SOLAR ASTROLOGY
BEGINNERS: I
I believe that the ✞ represents the human journey in the Solar Matrix. Your chart is the ‘cross’ you are pinned to by (pleasant and challenging) karma. Dying on the cross represents freeing yourself from this dimension’s rules and karmic cycle, ascension.
To me the Bible is astrological, I use the Bible as a cryptic almanac. I find Jesus to be a glorious representation of The Sun. As above So below, The Sun takes the journey inside our every atom as well as in every single fibre of reality. It is a Macro & Micro reality repeated inwardly and outwardly as a fractal framework.
How does astrology help us with this? To me it is the equivalent of ‘lifting the bonnet, seeing the mechanism of Spiritual life at work. Your Birth and progressions chart is a default program running in the background of your life, you can intervene and input your own instruction rather than just aimlessly wander from one situation to the next, wondering why the same stuff happens to you. this process does take a lot of personal accountability, and preparedness to see ourselves as the driving force in all our situations.
Western Astrology is only one way to study the celestial bodies and their meaning.
Western astrology centres around the basic principle of seasons (fixed) rather than the exact position of the stars in the sky right now. The western zodiac called Tropical is defined by the position of the sun (solar).
As The earth orbits the sun, there are 4 points that define this path:
Spring (vernal) Equinox, Autumn Equinox, Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice. These 4 points make THE CROSS ⊕ (sun cross)
Winter Solstice (Dec 22nd): Longest night
Summer Solstice (June 21st): Longest day
Equinoxes are when the earth has equal day and night. Spring equinox 21st March, Fall Equinox 23rd September.
Astrology is the ‘poetry’ of Astronomy, its magical side. One can be proven/observed, the other can be felt. Conventional science dismisses astrology as falsety, but astrology, in all its styles, is an ancient practice that only continues to grow in strength and industry. Why? Because The world can not feel anything without it. It is the ultimate Alchemy between ourselves, others and the cosmos.
The seasons are the first division of 4 that I distinguish the signs in.
The Zodiac (animal wheel) starts at 0 degrees of Aries, in simple terms that is the beginning of the wheel, and from there it is separated into 30 degrees sections totally the 12 signs. When it comes to the ‘science’ part of the skies it can seem difficult, however, this is just some solid foundation, and these days technology takes care of all this.
A chart that would show you a person’s star sign and complete planetary positions will look like this.
So, when we look at the above image we know that it is a division of the sky, based on the principles of the four seasons. It is divided into 4 equal parts by the two solstices and two equinoxes that happen at certain fixed dates during the earth’s annual orbit around the sun.
These 4 quadrants are the seasons, each season fits 3 signs, and each sign is 30 degrees spatially. If you look at the Aries slice (above image) that is 30 degrees. I have oversimplified this part of Astrology, but these are good basics to know. All this will be easier to understand as we move into ‘houses’ and their meaning.