The Aquarian Age internet will tell you that purpose refers to the reason or intention behind somethings existence or actions; and function refers to what an object does. So, an object exists for a purpose and has a function.
Your birth chart is a map of your character and its purpose – the reason why it exists – is to provide you with information pertaining to your astrological origins, evolutionary past, current state of character development and future potential.
It explains why you exist, informs you of the specific task you are to perform in the organization known as God’s great evolutionary enterprise and enlightens you about your innate intelligence and ability and the life experience that will sustain your development.
It provides you with personal astrological data that you can take on board and use in your daily life and decision-making. By depicting your character your chart allows you to understand who you are.
Its function is to give you insight into the functional status of your character at the time of your birth and what needs mending in the interest of a better life outcome.
Your birth chart is a personal resource and life-guide. It provides direction and motivation; plays a pivotal role in your goal-setting, decision-making and personal development; helps you align your actions with your values and aspirations; and times when thought-cell groups within your soul will be stimulated to attract events and conditions that reflect how they feel.
Your birth chart provides you with knowledge that you can work with to ensure that you become the person nature intends.
Its highest function is to guide your spiritual development.
Your birth chart has purpose: It reveals that you exist for a purpose, that you’re learning for a purpose and its personal truths allow you to lead a more fulfilling and purpose-driven life.
Your birth chart
When traveling in unfamiliar territory a roadmap is your most valuable possession. Without a map you can easily get lost and your birth chart is a personal roadmap that’s superior to a space-based radio-navigation system aka GPS that you can use when driving.
Your chart reveals who you are and the events and conditions you’re inclined to encounter on your journey and with sufficient birth chart knowledge and self-understanding you can use your chart to guide your personal development.
Like a road map your birth chart only depicts what already exists in your not-conscious soul-mind. It causes nothing. It does not map what you will inevitably think, do and experience. Instead, it details the strength and desires of the thought-cells which comprise your soul or unconscious mind as they exist at the time of your birth.
Its chief value is in indicating your discordant thought-cell activity and misguided character traits. They need mending and by applying corrective measures you can play a proactive role in your personal development.
As a traveler you not only need a roadmap, you need to know how to read it. This is your responsibility and a great task. It requires Hermetic astrology aka the science of the soul and stars.
Your birth chart transports you to the realm of soul consciousness. It allows you to know your own mind. It makes known all your unknowns and through a study of its data, you’ll get to know the unknown you.
It locates dynamic psychological urges by their attitudinal behavior and environmental cue; and their aspect relationships influence their functional status.
With a little study of your birth chart you’ll be able to understand the relative strength of your unconscious drivers and whether they’re inclined to express harmoniously or discordantly. More study results in greater map-reading expertise and greater self-knowledge and understanding.
The prominent planets in your chart map powerful desire-urges that indicate the direction in which your energies are flowing. Your task is to learn this energy flow and harness it to a central life activity. This is your purpose.
Your chart maps the direction your life will take if you do nothing to change what’s indicated.
Without it you’re self-ignorant and constantly troubled by uncertainty. The most sound and logical advice easily goes disastrously wrong. With it you’re better equipped to deal the vagaries of life. You’re in control of your life, health and happiness.
Your birth chart indicates that you have the power to carry on the routine affairs of life, whether they be private and quiet or public and hectic.
It reveals your inner resources. Your job is to develop them.
It enhances your capacity to exercise freewill and allows you to know what’s on the read ahead. Its personal truths set you free.
The key to understanding who you are is your astrological blueprint and developmental past: See your birth chart. It maps a personal potential that’s awaiting realization and through experience you can use its data more effectively.
Know this about you
Your birth did not signal the commencement of your life or the inevitability of your death. And it didn’t commence the creation of your consciousness.
Your soul’s consciousness had already been formatted by experience. By putting one foot in front of the other you had walked a million miles and when your soul graduated to human life, its consciousness embraced every ability it had acquired on its developmental journey. The fruits of its labors were saved in memory.
Your character had been built by experience and now as a human soul the acquisition of self-consciousness facilitated more effective learning. You could use reasoned thought to direct and guide your behavior, not feeling and instinct, yet it’s highly likely that your life is feeling driven.
Life forms lower on the evolutionary scale don’t have self-consciousness. The animating consciousness of a rose, ant, fish or dog doesn’t have a thinker capable of directing its behavior using reasoned thought.
Your life is ultimately a mental or emotional experience. Everything you experience is reproduced in your mind as a thought or feeling. Your objective consciousness aka thought and feeling world is the center point of your existence.
Your personal reality is always a thought within your mind and your mind can do things that take you by surprise.
As a child you watched, observed and learned. A daily routine taught you a sense of predictability. Your thought and feeling response to circumstance was saved in memory and it’ll return when you recall the original, or experience a similar circumstance. Your life became a system of habits.
Your outstanding behaviors were all learned. A calm, predictable home environment had you feeling safe. A violent, unpredictable environment was stressful. Uncertainty undermined purposeful living.
You lived and learned. Now you can put your feelings into words and express your thoughts in speech and writing. The ideas and opinions provided by your significant others are your guiding lights.
Life changing moments define who you are. You’ve learned through fortunate and unfortunate experiences. All contribute to the development of your special type of intelligence and ability.
Your life is a forever memory. Your character, intelligence and ability continually develop one experience at a time. There’s pain and hurt in your soul. The good and bad memories linger on.
Powerful urges embedded in your soul goad you into action. Your self-interest motivated aka selfish. You seek your own ends. You’re controlled by not conscious desires and feelings until you control them.
You just want to be able to live your life your way and do what you want but it’s only when you give your mind something worthwhile to do that your intelligence and ability are purposefully engaged.
You’ve learned that it’s a dangerous world and you just want to feel safe and secure. You can use fear to keep you on your toes. Vigilance is better.
You don’t have unlimited potential. You have a hormone baseline and a mental, emotional and spiritual potential; and to reach your full potential you need to be in peak physical and mental condition.
You have to put your disorderly thoughts in order. A precautionary intervention is designed to prevent or reduce the development of a harmful birth chart predisposition; and an intervention can be introduced to manage a predisposition that’s already developed.
You have to be very alert to hear the whispers coming from your soul. The fool’s motto is: Never listen, never learn.
So, you have to care for your soul and manage your physical, mental and spiritual health. Your life has purpose and you have to be fit for purpose.
You’re here to develop your intelligence and ability. It’s how you contribute to the common good. You’ll live a good life when you do what you do very well.
You’re a force of nature and when self takes a backseat, you’ll do what you can to benefit your friends, family and associates. You’ll benefit the collective whole of life.
Accomplishment of all kinds requires intelligence and ability. Birds apply it to find food, build nests and raise their young. And yours is continually upgraded and enhanced by raising the bar and striving for a higher level of accomplishment. So, leap high and reach for big joy.
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