Hermetic astrology vigorously refutes the fatalistic fortune-tellers and teaches that the planets in your birth chart do not map predetermined, inevitable events.
It teaches that the planets depict thought-cell groups in your unconscious soul-mind that have formed and developed in response to evolutionary experience. And… they’re embedded with desire energy that subsequent to your birth is conditioned by your local environment to express in a manner consistent with their needs.
So, birth chart data and knowledge provided by real-life experience explains your thought-cell aka character development today.
Hermetic astrology teaches that your character expresses thoughts, feelings and impulses that have constructive or destructive tendencies and the events you experience are the result of your character doing its thing – not the planets.
It teaches that your soul exists to fulfill a definite function in the cosmic scheme and that your chart’s data pertains to your character development and the training by experience that your soul requires in order to fulfill its awesome spiritual potential.
What is potential?
Philosophers accept that you were born with potential and Hermetic astrology teaches that you can find and utilize yours by applying the science of the soul and stars to your birth chart.
Potential is defined as something capable of being but which is not yet in existence. It’s an inherent ability or capacity for growth and development – a possibility for something to happen – and you can ask your birth chart: what is my potential? And it will tell you.
Your chart reveals the amount of unconscious desire energy at work and its potential to attract fortunate and unfortunate events: and the question you want answered specifies your potential to develop a latent behavior, skill or ability through some experience that might occur.
But because your potential to develop a certain behavior can be contradicted by some other birth chart factor; and because unconscious desire working to demonstrate an ability or event can be neutralized by environmental resistance you should view birth chart potential as somewhat uncertain.
It does map a potential to develop intelligence and ability through experience and what’s emerged so far represents the partial fulfillment of your unique and special potential. So, you can safely conclude that most of your potential has yet to manifest.
Your birth chart
Your birth chart provides a detailed account of your soul’s background and training. It maps behavior that is constructive or destructive and a life story involving fortunate and unfortunate events that contribute to the development of your soul’s special type of intelligence and ability.
By checking out the harmony or discord of their astro-markers you can assess the functional status of the thought-cell groups that comprise your character and their tendency to attract fortunate or unfortunate events involving their house associations.
Your birth chart maps your soul’s potential and even though its data is obscure, complex and gradually understood you can make some effort right now to fulfill its best features and manifest your finest potential.
The power, harmony or discord scores of the planets, signs, aspects and houses allows you to rate their potential as high, moderate or low.
View chart data as potential
Birth chart data must be viewed as potential and not inevitable.
You have a potential to develop character traits, intelligence and ability through experience and your tendency to do this, that or the other exists as a potential in the thought-cell structures of your unconscious soul-mind.
The unconscious drivers that get you going are mapped by the planets and their potential is rated prominent, non-prominent or weak, and harmonious or discordant.
The prominent planets map a potential to develop a special kind of intelligence and ability.
Mars in your birth chart indicates a potential to experience accidents but it’s strength and functional status determines whether this potential is high, moderate or low. And you have a potential to correct the misguided aggressive thought-cell activity that’s predisposed to attract accidents.
Your birth chart maps a potential to experience harmony and discord, good-fortune and misfortune and to feel pleasure and pain which has already manifested in some degree.
You have a potential, indicated by your keynote signs, to naturally like doing some things and dislike doing others.
If your dominant sign is harmonious, you can rate your potential to express and develop its best qualities as high. If it’s discordant you’re more inclined to develop its worst attributes.
The prominent houses in your birth chart up your potential to experience major events associated with their life-matters.
If your dominant house is harmonious your potential to experience fortunate events and conditions with its department of life is high. The harmony conduces to good-fortune, comfort and success.
A harmonious birth chart house has a fortunate potential. And the pleasure associated with its life-matters and social relations acts as a magnet aka attraction force that keeps you coming back for more.
A discordant birth chart house has a discord potential that conduces to misfortune, discomfort and failure. The discord indicates you’re doing something wrong and need to learn from your mistakes and change or modify your behavior.
You have a potential to be repelled by the pain associated with the life-matters and people mapped by a discordant house.
It’s not difficult to work out how the discord potential mapped by a discordant birth chart house is manifesting in your life. Its life matters and social relations are proving difficult and causing you pain and discomfort. You struggle to deal with antagonistic environmental conditions.
Denying birth chart discord is very unwise.
You have a potential to learn from discord. Pain prompts you to change or modify your behavior. Severe pain can have you fleeing a stressful situation or person.
But whatever your potential you cannot ignore the power of environment to facilitate certain events and resist others. The realization of birth chart potential increases as its environmental resistance decreases.
Potential can be fortunate or unfortunate, but its realization is primarily the result of unconscious thought-cell activity (character, motives and goals) working in an environmental setting.
A trine aspect has a harmony potential. The thought-cells involved have been conditioned by harmony – pleasant environmental conditions – and work to attract fortunate luck events that conduce to your wellbeing.
A square aspect has a discord potential. The thought-cells involved have been conditioned by discord – unpleasant environmental conditions – and work to attract unfortunate obstacle events that conduce to simmering anger and frustration. But how you react to the discord is a birth chart potential.
Your behavior is not created. It emerges and develops within the context of an already existing potential pictured in your birth chart.
As an adult you’re very inclined to do what you were taught as a child without giving any consideration to its potential to be right or wrong for you. Chances are you’re responding to events in a way indicated by your birth chart.
Your chart reveals the best way to reach your potential and its realization requires continual, progressive character development.
You have a potential to grow, develop and change through experience. Like the universe your consciousness is constantly expanding.
You have a potential to experience peace of mind and mental harmony.
You’re on a mission to know yourself and with each new experience providing new data, that’s a birth chart potential, it’s likely to take a lifetime.
You today are the real-life fulfillment of your chart’s potential.
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