Happy birthday, Virgo! It’s your time to shine this month.
You are a mutable, earth sign—methodical, industrious, and kind. Virgos show their affinity to their sign’s symbol of the Virgin by loving all that is natural. You pride yourself on being self-sufficient and will appear self-contained. With a powerful sense of responsibility, you want to be of service and have that contribution recognized. Virgos have exacting standards, and producing anything less will result in a feeling of dissatisfaction. Fears of underperformance can create nervousness and stress. You have an intense curiosity with a keen eye for detail. With a love for research, you can apply yourself to analytic work, but you may struggle to grasp the larger perspective.
As an earth sign, Virgos are tuned into the body and are interested in health. However, combined with the intense involvement of the Virgo mind, it’s important to make sure a balanced approach is utilized, so that hypochondria doesn’t result. In general, Virgos tend to fret and worry over things, and they might benefit from letting go more often.
Virgo is happiest when they find something that interests them and then mastering it. You take pride in the little things. You are self-effacing and self-critical. You love feeling acknowledged and appreciated for your abilities and contributions. Virgos are valued and respected for their exemplary powers of observation, research skills, loyalty, and willingness to get involved.
Symbol:
Your symbol is the virgin. In mythology, Virgo is portrayed as the virginal maiden often associated with fertility and the harvest. Seldom celibate, Virgos approach to life might be considered virginal in nature.
Ruler:
Your ruler is Mercury.
Mercury is associated with how we think and communicate.
Virgo uses the energy of Mercury to work and serve others. Virgo can expertly gather information, discriminate what is useful, and create practical solutions to problems when others can’t. These abilities help to create and order a perfect life, which is important to you.
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Happy birthday, Leo! It’s your time to shine this month.
You are a fixed, fire sign—outgoing, proud, and ambitious. There is a regal air about you which comes from your own sense of importance. This is not conceit, however. You honestly believe you have a right to be here and a right to be seen. Often, you are motivated by thoughts of wanting to make the world a better place. Leos like people and want to see them be happy. Having people recognize your underlying noble intention is important to you. Leos want to be valued.
As a Leo, you are willing to work hard to achieve success and the good things in life. You can apply yourself to any task and, with determination, see it through to the end. At the same time, Leos can bask in down-time appreciating the luxuries they have earned. Think about how a lion focuses its full energy on the hunt, feasts on the kill, then naps.
Leos are idealists; traditional and loyal. Being a fixed sign, you tend to cling to people and situations longer than most. Although you often appear confident to those around you, you are rather humble and likely to blame yourself when things go wrong. You thrive on social interactions and use your discretion to choose your activities. Leos are known for their outgoing, friendly, and polite manners. They exclude no one.
Symbol:
Your symbol is the Lion.
The symbol comes from the stellar constellation the sign corresponds to. From Greek mythology, the Lion was associated with the story of Hercules defeating a lion in a heroic battle. The lion came to represent victory, courage, and pride.
Ruler:
Your ruler is the Sun.
The Sun represents the self and your way of being. Associated with vitality, energy, and your ability to shine, the sun rules your core identity.
Leos are secure in their identity and recognize that personal power is key to who they are.
Have you ever wondered what astrology has to say about your past lives?
Happy birthday Aries! It’s your turn to shine this month.
You are a cardinal, fire sign— passionate, independent, and competitive. Aries know themselves and have a strong sense of self-worth. Leadership comes naturally. Possessing personal magnetism, you often attract others to projects and causes without much effort. Many Aries are physically active incorporating sports into their lives.
As the first sign in the zodiac, Aries are newborns in a sense. Interestingly, Aries retain their youthful nature even as they age. Often more trusting or naïve than others, you will also tend to forgive quickly.
Aries are known for being adventurous, outgoing, and daringly bold. The negative side of Aries can be a reckless impulsiveness where consequences are not thought out or considered. There may also be a tendency to commit too fast to projects and not finish what is started.
Symbol:
Your symbol is the ram with large, curved horns. The ram represents Aries unyielding determination.
Ruler:
Your ruler is Mars. Mars was the Roman god of war. Mars is also associated with virility and fertility.
Mar’s energy is masculine and is associated with the physical. Aries tends toward impulsiveness. You hold strong opinions, crave adventure, and love competition.
Have you ever wondered what astrology has to say about your past lives?
Evolutionary Astrology is where the past becomes a steppingstone, not a millstone.
So, what is it exactly?
Many seekers over millennia have sought out and used the tools of astrology. In modern times, a birth chart reading provides insight into the personality or psychology of the individual. But behind that chart lies another chart, hidden from all but the most ardent of explorers. This is what evolutionary astrology endeavors to parse, the blending of the psychological with the metaphysical to produce a kind of elevated psychology. Perhaps this could be viewed as a sacred level of psychology–the psychology of our evolving consciousness.
Whether as a literal reality or metaphor, evolutionary astrology uses the idea that we have all lived before. Through those lives, we faced lessons and challenges. We learned and grew, and we continue to confront challenges in this incarnation. This is an astrology that honors the individual and individual difference. As a sacred esoteric tool, it empowers each one of us with the free will of choice. Throughout life, an individual makes choices amongst a vast field of archetypal astrological possibilities and always an individual retains free will. We evolve through incarnations based on our choices.
What evolves lifetime to lifetime is consciousness. Exploring the evolutionary chart will reveal past-life situations and dynamics but the focus of evolutionary astrology is to evolve consciousness through understanding, healing, and releasing. The seeker enters the realm of the sacred—the deep, the mystical, the past. Together, astrologer and client go in search of pattern and archetype. We uncover triumph and failure revealing both treasure and wound.
