Can Astrology Help Heal Relationships?
It is good to remind ourselves from time to time that the chaos, discord and disharmony, the selfishness and greed that surround all human souls on the Earth plane is in stark contrast to the world we once came from, our true home. Existing and being trapped in one that has grown ever more materialistic and cold can be very painful and the cause of much suffering for our sensitive and delicate souls. Yet, these conditions too are not in our lives for nothing. They are meant to teach our soul invaluable lessons through which we grow and find the expansion of consciousness we have been place in this life to seek under all circumstances.
As time goes by, every soul progresses on the evolutionary scale, one small step after another. No matter what happens to us on the Earth plane and how far we remove ourselves from God, the inner yearnings for a better and more beautiful world where all live together in harmonious relationships with each other will not go away from any soul. In fact, the deeper we descend into physicality, the more powerful these longings call us. They are our inner guidance from the soul of the Great Mother/Father, who in this way eventually draws each one of Its children back home into the awareness of its true nature and into the harmony and oneness with Him/Herself and with all life.
In the first six signs of the zodiac, from Aries to Virgo, the soul remains very self-centred. It may be so occupied with building itself a personality that this happens sometimes to the exclusion of all others. However, from Libra onward the soul’s interest turns away from purely ‘I and me first’. Its consciousness begins to open up to the concepts of ‘we and us’ and it learns to appreciate relationships and partnerships of all kinds. One of Libra’s main soul lessons is the search for the point of balance that lies half-way between the two extremes of utter selfishness, as for example expressed by young souls in Aries, and that of total surrender of the self to the wishes and needs of the partner in Libra, which can be highly detrimental to the soul’s own spiritual development.
Truly wise souls take care not to live in the extreme characteristics of any of the signs that are in polar opposition to each other in the zodiac. The point of balance always lies in the middle. This is reflected by the position of the dot in the small circle in the middle of the birthchart halfway between each set of signs. The zodiac is the wheel of fortune around which the soul in its search for growth and enlightenment is required to whiz, until eventually it reaches the point when it must learn to become still and conduct its life from the centre in the hub of the wheel. Before it can do this, the soul has to move countless numbers of times round and round the spinning wheel of life, for that’s the only way it can grow and learn from its experiences. Enriched by each one it moves through lifetime after lifetime of ever new and challenging situations that lead to more and more growth.
After developing its earthly personality in fiery Aries with all its selfishness, push and drive, the soul moves on into much steadier and earthbound Taurus. This means it is descending deeper into matter and therefore needs to learn how to deal with and appreciate the value of material possessions, including its physical body and life on the Earth plane. When the Sun moves through this sign, it is springtime for the soul and also for everything on the Earth plane. In the sky above us Venus appears as the morning star and the time has come for enjoying and appreciating the goods things of the Earth, especially all natural things as well as the more earthy aspects of love-making. Metaphorically speaking this applies to the lessons of the soul throughout its lifetime through Taurus. Spiritually, Venus in Taurus is the morning star in the evolution of the human soul. By the time it reaches Libra, Venus has become the evening star.
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