Psychological portrait
There are many schools of thought regarding astrology, and they all are valid. However, the reading that we want to propose in this section is the psychological one. A tool which gives an excellent opportunity for personal awareness that can be of great help in a path of growth and understanding of one's own inner world, above all in those personal "parts" that are not easy to identify and to express directly.
Unfortunately, each of us has had a childhood, a period in which we were particularly fragile and needy, and it is precisely in this period of our lives that the need to adapt to external requirements often makes us transform, repress or even remove some our parts because they are perceived as being "unacceptable".
At a psychological level, the parts that are not acknowledged are those that will try to make themselves noticed, causing us difficulties: this is because our psyche moves towards completeness, and it is through the interpretation of symbols that the reading of our birth chart allows us to reasonably easily identify our potential and what instead needs to be extracted to reach a more solid and truer sense of identity.
The birth chart therefore becomes a very interesting tool to understand how things really are and what energies, if used better, will allow us to complete our life's mission.
The psychological portrait is developed by reading different elements that are present in each natal chart but that combine differently for each of us, thereby forming a unique and special mix in our ways of associating, distributing and exchanging energies: this unique mix is our individual personality, the one that makes you a different human being from anyone else.
To recover trust in life
Your relationship with limits and with practicality and an excessive sense of duty easily engender in you a lack of energy: you are so often sucked into a whirlpool of activities and duties that you forget that your batteries need to be recharged and that to do this you need to get back into contact with the magic of life, with something deep that you have inside and that can make you experience the sense and meaning of things; all this involves abandonment, even if only temporarily, of your daily routine and activities. Life is wonderful but nothing can make you feel this if your contact with reality does not leave space for anything else and if the mythical and creative dimension is missing. You need to be in the open air, to feel the rays of the Sun warming your body; you need to fall in love, to approach spontaneity and simplicity like a child: all of this can regenerate you and let you feel that coursing flow of energy that desires to be expressed. An overly strict and prolonged relationship with the practical and material dimension can end up debasing the nature of things, and at the same time, lead you to be overloaded, always stressed, imprisoned inside the worry of problems that seem to continuously increase rather than dissolve. Therefore, take a break every now and then, get in touch with your imagination and your creative energy, and leave space for your feelings, and you will also see that what frightens you is in fact simpler than you think. You also need physical movement and to follow your immediate impulses; avoid planning everything, but do something "crazy" each day. something that breaks you out of your heavily organised mind.
The creative spirit as conquest
You have a strong predisposition for seriousness and rationality: everyone sees you as a person with a lot of good sense who assesses and thinks before deciding and before starting new projects. However, this excessive planning has ignored the need to play and spontaneously create things without too many thoughts or misgivings.
At times you get lost in the small details and in trying to organise things so that they go almost perfectly, but all this is to the detriment of a taste for enjoyment, amusement and those feelings of joy that only arise when you "suddenly" run into things and understand that you are able to improvise even without planning.
Perhaps when you were little you always had to take on responsibilities that have accustomed you to not take anything for granted and to try to keep things under control: this way of living can be satisfactory if from time to time you allow yourself to "let go" and also to take life … a little bit as it comes.
The ability to let one's creativity flow is something almost miraculous because it allows us to understand that we share something with the "big scheme of things" and that, if we allow this to express itself without blocking it with doubts and fears, it flows out and manages to amaze us due to its indubitable qualities.
Discovering your talent
You should sometimes stop to watch children when they play and enjoy themselves: whatever they do, they manage to do it as if it were the most important thing in the world: you have lost sight of this; you feel out of place and perhaps ridiculous if you abandon yourself to something that seems "lighthearted" to you. Instead, what one does to release tension can be a wonderful and valuable means of lightening up, and so it should be taken with the utmost seriousness: even games must be taken seriously else they lose all of their intrinsic worth. If you manage to behave in this way you will have the talent to "become enthusiastic for things"; Don Juan in Castaneda's book states: "a man should do everything as if it was the last thing he does", in other words it has to be done with intensity.
This is the secret one can learn from children: you must carry out a game with the same mindset as when you carry out your daily tasks. Life makes us too easily forget our time as children, which instead remains inside and lets us come into relation with our divine inner child. It is the one who knows how to make the "talent" emerge; it need not be searched for, it is already there, it is there waiting, although it requires you to listen, remain in silence and be fascinated while it comes to the fore.
To fall in love with things and people
Give yourself the time to follow what you like and what you have a passion for; this is not a waste of time because it means that there is a wellspring in you that can reduce your thirst, but which can also run out if it is never used. It is not important what you do in the moments you are alone with yourself; what you have to understand is that what you really like doing will be able to reward you to such a point that you will feel yourself renewed but also regenerated in terms of energy.
