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About The Stars - Astrology
"Rather than have the stars rule the life, the life should rule the stars. The work of man is to combine mind and emotions, awareness and consciousness with will and purpose in becoming again at one with the creator. Until that time, we as individuals remain earthbound within the confines of astrological influences. Ever present stumbling blocks to this at-one-ment is the ego or self-interest, self-indulgence, self-purpose-fullness...."
Edgar Cayce

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The following information was taken from an unknown author

Life Stages Of Consciousness Development
The ten planets, beginning with the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and ending with Pluto, represent the ten "life stages of consciousness development". Each stage has its own musical notes, colors, vibrations, attributes,...some of which need to be cultivated or weeded (see Healing Services).

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The Moon
(1 to 7 years)
The Moon, the nearest body to the Earth, is treated as a planet. It has always signified the mother, rhythms, water and all other life-giving liquids. It reflects the dual nature of the evolving human spirit, part conscious, part unconscious. It is itself the unconscious side of the personality, bound by instincts, involuntary responses and momentary urges. It is passively receptive to outside influences. So the child begins its life in a psychologically fluid state, taking its early egotistical shape from the maternal mold. Although an individual with distinct characteristics that will later become conscious, the infant experiences helplessness and vulnerability, and is unable to act for itself except in blind or dim responses. Throughout these first seven years, the child registers the effects of its environment and in so doing displays the acutely impressionable nature of the moon.

The Mercury Age
(7 to 14 years)
Mercury is the intellectual force that governs speech, writing, communication and the mental functions in general. It also rules common sense. It is adaptable, versatile, quick, restless, irresponsible, logical, inquisitive and fast moving. The early years are when the child learns the mechanics of communication, how to write, to speak, to express him or herself as a mental being and not just as a collection of clamorous desires. He discovers he can contradict the voice of authority sometimes and assert his ideas so that others will listen and pay attention. He makes innumerable connections and contacts, developing a casual attitude toward responsibility and a flexible sense of morality. He moves around incessantly with inquisitive purpose, loses interest as quickly as he gains it, and begins to control aspects of his environment through the advancing power of his mental processes.

The Venus Age
(14 to 21 years)
Venus is the influence of love, art, culture, sympathy, social relationships, evaluation. All emotions that have a sexual basis begin here, including the love of beauty. Creative activities - poetry, acting, music, dancing - come under the Venusian force. It aims to unify. This is the time when the mental enthusiasms of the Mercurial Age turn to love, when intense emotions come and go with brief but remarkable impact. It is the age of fads and crazes that develop in various ways into mature and admirable tastes. The adolescent learns to discriminate, to assess people and situations, to test values, to experiment with the feelings of others, to observe the power of his or her physical presence. The value of cooperation, the social advantages of popularity, the deeper meaning of friendship and the conduct that society demands are also learned. The adolescent prepares for adult life.

The Earth Age
(21 to 28 years)
In geocentric (earth-centered) Astrology, the Earth is not considered a planet, so this period of development is one of self confrontation. Having come of age, the individual must adjust to material living and all its attendant responsibilities. As the Earth is in the center of the planetary lineup between the extremes of pliability and rigidity, so is the person during the Earth age. The lessons of the past, ideally, have produced in him of her a sense of balance, proportion and moderation. Other factors not so easy to define may now become influential. Normally the young adult will endeavor to establish himself in a career or particular occupation - put roots down and set about justifying his existence. The end of the Earth cycle frequently produces a crisis. This is the time when the individual realizes life is not what he thought it was, when he must decide what he is going to make of it and face the person that he really is. The talents he has uncovered (or covered up) in himself will not easily be denied self-expression. The young man or woman may have to make one or two painful decisions that will mean considerable reorientation. The end of this phase marks the return of the restrictive planet Saturn to the position it occupied in the horoscope at the time of birth, which signifies a new beginning.

The Mars Age
(28 to 35 years)
Mars is the planet of energy, activity through enterprise, self assertion and leadership. This is a strenuous period when the individual, now stabilized in character, endeavors to make a personal imprint on his or her community. He or she becomes a dynamic influence, responding with vigor to challenges, competing for leadership and acclaim. Ambition is usually the first consideration, money the second. The need to accomplish at almost any cost is paramount. Physical strains are ignored or overcome by aggressive determination to succeed. Those who have laid sound foundations in the previous age now build their edifices with relentless energy. On these, they must now stand or fall.

