Your Sun Sign as a Spiritual Guide by Swami Kriyananda

Your Sun Sign as a Spiritual Guide by Swami Kriyananda

 (6/2015)

The planets exert certain magnetic influences; individually as well as in various combinations, to which people respond accordingly to their own magnetic constitutions.

The Sun’s placement in your solar horoscope, then, determines the way in which you seek to impress your authority on the world around you. The Moon’s placement reflects the attitude. The Mars indicates the quality of energy. The Mercury determines the intellectual filter through which you impress your authority. Venus indicates kind of sensitivity. The sun, moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus – the inner circle, in other words, of our solar family, and the closest of them to our earth – represent your more intimate, personal nature. The outer planets represent more impersonal influences on your nature.

Jupiter’s placement in a solar horoscope indicates a person’s expansive quality – whether, for example, he is altruistic, philosophical, fame-loving, or self indulgent.

Saturn represents the counteractive influence. It affects one’s capacity for getting things together, for concentration on self-discipline, or in a negative sense, one’s inhibitions and sense of restriction.

By plunging deeper into his own nature, man discovers not only his basic identity with universal realities, but also still deeper levels within himself where he can actually divorce himself from those realities, remaining aloof from them as if he were, indeed, greater than they.

The highest purpose of astrology is to assist man on the inward journey. The true goal, then of astrology is not to fascinate people with endless proofs of their subtle kinship to this universe, but to take them from outward theory to inward practices. This is the science of yoga, known since ancient times in India as the science of inner astrology.

The signs of the zodiac represent in a sense an arbitrary beginning, and no real ending at all.

The sun crosses the equator at the vernal equinox on about March 21^st. For the next six months it is in the Northern Hemisphere, reaching a zenith at the summer solstice on about June 21^st. At the autumnal equinox (September 23^rd) it again crosses the equator, and spends the next six months in the Southern Hemisphere, reaching what for us in the north is a nadir on about December 22^nd, the winter solstice.

Now writing about my Zodiac Sign Capricorn

Capricorn is the first of the winter signs. Winter is the time of outward stillness. Winter symbolizes that period in the soul’s growth when the ego, its autumn months of self-questioning finished, seeks fulfillment in relating to broader realities.

Capricorn, the last of the earth signs, represents earth in its last stages of refinement: the rocks, minerals, and gems into which it condenses over eons of time.

Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, the planet of contraction, of concentration. Saturn’s rulership here suggests great powers of concentration, and an ability to condense amorphous facts into small precious stones of truth.

Capricorn is traditionally represented by a strange creature half goat, half fish. The realism of Capricorn, in other words, when it is developed to perfection, leads to the state of divine self-mastery, a state wherein one finds himself at home equally on the firm “soil” of this world and in the great “ocean” of Spirit.

Capricorn’s influence calls people to scale the peaks of consciousness – to see below them the panorama of reality in all its vastness - if they would fulfill their destiny of balanced outer and inner, temporal and eternal, wisdom.

The key to Capricorn’s influence is its power to awaken in the ego a desire to bring reality into sharp, impersonal focus. A secondary key word for this sign is concentration.

The Sun in Capricorn

The goat is a serious animal, with great powers of endurance.

The more your inner energy and concentration are directed upward, the more clearly you see the shallowness of most human interests.

It is not materialism that marks Capricorn natives, but a power of concentration and single-minded concentration of all of one’s powers is the prime condition for spiritual advancement.

A negative trait that you need to watch, if you are a Capricorn, is a tendency to become over-suspicious of others – a misdirection, merely, of your capacity for realism.

In your meditations, try visualizing your body as a rock, so firm that you can’t move it, so heavy that no one else could move it. Sit perfectly still with a straight spine. After a few minutes you will lose the desire to fidget. Then visualize your mind, too as a rock, so immovably fixed that no thought, no emotion can sway it. The seat of concentration in the body is located at a point midway between the two eyebrows. Your deepening perceptions of reality will expand eventually to embrace the far-flung shores of cosmic consciousness.