The planets in your birth chart depict powerful desire-urges within your unconscious soul-mind aka astral body. The strength and functional status of these urges matches the power, harmony or discord of their birth chart markers.
Each planet plays a unique role in your life but your dominant planet and those with above average power map thoughts and behavior traits that are conspicuous. And astrological data pertaining to the planets provided by Hermetic astrology makes it possible for you to know who you are.
Knowing who you are: Sun in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life without an inner driver urging you to take control, assert your authority, be who you are and do your own thing? Without your sense of self and will to live. Without praise for achievement, pride in accomplishment, social status and your sense of self-worth. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your power urge and desire for significance.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have a power urge and that the power energy resource in your unconscious soul-mind sources your individuality, sense of self and will to live.
It means knowing the strength of your desire to take control of your life and destiny and that your desire for significance drives you to gain and maintain the respect and admiration of friends, family and associates.
It means knowing that your power-significance behavior is firm, considerate, conscientious and respectful, but can be dictative, disrespectful, inconsiderate and authoritarian.
Knowing who you are means knowing that the Sun in your birth chart maps a group of thought-cells that influence your relations with those in authority.
It means knowing the scope and efficacy of your power urge and the particular department of life influenced by deep-seated evolutionary roots and vitality.
Knowing who you are means knowing the power-significance behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your investment of power energy reaps the highest rewards in terms of respect and appreciation.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your power urge by using your authority and influence to benefit your fellow travelers.
Knowing who you are: Moon in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life and feeling nothing when you view a beautiful sunset, nurse a new-born babe or listen to your favorite song? Can you imagine life without a home and family, parental love and tenderness; without curiosity, hunches and funny feelings, and time, tune and glorious rhythms. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your domestic urge.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have a domestic urge and that the domestic energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind sources your desire to care and provide for a home and family, imitate and gossip.
It means knowing the strength of your desire to act on your feelings (unreasoned thought processes), care for those less well off than yourself and adapt to a constantly changing daily life environment.
It means knowing that your domestic behavior is protective, caring, gentle, sympathetic and tender, but can be inconstant, moody and listless.
Knowing who you are means knowing the scope and efficacy of your mentality and the particular life-matters and activities that are influence by fluctuation.
It means knowing the domestic behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your investment of caring-sympathy reaps the highest personal rewards.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your domestic-energy by harnessing your tender, caring feelings to projects that assist those less well off than yourself.
Knowing who you are: Mercury in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life without perceptions, ideas and opinions? Without information, learning and comprehension. Without the ability to talk and communicate and turn beautiful feelings into thoughts, words and sentences. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your intellectual urge.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have an intellectual urge and that the intellectual energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind sources your desire to think, talk and reason.
It means knowing the strength of your desire to express yourself and communicate with your listening audience.
It means knowing your intellectual behavior is alert, attentive, thoughtful, pensive and studious, but can be restless, indecisive, judgmental and careless.
Knowing who you are means knowing that Mercury in your birth chart is inviting you to make reasoned decisions based on careful analysis uninfluenced by feeling and emotion.
It means knowing the scope and efficacy of your intellectual thinking and the department of life that is influenced by thought.
It means knowing the intellectual behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your investment of intellectual energy reaps the highest personal rewards.
‘Great Spirit, let me not judge a man until I have walked in his moccasins.’ Red Indian Prayer.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your intellectual-energy by sharing your knowledge with those who wish to learn it.
Knowing who you are: Venus in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life without beautiful music, beautiful art and beautiful emotions? Without glorious feelings of love and affection. Without charm, grace, elegance, harmony, warmth, peace, joy, fun and friendship. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your social urge.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have a social urge and that the social energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind sources your emotions.
It means knowing the depth of your emotion and your potential to give and receive affection and that your emotional driver is inclined to attract you to a person, activity or interest that you’ll love.
It means knowing that your social behavior is amiable, friendly, courteous, pleasant and playful, but can be approval seeking, silly and permissive.
Knowing who you are means knowing that Venus in your birth chart is your personal invitation to love, dance, party and enjoy and celebrate life; and that you have a potential for artistic expression and appreciation.
It means knowing the scope and efficacy of your social behavior and the department of life that is influenced by gratuities and gifts.
It means knowing the social behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your investment of emotional energy reaps the highest personal rewards.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your love-energy and soar and glide on the wings of love.
Knowing who you are: Mars in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life without can-do enterprise, get-up and go, energized effort and intensified striving? Without assertiveness, courage, daring, passion, adventure and resilience. Without those sensational feelings of victory when you defeat an opponent and win. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your aggressive urge.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have an aggressive urge and that the aggressive energy-center in your not-conscious mind sources your energy, physical strength, initiative, courage and enterprise.
It means knowing the strength of your desire to attack opponents and enemies and overcome obstacles and opposition that thwart your goals and aspirations.
It means knowing that your aggressive behavior is assertive and enterprising but very inclined to be harsh, harmful, selfish and destructive.
Knowing who you are means knowing that Mars in your birth chart maps a group of thought-cells that incline towards fighting and competing and that you will fight for the interests, goals and ambitions that set your soul on fire.
It means knowing you have a competitive impulse and that you operate in a competitive environment where competition generates energy and energetic effort produces achievement.
It means knowing the scope and efficacy of your aggressive behavior and the department of life that is influenced by strife, haste and energized effort.
It means knowing the aggressive behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your investment of energy reaps the highest personal rewards.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your aggression by harnessing your energy and creative potential to a constructive, worthwhile purpose.
