ASTROLOGY
What The Planets Are Trying To Tell You
We know that the universe (God / source / creator) is more intelligent than every single mind put together. It holds information that has spanned billions of years. In the same way that everything is energy, the sun, moon, and planets have energy about them and move through constellations. This is how astrologers predict future events using these movements in space. Although everything might look like chaos to the naked eye (and chaos is important to acknowledge), there are cycles repeating on all levels of 'time'.
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The Sun and Moon (Luminaries)
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The sun and moon represent the polarity of our world through day and night. The sun is masculine, and the moon is feminine. The sun is our personality and consciousness, and the moon represents our emotions.
Anything associated with the feminine is destined to change, hence the cycles as the moon waxes and wanes to full and new. What is really important to remember is that they are always working together. The sun's light is constant and pervasive (a trait of the masculine), which we know is reflected off the moon's surface (ever-changing).
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The cycles of the moon:
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The moon waxes for two weeks (becomes a full moon - bright and round), before waning for two weeks (to become a new moon - dark and invisible). The whole process takes one month.
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The Constellations & The Zodiac
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Stars form symbols in the sky, which ancient cultures named. They noticed the sky was divided into twelve sections:
As the earth moves around the sun, the sun appears to move into a new constellation every month - that is why, for example, it looks as though it spends August in Leo, September in Virgo etc...
The moon moves into a new sign every couple of days, considering it makes a full orbit of earth once a month.
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The Planets
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The above is all fairly elementary (Watson). The planets are where the true chaos starts. They have their own orbits around the sun and their own energies:
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Mercury - 88 days - communication
Venus - 225 days - love
Mars - 1 year, 7 months - desire
Jupiter - 11 years, 7 months - luck
Saturn - roughly 29 years - lessons
Uranus - roughly 84 years - change
Neptune - roughly 165 years - mystical
Pluto - roughly 248 years - transformation
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As the planets orbit, they also pass through the constellations of the zodiac. Let's look at Saturn. With its orbit around the sun of 29 years, it spends two and a half years in each sign, travelling right round the zodiac until it returns to its starting position. So wherever Saturn was when you were born will be exactly the same place in the sky it returns to when you are just over 29 years old.
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Aspects
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Have you ever heard 'Venus is square Mars' or 'Saturn is conjunct Neptune'?
To think about aspects, imagine the circle above cut into 360 degrees. I've kept it simple by keeping the planets on the lines!
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Conjunction - where two planets overlap at the same degree - the grey and green planets are conjunct (they are both at 90 degrees).
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Sextile - where planets are two lines apart (60 degrees). See the green planet sextile to the blue / grey planets.
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Square - the brown planet is square (90 degrees away from) to the yellow, grey, and green planets.
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Trine - the yellow planet is four lines away (120 degrees) from the blue planet.
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Opposite - the yellow planet is forming an opposition (180 degrees) from the grey and green planets.
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So what does this mean?
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Conjunction / opposite - usually good, occasionally bad depending on the planets.
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Sextile / trine - the planets compliment each other.
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Square - not ideal.
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As you can see, it gets pretty complicated around here. Astrologers use their knowledge of the zodiac (where each starsign has its own meaning), the aspects, and the energies of the planets and the luminaries to gain foresight on the future. And as you can imagine, it gets REALLY messy. But you now have the basics under your belt!
Why don't you have a go? Get your birth chart for free here and see if you can spot any planets making aspects!
If you're interested in taking it a step further and understanding more, I'd really recommend:
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Astrology Made Easy: A Guide To Understanding Your Birth Chart by Yasmin Boland.
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What is Retrograde?
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Imagine a planet at its furthest point away from the sun - that is when its orbit slows down. The earth continues to move at the same speed, and so that planet appears to us to move backwards through a constellation for a short time before it speeds up again. It is said by astrologers that this is the time for us to learn the lessons of that planet (and whatever zodiac sign it is in).
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Now - Time To Get Excited!
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So. Not only have we got all the above happening, but we have special stars that ancient cultures revered, too. Take Sirius - Sirius is said to be our spiritual sun. When it forms with three other stars over the Great Pyramids, portals are said to open in time and space.
Then there is Alcyone, which is said to be the great central sun that our solar system rotates around; the orbit being 26,000 years. During this time, (for reasons I will not even begin to explain), the earth tilts on its axis BACKWARDS through the zodiac. We spend around 2,200 years in each sign, and these tend to correlate to ages in humanity. Remember in 2012 when everyone thought the world was ending because the Mayan calendar ended? The Mayans had somehow figured out everything we know and more - hence why we should be trusting ancient wisdom.
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What's even stranger? 2012 was when we came out of the age of Pisces, which we had been in for just over 2,200 years. What is the symbol of Pisces? The fish. What is the symbol of Christianity? Hmm.. The fish. Christianity arrived 2000 years ago. It has been an age of organised religion - and the world is now moving into Aquarius - said to be a time of revelations and the expansion of consciousness.
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What is even MORE exciting?
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Well. Scientists in the 1960s found something called the Photon Belt. The earth spends 11,000 years going through a dark age, and then travels through the Photon Belt for 2,000 years. What is the Photon Belt? A lot of light. It is said to be the energy of pure love. Our solar system entered the Photon Belt in 2012 - the same year we entered the Age of Aquarius, but Earth itself isn't fully inside it yet. But we can feel it coming.
THIS partly helps to explain I mean when I talk about a Great Awakening. Everything hidden in the darkness is coming into the light and we will (after a tough few months) come into a time when we bathe in the energy of love to help get us out of the hole we're in. The last time we were in the Photon Belt was 13,000 to 11,000 years ago, in the age of Leo, when the 'impossible' Great Pyramids were built, along with stone circles and other structures all over the world that no-one can explain. Photon energy can turn stone to liquid, can be used as fuel instead of the fossil fuels we currently use, and brings in huge transformation for us as a collective.
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Resources:
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Tanishka explains the Photon Belt energies much better here.
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Simone Matthews knows her stuff: