ASTROLOGY -- PART TWO

Where Humanity has not advanced is in its understanding of the powers, or influences, of the various celestial bodies, knowledge which is sometimes referred to as the Ancient Wisdom.

Lack of Understanding

As you live each day of your life you are subject to the influences of your Solar Body. These can be forecast and mapped out. Your actual position on the Earth also affects the degree to which you receive the influences of the planets, and this too can be forecast. With regard to the mathematical side of astrology, astrologists can be fairly accurate and they can predict the movements of the planets and the stars around them. They can predict when they will appear and disappear, and when they will influence people. Humanity has advanced in this respect because it is the simple side of astrology. Where Humanity has not advanced is in its understanding of the powers, or influences, of the various celestial bodies, knowledge which is sometimes referred to as the Ancient Wisdom.

Not 9 But 12 Planets

Now you will appreciate that astrology today, as it does not recognise the existence of twelve planets within the Solar Body, since Humanity still has to discover three of them, must be inaccurate. Some of the varying influences, the signs of the zodiac as you call them, are in consequence attributed to wrong planets. There are twelve planets and there are twelve signs of the zodiac, one to each planet.

You are born at a definite time depending upon the lesson which you wish to learn and the planetary influence which you are attempting to master in that incarnation. This influence will vary throughout the period of the zodiacal sign depending on whether you are born early or late in the period. At the beginning you are under the influence, to a degree, of the last sign and towards the end you are receiving the influence of the next.

Moment of Birth

Before you incarnate into matter, you choose your birthday, you choose not only the calendar day but also the astrological day in order to receive the influences you desire, for at the moment of birth through the ether there comes to the child not only the Divine Spark that starts its path in life, but also the astrological influences of that moment in time.

What astrologists today do not know are the actual influences of the planets. They might understand some correctly, but not others. Therefore when they try to cast a horoscope certain influences will be missing, but most important of all, they do not know of the influence of what I will call soul wisdom, by which I mean the evolution of the soul that has incarnated, the lives experienced previously, the state of consciousness attained.

Level of Consciousness

As you can readily appreciate, you can have two people born at the same second in time alongside each other in the same room and yet they will both lead vastly different lives. How is this possible, you may ask, since they were both born under the same sign?? You may now begin to appreciate how small the significance of the planets is in this respect and how much greater is the significance of the individual´s consciousness.

As you evolve and become more aware and are more receptive to the planets so you vibrate to them more fully. You become a finer instrument. A coarse instrument would be less aware of the power and would respond less. Consequently, the use which you can make of planetary powers differs according to your point of consciousness.

So let us therefore place this aspect of astrology in its correct position. It can help you to predict the destiny of a person. It can help you to realise the influences under which you yourself vibrate and can point to certain significant periods in your lifetime, but cannot tell you with any degree of accuracy.

Powers of the Planets

As you live your life on the surface of the Earth you are subject to the influences of the planets and, here, astrologists can be more accurate in their predictions for depending on your location on the Earth, as the planets come into view and vibrate their influence so their power wil be felt. They can predict the appearance of Mars and Venus, of Jupiter and Saturn, and know when they will shine upon you.

If they know their powers they could also say that you would be influenced between certain times, on certain days, by the powers of the planets. No matter what the soul consciousness of the individual, all are affected. People may not react in the same way to the powers, but they are all affected. So astrology, in this respect, can predict the pattern of the planets and the stars and the influences that they will have on Humanity.

If you were to realise that the planets do have influences, if you were to learn about those influences, you would be able to run your life more smoothly by anticipating, by using or by avoiding, if you so desired, the influences of the planets at certain times during the course of the year.

Part Three follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".