ASTROLOGY:

THE BIG PICTURE

[What follows is the first couple of paragraphs of each chapter of this thesis.  If you would like to read the full thesis,

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ASTROLOGY:

THE BIG PICTURE

Victoria Powell

June 2006

Australia

In Partial Fulfilment for the Degree of Master of Science in Esotericism

With emphasis in Esoteric Psychology,

University of the Seven Rays, NJ, USA

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ASTROLOGY:

THE  BIG  PICTURE

CONTENTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This thesis is based primarily upon the Trans Himalayan Wisdom Teachings of the Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul.  His teachings have been presented in a series of texts by Alice A Bailey (A.A.B.), and they concern the esoteric principles of Earth-life.  A number of writings of American, Alan Oken, the author of Soul Centered Astrology, who also draws upon the A.A.B. texts, have guided my understanding of the science of Esoteric Astrology 

      At more personal level I have also received valuable teaching from Eila Laurikainen, a local Adelaidian and well-known teacher of esoteric astrology and the esoteric sciences.  There are two very special people, Gill Perchard, Natalie Webster, with whom I have shared much of my spiritual journey with for some time, who, along with Graham Furnell, a more recent associate through astrology, became the obvious people to help me with the final editing of this thesis.  A very special thank you to you all.  At the basic level of my development there has been a group of people with whom I have had very a close emotional attachment to in the living of my Earth-bound life, my ‘birth’ family.  To them, along with the many others who have joined with me on this path that I have walked, both in the exoteric and esoteric sense, I thank you also. 

May knowledge and the opportunity to use it come to you

in the most miraculous ways

Victoria Powell

South Australia

2006

INTRODUCTION

Following nearly two decades of investigating and studying human behaviour, and nearly double that time in my work with horses, I have reached a point in my understanding about life where I appreciate the need for a more spiritual approach to be implemented in the workings of humanity.  Having been drawn upon a path of investigation of the workings of mind, of horses first, and then of humans, this investigation has enabled me to have a greater understanding of how the use of my mind has influenced my involvement in the world of human life.  With astrology having become a major stimulating interest in my life since 1985, it seems appropriate that a spiritual focus, which began to develop during the 1990s, should now involve this age-old art. 

     By 1998, having deferred the study of A.A.B.’s esoteric work for nine years, it became clear to me that it was time for this study to become part of my investigation of ‘human thinking’.  Studying esoteric astrology in 1997 closed gaps that I had sensed were there when I had studied the Western form of astrology.  This esoteric study highlighted contemporary Western astrology’s lack of depth and truth in its understanding of the human condition.  It explained to me why I had not found ‘traditional’ astrology easy to work with.  I then chose to study the esoteric philosophy behind A.A.B.’s esoteric astrology[1], and one result of four years of study of the esoteric sciences has been this thesis.  A.A.B.’s ‘bigger picture’ view of astrology has become the basis of it.  

     Having followed my desire to investigate this particular esoteric study of the human condition has also enabled me to make several major changes in my personal and professional life.  An increase in confidence about my inner drives, which had been developing within me during the earlier fifteen years of my ‘human investigation’, enabled me to practically connect with various ideas that had been within me for some time.  One had been helping people to develop more beneficial ideas about the life in which they are partaking.  Putting together ideas about the human relationship to life based upon A.A.B.’s Esoteric Psychology I (1936), Esoteric Psychology II (1942), and Esoteric Astrology (1951) and presenting them world-wide on an internet website (www.astrologybigpicture.net) has been part of a major life direction change for me at the same time.  

www.astrologybigpicture.net, working with the heading of Astrology The Big Picture, was developed with the aim to present a bigger astrological picture of a human’s life development based upon A.A.B.’s esoteric insights.  With this thesis discussing the development and use of esoteric astrology, Part 1 discusses the development of a human’s life and the importance of astrology in informing individuals about their life’s development, and Part 2 informs how the information on this website was structured to show differences between working with traditional, or exoteric, and esoteric astrology. 

