Ocean Of Perspectives

When one hears statements such as, know yourself or knowing yourself, one’s first response usually is, I do know myself. But, do you really see the patterns going on in your life and why?

Have you noticed certain experiences repeating themselves in your life? Do you know how others perceive you and understand why? Do you keep attracting people who hurt you emotionally or physically, instead of people who love, respect and appreciate you?

Patterns are experiences that repeat themselves over and over at different times either with the same or different people and situations. Unless one becomes aware of patterns in their life, why they happen and how to stop them, they will continue throughout one’s life. How can one connect with their true self, to understand who they truly are and learn what they really need? The most successful method for self exploration and insight is meditation with astrology and numerology as helpful tools. You most likely have heard of astrology and maybe you read the daily horoscopes, so I will start with that.

If you read any daily horoscopes in newspapers or online, you might feel they don’t pertain to you at all. Many people feel that way. For an individualized horoscope, an astrologer needs to calculate your birth date, time and location to create your birth or natal chart. Then the astrologer will identify each planet’s sign and position at the time of your birth, how they aspect each other and what houses are involved. Doing this makes it possible for the astrologer to see how they influence you in different areas and phases of your life. This is why the general daily horoscopes can often appear unrelated to the people reading them. These are general horoscopes for a particular sign without the use of your birth time, date and location. Though you might share similarities with others of your sign, there will also be differences. Each of us share similarities with each other, yet we also possess our own uniqueness as individuals. A chart based on your individual information is how astrologers are able to calculate and offer interpretations that pertain to only you. The depth and accuracy of the interpretations will depend on the astrologer’s knowledge and intuitiveness.

Your natal birth chart offers information into your characteristics, mannerisms, thinking process, talents, most compatible signs for relationships, karma, how other people perceive you, enemies, what comes easy and what challenges you. The natal chart is also the base used for interpreting influences of transiting planets in your day to day life or your future.

Vedic astrology is becoming more better known as well. It’s different from Western astrology in that they use the Sidereal method for calculations and go by the moon sign instead of the sun sign. They also divide the birth data into several charts to gain information that is more detailed and covers every aspect of a person’s life. A friend living in India told me that when she was born, her parents had a Vedic astrologer calculate her entire life. The astrologer presented it to them in the form of a book and includes information regarding marital partner, age of marriage, health, karma, career, illnesses and so on. This astrological information so far has correctly predicted her life up into the present time. Vedic astrology services can be expensive since many of the astrologers still calculate charts by hand.

Another method of information that can be surprisingly insightful is numerology, which assigns numbers to your name and combines it with the birth date to arrive at a single digit, though sometimes double digit, number. It’s this final number that is used for an insightful description of the type of person you are, compatibility, karmic lessons in this life time and divides life into phases by age spans.

Though astrology and numerology can give you a good amount of insight into the reasons for the patterns in your life, meditation offers the best results when one desires to have awareness, understanding of the deeper aspects of oneself. Meditating regularly enables one deeper self knowledge as well as knowledge and understanding covering every aspect of one’s life and being.

What tool you choose to use, astrology, numerology and/or meditation, depends on how much and how deep you want the information to be at this time. All of them will help you on your journey to self awareness, knowledge and understanding.

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