Your astral body aka soul is composed of thought-cells. Those with the same or a similar vibratory rate fuse into thought-cell groups and when you were born a human soul their astrological markers in your birth chart measure their relative power or degree of development and organization.
Aptitude is a natural ability to do something. It can be gift, flair, talent or skill. Aptitudes are potential abilities.
Ability is the power or capacity to perform a physical or mental act, either before or after training, and refers to how well you do something, or make your way towards a predetermined goal. You have the ability to walk, talk, read, write, send a text, operate a smart phone, drive a car and maybe perform a double back flip or quadruple axel.
You have many abilities, but few outstanding aptitudes.
Your chart’s planet power summary is an aptitude directory.
Each planet is an expert in its own field and you can only use whatever planetary energy you possess.
If you manage and exercise authority you must use Sun energy; if you think and solve problems you must use Mercury energy; if you build or destroy you must use Mars energy; if you organize or systematize you must use Saturn energy; if you express geniality and goodwill you must use Jupiter energy; and if you originate and invent you must use Uranus energy. And the planets by their prominence in your birth chart indicate just how much energy of each planetary type you can command.
So, you’re looking to your prominent planets to provide you with an aptitude profile. They mark for aptitudes that, with opportunity, proper training and practice, can be easily developed into ability or a special skill-set. Or they may express a single aptitude that requires a cluster of traits, each trait being mapped by one of your prominent planets.
The aptitude mapped by a planet is specified but its development into ability can be influenced by its marker’s harmony or discord. Harmony facilitates ease of development and discord acts as a constraint.
Your dominant planet marks for your most pronounced aptitude.
Throughout your life your prominent thought-cell groups have used their psychokinetic power to influence the expression and development of your natural aptitudes and you’ve acquired intelligence and practical ability through experience.
So, with knowledge of the aptitudes associated with each planet and knowledge of your prominent planets you can match your real-life natural aptitudes with their astrological markers and enhance your birth chart knowledge as it pertains to you.
The Sun has an aptitude for leadership, guiding others towards a specific goal, management, administration, supervision, endurance, staying the course, politics, understanding the political process and exercising power, control and authority.
The Moon has an aptitude for domesticity, home-making, nurturing, care-giving, ministering to the needs of the underprivileged, marginalized, sick and/or elderly, understanding the likes and dislikes of the common people, reading the public mind, easy adaptation to constant change, remembering and reproducing melody and learning intricate rhythms aka time, tune and rhythm.
Mercury has an aptitude for perception, conceptualization, intelligence, learning, study, problem-solving, comparison, calculation, alertness, reasoning, clear-cut objective thinking, expression, vocalizing thoughts and ideas, communicating through dialogue or written words and sentences and manual dexterity.
Venus has an aptitude for courtesy, hospitality, socializing, emotional intelligence, reading and acting on emotion, artistic creation, the appreciation of color, beauty and harmony, enhancing beauty, neatness and music, singing and composing.
Mars has an aptitude for mechanics, working with machines and tools, engineering, creativity, construction work, building, destruction, rebuilding, combat, soldiering, bravery, inflicting or witnessing pain, energized effort, taking the initiative to overcome obstacles and opposition, competitiveness, muscular coordination, athleticism, speed, numerate intelligence, mathematics, healing, surgery and daring.
Jupiter has an aptitude for salesmanship, selling, professionalism, attracting patronage and goodwill of customers, financial literacy, making money, providing financial assistance, inspiring optimism, spreading good cheer, administering help and hope, honesty and fair play.
Saturn has an aptitude for planning, structure, organization, business, hard work, practicing, persistence, routine, shouldering responsibility, systems thinking, estimation, precision, economy, buying, attracting bargains, sacrifice, going without, farming, mining, safety and practical intelligence that does what can best be done under current circumstance.
Uranus has an aptitude for original thinking, departing from established custom, doing things differently, improvement, invention, inventiveness, devising short-cuts, reform, magnetic oratory, swaying the minds and thinking of others, discovery and invention, understanding technology, electricity, electronics, psychology and/or astrology, disassociation (the process of separating images and other mental factors from the material with which they were original linked in association), research and intuitive intelligence aka unconscious reasoning.
Neptune has an aptitude for utopian intelligence, vision thinking, idealizing what is, perfecting, creating and promoting ideas, products and schemes, dreaming big, highlighting the good and subduing the bad, enhancing beauty, visualization, creative imagining, dramatizing, acting, empathy and feeling extrasensory perception.
Pluto has an aptitude for group intelligence, collaboration, cooperation, teamwork, persuasion, lobbying, advocacy, overcoming personal bias and self-interest, unprejudiced concern, spirituality, contributing to the higher good, humanitarian effort, noble endeavor, understanding the inside workings of things, computer intelligence, understanding how invisible forces like electromagnetism and planetary energies work and intellectual extrasensory perception.
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