Can You Transcend Your Chart?
“My first response to this question is to ask why would you want
to? It's not as if the chart limits us in any way. The chart is
simply a map that can be used to guide our growth into that which we
are ‘meant to’ become, just as all forms of life evolve in the way
that is intrinsically right for them, whether that manifests as an
acorn developing into a fully grown oak tree, a butterfly emerging
from its cocoon, or a newborn child realizing its destiny to become
an astrologer or a buddha - an awakened one, whatever the case
maybe.
The birth chart indicates what kind of ‘seed’ we are. Looking at
the chart maybe compared to looking at the picture on the front of a
seed packet. You can see from the picture what the seed is ‘meant
to’ grow into and become. The chart also indicates the kind of
cultivation that will assist the seed to flower, the tests and
challenges likely to be met on the way, and also when these are
likely to occur. What a wonderful guide map to have on the journey!
So why would you want to transcend it?
Perhaps you feel you are ‘born under a bad sign’. But there is
no such thing as a 'bad' chart or a 'bad' sign, nor is one sign
better than another. Is a gum tree better than an oak tree? For
certain purposes that could well be so or as an aesthetic preference
in the same way that we all have our favourite star signs, but this
implies no absolute standard or basis of comparison. However,
although there is no such thing as a 'bad' sign or a 'bad' chart,
equally there is no doubt that some charts, some lives, are more
difficult than others. Hence the leading question.
In response I would say that just as the seed of a gum tree may
flower into a magnificent fully grown tree, overcoming obstacles
such as lack of rain, poor soil, etc, so may a Capricorn born with
the Sun in hard aspect to Saturn say, overcome a childhood of
parental oppression and flower into an individual who is happy with
his lot in life, capable of defining success according to his own
autonomous values, and not live his life in conformity to, or
rebellion against, his parental inheritance. One could confidently
predict though that this would not be easy and would only be
achieved, if at all, after many trials and tribulations. And I would
say that our hypothetical successful Capricorn has not transcended
his chart but rather fulfilled it. He has attained to the higher
potential indicated therein.
Everything in our charts needs to be accepted, perhaps
especially the difficult parts. There is no getting away from them
anyway. We cannot change our charts but we can manifest them at a
higher or lower level. We can attain a higher level by shifting the
centre of personality from the ego to the Self, that central point
in the psyche which orchestrates everything that happens in our
lives. Its energy manifests in us as the urge to become
ourselves.
In the first phase of life, the task of the ego is to establish
itself as a separate individual. This is a truly heroic journey that
all of us must undertake if we are to have successful relationships
and fulfilling lives in society. The task of the second phase of
life is for the ego to reverse this process and consciously return
to the Self. Then we return to the place we began and know it for
the first time. We become what we always were.
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