Hermetic astrology is a comprehensive data base of astrological information that’s classified as occult science because it has not been subject to investigation by orthodox science. It’s the science of the soul and stars and when you first encounter the science it can be a little overwhelming.
Hermetic astrology introduces you to your birth chart and informs you that your chart is a map of your not-conscious soul-self aka character.
It seems utterly fantastic that a chart constructed for your date, time and place of birth quite precisely captures your soul’s consciousness development at that moment in time so you’re feeling a little bewildered.
That said, it’s highly likely that your perceptions of astrology and your birth chart have been influenced by popular beliefs and teachings so Hermetic astrology and its teachings regarding the birth chart pose a challenge. You’ll have to rid yourself of misguided perceptions and develop a clear mental concept of the function of the science of the soul and stars and your birth chart.
Several factors influence the focus when you’re taking a photo. Adjustments that consider the lighting conditions and distance influence the clarity of the image being photographed and a similar situation applies to a mental concept.
A vague mental concept must be brought into focus and this often requires adjustments to the original concept. To bring difficult concepts into clearer focus requires much study and thought, and to enhance the clarity of a difficult concept requires concentration and directed thinking. Comprehension often occurs like a burst of sunlight on a cloudy day – but only after the necessary mental work.
Hermetic astrology is a totally unique life science, but at the start its uniqueness can make it difficult to understand. It provides the science that allows you to translate the astrological messages written in your birth chart into self-information that has personal value and relevance.
Your birth chart facilitates self-learning
The astro-energy pattern formed by the planets and signs in your chart depicts your character at the time of your birth. From a personal perspective it’s a very reliable source of self-information, but you have never viewed yourself in this way before.
So, you’ll need to take the time to grasp and understand Hermetic astrology’s unique way of self-learning which involves applying the science of the soul and stars to your birth chart.
You’re assessing your chart’s data to learn about your character and you’re taking its discord data on board and making modifications and changes to your soul-self in the interest of a better life outcome. But sorting a large amount of self-information into a logical and coherent data-base of self-knowledge isn’t easy.
Assessing the chart is a large task. Many individual bits of information have to be logically sequenced and by following Hermetic astrology’s chart assessment procedure you can create a hierarchy of self-information.
By mapping personal potential your birth chart plays crucial role in your soul’s intelligence and ability development.
Your understanding of the desires and other behaviors mapped in your chart will rely heavily on your self-understanding. You can only experience your own consciousness and you will have to rely on your own experiences with the behaviors mapped in your chart to understand what it’s data means.
And even though you regularly experience pleasure and pain – comfort and discomfort – your understanding of these two dynamics is most likely shallow and misguided.
Any genuine life science must consider pleasure and pain and a map that reveals your consciousness development must display factors that detail your fortunate and unfortunate experiences.
Your lived experience has provided you with a wealth of astrological information – you just didn’t know it at the time.
It has provided you with a wealth of information about your external environment. In fact, it’s highly likely that your knowledge of your outer-world environment far exceeds your knowledge of your inner-world self.
Hermetic astrology, due to the way your external environment is organized in your birth chart, permits an easy assessment of your outer-world environment. But when you first encounter Hermetic astrology and your birth chart, you’re unaware that your chart reveals the events and conditions your destined to experience.
At the start a very real obstacle hindering your capacity to understand your birth chart is a general lack of information regarding your character and behavior. There’s something called human nature that recognizes that certain thoughts, feelings and behaviors are common to all human beings but there’s no science of human nature informing you of your own thoughts and feelings and how they influence your conduct.
This general lack of understanding regarding your thoughts, feelings and impulses can slow down and frustrate your efforts to clearly understand your unconscious soul-self.
In the end your capacity to bring into focus the astro-image of yourself depicted in your birth chart depends upon the clarity of your thoughts regarding the various bits of astro-data it contains.
The hypothesis, verified by scientific astrological research, is that your developed consciousness aka character at the time of your human birth is depicted in your birth chart. So, you can use your birth chart to acquire factual self-information.
Your character’s intelligence and ability are in a state of perpetual development and with this knowledge you can rid yourself of the vague, hazy and often false notions disseminated by the fortune-tellers.
So, it’s easy to see why Hermetic astrology usually poses a personal challenge.
It categorizes your behavior as constructive or destructive and such knowledge brings with it an invitation to behave better. Whether you accept the invitation is entirely up to you.
Whatever, you’ll have to confront the consequences of your destructive, ineffective behavior sooner or later; and your decision to forego selfishness in favor of a productive, altruistic lifestyle will mark a major turning point in your life.
You’ll then experience the satisfaction and happiness that is the natural outcome of personal meaning and purpose, but your life won’t necessarily run smoother. Whatever your code of conduct and aspirations you’ll always encounter problems.
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