Soul Growth Initiated by Planetary Movements

[This entry includes an excerpt from http://www.cosmicclockreflections.wordpress.com — a blog that will conduct a Cosmic Clock astrology book study — and adds comments specific to how planetary movements affect a soul by how they aspect one’s astrological chart.]

“Predict Your Future” presents the spiritual cosmology of Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet within an astrological context.  Their teachings (see www.tsl.org for their complete body of works) center on the premise of soul evolution:  that each person’s soul receives the sacred opportunity of several hundred incarnations to increasingly fulfill her ultimate destiny: reunion with her divine Self, the I Am Presence.

[We will use the pronoun “her” in reference to the soul as the feminine or Mother aspect of God, the embodiment of spirit in mater.]

Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet dedicated their teachings to provide each soul opportunity to transmute self-created, karmic energy patterns that block optimal, cooperative interaction with her divine Self.

You may accelerate your soul’s evolution by invoking the violet flame to:  transmute the negative patterns of God’s energy your soul has misqualified in past lives (negative karma) into positive energy patterns; and to magnify the positive energy patterns (positive karma) you have created in past lives.

The cycles of the various planets through the 12 signs of the zodiac initiate each soul’s opportunities to transmute her negative karma into positive karma, and to magnify positive karmic patterns that are also initiated by those planetary movements.

The soul experiences extraordinary opportunity for growth when those planetary movements form dynamic, geometric aspects to her birth chart’s planetary positions.  Certain aspects can initiate challenging or ‘negative’ energy patterns from one’s soul records, while other aspects can initiate easy or ‘positive’ energy patterns into one’s life.

The karmic energies the soul experiences during those planetary aspects often correspond to the same planetary aspects in place at the time the soul qualified God’s energy either positively (in life-expanding thoughts, feelings or actions) or negatively (in self-destructive thoughts, feelings or actions).

The tests or ‘initiations’ the soul experiences during such transits (aspects to one’s chart formed by current planetary positions) usually manifest within the context of close interaction with other people — that’s simply because we have created most of our karma through close interaction with other people. 

‘Karmic situations’ can involve the same souls with whom we mutually qualified those specific karmic-energy patterns.  Or the situations might involve people who were totally unrelated to our original actions — but we might have magnetized them to us because their souls were involved in similar energy patterns that they must resolve with someone whose similar karma also fits their soul’s needs.

Karmic Astrology 101

This blog will primarily discuss how, where and when we can apply Cosmic Clock astrology principles within the matrix of traditional astrology natal (birth) charts. 

Traditional, modern-day astrology and Cosmic Clock astrology share many essential elements of reference, such as using the same signs of the zodiac, using a similar, physical matrix or ‘frame of reference.’  Yet the two have basic differences.  Let’s start by looking at some of those similarities and differences:

1) Traditional astrology is constructed on a counter-clockwise circle, while the Cosmic Clock is, naturally, on a clockwise circle.  Each of the circles is divided into 12 sections; traditional astrology refers to those divisions as ‘houses’ while the Cosmic Clock refers to them as ‘lines of the clock.’  Whether we call them ‘houses’ or ‘lines,’ those 12 sections include the entire space following the beginning point of each ‘house cusp’ or ‘line of the clock.’

2) Most chart matrices show a large circle surrounding the 12 house divisions with a smaller circle inside the 12 house divisions.  We can think of that inner circle in two ways.  Traditional astrology naturally regards it as symbolizing the Earth.  Cosmic Clock astrology would add to that, regarding the smaller circle as also symbolic of the sphere of soul consciousness and experience, of soul initiations within the confines of the time-space continuum or ‘classroom’ we call Earth.

3) The signs of the zodiac sit on the outside of the larger circle, while the planets are placed just inside the outer circle and within the lines of the houses they occupy (according to the sign and degree each planet is in at birth).  So we see the planets rotate between the smaller circle of ‘Earth’ and the larger circle symbolizing the ‘circle’ of 12 zodiacal signs.

4) The matrices/charts of both types of astrology contain four quadrants, differentiated by a cross formed by: a) the vertical-polarity line between the Medium Coli (Mid-Heaven, at top) and Ilium Coli (at bottom); and, b) the horizontal-polarity line between the Ascendant (Rising Sign) and Descendant.  Both types identify the quadrants by their corresponding elements of fire, air, water and earth.  Both types equate those four elements to the four seasons and four aspects of human consciousness:  fire = spiritual = winter; air = mental = spring; water = emotional = summer; earth = physical = fall.

5) Traditional astrology’s 1st house — beginning of cycles — starts at the cardinal point of the mental quadrant, at the natural point of Aries that corresponds to the ‘rebirth’ of plant life in spring.   That cycle ends in the 12th house, at the end of the fire/winter quadrant that traditional astrology equates to the cyclic death/dormancy of plant life before spring’s ‘rebirth.’  This philosophy thus emphasizes the human ego that asserts itself to the outer world on the 1st house, the cardinal point of the mental quadrant, the point of the Rising Sign also known as the Ascendant:  the point where the Sun rises/ascends over the eastern horizon.

6) Cosmic Clock astrology’s cycle starts at the Mid-Heaven (top point of circle) — the 12 o’clock line that corresponds to the cardinal point of the fire/spiritual/winter quadrant — and completes the cycle at the end of the 11 o’clock line.  This philosophy asserts that all energy symbolically spirals into the matter sphere (astrological circle) of soul consciousness at the Mid-Heaven, the beginning of the ‘etheric’/spiritual/fire quadrant where divine inspiration occurs.  Souls receive the inspiration and begin to elaborate on it with ideas in the air/mental quadrant, qualify the energy with emotional excitement in the water/emotional quadrant, then finally coalesce the energy into form in the earth/physical quadrant.

7) The Mid-Heaven/winter/spiritual quadrant corresponds to the holiest season common to many religions, the season in which the weather naturally drives the soul’s attention more inward (and ‘upward’?).  Cosmic Clock astrology also equates the 12 o’clock line to the crown chakra, the point at which the soul receives a constant stream of energy and direction from her higher Self, her individual I Am Presence.

8.) While traditional astrology includes the Mid-Heaven in its analysis of all major aspects, I have never seen a description of the Mid-Heaven’s true meaning — until I studied Cosmic Clock astrology and the other teachings of The Summit Lighthouse conveyed by Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet.  Future publications will expand on that topic.

9) Traditional astrology’s analysis primarily concerns the various areas of a person’s outer, mundane affairs, with each house representing one area of the native’s outer life.  Each house mutually corresponds to a specific sign, a ‘ruling’ planet.  All three of those — house, sign, planet — basically correspond to a list of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ qualities of consciousness, human tendencies and life activities. 

By contrast, Cosmic Clock astrology primarily concerns the ‘inner’ initiations for potential growth and freedom from the bondage of her misqualified energies that one’s soul will experience throughout the cycles of her life (that difference will become more clear as we proceed in future postings).