The Jupiter Age
(35 to 42 years)
Jupiter represents expansion - by growth, material acquisition and understanding. It signifies law, banking, philosophy, religion, moderation, reason. It also stands for foreign affairs, including distant journeys. Now the individual begins to profit from earlier efforts and experiences. He or she assumes some authority as a counselor of others, and becomes established in his or her chosen calling. This is the prime of life when the person expands financially, becomes an established citizen, a respectable and reliable member of the community. It is also a time associated with middle-age spread. The growth process reflects itself in a psychological maturity; the person develops an inner sense of law, order and morals. Religious convictions become more certain, and the mature adult reflects the type of person that has been formed through the earlier ages and anticipates future development. Since the direction of life is now probably fairly well fixed, the individual must look for ways of modifying his of her underlying attitudes and illusions in order to experience the deeper fulfillment of self-progression.

The Saturn Age
(42 to 49 years)
Saturn is sometimes symbolized as Father Time, the old man with the hourglass and scythe. It represents the formative principle through restriction, discipline and rigidity. It stands for gravity, profundity, prudence, caution and organization. It is the symbol of the limitation of the physical, through which the human spirit, evolving as mind, must penetrate to go on. This is the period when the person learns the lessons of self-discipline. The formative years, physically, are over. He or she is now a fixed and determined entity. If mistakes have been made in the creation of the self, this is the age when they are apt to be revealed and demand rectification. Here is where the habitual person finds himself heading off the abyss of decline and depression. But the individual who has fulfilled the earlier stages, it marks the way up, a different kind of path, a compensation for growing old. This Saturn Age teaches the need for realistic, practical and responsible handling of life's affairs, as distinct from expediency and the habit of self-interest. By the end of the Saturn period, the person has almost concluded his first 50 years. He knows the difference between right and wrong. If he has had to pay, he understands the reasons why. By obeying the community's laws, he upholds these laws and is capable of performing as an authority within the social system. His own endeavors to effect order within himself can now be used to create order in his surroundings. As society once helped to shape him, so now he can help to shape society. And having learned to serve, he may now himself be served. But for the ordinary man or woman, it is difficult to withstand the constrictive and ossifying influence of the Saturn Age. It usually ends in hardening of the arteries, brittleness of the skeleton and a fixation of views that can only be dissolved by the grave.

The Uranus Age
(49 to 56 years)
Uranus stands for independence, drastic change, revolt, anarchy, genius, intuition. It also represents Astrology, metaphysics, telepathy and events of a curious or wondrous nature. This is the age of the second flowering for those who can allow the old self to die. It is the time that the young man or woman at the end of the Earth Age is unconsciously striving toward as the greatest good, but seldom attains. For here is the chance to leap forward, not with enthusiasm, but with wisdom, into a new state of consciousness. This is the age that offers the person the power to break away from the rigidly controlled norm. Here is the realization that uniqueness lies not only in being safe, sober and reliable. Within each individual is the power to be exceptional, if only he can reach it, and this is the stage where he discovers that instead of reaching up, he must reach within to unlock the spontaneous force that will free him from the cyclic rut of accepted limitations. From this renewing impulse springs originality, creative inspiration, scientific thought and inventiveness. Here men and women can produce their most valuable and original work.

The Neptune Age
(56 to 63 years)
Neptune Symbolizes the evolving human spirit as mind transcending the physical condition. It stands for refinement - through dissolution, subtlety and immateriality. The Neptune function, like the sea with which it is traditionally identified, has no material roots. It is a dissolver of form. The fully developed person now begins to withdraw from inordinate attachments to the world. His values have a deepening spiritual content that goes beyond the dogma and ceremony of orthodox religions. He meditates without concepts, places less and less dependence on memories of the past and yearns to empty himself of his egotistical cravings. By rising above the Saturnian need for psychological security and continuity, the ripe man or woman finds both, either in enlightenment or death.

The Pluto Age
(63 to 70 years)
Pluto is the last known planet in the solar system. As the Sun represents the beginning of the person, so Pluto symbolizes the cyclic return through experience to the beginning. It is said to be the deliverer. As the Sun is the unexpressed potential at the center, so Pluto, as the final state of mans' progression, represents the seed - a new crystallized beginning. The fully developed person at this stage knows himself, and in knowing that, comprehends the last mystery.