by Robert Wilkinson
A Spiritual Brother asked me if there were any visual aids to help him learn astrology. I thought it a perfect moment for training the imagination in precise visualization, which is one of the abilities we are here to perfect.
He wrote “Brother, while I have done bunch of reading on astrology (mainly your blog - books) + the likes of Dane Rudhyar and some other areas - there has been limited visual experience. Do you have any recommendations which could assist my “innerstanding” of the chart movement?”
He said he was always a bit more of a visual learner in his younger years. Of course that’s normal for millions, since there are three main approaches to learning; visual, audio, and tactile. We each develop each of these learning styles at various points in life, though we’ll always favor one over the other.
Anyway, I told him “of course there are programs which show the real time movement of the planets, but I'm not sure that will lead you to a greater understanding of astrology. But this is a great chance to cultivate precise visualization!
YOU are the center of your chart. When you drew your first breath, the planetary positions were in those exact spots in the heavens. If you stared up at them, they would be in various positions both close and deep. Each would represent a vital part of you to be realized and expressed in your world.”
Expanding on that conversation, I told him magically, after you were born, all your planets continued to move in their directions away from the frozen position at your birth, even though you still saw them from the same experiential place, since you are always YOU. It is as though our birth planet positions are arranged on a mobile which dangles all around us as we contemplate the universe, and we become those dangling planets moving slowing in their orbits.
So you ARE the experience of your Time Mandala of the birth chart, as well as the experience of yourself as learning to see the rhythm of your unique “Music of the Spheres.” As you visualize the different pulses of the planets moving at their own pace in space away from your natal planetary matrix, you can see various differences in their phases relative to each other.
As you experienced yourself as your planetary matrix evolving over time, you noticed two different phenomena: one was a very gradually moving of your experience forward in time. You noticed that by the very slow movement of an "echo" of your original positions as they progressed. So you are the original pattern, but have seen/felt it gradually move forward in your life.
At the same time, you also experienced all the planets you could see as well as those you couldn't see move forward in real time, even as you were subjectively experiencing the subtle progression of facets of your inner self. The “original you” which anchors a series of subjective growth pulses also is aware of the “real world” influences which are not in the same perceptual field as the inner self.
So focus your awareness on this visualization of the celestial patterns in three ways: the frozen moment, which is what you started with; the progressed moment, which is your subjective relationship to your natal tendencies; and the NOW, with the real time planets where they are creating the tone of the moment, for us as well as everyone else who also responds in their own natal and progressed ways.
We are the dance, the dancer, and the music. We are a unique spark of Light, emanating Light throughout our lives. Each spark of Light has its own qualities, and maintains the integrity of those qualities even as it learns to adapt into more effective and natural ways of expressing that Light.
Because we are visual, audio, and tactile learners, we must joyously dance with each of these learning methods at crucial points in our eternal movement into ever-greater awareness. Over time we realize our own thought forms have brought us the exact life circumstances we need to grow into our highest natural Self.
As we are more precise in our thought forms, the more real we will see them become, if they are true for us. As we realize our precise needs to fulfill our purposes, we find events unfold naturally that satisfy our understanding. Each of these events is represented by one or more of our planetary complex.
By imaging the unfolding patterns in the heavens, we can learn to visualize clearly the dance of the Heavenly Bodies to the Music of the Spheres, and directly experience ourselves as part of that heavenly dance, since those planets are us!
You are the Sun, the center of your Solar System, giving Light to all Beings in your Light field. You are Venus and Mars, dancing with the Sun and each other, learning when to move at a different pace than you did before. You are the “bass tones” of your Saturn as it sets the pace and meter for each dance.
As you look at your chart, see yourself as a unique formula of energy arranged in the way your chart indicates. From your earliest days, you are that, you are that evolving, and you are that interacting with other planetary energies outside you. You are playing the Music of the Spheres in your every interaction, and the Music plays through you in both sound and silence.
Your are the chart. You are the motion of the chart. You are the motion of the chart interacting with all other vibrations, visible and invisible, known and unknown. You are a multi-dimensional interactive consciousness singing your song in countless ways. You are the visualization of your Soul/Spirit.
Visualize these things, and you will learn things beyond anything you have imagined so far.
© Copyright 2019 Robert Wilkinson
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