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The Four Dimensions of Planetary Content
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by Glenn Perry, Ph.D., MFT |
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Content can be defined as the outcome of psychological functioning. As such, it occurs in four dimensions? -- person, place, thing, or event. Although content is a derivative of consciousness, it is not always clear how a native’s lived experience results from his or her psychic structure. This is where astrology can be helpful. One hypothesis is that the chart symbolizes prototypical experiences of early childhood. Such experiences are prototypical because they constitute the first manifestations of a pattern that will reoccur throughout the life. Core beliefs that result from prototypical childhood experiences operate like self-fulfilling prophecies until the person is able to shift these beliefs in the direction of greater health and wholeness.
A planet can manifest as a character (person) in three ways -- personality type, role, or occupation. While inner characters constitute identities or subpersonalities, outer characters appear in guises that reflect the native’s relative integration of the corresponding archetype. Struggles with outer characters provide the impetus for strengthening that archetypal dimension of the psyche. For example, if Venus is under stress from hard aspects, a man may attract a lover or partner that behaves in a manner that reflects his own Venus configuration. She literally embodies an aspect of his psychic structure and corresponding beliefs with regard to relationship.
Planetary archetypes are also associated with specific places. A person’s primary areas of life experience suggest that the planets that correlate to those places constitute key psychological processes. Places provide appropriate contexts for the expression of planetary actions. Additionally, the quality of a person’s experience within a place correlates directly to the attitudes and beliefs symbolized by the corresponding archetype. The diagnostic implications of such correlations are far reaching, as the astrologer merely needs to listen to the client’s story to infer the underlying intrapsychic factors that support it. For example, if Venus is in the 9th house of higher education, the individual may become attracted to a woman he meets in art school -- both the person and the art school being symbolized by Venus in the 9th.
Inanimate and animate objects, or things, are yet another category of experience that correspond to planets. Each planet “rules” a class of things, all members of which have analogous properties. Because things symbolize archetypal processes, they have meanings similar to dream objects. Like pieces of a puzzle, they fit together to create emergent meanings that reflect how reality is being constructed; i.e., the nature of the things one attracts reflect certain core ideas around which experience is internally organized. This complex network of beliefs makes up the structure of the native’s personal narrative.
Because this structure crystallizes into objects that intrude upon awareness, things make conscious one’s internal story. If someone experiences a chronic lack of money (Taurus-Venus), for example, this may reflect an internal belief in scarcity -- commonly called “poverty consciousness.” This belief would show up in his chart as a particular configuration, e.g., Saturn in the 6th square Venus in the 9th. This configuration may correspond to beliefs that one's job (Saturn in the 6th) as an art instructor (Venus in the 9th) will result in a chronic lack of money, for art instructors are not in high demand and do not attract high incomes. If, in fact, the person lives out this belief by accepting a low paying job as an art instructor, the outcome would not only be consistent with his chart, it also reflects the underlying belief that the aspect symbolizes.
Events constitute the final category of experience ruled by planets. An event is defined as a segment of time in which something occurs of a particular quality. Again, the quality of the event reflects the nature of the archetypal process that generates it. Events are never the product of one archetype, but are hybrid creatures that emerge from the interweaving of several archetypes. Additionally, events constitute a higher order class of which characters, places, and things are members.
Consider, again, our Venus square Saturn aspect involving the 9th and 6th houses. This configuration will operate as a template that organizes characters, places, and things into a single pattern. Since it is a difficult aspect, the astrologer should be cued to the existence of a possible negative story. The individual may report, for example, that he feels unattractive and undesirable as a potential mate because he does not make enough money as an art instructor. Accordingly, he procrastinates in asking one of his colleagues out for a date. She, too, works at the art school, but he fears that she is too good for him.
When he finally does approach her, she seems cold and disinterested, just as he feared. But is it because he does not make enough money or because his awkward, hesitant style of approach clues her to his feelings of inferiority as a potential partner? If this is the case, then her response actually mirrors his beliefs about himself as symbolized by the Venus square Saturn aspect. She is merely following his lead, embodying an aspect of his psyche.
Again, all of this is symbolized by the Venus in the 9th square Saturn in the 6th configuration—his occupation as an art instructor, the art school itself, his chronic lack of money, and his attraction to a cold woman at the art school, are all outcomes of an archetypal process that is operating at an inner, cognitive level. By inviting the client to explore the nature and origins of his beliefs about beauty, love, and money, the astrologer can assist the client in developing a new story that allows for greater fulfillment in all of these areas.
The client may discover, for example, that an early childhood prototype of the aspect involved a conservative religious upbringing that required all Venusian impulses to be inhibited (Saturn square Venus in the 9th). He was taught that money is the root of evil and that the pleasures of the flesh should be resisted. Once his current difficulties with money and women are situated in the context of these narrow, arbitrary, and self-limiting beliefs, his Venus-Saturn aspect is free to begin operating at a higher, more integrated level of expression.
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"Astrology is a religion inasmuch as it reveals the anatomy and psychology of God."
~ Manly Palmer Hall
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Glenn Perry,
Ph.D., MFT
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Glenn Perry, Ph.D., MFT
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Director of the Association for Psychological Astrology
Board Member of the International Society of Astrological Research
Glenn Perry lectures and conducts workshops throughout the world on the application of astrology to the fields of counseling and psychotherapy.
He has written six books, including "Essays In Psychological Astrology".
Dr. Perry is the founder and president of the Academy of AstroPsychology, a masters and doctoral degree program.
For more information:
www.astropsychology.org
Information on Glenn's books, tapes, and on-line mentorship program can be obtained at:
www.aaperry.com.
E-mail: glenn@aaperry.com
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