      This thesis argues that the value of A.A.B.’s esoteric astrology lies in its ability, based upon the symbolic message presented in A.A.B.’s work on esoteric psychology, to assist humans to understand their human journey.  My study of A.A.B.’s work showed me one main premise, which linked with my own life experience.  I was able to recognised the difference between a life that is totally human focused (the exoteric manner of living life in which life-interest involves only the basic ‘earthly’ matters) and a life in which an esoteric manner of living life has been stimulated, which leads to a human becoming influenced towards undertaking ‘bigger picture’ life tasks.       

A.A.B.’s esoteric astrology helped to describe my own personal journey as presented in my horoscope.  Her large study of life’s spiritual psychological component has worked to increase my own sense of truth about life.  I hope that readers of this thesis and/or my website will also be able to gain valuable insights about their own lives, and that these works will help to stimulate peoples’ interest towards contemplating similar matters and undertaking further research which will help to greatly increase human understanding about the esoteric principles of life.   

FOREWORD

     We have just emerged from a century where humanity has experienced a period of accelerated and massive change which has enabled the accessing and ‘knowing’ of information on a much larger scale.  Via the innate ability of humans to invent material creations, the connection between the populations of humans worldwide over the past two to three hundred years has increased.  Inventions of items such as the telephone, television, and the computer have enabled long distance communication and a mass sharing of information between individuals and their societies. 

     Along with this escalation of material connection and Earth-bound knowledge-sharing devices, awareness about the components of life, which exist at a much deeper level within all Earth-bound forms, has also increased.  With the connection between countries and thus, cultures, increasing, the sharing of information about the spiritual component of life has also increased.  During the twentieth century, more and more information became available for people who wanted to investigate the human’s spiritual connection to life. 

As a result of personal desire, I have become one of many people who have been stimulated to study forms of spiritual practice that have come from the East.  In this thesis I describe discourse which relates to the connection between human spiritual development and the science of astrology.  The information offered in this thesis in relation to the tool of Astrology is part of the theory involved in this discourse. The tool of Astrology offers us relevant information which defines two types of behaviour that have become associated with the development of exoteric and esoteric activity in the lives of humans.

Part 1 of this thesis discusses concepts connected with the spiritual development of humans.  This thesis argues how esoteric astrology has become a relevant tool for people who wish to investigate the spiritual factor of Soul Purpose in their life.  Part 2 discusses astrological information in relation to the exoteric and esoteric development of individuals that is presented on the website www.astrologybigpicture.net.  The information presented on the internet via this website deals with these two types of astrology. 

In this thesis, the word exoteric is used to refer to the typical or ‘average’ human Earth-bound state of living, with the word esoteric used to refer to a more spiritual, or transcended, state of human life, which is also lived on Earth.  In this thesis I argue that an esoteric life is one in which a person lives their life less attached to material reality.  Such humans have developed the freedom to live a life that revolves around helping other people to increase their personal qualities which can then be employed to increase the potential for people to live harmoniously with each other.  This thesis is as a simple introduction to a field of human psychological understanding that has tapped into the tool of astrology to link the mundane and spiritual facets of human nature together. 

PART 1

Astrology:  The Big Picture

WHAT IS LIFE REALLY ABOUT?

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‘MAN’ IN THE RELATIONSHIP TO LIFE

The word ‘man’ in the title above has been used in the same context as the word ‘man’ is used in many other areas of life description when referring to either the human in the collective form of ‘mankind’ or the individual ‘human’.  In the following information the word ‘human’ is used to describe the singular individual as well as humans as a group as I likewise attempt to use other words that state the ‘truth’ of things.

When a human is born, a relationship forms between them and the environment and the many ‘objects’ within the environment.  While many factors are involved in what surrounds and encompasses any human, initially there needs to be a protective type of environment at work to keep the human infant nurtured and safe.  Most of us would know this to be our family ‘home’.  In an ‘ideal’ situation a child grows and develops physically and mentally as they expand past their early environmental boundaries.  Then one day we have an adult.  One who is usually capable of thought and action based upon their own personal choosing.

