Jennifer Freed - Use Your Planets Wisely: Master Your Ultimate Cosmic Potential with Psychological Astrology

Contents

To the divine muses
who have honored me
with oracular gifts.

CONTENTS

The Sun in the chart relates to ego structure and sense of self. It represents the primary way you identify yourself and organize your many parts into a cohesive personality. The Zodiac sign of your Sun speaks to one of your greatest karmic challenges: will you rise to the most evolved version of yourself, or will you let self-doubt cast you into the shadows or incite self-sabotage?

The Moon represents emotional needs. As you come to understand yourself as an emotional being, you also come to understand the emotional lives of others and to become more empathic without losing your boundaries. This chapter guides you toward deep self-recognition of habits, longings, and needs thatleft unrecognizedoften hold you tightly in a primitive state of expression and interrelationship. As you realize what you habitually do and most deeply need, you develop the power to listen to and use emotions constructively and break patterns that no longer serve.

Your ascendant sign is the sign that was rising over the horizon at the exact time of your birth. It represents the way you appear or occur to others in terms of your first impressions, as well as the role you played in your family of origin. It is the sign around which your entire birth chart is oriented. The original description of the ascendant as mask is replaced by a new image of the ascendant as window: an entity that you are seen through and through which you see yourself.

Mercury is the planet of thought and communication. Understanding its planetary placement helps maximize intellect and expression and avoid communication problems. This chapter includes an explanation of the Mercury in retrograde phenomenon, touching on the overall gifts and threats of the Internet and other kinds of communication technology.

Venus is the archetype of love and beauty. Its planetary placement influences your desires for romance, your social life, and your sense of being attracted to others and of being attractive. Understanding the sign of Venus in your chart helps lead you down the best path to sensual or aesthetic pleasure, artistic expression, and overall harmony in your life. It also helps you understand your drives in romantic and social relationships and build more harmony there.

Mars represents the power of will and the force of action. Knowing where Mars falls in the birth chart helps you work with your gifts to achieve your goals and dreams and lets you know what pitfalls are most likely to disrupt your ability to act and do. The placement of Mars, sometimes nicknamed the angry planet, affects your assertiveness, your expression of anger, your athletic drives, and the more yang (masculine) expressions of your sexuality.

Jupiter represents expansion, growth, and success. It also represents generosity, honor, abundance, pride, and optimism. Its placement in the birth chart says a lot about how you expressor overexpress or struggle to expressthese qualities in your life.

Saturn represents structure, time, and tradition. It balances the expansive energy of Jupiter with necessary limitation and realism. The placement of Saturn in the signs speaks to not only how you make order from chaos but also how you are limited by boundaries. Saturn gets a bad rapits sometimes symbolized as a skeleton, turning your thoughts toward mortality and the inevitability of death. But without a skeleton, youd be nothing but a pile of flesh and viscera. You need your skeleton to stand and walk and do all you do, just as you need the structure of Saturn to manifest, to stay grounded, to persist and work hard.

Chiron represents the archetype of the wounded healer. In the birth chart, the sign placement of Chiron suggests what parts of yourself you might experience as most wounded and in need of healing and how you might use your wounds to help and heal others.

Change, rebellion, and revolution are Uranian. This archetype is the bringer of surprises, eureka moments, and sudden, cataclysmic awakenings. It makes maintaining the status quo impossible and brings liberation from what oppresses. The sign placement of Uranus describes how you are most likely to realize surprises, changes, and eureka momentsor (as is often the case when you dont honor your birth charts Uranus energy) how those moments are most likely to happen to you when you least expect them.

Neptune represents transcendence and the merging of consciousness, the imagination, the spirit world, the mysticalthe space before birth, the space after death, the space between worlds. The sign associated with Neptune in your chart affects not only your dreams but also your depth of feeling and empathy. It can help you understand any tendencies you have to try to dissociate or check out of being awake and fully engaged in this world, as well as your capacity to embrace the mysteries of the universe.

The Pluto archetype represents primordial energy and deep transformation. Its placement in your chart helps you understand your impulses to go as deep as a human being can go; to tell the truth, no matter what the consequences; to dive into the mysteries of sex, birth, and death. This understanding can help you manage impulses toward hatred, greed, jealousy, and lustwhich everyone has because there is a Pluto placement in every chartand channel those drives into creativity and into the kind of transformation that is beneficial in the long run (even if disruptive and difficult in the short term).

PREFACE

How to Use This Book

Y ou hold in your hands one of the most powerful tools available for understanding yourself and other human beings. In the following pages, you will have access to the DNA of the cosmos and the sacred map of the psyche.

You are receiving a magnificent gift, and with it comes an ethical responsibility. The knowledge in this book will give you what you need to dramatically transform your relationship to yourself and others a laser-like insight into what makes you tick and into what truly motivates others. It is the quickest way to build lasting empathy and to surrender the judgments that separate human beings from one another.

Like any cosmic force, the wisdom in this book can be misused by those who hold misaligned intentions. The fact that this book has come into your possession means you are ready for rapid growth and to be a beacon for others who wish to join you in that trajectory. The knowledge shared here can be mined throughout an entire lifetime; the deeper you engage the material and use the practices, the more wisdom you will receive.

As you commit to the integrity of these devotional messages and to the practices that make them personal to you, you will notice a huge uptick in cosmic support. You will actually be able to feel and sense a magnification of your connection to the divine.

Personal stories in this book (with names and details altered to protect peoples privacy) reveal how each of us has the capacity to evolve at any age and to radically change and upgrade our psychological and spiritual operating systems. Used correctly, this book can offer you unlimited growth. Here is what you need in order to use this potent knowledge:

1. Obtain a printout of your birth chart that includes all the planets, Chiron, and your rising sign. You can find these for free from online apps like Time Passages or Co-Star or the website and Dr. Jennifer Freed will reply within 24 hours.