Why Astrology Matters

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So What Is It?

The history of astrology is the stars and planets have influence over events on Earth. Depending on your birth chart (more accurate if you know you’re time of birth and place of birth), shows your influence depending on your personality, subconscious, external influences, weaknesses, karma, and more…detail lies in the chart if you know how to read it.

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Karma

Dharma mapping is a method of understanding someone’s karma for this lifetime. “Dharma”, is a Sanskrit word that translates as “life purpose”. Dharma can relate to all areas of life from career, love, to health.

When reading a birth chart with karma in mind, you are reading the plans for the soul. Karma can include energies and actions from our past that are manifesting in our present. Everything is connected, and karma is real.

Houses Explain (Relating to Your North Node)

  • First House: Your dharma relates to self-development/expression.
  • Second House: Your dharma involves money, security, and matters relating to the material world.
  • Third House: Your dharma relates to writing, teaching, or communicating. Relationships with a sibling is also important.
  • Fourth House: Dharma to be a mother or factors relating to the family.
  • Fifth House: Dharma focuses on love, children, and creative expression.
  • Sixth House: Dharma relates to health, pets, and service. You have a work-related destiny to achieve in this life.
  • Seventh House: Relationship-focused and soulmate-oriented karma.
  • Eighth House: Karma is focused on deep psychological work and healing. An important death that happened is part of growth. 
  • Ninth House: A destiny to be literal or explore the world with a different set of eyes. You may have the opportunity to work with other cultures or see different perspectives.

Your Sun, Moon, and Rising

Our sun, moon, and rising signs show us gifts (and challenges) on our life path.

Our sun sign shows our main energies and what we are working through. Breaking is down to the elements:

  • Fire signs are learning to take action
  • Earth signs are learning stability
  • Air signs are learning about thought
  • Water signs are learning about emotions

The moon sign shows us past-life personalities and experiences.

Rising signs show us the talents and traits we have. The ascendant ruler shows us traits that describe how your purpose manifests.

  • Mars rules Aries. Mars is connected to victory, aggression, achievement, energy, action, and desire. Color associations are scarlet, red vermillion, and orange. The metal association is iron. Crystal associations are garnet, rub carnelian and bloodstone.
  • Venus rules Taurus and Libra. Venus is connected to love, friendship, attraction, pleasures, beauty, and romance. The color association is green. The metal association is copper. Crystal associations are emerald, malachite, apatite, and fluorite.
  • Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo. Mercury is connected to communication, business, success, and learning. The color association is yellow. The metal association is quicksilver. The crystal associations are quartz, Herkimer diamond, and yellow calcite.
  • The moon rules Cancer. The moon is connected to psychic knowledge, dream work, childbirth, fertility, past life, the subconscious mind, the mother, and home. The color association is lilac and silver. The metal association is silver. Crystal associations are pearl, abalone, moonstone, and selenite.
  • The sun rules Leo. The sun is associated with self-confidence, success, vitality, courage, fame, and self-knowledge. The color associations are gold and orange. The metal association is gold. The crystal associations are diamond, citrine, yellow jasper, and topaz.
  • Pluto rules Scorpio. Pluto is connected to death, alchemical transformation, and decay. The color association is smokey black. The crystal associations are ash, lava stone, obsidian, and black tourmaline.
  • Jupiter rules Sagittarius. Jupiter is connected to expansion, career, ambition, luck, material success, spiritual growth, humor, and abundance. The color association is royal blue. The crystal associations are sapphire, turquoise, blue topaz, and lapis luzil.
  • Saturn rules Capricorn. Saturn is connected to stability, karma, protection, and patience. The color association is indigo. The metal association is lead. The crystal association is jet, onyx, hematite, and smokey quartz,
  • Uranus rules Aquarius. Uranus is connected to enlightenment, technology, and break free. The color association is electric blue. The metal association is white gold. The crystal association is quartz and amazonite.
  • Neptune rules Pisces. Neptune is connected to illusion, dreamwork, inspiration, and psychic receptivity. The color associations are blue and green. The crystal associations are seashells and amber.

How to Read Your Birth Chart

  1. Find your north node. This shows you the purpose for your life.
  2. Look at your sun, moon, and rising signs and understand the themes represented in these. These come together to summarize the key objectives of the soul.
  3. Understand the ruler of your rising sign to understand how your destiny manifests. Take note of the house. These reveal details about the execution of your karma.
  4. Understand the house of your sun. This reveals ways natural gifts can be expressed and also shows you obstacles to overcome. The planetary rules of your sun, and its location, show soul assignment details.
  5. The 6th and 10th houses reveal how your work expresses your destiny. This will show you the keys to your work. It is important to understand that purpose can come from many things.

Summary

Whether you understand astrology or not, you will move in the direction of your destiny. Astrology is a tool that can help us manage our time better in regards to our purpose.

If what you are doing is not fulfilling or satisfying, it may be time to rethink. Change can be good. Always follow you intuition.

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