While most humans look for answers concerning their Earth-bound existence in order to survive in their environment, many humans are drawn to exploring the metaphysical aspect of life, that is, ideas that are less Earth-bound.  Whether or not this happens when a human’s rational function of mind has developed sufficiently to rationally question ‘life’ and its purpose, questions about ‘life’ and its purpose do get asked.  The ability to sense some particular personal quest in life may have developed, with some humans choosing to undertake certain tasks and gather information that results in them having a greater awareness of the human’s earthly existence.  Ideas are formulated, and thinking develops, about action that needs to be taken towards fulfilling an identified life quest.  Questions could be about some current role in life, which is founded upon ‘normal’ Earth-based existence, or about a role in life that is founded upon some ‘not so normal’ vision.  These humans become open to attuning to Soul Consciousness or Soul Purpose.  As A.A.B. states:

“In man, the microcosm, the objective of the evolutionary purpose for the fourth kingdom in nature is to enable man to manifest as a soul in time and space and to tune in on the soul purpose and the plan of the Creator.” [2]

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THE ‘ESOTERIC’ RELATIONSHIP TO LIFE

The twentieth century has passed.  With the new twenty-first century comes recognition by astronomers of the Earth’s astronomical re-alignment with the zodiac constellation of Aquarius[3].  During the 1960’s, Hair, the musical stage show, heralded public awareness of this phenomenon in many Western societies.  This re-alignment of the Earth is part of a natural phenomenon known as the ‘Precession of the Ages’.  This is a cycle of twelve periods of approximately 2,200 years each, known as Great Years, which involve the Earth aligning with the twelve zodiac constellations of the ecliptic.  To astrologers, the coming of each ‘new age’ indicates a shift in human consciousness.  During the passing Great Year, as the Earth aligned with the constellation of Pisces, a new paradigm in human consciousness had developed based upon the story of a human called Jesus who had been heralded as the Son of God.  This story signified the emergence of a new esoteric phenomenon: Christ awareness and its direct connection to the human form.

The departing ‘age’ of Pisces signified human awareness moving away from acknowledging a creative energy in the form of mythological gods.  Humans moved towards acknowledging a creative energy in the human form of the human, Jesus.  Human form became portrayed as having a direct connection to the creative source called God.  In Western society, Jesus, a human, became known as the Son of God who taught the message of love among humans and between all humans.  The word Christ, a synonym for ‘creative/God energy’, became attached to his name.  While the image of Jesus grew to represent the human’s direct relationship to God, the creator, has the lesson of love for fellow humans been learnt?  What does this next ‘new age’ have in store for us?

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WHAT HAS CONSCIOUSNESS TO DO WITH

ESOTERIC DEVELOPMENT?

The term enlightenment relates to the concept of knowing something.  It is a term that is commonly associated with the development of spiritual growth in humans. Thus, spiritual enlightenment could be argued to relate to the concept of connecting consciously to the spiritual factor of life: of becoming open to a spiritual consciousness that is in all of us, of becoming spiritually enabled.  A dictionary[4] offers various words and ideas for this term, such as educated, aware, raised consciousness, with enlighten, as ‘gives spiritual insight to (a person)’.  Seeing the ‘light’ of something suggests having full awareness of something; of having correct knowledge; of seeing the truth of a matter.  It would be interesting to know when this word was connected with the development of spiritual awareness in the human. 

     Many followers of spiritual ideals and practices do hope to find, or gain, enlightenment.  But what does it really mean?  I argue that behind any spiritual search for enlightenment is a person’s desire to be happy, be released from Earth-pain, and fulfil the need to feel connected to something greater than their individual self.  Just as the concept of love has different connotations to different people, so can the concept of enlightenment.

As all humans grow, our individual thinking processes are opened up to new ideas in relation to the functions of our daily life.  There are many moments when we can ‘see the light’ about a subject, without the recognition of it having any attachment to a more spiritual purpose at that time.  I do not know what determines whether an individual is to live a totally focused exoteric life compared with another who links to the esoteric Path, but I suggest that the more that someone undertakes to tap into ‘truths’ about basic life matters in an area of interest to them, the more chance they have of connecting to the ‘greater’ truths of life as the years pass. 

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HOW DOES ASTROLOGY FIT INTO THE BIG PICTURE OF LIFE?

