HOW ASTROLOGY WORKS
By Laurie A. Baum, MSW, Astrological Counselor, Psychotherapist
Your astrological chart provides a snapshot of the position of the
planets at the moment of your first breath of life. Your first breath
brings an energetic vibration into your body that imprints itself upon
your cells. This vibratory pattern resonates with every subsequent
breath, attracting you to or repelling you from people, places, and
situations that will provide the lessons you have chosen as a soul
to learn in this lifetime.
The first moment of every endeavor is important—because it launches
a new energy pattern that is always present in the life of a person
or venture. The electromagnetic field generated by the birth of a person
or venture continues to resonate long after the original act of creation.
Thus, it is important to understand the original intention behind any
act of creativity or procreativity—because it will continue to
resonate for many years or even millennia after the initial spark of
thought. Astrology can be extremely helpful in identifying your original
intention as a soul in your desire to incarnate. And astrology can
help you identify your purpose and decisions you are likely to make
to fulfill your goals.
The Accuracy of Astrology
You
may ask, “how do the positions of the planets so
accurately reflect my decisions and life on earth?” The
solar system is a large atom that mirrors the smaller
atoms in your body. Due to the law of resonance, the
planets in the solar system reflect on a macrocosmic
level the atoms in your body at every passing moment.
So, if the shape of the big atom changes, so too will
the atoms in your body. Then, due to the same law of
physics, changes at the atomic level result in electromagnetic
changes in your aura and your chakras, which affect your
thoughts, emotions, and physical health. These electromagnetic
changes magnetize people and events that reflect the
conditions of your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and
the chakras that compose the auric field around your
body.
The Planets & Your Chakras
Your
chakras are highly sensitive spinning vortices of energy
that emanate from your spinal column. Chakras also are
shaped like an atom, with a defined center circled by
multidimensional rings of energy. Each chakra emanates
a layer of the energy field around your body, which creates
your aura. Each chakra—and therefore every layer
of your aura—also has an energetic connection to
one of the vertebrae in your spine, which transmit celestial
energy to your glands and nervous system via the spinal
column.
The Sun influences your solar plexus, the Moon influences your heart,
Mercury influences your throat, Venus influences your navel, Mars influences
the base of your spine, Jupiter influences your brow or third eye center,
Saturn influences your crown along with outer planets Uranus, Neptune,
and Pluto. After celestial energy enters your chakras, it reverberates
through your body. Therefore, each change in the solar system has a profound
impact upon your health, feelings, thoughts, actions, attitudes, motivations,
perceptions, and sense of well being.
Finally, consider that the solar system of which you are a part is an
element of another larger atom that orbits a galactic center. Presumably,
this galaxy joins numerous other galaxies rotating around another center,
which orbits another center, until finally we reach the center of the
universe, also known as God.
Free Will
God
has given each individual free will, so you may potentially
manifest the energies emitted from the heavenly spheres
on any level you choose. That is where free will enters
in. The planets do not force you to do things. The planets
do not make things happen any more than a clock changes
time. The planets simply reflect larger energetic patterns
emanating from God, of which you are a part, to which
you are sensitive, and to which you may react in any
way you choose. Still, the energy you bring at the moment
of your birth is always present, guiding your decisions,
lessons, and the paths you follow.
Your Sun, Moon & Rising Sign
Your
chart represents a special signature, one you signed
at birth. Your Sun Sign is your ego. It is your male
energy. Your Sun Sign describes where your will is strong,
where you shine, and what you like to do. Your Moon Sign
describes how you feel. It is your female energy. Your
Moon Sign reflects qualities and talents cultivated in
past lives. Your Sun Sign guides your actions. Your Moon
Sign regulates your reactions. Your actions and reactions
guide and influence each other. Your Ascendant or Rising
Sign is the constellation rising over the eastern horizon
at the moment of your birth. Your Rising Sign reflects
your outer personality or mask, also known as your persona.
Your Rising Sign intimately affects the way you express
your feelings (your Moon Sign) and your will (your Sun
Sign). So, for a complete picture of yourself, you may
want to learn about your Sun Sign, Moon Sign, and your
Rising Sign.