Knowing who you are: Jupiter in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life without prosperity, abundance, benevolence, veneration, hope and optimism? Without fair play, good fellowship, cheerfulness, geniality, tolerance, generosity, gratitude and forgiveness. Without religion, religious convictions, prayer, charity and a sense of the sacred. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your religious urge.
Kowing who you are means knowing you have a religious urge. It means knowing that the religious energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind sources your desire for prosperity, wealth and abundance.
It means knowing the depth of your optimism and your potential to stay positive and hopeful when the going gets tough.
It means knowing that your religious behavior is buoyant, optimistic, tolerant and supportive. It always looks on the bright side, but can be self-indulgent, vain, conceited, extravagant and shallow.
Knowing who you are means knowing that Jupiter in your birth chart is your pathway to prosperity.
It means knowing the scope and efficacy of your religious thinking and the particular department of your life that is influenced by abundance and fortunate assistance.
It means knowing the religious behavior that best suits your character and where your investment of generosity reaps the highest personal rewards.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your religious-energy and that financially helping others is a sure sign that the better angels in your soul are making a difference.
Knowing who you are: Saturn in your birth chart
Can you image living your life without caution, consideration, reflection and patience? Without a well-planned daily routine and a bigger life-plan that provides for your future. Without looking before you leap and carefully considering the cost before buying. Without taking preventative measures in order to avoid disease and poverty. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your safety urge.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have a safety urge and that the safety energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind sources your desire to be safe and free from hardship, disease and poverty.
It means knowing the strength of your desire to work hard, save money, plan, systematize, organize and take action to prevent hardship and loss.
It means knowing that your safety behavior is organized, patient and cautious but is very inclined to be selfish, self-interest motivated, anxious, insecure and all about me.
Knowing who you are means knowing that Saturn in your birth chart maps a group of thought-cells that incline towards work, responsibility, loss and misfortune.
It means knowing the scope of your safety thinking and the particular life-matters and activities that are influenced by dearth, struggle, economy and/or loss.
It means knowing the safety behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your safety thinking is best employed to reap the highest personal rewards.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your safety urge by erecting guardrails to avoid selfishness and loss; and working for a better future and persisting when the going gets tough.
Knowing who you are: Uranus in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life without a sense of individuality, independence and originality? Where everything was the same: people looked to same, did the same things and thought the same thoughts and ideas. Where there was no personal freedom and no autonomy. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your individualistic urge.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have individualistic urge and that the individualistic energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind sources your desire to be who you are and rebel.
It means knowing the strength of your desire to engage in original thinking, live your life differently and break with precedence.
It means knowing that your individualistic behavior is inclined to be different, unconventional, odd and a little weird. And that your originality could just be crazy eccentricity.
Knowing who you are means knowing that Uranus in your birth chart maps a group of thought-cells that incline towards radical change and feeling discontent and rebellious.
It means knowing the scope and efficacy of your individualistic thinking and the department of your life that is influenced by sudden, unexpected events and radical change.
It means knowing the individualistic behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your original thinking is best invested to reap the highest personal rewards.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your originality and soar and glide on the wings of creative inspiration.
Knowing who you are: Neptune in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life without beautiful visions, fantastic flights of fancy that are a million miles from reality, grand hopes, wild imaginings and the power to dream big? Where there was no delicate mystical feelings, enchantment, sensitivity, empathy, romance, movies, mystery or intrigue. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your utopian urge.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have a utopian urge and that the utopian energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind sources your extrasensory perceptions and desire for a more perfect life and idealistic conditions.
It means knowing the strength of your desire to escape from harsh reality into a dream world of idyllic love, easy money, idleness, ease and comfort.
It means knowing that your utopian behavior is negative, dreamy, uncritical and lazy and your idealism could just be vague fancies and wishful daydreams.
Knowing who you are means knowing that Neptune in your birth chart maps a group of thought-cells that incline towards scheming, getting something for nothing, naivety, vagueness, deception and delusion.
It means knowing the scope and efficacy of your utopian thinking and the life-matters and activities that are influenced by illusion, great expectations and confused involvement.
It means knowing the utopian behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your utopian thinking is best invested to reap the highest personal rewards.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your idealism and soar and glide on deep commitment and the wings of creative imagination.
Knowing who you are: Pluto in your birth chart
Can you imagine living your life without cooperation, collaboration, teamwork, synergy and reconciliation? Without contributing to the welfare of plants, animals and your fellow travelers. Where there was no groups or humanitarian effort. Well, that’s what your life would be like without your universal welfare urge.
Knowing who you are means knowing you have a universal welfare urge and that the universal welfare energy center in your unconscious soul-mind sources your desire to contribute to the common good.
It means knowing the strength of your desire to forgo self-interest and play an active role in making this world a better place.
It means knowing that your universal welfare behavior is noble, selfless and cooperative. But its lower–dark–side is coercive, threatening and menacing.
Knowing who you are means knowing that Pluto in your birth chart maps a group of thought-cells that incline towards joining forces with like-minded souls to achieve a common goal.
It means knowing the scope and efficacy of your universal welfare thinking and the particular life-matters and activities that are influenced by group participation and cooperation or compulsion, subtle force and coercion.
It means knowing the universal welfare behavior strategy that best suits your character and where your universal welfare thinking is best invested to reap the highest personal and social rewards.
Knowing who you are means knowing how to spiritualize your desire to contribute to the common good and reap the highest rewards as you soar and glide on the wings of proactive spirituality.
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