In Astrology, the Sun reveals something important about you.
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Learning the language
On one level, Astrology is a language that deals with a specific, organized set of information and knowledge. People like chemists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers have their own specialized languages they use when conversing with each other -- that usually baffle the rest of us. Well, so do Astrologers. We have a set of symbols and stuff that we combine to convey ideas and concepts someone else who "speaks the language fluently" can readily understand.
It's a pretty easy language to learn. In fact, if you hang around here much, you're apt to pick up the basics in spite of yourself -- because I'm going to help. After that, what you do with it depends on how far you want to go ... if at all. But "just the basics" can be very helpful. And remember, I'm going to help, too.
So, let's start with some real basics -- that are like the ABC's of the language. This is what a horoscope looks like. (In fact, this is what my horoscope looks like. There you have it. Full disclosure. The story of me ... laid out in a whole lot of squiggles and symbols in a circle.)
You've seen this before, of course, if you've read my blog -- or had your Natal Chart interpreted somewhere along your way -- or done much of anything involving Astrology. This is what an Astrologer uses to organize some of the language I mentioned.
We fill it in with all the symbols and silliness you see here -- or better still, we get a computer program to do it for us. (That's a damn sight easier than the "by hand" way I learned to do it ... back in the day ... before computers took over the world and now do everything but stack the dishes after supper.)
I understand if this looks like total nonsense to you, but take my word, this is a very "user friendly" horoscope. I have seen some on the internet that are so obscure and confusing I know for a fact the people displaying them are doing it only to make themselves seem a lot smarter. (That's pretty contemptible, if you ask me, but then nobody did.)
If I have to stop and puzzle out what a chart is trying to show ... after working with a lot of horoscopes for over 45 years, a beginner doesn't stand a cat in hell's chance (to quote 
It won't happen today ... or next time ... or the time after. It won't happen in a flash, either. It will happen gradually and naturally -- which is the way to learn any new language ... until you can start speaking words and sentences of your own. Don't be in a rush, but don't be scared either. This is going to be fun.
The Planets represent your Inner Selves.
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The Planets
The planets represent a number of Inner Selves everyone has ... sub-personalities that have their own interests and agendas -- and their own talents and power, when you get right down to it. They're specialists, designed explicitly, to help you navigate life and do (and learn!) all the things you came here to experience.
(Just to disclose my own philosophical bias, I believe you chose to come here -- and take on certain tasks, challenges and responsibilities in order to grow and evolve as a spiritual being. If that's the case, I plan to have a stern talk with myself when I'm safely back "on the other side" before I agree to take on this gig again. But you will hear this assumption weave its way through my writing -- and the way I approach this subject. Just thought I'd tell you.)
Astrology has identified ten of these sub-personalities -- and each is assigned to one of the eight planets -- plus the Sun and the Moon -- that populate a horoscope. The planets in a horoscope symbolize these Inner Selves ... these sub-personalities. (Stop clutching your heart. I said this was going to be easy. And it will be if you'll settle down and listen.)
So ... to repeat. The Planets (and the Sun and the Moon) represent your constellation of Inner Selves -- the members of your Inner Family -- that together comprise your personality. Theoretically, these Inner Selves work together, harmoniously and according to a set of rules and plans, to help you make the most of yourself -- and your life.
(In real life though, not so much. At least where the "harmonious" part is concerned. These conflicts, when they erupt, help explain why people have "personality problems," hang-ups, psychological quandaries and all the other issues that make us the complicated creature we are. It also helps explain why some people get along together and others don't -- or why you sometimes get along better with these same people than you do at others. You start to see life as a circus after a while -- and I'm only half joking when I say that. There's something going on in at least one of the rings all the time!)
Drilling it in
Again ... the Planets are your Inner Selves ... your sub-personalities -- and I actually treat them as such, as "other people" I can talk to, make sense of, even negotiate with -- especially when we get cross-ways with each other. You have no idea how much this can simplify some of the rockier moments in life.
When you can understand what each of your Inner Selves is trying to accomplish -- and why they aren't getting along ... presently, or why they aren't getting along with what's happening in the world, you gain a whole different perspective on yourself -- and your options ... and the possible strategies that might work better than what you're doing -- or at least make things easier.
Life can be really tough when you're "flying blind" -- which is how most people do it. It doesn't have to be that way. What I plan to write about here could shed a whole lot of light on the perplexing mysteries of YOU -- if you're interested enough to show up ... and brave enough to participate.
The posts in this series will be interlaced with those that deal with my forecasting posts and Tarot posts. That means it will take some time (some considerable time possibly) to get though it. But also means you have time (considerable time!!) to process what you've learned, to think about it, to watch it at work in your life, to work with it consciously yourself -- and somewhere in there, you'll learn why I'm so enthralled with the wonders of this magical subject. It literally changed the course of my life when I discovered it. And I have no trouble at all predicting it can do the same for you ... if you let it.
In Astrology, the Sun represents an important Inner Self.
The Moon represents another.
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Closing this up ... for now
One last time now. The Planets in your horoscope represent your Inner Selves ... your sub-personalities -- the components of your psychological make-up that together create the totality of the person you are. There are ways to understand them ... and work with them consciously ... just as you would work with the people in a group who have come together for a particular purpose or to create some common good.
We're going to talk about one of them real soon. Maybe not next time -- I have some other introductory material to compose and publish first. And those posts on other topics are waiting in the wings as well. But soon. So ... hang around.
Check back here in the next couple of days. And don't be surprised to discover that you've actually learned something ... in a little while. Something that could prove pretty helpful -- if only because it gives you a whole new take on exactly who you are -- who you are really!!
Are you excited yet?