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Understanding Your Sun and Moon Signs in Astrology

Monday, August 18, 2014 18:59

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By Simon Vorster

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Why astrology still matters

For some time now I have been noticing that many more people are expressing a genuine interest in planetary alignments. As we are transcending into a new paradigm, we are conscious that all things in the universe are inter-connected, and so many of us are seeking to understand how the planetary bodies surrounding us and their alignments are effecting us.

I also noticed that many people are aware of the sun and moon signs and even their descriptions/symbolism BUT are not really able to tune into what they actually mean for us.

In this article I would like to share some thoughts on how you go about understanding your sun and moon signs. My approach will be grounded in the idea that the soul is experiencing itself on earth as a human and, collectively with everyone else, participating in the game called evolution. Hopefully today I will be able to raise your awareness of the deeper truth of these two symbols.

Understanding Your Sun and Moon Signs - Astrology

Let’s begin here and open up with brief observation about what is true for life here on earth.

Is it not true, that life and our human experience finds it’s meaning through exploring and understanding the nature of creation? Are our spiritual paths not ones in which we learn more of our own personal truths through contrastingtruths? Through day and night, happiness and sadness, wealth and poverty?

It seems the nature of life is duality, one in which the soul comes to experience itself through the use of an ego. In this discussion, we define the ego simply as a vehicle in which the soul uses to experience itself. A collection of experiences over a period of time that become your truth and identity. So in saying that, I believe that there is a natural expression of curiosity linked with the human condition and the soul’s journey. We naturally want to know more of who we are, leaving many of us with a genuine interest in reading astrological descriptions.

So what is your sun sign?

The Sun

Let’s begin with the sun in our solar system. It reflects the center. All the planets rotate around sun. We have a focal point. An integration point. All energies or planetary frequencies flow into the sun. We can also see it as the big flash light in the sky. The sun powers all life processes on Earth.

From that observation we can look at the symbolic meaning of the sun in astrology in the same way.

The representation of the sun sign in your astrology chart shows us how the soul is going about creatively actualizing itself. Giving it personal form and adding light to your journey here on earth. It is also the reason we all know our sun signs. Think about it… On your birthday, when the sun is shining on you, where is all the attention? On you! You are the center of attention. The sun also reflects an outward force. Your creative spark. It shows how you creatively actualize yourself.

The Moon

We enjoy the light from the Sun during the day, and then the comforting glow of the Moon at night. But the light coming from the Moon is an illusion. As you know, you’re actually seeing the reflected light from the Sun, bouncing off of the Moon which acts like a mirror. Apart from reflection of light, she orbits around the earth and moves through each of the 12 astrological signs each month. Reflecting to us and helping us become aware of the totality of our birth chart as it touches the different planetary aspects.

Symbolically we can interpret it this way. The moon will reflect to us the conscious identity of a person. This is a direct relation to how someone sees them self personally. The Ego. Why? Because, in your birth chart, the moon in its monthly journey will form every possible aspect and touch upon all the themes in your karmic story. Each month there will be an awareness of this. Over a period of time in your life the stories will become experiences that become a part of your identity. This is how you are shaped.

Another way we are able to see the moon is through the reflection of the home. The home reflects your identity.

Now that we have a grasp on these two luminaries, let’s see how we can put them together.

The purpose and of the sun and moon in the birth chart will then reflect how you will be creatively actualizing your sense of ego structure. How you will be go about “expressing” sun sign – your “self-identity” moon sign. Another way we can see this is in nature. As you know nature reflects direct truth, it is not something you need to have a belief about. So when we observe the interaction between water and sunlight, we see an array of color. The rainbow. The spectrum of light can be seen in terms of how the sun gives personal form to the identity.