Loading ...“I often wonder if our lives are pre-destined and if we’re just a piece of a larger puzzle meant to play a specific part in the grand scheme of things.”
To a degree we are pre-destined (although granted the grace of free will within the confines of our birth horoscopes). Free will means we have a choice of acting in positive ways to enhance our lives or in negative ways that detract from our lives. Those who are conversant with their birth charts have a better opportunity to channel their negative energies into behavior that will bring them benefit than those who are without such knowledge.
We are all born under one of twelve Sun signs, which represent our essence, our inner motivations. Yet those motivations , that Sun energy, is held hostage to the constant adjustment of the Moon, which takes the energy from the Sun, modifies it according to feelings, and transmits it to the Ascendant, which then projects it in the form of an image onto the immediate environment. The Ascendant describes a person’s initial approach to life.
An example: The life-generating creative potential of the solar force will manifest itself through the Sun sign Sagittarius as an ever-seeking desire to expand the Self through consistent but ever-changing activities as well as through the gathering of information based on sensual and intellectual experiences. However, this person has the receptive, form-giving emotional aspect of the lunar force manifesting in Libra and modifies the Sun energies as a feeling of security through other people’s reactions to one’s own actions, as well as an ever-present need to bring harmony into one’s own and other people’s relationships. This is then transmitted via the Ascendant, modified so that they are more closely related to one’s external approach to life than to one’s inner motivations characterized by the Sun sign…in this case the sign Cancer…by a keen awareness for self-preservation. Cancer rising lends an extremely sympathetic and sensitive approach to life but with an overriding tendency to take all initial impressions personally,. Unless conditioned by other modifying factors, this Ascendant can give an extremely subjective approach to life. The initial drive is to secure a foundation or “home base,” from which all outer activities can proceed. With this in mind as a conscious goal, a Cancer Ascendant can either give great creativity or a great sense of insecurity to his or her form of self-expression.
This person’s expansion of self has been severely limited by the Sun/Moon/Ascendant combination, the energies gathering force to deflect from self-expansion to the attempt to gain security by ownership of four separate houses. Instead of dealing with insecurity early on in life a negative path in the use of their planetary energies has led to failure. She had the free will to turn her energies into positives but chose to betray herself and so must live with the results…until such time as she chooses otherwise.
Wisdom from Rumi: “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen..”