Astrology The Natal (Birth) Chart and Soul, Pre-Birth Planning

Astrology, The Natal (Birth) Chart and Soul, Pre-Birth PlanningThe basic principle of astrology is that the planets have a fundamental, cosmically based connection to specific archetypal forces or principles which influence human existence, and that the patterns formed by the planets in the heavens bear a meaningful association to the patterns of human affairs on the Earth. Where affairs takes on the dual meaning of individual and collective (global).Astrology preceded astronomy the latter born modern with the invention and implementation of the telescope. Astrology is the most ancient of sciences and is rightfully believed for thousands of years to illuminate the fundamental archetypal dynamics that deeply condition our lives, which is not to say they entirely determine our lives. Because our individual response to life always contains an element of unpredictability and potential freedom, and because astrology gives a greater understanding of our basic archetypal complexes and their timing, then a knowledge of our birth chart can significantly increase the range of options, flexibility, and intelligence with which we approach life.

Most cultures, including our own prior to the modern era, had some kind of astrology as an element of their global view, for they understood the phases of the moon, sun, and planets as profoundly significant. The astrological viewpoint observes the universe as meaningful and integrated. Instead of the modern partition between the purposeful, meaning-seeking human consciousness unrelated to a random, meaningless universe, astrology implies that individually and cosmically we are integrated at all levels; outer and inner, macrocosm and microcosm, celestial and terrestrial. As was said by the ancients, "As above, so below."

The natal birth chart is created by determining as precisely as possible the exact time, day, month and year of birth, using astronomical software, the position of the planets, sun and moon is established and plotted in their relationship to Earth. From this plotting geometrical relationships emerge as these heavenly bodies form triangles, squares, and other angular relationships something like a snapshot of the heavens at the moment of ones birth.The nature of those patterns, which planets are involved and how they are positioned, correlate in a strikingly consistent manner with the archetypal character of the experiences one tends to have through life.Archetype DefinedAn archetype is a universal principle or force that affects, propels, constitutes and saturates the human consciousness (psyche) and human behavior on many levels. One can consider them as primordial instincts (Freud), as inspiring first principles (Plato), or as gods of the psyche (Egyptians).Archetypes (e.g. Venus or Mars) have a motivating, mythic quality, yet they also have very explicit psychological expressions as in the longing for love and the experience of beauty (Venus), or the inclination to forceful action and aggression (Mars). Moreover, archetypes seem to work from within and without; they can express themselves as impulses and representations from the interior psyche yet also as specific episodes and situations in the external world.Archetypes are not only visible in human psychology, in human experience and behavior, but are also linked to the macrocosm i.e. to the planets and their movements in the heavens. Astrology thus sustains the ancient paradigm of a collective consciousness (Jung) or world soul, in which the human consciousness participates. It is concept, not pop horoscopes, that drew the ancient civilizations to their gods and their views of reincarnation.

How Do The Planets Affect Us?The familiar explanation put forward is the Sun-Moon correlation such as the solar flaring and its effects, the menstrual cycles following the waning-waxing Moon and lunar tidal consequences.

It is tricky at best, and we have no known mechanism for drawing such a conclusion, that Uranus or Saturn or their astronomical placement to each other directly provokes life on Earth events.

If Jung is right and we are part of a collective consciousness, one is all, all is one, also represented in the basic esoteric axiom, "as above, so below," then there exists a universe all of whose parts are incorporated into an intelligible whole.

From this viewpoint, the planets are not "sourcing" anything to be occurring in our lives no more than the numbers on a digital timepiece are causing it to be 9:34 PM. Rather, the planetary positions are identifying the cosmic status of the archetypal vigors at that time. The reality is the planets regularly appear to be a sign of archetypical events with such precision strongly hints that the cosmic order is much more intense and persistent than our conventional ideas have imagined. That the relationship between a particular planetary pattern and a human experience is best seen as one of significant connection not one of straightforward linear causality. The Moon does not create werewolves.Astrology is the constant harmony linking planetary positions and human lives as a type of universal cipher, the practical face of mathematical astronomy, for the human mind to disentangle, to better appreciate and comprehend ourselves and our world, rediscover our profound association to the cosmos, and be more complete human beings. Schwartz: Pre-Birth, Life and Soul Planning

Robert Schwartz studies of clients Life Between Lives (LBL) sessions has created a library of information on the mechanics and processes of the Life Review and the subsequent soul group planning and goal setting for the subsequent incarnation.

The circumstances of our birth are not accidental but are in some sense a consequence of our spiritual and karmic character. If we select the events of our lives, we choose the family, culture and age into which we are born, and since this choice is somehow made from a superior plane of our spiritual being (than that of which we are generally conscious) then the tie-in between pre-birth life planning and the astrological birth chart is unavoidable.

From the LBL point of view, the birth chart is not the declaration of inescapable fate but the defining of the basic configuration of our probable unfolding recognizing the personal gifts and tests that we have chosen for this lifetime to work with and evolve through.

Hypnotherapist Patricia Walsh following on the heels of mentor Roger Woolger guides PLR and LBL regressions for clients who have provided their pertinent natal information. From the client data, she extracts a natal chart which gives strong clues as to the nature of the client and their archetypal influences.

This approach emphasizes the PLR/LBL to be more than a tool of experience or a mental unfolding of the subconscious but further as actual analysis for the detection and treatment of client problems.

In Understanding Karmic Complexes, Walsh shows consistent and irrefutable correlates between 'actual' past life memories (recalled during regression therapy)from thousands of individuals to their natal astrological charts.http://www.healthepast.com/booksThis is the second generation of progress, the first being the acceptance of Schwartz work with pre-birth planning sessions and, now, the deeper realization of the myriad of options and decisions which embrace cosmological origins and consequences. That is to say the soul and life planning sessions are much more than uncomplicated meetings between advisors and soulmates.