Understanding Astrology
Question: If peoples’ personalities can be affected by the thoughtform centered around the old zodiac, then won’t newborns be affected by the new zodiac since mass-thought is now centered around it?
JJ: I’m not sure what you mean by an old and new zodiac. There is just one zodiac that is used by astrologers.
Over thousands of years the positions of the twelve signs have changed and thus their subtle influences have changed somewhat. Humanity has adapted to this in two ways. First the meanings of the signs have changed some over the years and new interpretations have been added that are in alignment with the true energies. In addition to this, thoughtforms have been created around the signs that keep some of the out-of-date energies in circulation.
This may not sound logical to you, but it is very logical. Let’s use an example.
Jim is a big Jets fan and always roots for them when they play the Patriots. Then he moves from New York to Boston. Everyone around him is now a Patriots fan. Pretty soon it rubs off on him and starts rooting for them instead of the Jets.
What changed? Not the football teams. The only difference was the thoughts he was constantly picking up. New York and Boston both have thoughtforms built up around their teams that people pick up on when they move there.
The same goes for astrology. The old thoughtforms are still there with new ones forming. Some of these are picked up on and these influences are independent of the actual influence of the planets.
Those who are centered on the personality are influenced by thoughtforms and are much more predictable through a regular chart.
Those who are in the soul are not as much influenced by thoughtforms but more inclined to pick up the true energies of the spheres.
DK tells us that only a Master can cast a chart for a disciple based on the true energies – that no living astrologer even knows how to do it, though some pick up things intuitively. He only gave us several useful pieces of information that would be useful in casting an esoteric chart.
Question: For that matter, if mass-thought can alter the effects of something as reliable as the zodiac, then why doesn’t someone just make up their own zodiac casting everyone with the most desirable attributes, then widely circulate it, so everyone is born with the propensity towards being successful?
JJ: Someone could make up a new zodiac, but they would have to sell it to about a billion people to override the current thoughtforms that have taken thousands of years to solidify. That’s not something you could do on a whim. For instance, you just can’t make up a new thoughtform for the Moslems and get them to be influenced by it. You’d need millions to believe it first and add their thought power to it before it would have any power.
Reader Comment: I am not an astrologist as I don’t know how to read a chart. Having said that, it is my understanding that the zodiacal signs are all based on planets, not constellations. Constellations have a place within a chart, and an influence, just like the sun and the moon, but that it is the planets that determined the zodiacal houses.
JJ: The astrological signs are based on the position of the twelve constellations of the Zodiac, not the planets, though each sign is said to have one of the planets as a major influence. There is an orb that rules each sign. For instance, the moon rules Cancer, even though it moves round the earth and changes its relation to this sign daily. In addition, there will be a planet that is exalted in each sign and one in detriment. Then to complicate things more each sign is divided into three decans and each decan has a planet that rules it.
A year is divided into the twelve signs but then a day is also two times twelve. Thus your hour of birth *(instead of the month) determines your rising sign and the position of your twelve houses, each governed by one of the signs.
At birth the planets will be in various constellations and this will add meaning. Then they will be in various relationships to each other and this will add more meaning.
Learning astrology is a little like learning the guitar. It just takes just a little time to learn a few chords but it is very difficult to become an expert. The same with astrology. There is a lot to learn to master the art.
A reader says: Thank you so very much, JJ, for using your astrology skill on our behalf. I feel like I got significant insight from this. I love the shortened version based upon only the strongest influences and not watered down by endless nuance.
JJ: Thanks, A computer reading can be 40 pages long, but because it analyzes the individual placements rather than the whole and interactions, it is not very accurate. It makes it sound like the influence of Pluto is as powerful as the sun whereas it is much less.
There are hundreds of influences in a chart and they all interact. A good astrologer will look at three major things while interpreting. First, he will look at the chart as a whole and secondly the three major influences (the sun, moon and rising sign) and finally how the other influences interact with their major two or three influences.
For instance, if your Mercury is in Libra your computer reading will analyze this as an isolated influence, but to understand it you have to examine its aspects, or close relationship to other planets. Maybe it is only 2 degrees away from Mars, which means you will have to interpret these two influences as if they were two partners working together.
In addition, you have to take in consideration which of the twelve houses each planet is in and was it in the night sky or daytime sky?
By concentrating on the three most powerful influences we can get a snippet which is reasonably accurate, but, of course, the main reason for doing this was to reveal the importance of the rising sign as noted by DK because this gives an indication of the lesson in life to be learned. That information can be as important as everything else in the chart combined.
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. – Carl Schurz
Jan 17, 2011
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