The study of ‘stars’ originated many centuries ago.  As humans developed on Earth, they gained an awareness of how environmental factors affected their daily life needs and actions.  A correlation between the movement of day (the Sun) and night (the Moon and planets) symbols and happenings on Earth was recognised.  These early observations of the sky’s symbols led to a more in-depth study of the ‘stars’ now known as Astrology.  Centuries of astrological observation and practise have led to a contemporary ‘depth’ of use of astrology, which has been found significant for many people on a worldwide scale, including of leaders of nations.

Just as the astronomical study of the stars informs humanity that the ‘new age’ of Aquarius is dawning upon humanity, astrology’s exoteric mantrum for Aquarius, ‘Let desire in form be ruler’[5], informs the human race with a message about inner desire within humans coming more into focus in relation to what rules the human on Earth.  Working with esoteric astrology’s mantrum for Aquarius, ‘Water of life am I, poured forth for thirsty men’[6], ‘water’ in this mantrum is considered by astrologers to symbolize a flow of universal energy that comes into the human body so that human life can exist.  Aquarius is an air sign, which is seen to relate to the mind’s thinking process, and it is also a group sign, which connects with the symbolism of new ideas that come into the human’s realm.   The potential for humanity from these clues is that humanity’s future development will involve humans having an increased access to knowledge, with humanity’s internal drives and impulses becoming stimulated at both the mind and the desire level.  From an esoteric perspective, these clues work to portend a period for humanity when the human mind will undergo an increased influence of mind stimulus coming from the divine mind via the intermediatory force that this thesis calls Soul.

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A BASIC ESOTERIC PRINCIPLE

PRESENTED IN THIS WORK

Humans, like all animal species, are born with natural instinctual survival responses.  However, as human development has shown, human mental intelligence and awareness has the potential to develop to a considerably ‘greater’ level than that of other animal species.  Consequently, one of this thesis’s premises is that humans are not meant to be living life in the same way that other ‘animals’ do.  Similar to other animal species, growing humans are conditioned by ‘species-world’ influences in their environment as they grow into adults, with thinking patterns and talents varying between individuals as they grow into the adult stage of life.  Individual members of each species have specific innate behaviour traits that cause them to play out particular roles in their environment for the ‘survival of the species’. 

However, humans have the ability develop action in life in more varied ways than other animal species are capable of, and, as current global development indicates, on a much larger scale.  This thesis argues that such human activity of is a consequence of the human’s awareness ability of the process of life compared to that of other animal species.  Humans are also able to develop a consciousness of mind and action that supports a level thinking necessary for spiritual purpose of life: one that is unemotionally focused and more than being just concerned with the survival of the species.  

While the childhood instinctual stage of a human’s development, as with other species, works as a major ‘karmic’[7] influence on the maturity of an individual, for the human it is also an important developmental stage for the future of humanity.  With the Soul Purpose of the human being one main premise that underlies this thesis, this thesis argues that individual humans have to learn to work positively with their early conditioning before a level of maturity can be reached that supports the development of an individual’s humanitarian focused Soul Purpose. 

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CONCLUSION

A.A.B.’s text, Esoteric Astrology, offers to us a part of the jigsaw puzzle of life that was not available before this last century.  The development of Soul influence upon humanity, as presented by A.A.B., correlates with the developing the Soul element within each of us.  In the latter half of the twentieth century, much has been written and presented to the Western world that will potentially opens doors to new understandings about the experience of Soul-realization.  Such offerings relate to the call from within, which most humans experience at some time during their life, assisting the humans’ apparent increasing need for information as minds and lives expand toward undertaking greater tasks in the world.     

With the opportunity of a new ‘Aquarian’ awareness entering the Western collective mind¸ does this correlate with the often referred to ‘proclamation’ of the ‘second coming of Christ’.  The religion of Christianity, based upon the concept of Christ, or God energy, in the human developed following the birth of the human, Jesus.  The story of Jesus represent a God energy that was not separate from the human, and the term ‘the first coming of Christ’ applied to the advent of His story.  This story represented Divine energy coming in human form, presenting this concept into the human mind during the Age of Pisces.  Reportedly born at time when the Age of Pisces had begun, Jesus’ story exampled the human’s direct link to God, or divine intelligence.  He symbolised an individual and personal connection to divine power or intelligence.  The Pisces era thus worked as a transition period, heralding human consciousness becoming more open to the concept of a direct personal connection to our creative source.  