A bit more enjoyment, the ability to feel your spirits lifting while watching a beautiful sun-set or being close to a child who is smiling and rushing forward to meet life: these are the things that can make a real difference between a man who has lost his feelings and one who has maintained them and has discovered their great value.
To look in wonder at a flower or the tenderness of a puppy are not "things for children", but are things for people who perceive the essence of creation.
Work is important, but it cannot feed the soul. The "Peter Pan" in you can once again come alive simply by allowing him to express himself and by letting your imagination go. This is the true generosity of life.
To learn to develop and make things a reality
Your imaginative nature constantly drives you to improvise; it often forces you to face a sense of precariousness because it seems as if for you "to have seen with the eyes of the mind" was all that was necessary; in reality, time is always our master, and in your case, it is important to realise that you have started many things, you have been down many paths, you have ventured into numerous projects but you have behaved like a mayfly and you have not at all thought about developing something lasting and that could give you stability in the future. Your imagination creates adventures like those of the one thousand and one nights, but all human beings need to know that they can at least count on a solid foundation: we are born on this Earth and this is why we have a sense of gravity: if there is nothing solid in our lives we feel uprooted and unstructured, but we also feel without any attachment and without a base to which to do return. You have the habit of thinking that "tomorrow is another day …" and this is fantastic if you also manage to exploit the present, and above all, the experience the present gives you.
Even your sense regarding your body is not very well defined: you do not always understand that you need to orientate yourself on rhythms that are more natural to you; a little more self-discipline will let you organise your time better and allow you to accept some rules without feeling suffocated. You need to carefully review what is possible and what needs to be set aside.
Understanding limitations
Our material condition presupposes limits; the body itself is a limit; we cannot grow any more than our physical structure lets us. This limit cannot and must not be seen only as a restriction but also as something that lets you structure yourself and understand what your real potential is; it can also guide you in reinforcing your most fragile points.
Certainly it is a way to learn to know how far you can push yourself. Knowing these limits is also important in deciding whether to exceed or infringe them. These are parameters without which the world can have no rules or laws; unfortunately, it would also become a world in which there is no possibility of developing things and in which nothing is certain.
You would love to remain a long time in the realm of infinite possibilities, but this would mean permanently prolonging your childhood; growing up means abandoning the megalomaniac dreams of youth, or better; it means understanding which of them can become a reality and which instead cannot have a future and must be abandoned. To take life and responsibilities seriously feels better than you think; besides, being serious does not mean being rigid and not seeing the beautiful side of things!
Working on real personal values
To have a solid structure is the point of arrival of all individuals. To succeed in this intent you must work on your profound values and on what really matters for you. Rather than pursuing nebulous and confused faraway goals, you have to define clear objectives that are based on what you believe and supported by the constancy of seeing them come to an end. Only if you manage to identify and reinforce that which is authentic will it be possible to find the reasons that come from the heart to lead you to your desired goal. Certainty and stability are the end of the journey and cannot be improvised: to reach them you must have a plan, assess it and then, with patience and perseverance, you must build on it day after day: strength is not only based on action: there are areas in life and moments in which it is necessary to know how to use another facet of strength, which is resistance. Every time you reach an objective you will have laid another brick in the construction of your personal "certainty". Values and desires are what move you internally; to develop them and make them become a reality requires will, determination and the necessary amount of time. Impatience and construction are not easy bedfellows.
Daily routine does not necessarily mean banality
The practical world, routine and necessity are the things that horrify you; life nevertheless also leads you to facing things that are part of a daily routine: bills to be paid, deadlines to be met, commitments that must be honoured; these "banalities" are a part of the life of each person, and without facing this reality you will never know if you are able to develop true independence, or if instead you will be a person who always leans on others for manifold things that you cannot or do not want to see. You will be able to enjoy wonderful moments much more, as well as be able to play and dream if you have a greater sense of value for the things that, while being less sensational, enable an organised and healthy life-style.
The impact of rhythms, of the things which need to be done each day at times can seem "inferior" and "devaluing" to someone who has a mind which reaches skywards and towards the impossible; however, it is important that you understand that you need wings to be able to fly; everything you do must first of all be learnt, refined and then governed: if you do not manage to stay on a material level, your life will be distorted at all levels.
Objectiveness and detachment to face life
You are a person accustomed to perceiving the world as an offshoot of yourself, something that starts and ends with you; this approach makes you feel good, full of involvement and pathos; however, it does not give you a way of seeing how things are seen from the "outside", such as belonging to others, and, as such, experienced and interpreted in a different way from you. Your continuous underlining of what you would have done in a given situation displays a type of misaligned empathy that must be abandoned.