It is important to remember that this analysis employs a symbolic system and is not literal. It is not possible to tell if someone lived in the 14th Cent. Florence or fought in the Boer War. The chart will not reveal personal past-life connections to people in our current lives. These areas may be best explored with psychics or mediums. An analysis using evolutionary astrology will uncover situations and experiences an individual has likely faced many times in the past and these are the issues that are active in this incarnation. The proof of evolutionary astrology is borne out by the presence of these issues in one’s life today.
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Recently I’ve been playing with a function on a software program that allows you to put in certain astrological parameters and find a famous person who matches your chart. Fun stuff!! My best match was a writer I know well and while I was surprised at how well the details matched, I wasn’t shocked at all. It made me smile in that small knowing way. Anyway, the first person who guesses my best match (no more than 5 guesses per person, please), will win a print copy of Timeless Tulips, Dark Diamonds. Sorry, US mailing addresses only, unless you want an E-copy of the book. Contest ends Sep. 15. Challenge on! Comment below. My secret match will be revealed then if no one guesses correctly. BTW- Charles Dickens and I are NOT a match.
Let’s turn to Charles Dickens, whose chart I chose to briefly examine because everyone knows something about him and his work. Who didn’t read at least one of his novels in school? Writing during the height of the Victorian era, Dickens created some of the best-known fictional characters of all time and experienced a level of popularity seldom seen with a writer. His work continues to be read and produced today. Some of his widely recognized works are: A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, and Bleak House. Dickens was also a social critic who pushed for children’s rights, educational improvements, and social reforms.
Evolutionary astrology begins with the premise that we all have lived many lifetimes and we evolve spiritually through the many lessons we encounter along the way. To understand the themes associated with anyone’s past lives, we must look to the south node in the birth chart. Dickens’ south node is in Pisces (4th House). Let’s begin there because it reveals much about what his soul has been through.
With the south node in Pisces, Dickens would have had an understanding that our true nature lies beyond the transitory existence of the physical body and the day-to-day reality. The world may have been experienced as dreamlike or a projection into the matrix. This was probably a key source of inspiration in his writing. Oftentimes, someone with this nodal pattern suffers from a loss of self because Pisces is associated with the boundless where the line between self and other doesn’t exist. Dickens may have had lives in monastic settings engaging in deep spiritual practices including meditations, rituals, fasting, and other aesthetic pursuits. This by itself can cause a loss of connection to the real world. Everyday life may seem strange and harsh. Some examples of the lower expression of the Pisces energy might be someone who falls into addiction or someone who allows others to determine their life path for them. These people don’t live fully in the three-dimensional reality as successful individuals. The higher manifestation of this energy allows an exploration of inner realms and transcendent states which fuels heightened levels of creativity, imagination, and psychic ability (in some cases). Certainly, with Dickens his creativity and sheer volume of work indicates he was using the Piscean energy well.
An interesting biographical detail that can be tied to Dickens’ past life in Pisces, was his membership in The Ghost Club. This paranormal investigation and research organization, founded in London in 1862 devoted itself to studying ghosts, hauntings, and psychic phenomena. Considered to be the oldest paranormal research organization in the world (although not always continuous), predates the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) by two decades. Dickens’ fictional work featured ghosts in A Christmas Carol and The Signal Man, and probably in other works as well.
Charles Dickens south node was found in the fourth house of home and family. Here family must be viewed in a broad context of kinship groups extending to family, clan, or tribe. His past life suggests a pattern where the family defined much of his existence. Family business, expectations, norms, reputations, all limited his life in some way. Some of those restrictions may have been severe. The residual effect on Dickens would have made him very loyal to those he perceived as “family.” This loyalty may or may not have been deserved. It is a remnant from the past where radical commitment and identification to the clan was required. It is possible that feelings of familiarity with people in his current life were rooted in the past. The legacy of the south node in the fourth house suggested that he was likely to have deep but complicated relationships with his family of origin.
Dickens struggled through a tough childhood. Although up to the age of eleven, biographer John Forster describes his life as idyllic, things changed when his father went to debtor’s prison. Charles left school and worked in a boot-blacking factory under miserable conditions. In his creative life, he drew heavily on his experiences of hardship, poverty, and social inequity. Very few details were known of his early life until a biography he had collaborated on was released after his death. Dickens was ashamed of his early life and did his best to hide it. Nevertheless, his loyalty to the family was shown through the provisions of his will. He provided well for all his family members, a wife from whom he had separated, several friends, and all the servants he employed.
Much more analysis could be done on his chart. Interesting to note the strong square to the nodal axis with Neptune indicating the need to release limiting beliefs, religious views, or philosophies. While Dickens was considered Christian, he seemed to despise organized religion. This is certainly an area for more exploration.
This is just a brief glimpse into evolutionary astrology. If you are intrigued about what your own chart might reveal, contact me below. Clients continue to report surprising correlations and stories about how evolutionary astrology reports have helped them. Be aware my fall schedule is filling fast. This is going to be one INTERESTING ride into the new year. Several key astrological aspects are being triggered bringing in fast change.
I bless the night that nourished my heart To set the ghosts of longing free Into the flow and figure of dream That went to harvest from the dark Bread for the hunger no one sees.
All that is eternal in me Welcome the wonder of this day, The field of brightness it creates Offering time for each thing To arise and illuminate.
I place on the altar of dawn: The quiet loyalty of breath, The tent of thought where I shelter, Wave of desire I am shore to And all beauty drawn to the eye.
May my mind come alive today To the invisible geography That invites me to new frontiers, To break the dead shell of yesterdays, To risk being disturbed and changed.
May I have the courage today To live the life that I would love, To postpone my dream no longer But do at last what I came here for And waste my heart on fear no more.
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