With the incoming Age of Aquarius, the Aquarian symbolism of ‘human groups’ is already being played out in the way of an increased connection between groups of human, which has currently become an important factor in life on Earth. 

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SUMMARY

As part of last century’s acceleration of investigation into the human psyche, human mind-use has become more observed and scrutinised.  In different areas of human life, psychological counselling is being employed on a much larger scale than ever before to improve human coping skills.  Such counselling enables humans to develop a greater level of personal power in life at a time when a huge range of perceived difficulties, which are associated with Earth’s recent worldwide material and collective development, seem to exist.  A growth of interest in Western societies in the Art of Meditation, the art of self-observation and awareness, parallels this.  Meditation is a process that allows a direct connection to our spiritual source of Higher Self or Soul.

     With esoteric astrology providing information about human Personality traits and keys that give hint about the development of an individual’s life, using this astrology as a tool to assist a human’s understanding about their life removes a certain amount of guesswork about appropriate future decision-making.  As more research is undertaken to support and validate this new form of astrology, its usefulness will be able to become more mainstream.

     Resulting from my past three years work in the field of esoteric astrology and psychology, I developed the website www.astrologybigpicture.net.  Part two of this thesis discusses the astrological information that this website offers in relation to the development of a human’s Personality.   The information offered on this website serves as a starting point for internet users who seek to learn more about the potential qualities of their personal Soul Purpose task using astrology

PART 2

Astrology:  The Big Picture

IDEAS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT TO WORK

ON THE WORLDWIDE  NETWORK

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE

www.astrologybigpicture.net

WEBSITE

Having worked as a consultant for an established internet astrological counselling service, what became obvious to me was that an internet website would be a quick and convenient way to share the following information with people.  It helped to fulfil a keenness, which had developed in me by that time, to share ideas about human evolution and astrology’s alignment with it with other people. This website allows me to present astrological ideas based upon A.A.B.’s understanding of esoteric psychology and astrology.

The initial aim of this website was to present a basic outline of some esoteric principles that apply to astrology, which give humans a message about human development.  The following information shows how the symbolism of astrology works to explain both the human’s spiritual journey and the human’s three levels, or stages, of consciousness. 

With life on Earth coming under the influence of the Age of Aquarius, this signifies a potential for new human development.  Heralded is a time when some significant ‘normal’ understanding within humanity will evolve.  This website argues that this new understanding relates to the basic life principle of humanity as a group, along with a need for the human as a species to see past their emotional connection to life on Earth and develop a more encompassing attitude towards fellow humans in life.  Various astrological ideas presented online relate to the human’s major areas of stimulus and drive in life that drives human life.

 This website offers ideas and options about life that will be new for most people.  For readers who are already on the esoteric Path, this website will provide them with further information about this path, for other readers it may ‘spark’ the beginning of their own spiritual journey in life.

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KEY THEMES PRESENTED ON THE WEBSITE

  AS THE WEB PAGES UNFOLD (see appendix)

The website’s HOME PAGE titled ASTROLOGY   THE BIG PICTURE

This webpage welcomes readers to the website with a very short introduction. 
Here the reader is introduced to the idea that because astrology has developed as a source of information based upon human investigation, and because human development and information plays a part in the stirring of human consciousness, astrology holds a relevant place in human life.

A reader’s attention is brought here to the two types of astrology that are presented on this website, and how they relate to the ‘two ways’ or ‘themes’ involved in the living of life.  This website’s aim is to help readers recognise these ‘two ways’, which are part of the big picture of life that involves a ‘mixture of levels’ of consciousness in life’s activities and patterns.  This idea is referred to here, linking the exoteric and esoteric astrology approaches to an understanding life’s’ picture.

The webpage titled ASTROLOGY BACKGROUND

     This webpage aims to bring the reader’s attention to the concept of an ‘inside and ‘outside’ perspective that is relevant to how humans live their life.  Reference is made here to a human’s relationship to life’s external happenings that happen to them and their personal inner responses to these happenings. 