The world of the emotions is certainly useful as a means of staying in contact with others, nevertheless too often you have difficulty in distinguishing what happens inside you and what instead happens "outside" of you. You need to begin to trace solid demarcation lines, to discriminate and to understand what belongs to you, separating it from what does not belong to you, and you can do this only by beginning to work on a detachment that can offer you a viewpoint that is different from your habitual one.
It is not possible to make clear judgments on the things that we are involved in: often you think you are being objective, but in fact you react in a completely personal and irrational way to events that touch you personally. You need to acquire a vision "from up on high" so as to be able to perceive others as "different and separate from you".
Judgment is a quality that requires distance and perspective.
Looking at the sky and conceiving beauty
There exists a beauty that cannot be contemplated except through the eyes of the mind; there is a side to you that seems to lose sight of the aesthetic side of life and does not allow you to perceive the lightness and sense of perfection beyond emotional maelstroms and materiality. There are values that cannot be understood if not at an "ideal" level; it is this ideal that creates the desire to intervene in matters to make them better, closer to absolute beauty. Your mind travels in the crystalline spheres of the ether and can perceive all possibilities. To conceive of beauty and to be attracted by things that are not yet tangible is part of your need to relate to what there is around you and to perceive this sense of perfection. This aspect allows all mortal beings to feel that there is a path to improvement. The fact that the mind is able to conceive of an ideal model produces the hope that one day it will be possible - even for mankind - to reach perfection. Get in touch with your "ideals" because they allow you to have higher objectives.
Communication and relationship
One of the most fascinating qualities of human beings is "communication"; to be able to express what we have in our mind is something that allows us communicate at all levels and acquire knowledge. To communicate and to relate is our way of sharing things, of finding things in common with others, of not feeling alone and isolated, but it can also be a way to transform our world, by exchanging our thoughts with others. There is a side of you that is deeply afraid of dialogue and which defends itself by turning inwards; this limits your opportunity for growth and comparison; you must learn to communicate not only on a verbal level regarding facts and practical situations, but especially to express what you have inside.
Your inner realm must be somehow able to connect with the outside world: you will feel truly "at peace" with the world when you find the right relationship between your feelings and your thoughts, but also between what you are and what instead comes to you from others.
Life is a relationship: there can be no existence unless it be in a relationship to something else. To open yourself up more and to participate more means getting to know aspects other than your own. The phrase written on the temple of Delfi was "know thyself"; however, this cannot happen if not through a relationship.
To unite what seems to be separate
Reason and sentiment are not as distant as you may think; making this unity feasible allows one to experience a sense of completeness without having to defend yourself and hold at bay that which you find disturbing because it is distant from you.
Even the world of powerful emotions, which is so interesting and fascinating for you, might be more manageable if your mind were able to investigate the real and profound reasons that compel you at times to behave in ways you have not consciously chosen. The conscience has the prerogative of using the mind as a personal tool to dig deep and bring what was previously hidden to the surface.
The world of the mind is that of consciousness: emotions secretly direct our actions, but often they do it without giving us an exact direction: reasoning is what can make the difference, because it can understand what would otherwise remain unconscious and can give true direction to our decisions. In this way you can combine two different ways of perceiving reality and gaining experience, which are only apparently irreconcilable.
The meaning of somatization
The ease with which you erect walls that protect you from the world, creates obstacles for your ability to feel the inner movements and to identify the things that you do not tolerate; all this produces blocks that find their way to a physical level: thus you end up somatizing what you cannot analyse or understand on other levels; somehow you symbolically live those aspects which are difficult to consciously be aware of. The impossibility of true involvement and of getting to the bottom of your emotional world renders you unable to properly integrate your experiences and creates difficulties in assessing the world that surrounds you.
Since you have this particular way of expressing your uneasiness you will have to pay a lot of attention to what happens in your body: by carefully analysing the symptoms you will be able to glean better insight into your internal processes.
When one's emotional reality is disconnected from daily life this produces energy blocks that can impact health, your affections and your intimate relationships.
There is something crude and infantile in your emotional world, something that you feel is threatening: underlying emotions tend to present themselves in dreams, in little irrational reactions or in particular moments in life, especially those less favorable and less ideal moments.
You must let yourself listen and learn to "feel" what is happening and stirring inside you: this is the only true alternative to the overbearing power of rationality that, in the end, is a very sophisticated alibi.
Letting you inner world flow
You are so accustomed to blocking the things that come from inside you, to nip intuition or flashes in the bud: you do so claiming that they are "irrational", and "not logical". However, you do not notice how attracted you are to people who instead use these faculties and make you feel welcome and understood. The world of "ideas" is not all that exists; there are also other aspects of the psyche that allow you to experience intimacy, union, the need to feel close to something or someone, not just by talking and sharing ideas. There is a side of you that seems cold, so logical that it cannot but arouse suspicions that there is, in fact, something that torments you inside. If you do not manage to enter into contact with your emotions you will end up feeling cyclically subject to the power of your internal dynamics which, since you are unable to assess them clearly, you try to repel and ignore as soon as they arise. The world of emotions leads to the development of ideas and the ability to let go of the things that belong in the past so they can become experience to be used in the future.
