Living For Something Greater
The Purpose of Transpersonal Astrology
Transpersonal Astrology is distinguished from other forms of astrology in that it draws you out from focusing on your own personal needs and desires into participating in ever expanding fields of activity and relationships, including people close to you, in your social groups and all of humanity. This process can open you to new and more creative ways of thinking that makes you feel more alive. As your understanding of yourself, others and the world expands, you gain a stronger sense of where you belong in life and what you are here to do. This leads to experiencing being in the flow of life rather than struggling all the time. Your relationships become more harmonious and you perceive greater meaning and purpose in your life.
The Birth Chart Reveals Your Archetypal Nature
Astrology is an archetypal language. The symbols of the planets, signs, and other astrological components represent the personality traits, motivations and needs embedded in the common ground of all humanity. These universal aspects of your nature can be interpreted on different levels from base biological needs, to mental/psychological states and your highest spiritual expression.
Learning the fundamentals of your birth chart, where each planet is, the sign and house it is in and the alignments they make with each other, paints an archetypal portrait of your unique personality traits, what drives you and the dominant arenas of life you will engage in.
It also reveals inherent challenges to be overcome and paradoxes to integrate in your personal expression. Understanding the archetypal nature of your chart and its potential highest expression will move you towards aligning with who you are meant to be.
Astrologically, it starts with the process of individual development, as represented by the archetypal progression of the signs. The path from Aries to Pisces presents a course through the process of becoming a successful human being and fully expressing your unique personhood. In brief, from the moment you take your first breath you commence determining who you are in this reality. You develop your talents and abilities, become aware of the world around you and learn how you think and communicate with others. As you establish where you belong, you begin to experience the joy of creating and learn to navigate life’s myriad crises. As you enter the world of others you continue to develop by establishing fruitful relationships and contemplate life’s bigger questions including your role in society. Once you reach a level of maturity and groundedness on your path, you are called to reorient your focus to placing your personal power in service to humanity and becoming an agent for the evolution of Consciousness.
“Once you reach a level of maturity and groundedness on your path, you are called to reorient your focus to placing your personal power in service to humanity and becoming an agent for the evolution of Consciousness.”
The various planets represent different layers of development as well. Each reflects aspects of how you express yourself in the world in active ways, whereas the signs are like filters coloring your actions and the houses are theatres of activity where the action takes place. The “personal” planets – Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars – represent your will, your feelings, how you perceive and communicate, your values and nature of relating, and how you go about getting what you desire. Jupiter and Saturn are the “societal” planets that govern your role in society, how you expand through interacting with the world at large, and how you take responsibility for and master your role in life.
The Significance of the Transcendent Outer Planets
Transpersonal Astrology views Uranus, Neptune and Pluto as the “transcendent” outer planets. Archetypally, they are distinctly different from Sun through Saturn, which focus on mastering your ground game in this life. The outer planets represent transformational processes that call you to live a much bigger game – being in service to the greater Whole of Consciousness. It may help to step back a bit at this point and remember that astrology is an archetypal language developed over millennia.
From the Transpersonal Astrology perspective, it is a code given to us by Consciousness itself as a way of communicating to us. Transpersonal Astrology therefore considers the birth chart as your own personal code, unique only to you.
As you work with your birth chart, the current transits and other facets of astrological analysis, you not only learn more about yourself, you learn what It needs from us. This layered information can also reveal optimum timing for focused action. Over time, you may start to feel the cosmic forces of Consciousness working through you in what can be described as an interpenetrating flow of ascending and descending conscious communication between the lesser whole that we are and the greater Whole of this divine force. With this in mind, consider Uranus, Neptune and Pluto as archetypal forces, each with a unique set of characteristics that correlate to fundamental transformational processes, not just of individuals but of humanity. Yet each individual plays a unique role in this process.
The Value of a Crisis
The outer planets typically correlate to crises in your personal life wherein you are given opportunities to grow and transform. Throughout history, they have also marked pivotal moments of change for humanity.
Crises are wake-up calls telling us we must change.
Part of the process of working with Transpersonal Astrology is identifying and dissolving the limiting beliefs absorbed from early childhood. Generally we are taught to adhere to a strict code of behavior that follows the expectations set by our family and/or culture, which can be at odds with our deepest soul desires. In psychology this is known as conditioning or mental programming. Fear of failing to meet others’ expectations often results in great internal conflict that manifests in negative emotions and behaviors.
Working with Transpersonal Astrology can help you recognize if you have been living by a code that is based on fears related to feeling inadequate or unworthy of love. It can open you to being able to consciously choose to act and think in new ways that better serve your higher nature. This process can bring a profound sense of liberation as the grip of negative thinking is neutralized and you move towards a greater sense of self-acceptance and enhanced creativity. Breaking free of family and societal conditioning, of stagnation or devolution, is the path to transforming your consciousness and becoming who you truly are – an agent that contributes to the evolution of humanity.
“Working with Transpersonal Astrology can help you recognize if you have been living by a code that is based on fears related to feeling inadequate or unworthy of love. It can open you to being able to consciously choose to act and think in new ways that better serve your higher nature. ”
Living Intentionally
By allowing the powerful emanations of Love to guide you with focused action, It transforms you, others in your arena of activity, and beyond. Living intentionally as a conduit for greater cosmic forces will move you towards living a life with deep meaning and purpose. It will also bring a greater sense of connectivity with others and with the greater Whole, with Love, the most powerful force in existence. This is spiritual living at its highest.