The webpage titled BACKGROUND OF EXOTERIC ASTROLOGY

     This webpage discusses how, because of human observation of circumstances in the human’s environment, a system of reading symbols known as ‘astrology’ has evolved.  This webpage argues that astrology is still an evolving science and describes how humanistic astrology had developed during the twentieth century.  Information about the advent of the Age of Aquarius, and how it heralds a new alignment of the human to the ever-present Universal energy, is presented here 

The webpage titled BACKGROUND OF ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

     This webpage brings a reader’s attention to the new discoveries of an esoteric nature that occurred during the twentieth century.  Noted here is how psychology became recognized as a tool for working with humans to help people to transform various unwanted life behaviours, how,  after its ‘discovery’; Pluto was acknowledged by astrologers to symbolize the need for human’s to get in touch with their  inner emotional depth so that the inner drives or forces of the human species could be understood, how the potential major transformational effect on Earth of the relatively ‘hidden’ energy factor of the atom became scientifically recognised, and how the Earth’s realignment with the constellation of Aquarius was acknowledge, potentially heralding the coming of a new paradigm into human consciousness on Earth.

     The idea that the human’s collective paradigm is currently changing is discussed on this webpage.  The reader’s attention is brought to how external signs in the environment have developed to indicate that a new picture of the human’s world is emerging as new information has come into human awareness. 

The webpage titled TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

Incorporating the title THE THREE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

     This webpage introduces A.A.B.’s esoteric astrology’s basic premise about human evolution.  Human observation about the happenings on Earth in relation to the apparent movements of symbols in the sky (initially, and most obviously, the Sun and the Moon) have eventually led to humans having a greater understanding about the planetary and zodiac constellation connection to patterns and events that are experienced in human life.  As the Earth’s solar system realigns with the constellation of Aquarius, and following the ‘sightings’ of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto since the seventeenth century, A.A.B. presents a new understanding of human life on Earth that is associated with the study of astrology.   Following the relatively recent discovery of these ‘new’ planets by astronomers, which, as earlier discussed, are considered by astrologers to be symbolic of a new esoteric flavour in human growth, A.A.B. provides new knowledge, which she has become conscious of, for the minds of a greater number of humans.

     This webpage’s discussion explains the philosophy that underpins A.A.B.’s esoteric astrology.  This astrology describes the development of Soul in the human, which allows specific Soul purpose tasks to be undertaken by the human on Earth. 

     A.A.B.’s esoteric astrology allows human to have an understanding of three stages or levels of human development that may apply in a human’s lifetime.  Armed with such an information, readers of this website, who are able to relate the levels of growth in life from the Soul-evolved perspective as described by A.A.B., will be more easily able to make choices in their life even when they seem of a ‘different’ type to those already in society at work in society at the time.  Choices that will one day be welcomed by humanity.  

The webpage titled COMPARING THE TWO ASTROLOGIES

     This webpage presents the reader with a comparison between exoteric and esoteric astrology.  Here discussion about exoteric astrology’s use describes how this astrology deals with the material existence of a human’s life before some influence of Soul development is experienced.  Discussion about esoteric astrology describes how this astrology assists humans to understand about the development of a life that goes beyond an ‘average’ type of materially focused human awareness of life that generally applies to humans on Earth.  This webpage gives readers an understanding about the difference between these two types of astrology. 

An explanation of the exoteric and esoteric meanings connected with the symbols of the Sun, Moon and Ascendant in a human’s natal horoscope is offered on this webpage.  Here it is argued that the Sun’s symbol in a natal horoscope indicates to an astrologer what the qualities of a developing human’s ego are and other information about the ego’s development.   Exoterically, the Sun’s symbol provides information about a human’s exoteric experiences in life, which relates to the development of an ego.  From the point of view of esoteric astrology, the Sun explains the developing maturity of a human and the talent that they are required to use when undertaking the work of Soul Purpose. 

The Sun, Moon and Ascendant, the three main elements of a natal horoscope, are major guides used by the esoteric astrologer to determine the stage of development that a human life is being lived.  A client could be working more with the Moon traits without the Sun sign traits and talents having developed in any socially useful way, and an esoteric expression of Ascendant sign qualities may not be working in any purposeful way in their life. 

