Victoria
Bazeley, MPW
Life Phases (Planetary Phases)
There's some (not astrological) research suggesting that humans develop in approximately 7 year phases. And there's astrological support for the concept of 7 year cycles based on the motions of the progressed moon and transiting Saturn (don't worry if you don't know what these are). And some people posit "generic" 7 year phases that apply to everyone. For example, age 7 has been considered in some cultures to be the age at which a child is finally able to reason. Age 14 is said to coincide with puberty. Age 21 with adulthood, and so on all the way through to the end of life.
That's all very interesting, and there's nothing wrong with knowing about the cycles of the progressed moon and Saturn. But...what about you personally? What about your personal phases? What do they mean to you?
The idea of life phases (Planetary Phases) is embarrassingly simple. It simply proposes that your chart is akin to a map and that your life plan includes traveling around the wheel from beginning (Ascendant) to end. In essence, you'll travel through the development of one planet to another, and so on until you complete your journey and end up where you want to go.
During the first seven years of your life, your life will develop on an inner and outer level in key ways that reflect the potential of the first planet to appear in your chart. In the second 7 years, your life will develop in key ways to reflect the potential of the second planet. And so on. It gets a little more complicated in practice, but even if you know little about astrology, you can start applying this extraordinarily simple concept almost immediately. You can understand what you need to accomplish during your current phase and set about accomplishing it.
It may not sound like much, but it can be the answer to your prayers. Let's say, for example, that you have been frustrated romantically for years. But now you're in your Moon phase. The green light is on for you to fall in love (or more accurately, experience love in a way you haven't before). When you don't know the inner timing of your scheduled development, the temptation is to give up, to believe that you're just not cut out for a satisfying relationship. It can become easy to miss the signals that the universe sends that the time is now right, and that now is the time to recommit yourself to being open to love.
Or let's say you want to open a business, do something creative, switch careers, move to a new place, or something similar. In other words, perhaps you are ready to launch a new "phase" of your development. But you have so many uncertainties. Knowing the basic outline of your life plan can put the pieces together for you. It helps you put your past experiences into perspective, so that you can understand how to use them for the future. It can help you understand what goals are realistic and what you need to do to get there.
Of course, if navigating life was simple as identifying planetary phases, there wouldn't be any astrologers, because we'd all understand what to do immediately. There wouldn't be any therapists, priests, counselors or self-help books, either! The truth is, we could all stand a little help from time to time. And help from the universe does come in the form of the astrological element I'll talk about next.
Transits
There are a gazillion astrological techniques. The one I use most consistently in working with life phases and client concerns is transits, particularly outer planet transits. You don't have to know what a transit is, but it would be good to know this: they're damn effective.
Transits provide the assistance you need to accomplish the life goals associated with your current phase of development. Sometimes they provide this assistance in the form of opportunities. Sometimes they provide it in the form of a butt-kicking that gets you off dead center and moving because you're so unhappy you just know something needs to change. Sometimes they provide assistance by facilitating productivity. Sometimes they provide it by creating confusion. Sometimes they provide it by slowing your life down to a crawl, so that can contemplate, internalize and plan. Sometimes they provide it by bringing you lovers, partners, enemies, challenging circumstances or wonderful strokes of good luck. Sometimes they provide it by making you wait until the rest of the universe has time to get things teed up in your favor.
Knowing your transits helps you understand what the universe is trying to do for you right now, so that you can cooperate. Again, it's embarrassingly simple. And strangely effective.
Magic
When you cooperate with the universe, magic happens. Not the kind of magic that quacks or get rich quick schemes promise, wherein all your problems are solved at once and you win the lottery by using your "lucky" numbers. No, realistic magic. The magic of serendipity and synchronicity and surprising developments and things coming together. The magic of being in the flow. The magic getting along further down the path of your life than you thought was possible in a given time frame. The magic of enjoying your accomplishments. Things you didn't think could happen, do. Things you thought were sure to happen, don't.
People manifest their charts at different levels. A chart isn't a guarantee, and neither is an astrological reading or an Astrological Life Mentoring Program. Many of us get stuck at levels below what we're capable of achieving (I know I have). We could use a little help to get "in tune" with what we can do and have. But ultimately, it is up to us to respond to the universe's signals, whether we use astrology to do or some other method. But we can increase our odds of responding in a way that benefits us. We can learn to work with the universe instead of against it. And in the long run, boy does that make a lot of difference!
Contact Astrological Life Mentor, Victoria Bazeley today!