Please note that in Western Astrology, which I practice, the “sign,” or
constellation under which you are born is determined by the seasonal
relationship of the Sun and the Earth. Vedic astrology, on the other
hand, is based upon the fixed stars that ring the ecliptic of the Earth.
Vedic means related to the Vedas, ancient Hindu scriptures. The ecliptic
is the Sun’s apparent path among the stars. The constellations
that compose the signs of the Zodiac are located along the ecliptic.
Your astrological “sign” in Western astrology is farther
along in the Zodiac than the sign position ascribed by Vedic astrology
due to the precession of the equinox.
Your astrological chart is the personal lens through which you view the
world. No two lenses are the same. Even twins have different charts because
they are physically born in different spaces and times. You will bring
yourself greater happiness by synthesizing the different aspects of your
nature so they work together in perfect harmony.
Why
Astrology is Affecting You Now
The
planetary patterns are affecting you more strongly now
than at any time in recent history for a number of compelling
reasons.
• First, the planets are lined up in a potent configuration from 1998 to
2012 that last occurred at the Renaissance, and during the life of Jesus Christ
and the crucifixion.
• Second, numerous sunspots, solar storms, and solar flares have intensified
the electromagnetic energy emitted by the Sun, the giver of life on Planet Earth.
This intensified solar energy has activated latent soul issues for all beings
on the planet, and has even activated latent issues and intelligence stored in
Mother Earth. These intensified energies are energizing aspects of your personality,
and your astrological chart, that otherwise might have lain dormant or remained
in your subconscious.
• Third, global warming, and the depletion of the ozone layer and other
naturally existing barriers between the Sun and the Earth have been accelerated
by man-made inventions and pollution. This erosion of the protective layer around
the Earth has lessened the cushion between earthly life and solar light, illuminating
areas that had been difficult to see, and giving them energy.
• Fourth, as part of the celebration of the advent of the new millennium,
a physical capstone was reinstalled at the top of the Great Pyramid in Egypt
at midnight on January 1, 2000. A capstone amplifies and enhances the impact
of the pyramid structure. Pyramids resonate and harmonize with each other through
the law of resonance. Therefore, at the beginning of the new millennium, the
pyramid-like structure in your pineal gland, connected to your third eye chakra,
was activated by the Great Pyramid in Egypt. The high vibration pyramidal energy
reawakened your awareness of latent wisdom, healing abilities, and the power
to project your thoughts and prayers. In the days of Ancient Egypt, the pineal
gland, which etherically stores ancient wisdom, was said to be the size of a
golf ball. Today, the pineal gland of most people is the size of a shriveled
raisin. By opening to the light of your soul, by meditating and experiencing
the celestial energies inundating the planet, you can expand the size of your
pineal gland to the size of a large grape and commensurately expand your perceptions
and awareness.
The
aforementioned factors are some of the many influences
that are accelerating evolution at this critical time
in human consciousness—and awakening your sensitivity
to energetic influences, such as those emitted by the
planets. This awakening will bring you positive perceptions
and insights. But as in every period of accelerated growth,
those qualities that have been repressed or hidden will
rise to the surface as you unearth latent talents. Ultimately,
this experience will raise your level of awareness of
yourself and of the greater universe of which you are
a part.
This time of accelerated growth was foreseen many thousands of years
ago by ancient seers called rishis in India. These ancient wise
men saw that the Earth and the entire universe go through continual cycles
of expansion and contraction, imitating the in- and out-breath of God.
These cycles are mirrored on Earth as periods of progression or regression
of consciousness. The New Millennium signals the beginning of a 12,000-year
period of rapidly expanding consciousness that was foreseen thousands
of years ago by the rishis. (Please note that the world expands and contracts
in 24,000-year periods, so that this particular 12,000-year period of
positive growth follows 12,000 years of decline in human consciousness.
Once human awareness reaches its apex in nearly 12,000 years from now,
consciousness will decline again for another 12,000 years approximately,
as part of the continual expansion and contraction of the universe. The
expansion and contraction correspond with human awareness expanding to
encompass perception of God and contracting to encompass only
awareness
of visible, material creation.)
The
changes in planetary patterns, increased solar activity,
and even the decision to replace the capstone on the
Great Pyramid, are simply external, visual manifestations
of divine patterns already set in motion
by the Creator aeons ago.
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