     This webpage’s information brings a reader’s attention to three main aspects of human nature, which describe a human’s use of their life energy.  It is the refining of a human’s life energy that allows the esoteric potential of human life to be more easily attained. 

The webpage titled SUN SIGNS

Here the website provides information about a natal horoscope’s Sun meaning in a zodiac sign, which is relevant for guiding a human’s esoteric potential in life, that is, the development of their Soul Purpose. 

The webpage titled MOON SIGNS

    This webpage delineates a natal horoscope’s MOON sign symbolism.  The MOON’s symbolism relates to a basic emotional nature that is inherent in the human race.  This webpage describes the exoteric and esoteric meanings of natal Moons in the zodiac signs. 

The webpage titled ASCENDANT SIGNS

This webpage connects zodiac sign symbolism with a stimulating force, or drive, which connects with a human’s need to project self into the environment.  While an innate instinctual ‘sense’ works to stimulate a human child’s behaviour in life so that a child gains the needed nurture from parents and/or others around them in their infant years, which the natal MOON represents, as humans grows, another type of stimulation drives the human projection of self into the environment.  The quality of this drive in the human is represented by a natal horoscope’s Ascendant. 

The webpage titled SIGN POLARITIES

With a sub heading - 

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE SIGNS AND THEIR STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR USE BY THE HUMAN INDIVIDUAL

Working with the main principle of the stages of development that A.A.B.’s argues applies to the esoteric development of the human, this webpage describes information that the zodiac sign’s provide to the esoteric astrologer about the three stages of human development. 

As in the discussion on THE THREE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT webpage, this webpage’s emphasises the idea of transformation and change, which a human can expect to experience when undergoing a ‘journey’ of an esoteric nature as based upon A.A.B. text.  This webpage also includes a direct reference to Soul and Soul-development in the human as did the THE THREE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT and THE ZODIAC STORY webpages.

The webpage titled THE ZODIAC STORY OF ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

     This website’s ZODIAC STORY is the final webpage of astrological information offered on this site.  This story provides a quick overview of human evolution.  Each signs description links to the next to represent the astrological Plan of the human’s development on Earth.  This webpage’s information brings a reader’s attention to each zodiac sign’s part in describing the human’s unfolding journey in life.  This story describes the coming of an idea into the Universal Mind, which then culminates as action in the human realm. 

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THE MAIN PREMISE

OF THE

BIG PICTURE OF ASTROLOGY

TALKING ABOUT THE HUMAN EVOLUTION

THAT HAS TO HAPPEN

     This website connects the study of astrology to an aspect of human development that relates to a Path of evolution.  In relation to the evolving development of the human, this website’s information raises a reader’s attention to an underlying drive which, when registered in the mind of a human , can initiate a human’s search for the deeper meaning of something in life, if not in life itself. 

What has led to this website’s development has been the stimulation of a desire within me to share an aspect of knowledge with other humans, which has been gleaned from the teachings of A.A.B.  Readers on the internet can access these new ideas and relate them to what their astrological make-up may signify to them.  While in some areas of this website’s presentation, attempts have been made to mellow the esoteric concepts so that they would not seem to the reader to be too ‘off the planet’, or project a ‘saviour’ type flavour, some of A.A.B.’s stronger concepts have been used in an attempt to ‘trigger’ any inner drives and insights that may be ready to be ‘sparked’ in the reader about their own level of development in life.

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SUMMARY

     As the human race evolves, insight becomes available to assist human growth.  As human awareness expands on an individual level, the ancient art of astrology also grows to parallel humans’ increasing knowledge and understanding of life.  Just as the understanding of the human continues to develop to include the different parts of its nature and activity over the span of time, understanding offered on this website will also increase as my personal investigation into esoteric astrology permits.

     As more information about this type of personal development is studied, understood, and offered to others who are ‘on the Path’ of truth, the more chance that humanity will develop to recognize issues that will help humans make ‘sense’ of their own lives.  As humans, we all have a responsibility to share and care for others.  Sharing and caring that is required to be offered much farther than the boundaries of any limited ‘home base’.  Currently this website is my small part in this process and, as always, I confidently look forward to the challenges of the future.