It is through emotional thought alone that you can reallocate life experiences, leaving in the past those things which are rightfully a part of your history but which cannot and must not tyrannize your present and future. To close off this connection means bringing all your baggage with you.
Re-contacting the power of imagination and dreams
Perhaps you are not so solid, strong and rational as you think. Maybe inside of you something has remained of that child who suffered and who now needs to be connected with again through letting yourself go, allowing yourself to use your imagination, to fly among the clouds of your dreams; without necessarily experiencing this as something to be cast aside because it's weak or immature, or believing it to be a leftover of your childhood. This is the world where true strength can come from.
Imagination is the quality that lets you raise yourself above reality: only those who do not accept it and consider it to be "inferior" risk being swept away and being swallowed up; without its counterpart, reason becomes infertile, sterile, almost glacial in its incapacity to give sense to life. Only the world of feelings is capable of giving it some kind of "value".
The world of the thoughts, which is so clear, linear and precise in its contours, is in fact cold, rigid and defends itself by trying to hold at bay a more shapeless, certainly less well defined, but infinitely softer and more enchanting world; a world that has a memory and that seduces you with the promise of returning to that "centre" from which everything originated, for which you are nostalgic. It is important for you to once again discover a desire for dreaming and to express this part of you that has been buried for such a long time; without it you will not be able to feel involved or to live experiences intensely. You can do it; gradually, on tip-toes, you will find again your senses and a feeling of belonging.
The fear of getting lost and of letting yourself go
Your great potential abilities to discriminate and evaluate may in themselves be a strong barrier against the fear of being swallowed in the vortex of what you feel is "chaos" without structure: to enter this chaos with your mind can be an experience that is initially difficult and confusing, but it can be transformed into something extremely rewarding and healthy: it can directly lead you to "feeling" what is pulling the subtle strings underneath your preconceived ideas and the solid structures that so reassure you and give you the illusion of always being able to understand what is the best thing to do and say.
You will be able to see clearly many prejudices about strength and weakness and you will see first hand that nothing is as defined as the mind would like it to be: that which seems to be chaotic and disturbing may simply manifest itself in an order that is different from the usual one, perhaps because it is closer to being "absolute". Giving yourself up to what you feel and to your various emotional states allows you to get to know them without experiencing them with a sense of loss or negation of the mind, but instead, as an experience that can reorganise the power of the mind, recovering its capability to listen to and contact the wide realm of the soul.
The route to integration
The birth chart is not only an ensemble of characteristics that regard personality; it is much more; a birth chart encloses a plan concerning your life. This plan contains the perception of your past and future, a vast area of experience from which we draw, through which we have already developed much of our potential and a new direction, which is the one that we have in front of us and that we must know to be able to make what we have chosen to come true and which represents our future.
None of us are born without capabilities; the potential that is indicated in the birth chart can be considered a "trend" that we have acquired in the past and that influence our present: they are true skills which can be useful to us in moments of difficulty since they are already tested, and therefore known to be effective.
However, this passage does not always turn out to be easy: there are in fact features of our past that rather than being useful simply as experience, can actually hold us back, they may be features that are too rigid which are difficult to shrug off; if this happens we have to pay particular attention to learning to mediate what we know - this must be an important source and not something to hinder us so that we remain within its constraints - and instead we must grow learning to use new capabilities, which therefore have not yet been fine-tuned - this is a passage that cannot be seen exclusively as a difficulty that will require a great deal of effort.
In this sense, our past represents the capabilities and competences that we have already acquired, something which we can use, our tools; the future regards what we are called upon to develop during our lifetimes because this there will be of fundamental help in the journey towards our future.
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The hero's journey
Each sign has a higher purpose and a precise individual myth to discover and understand: this does not mean that the purpose and myth have to coincide perfectly for everyone; however, the sign's myth will provide a kind of structure which the person can use and it will be a reminder of the overall path that regards the people born under this sign; Joseph Campbell stated that myths represent a path which allows people not to feel alone, since at all critical moments they remember that exactly the same kind of events, these crucial passages in life, have already been faced by others before them.
The purpose and the myth of each sign are therefore also a path for us that helps us go forth on our personal journey.
The myth is an overall way of living that fits well with the personal one, which is why its validity persists over time; the purpose is instead something personal which indicates what we have to become.
Everybody should therefore discover what their "solar purpose" is and which is their personal myth, because this will accompany them in their journey through life, without doubt affecting life's main stages.
Each journey has certain symbolic characteristics which everyone can relate to.
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