained to conform continued to conform: a situation that may have stifled your creativity.
Chances are instability and change were feared and you were conditioned by solid order and firmly structured routines. Naughty, disobedient behavior was punished in some way. This may have stopped you from behaving badly, but it didn’t make you behave well.
As you observed, learned, imitated and experienced pleasure and pain your character was conditioned by your environment.
Only you know if you had a wide variety of associates: brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends; and social influencers: school teachers, coaches, television stars, actors or singers.
Only you know the amount of freewill aka personal choice you had in doing what you wanted.
Chances are you’ve been conditioned to think that changing or improving your external circumstances is the best way to improve your inner wellbeing.
The messages being sent by your conditioning were your first structured perceptions about life: social interaction, education, work, money, politics, religion, conflict, play, art, entertainment, health, sickness, ideals, buildings, gadgets, machines etc.
Now as an adult you think and do what you were taught to believe.
You’re experiencing life in exactly the way you were told you should. You’re simply obeying orders. Chances are you haven’t given any deep objective thought to the life you could be living.
Visiting and reviewing past experience
To understand your conditioning by environment you have to visit the past and this may present a problem. Unfortunate events leave unpleasant memories so you may need to develop a more effective way of reviewing past experience.
Maybe you experienced misfortune, made a dreadful mistake or did something you shouldn’t. Maybe you processed the experience unwisely.
Your initial subjective, feeling response is permanently saved in memory and it needs to be reviewed in a sensible, less emotional way. It must be kept in proper perspective and given an objective makeover.
You’re seeking facts aka truthful information regarding the conditioning of your character and you should do it in an unemotional, matter-of-fact, purposeful way.
You should focus on how you felt at the time of the experience: it’s your only permanent reminder of what happened. This shifts your focus to your attitude and behavior – the most important factor to consider – and away from the actual experience.
Whatever, only you know what happened and the long-term impact that experience is having on you and your life.
Destructive states of consciousness can jeopardize your mental wellbeing.
If a high-discord experience is compromising your capacity to lead a happy, fulfilling life then professional help may be required to get you back on track.
Understanding your conditioning by environment is the key to moving along. You can learn from past experience. What you do today is far more important than what you did yesterday.
Take home message: Your conditioning by environment gave direction to your thought-cell desires mapped by the planets in your birth chart.
It provides a wealth of evidence-based data that explains how your thought-cells acquired their current mode of expression.
Your parents or primary care-givers were your life trainers. They were responsible for the conditioning of your thought-cells at a very crucial time. How well you’re doing can be traced back to their training but now as an adult you’re responsible for what you think, say and do. You’re in charge of the show so you only have yourself to blame.
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