Astrology
The usefulness of astrology goes far beyond its acceptance in new age circles as a crystal ball. Predictions can be useful in certain situations, as in helping one take measures to prevent unpleasant circumstances. However, astrology’s true strength lies in its capacity for revealing the fundamental patterns of our pain body and the path by which we may free ourselves from its constrictions. Once we consciously engage the process, we have opened a channel to liberation, the state of being beyond all limitation and restriction.
Every human being enters this world with a burden from the past. This burden creates stagnation and contraction in certain areas of our life, usually the ones we most want to engage. Relief from the past comes in understanding the future for where it is we most want to go is exactly what will untie the knot of the karmic past.
This aspect of astrology begins with the nodes of the Moon. In Jyotish, the astrology of India, the south node is known as Ketu and represents the past. 180 degrees opposite Ketu is its counterpart, the north node, Rahu, and represents the future. This axis forms the most important consideration in an astrological chart for from it, one can discern not only the pain one carries from past lives but the path to undo its karmic knots. The Ketu/Rahu axis is the path to ultimate freedom.
Everything in a chart is subordinated to the Ketu/Rahu axis. Whatever one is experiencing can and should be traced back to Ketu and the past it represents. No clear understanding of what one is going through will be forthcoming unless Ketu is understood. We are spiritual beings evolving toward pure awareness and all present circumstances tied to the past must be resolved.
Interestingly, resolution does not come from meeting the past head on and gritting the teeth in an effort to “gut it up.” According to the astrological perspective, resolution comes from embracing the karmic future as represented by Rahu. This is the area of life the inherent energies within us are gravitating toward. By engaging this area consciously and willfully, we are helping the process along. Ultimately, this process frees us from the karmic past.
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