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From the Classic Text Astrology of the Seers by Dr. David Frawley
Core Teachings
Astrology should be a spiritual science. Our birth chart is a mirror of our soul and its particular incarnation. New Articles by David Frawley
In our stars we see the growth and evolution of our inner being from life to life. This does not mean that we
can find truth or liberation merely through reading astrological charts. It means that astrology gives us the News
keys to the unfoldment of the spirit and can be used as a key to inner unfoldment.

The stars and planets are not just outer entities; they exist within our own minds as our guiding lights. One
could say that our own inner lights take shape outwardly as the stars and planets to guide the worlds
evolution. The outer comes from the inner and not vice versa, though the outer can affect the inner. The
same rays of creation function outwardly in the heavens and inwardly in the heaven of our own higher
mind. The stars determine our field of activity in life. They reflect the energies that we, as souls, project into
this life. As we are a reflection of them, so they are a reflection of us. The stars form the cosmic man just as
we, as human beings, form a solar system within ourselves.

Our own soul is itself a star, a sun, a point of cosmic light. Our own soul often called the causal being
because it is the causative power behind our life and thought contains the power to create the entire
universe. The light of our soul connects directly to the cosmic light, to the one Divine light that is in the Sun
and all the stars.

Reflecting the universe itself, astrology can be used to examine all domains of life. From it we can learn
about our health, wealth, career and relationships; our material, mental and spiritual manifestations. It
shows the entire structure of energies through which we must act in life. As such, it is the most
comprehensive science we have. Yet on its highest level, astrology should be part of yoga, the science of
the spirit. Its purpose is to guide us beyond the net of these outer forces to their source. This source in not
in the heavens, whether of this physical world or of one more subtle. It is not some mysterious or alien
force, but what we really are when our minds are free of the bias of the separate self.

The planets show the energies that we need to master in order to calm our minds. Anger, a typical lower
energy of the planet Mars, for example, is the power of truth to manifest what is right and not deviate from
it. It appears as anger when we identify truth with some egoistic opinion or emotion. All the lower
indications of the planets are simply the higher powers struggling in a state of limitation. They are different
facets of the jewel of the enlightened mind, and they require reintegration rather than suppression.

The essential principle of a spiritual science is self-knowledge. As great sages have said repeatedly, Self-
knowledge is the basis of all knowledge. Yet self-knowledge is something far more than psychological
analysis. It is not the knowledge of our outer personality or conditioned self but of our inner consciousness
and unconditioned being. The analysis of memory confines us to a superficial aspect of our being. Self-
knowledge is also something more than knowledge of past lives. This is only a more extensive memory, still
caught in the veil of form and the limitation of time.

Self-knowledge is the knowledge of who we really are, of our true being, which is the light of awareness.
This is the Self, of which all our incarnations are but masks. It is not found by knowing who we were or why
we became this or that; it is found by negating all separative identity and reintegrating the world within our
own hearts. This requires seeing all lives within us. Such seeing is a recognition of the Divine presence
everywhere.

Astrology properly employed shows us the world within ourselves. It is a tool for moving our
consciousness from its physical limitation in the human brain through the rays of creation to encompass
the entire universe. It is a tool for meditation in which the planets represent the qualities that we must
realize within ourselves. The planets are the limbs of the cosmic person that we must put back together to
return to the original state of grace. Understanding astrology, our consciousness can soar through the
planets and the stars to the central Sun of Truth in the inner heart of all.

All worlds, planets, stars, galaxies and whatever else lies beyond them are a manifestation of the seven rays
of creation. These same rays of creation are the lights of our own soul. All nature is nothing but various
combinations of these causal lights on different levels. Our solar system is designed to manifest these
creative energies, in their dual power as the Sun and Moon and in their fivefold diversification as the five
major planets of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.

Each planet is a teaching. It represents an integral aspect of the cosmic being in its self-manifestation. Each
planet shows us a line of approach to the cosmic being. Through integrating within ourselves the energies
represented by the planets, we regain our true wholeness as cosmic beings. Each planet therefore
represents a door to liberation. If we do not understand the energy of a planet within us, it will bind and
lead us into sorrow and conflict. If we take too much or too little of the energy of any planet, we will cause
imbalance and disorder in and around us, both physically and psychologically. If we take the energy of a
planet divisively or superficially, it will lead us into disintegration. If we take that energy as a part of our
deeper self, it will lead us to a greater and higher unfoldment.

The planets are awesome forces. Yet we ourselves are part of this mysterious universe and have its
tremendous power within us. A great power exists within our soul to deal with the incredible energies of
life. Our ego must break or turn away. Through inner inquiry and surrender, this power to master the
planets and the stars can come forth. Through it, the nebula of our own mind coalesces, concentrates, and
finally becomes enkindled as a Sun of direct perception.

Each planet represents a particular kind of yoga, a certain way of the unfoldment of consciousness.
Following a planets characteristic ray back to its origin, we will arrive at the light of truth through its higher
and subtler potential. The planets are different gifts of light to guide us back to our spiritual home. Their
angle of approach varies, but their goal is one. In this return route their energies gradually come together.

Different souls fall under different rays belonging to the different planets. They belong to different
planetary families. They are working for the development of the creative ray belonging to that planet,
moving it forward in its evolutionary development, some at lower, some at higher levels. The evolution of
the soul and that of the universe are thus the same. Each soul is a guiding force in cosmic evolution and in
its liberation it will liberate a certain facet of the world being and further the evolution of all.

Different countries, races and religions also fall under different planetary rays. We are all part of the play of
the gods, which is the play of the planets. Yet we are not just the puppets in the play, although we often
accept this cosmic servitude while we are in ignorance of our greater inner potential. Inwardly we are the
masters of this play, its guiding intelligence. All the intelligence inherent in the stars, produced by eons of
cosmic evolution, is present within us as our own natural intuition and spontaneous insight.

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