Astrology goes with psychology

C.G.Jung, a well known human psychologist scientist has propagated a theory called “Shadow Theory”.  It is a famous theory on human personality. He divides human psyche into three parts. The first part is EGO which is identified with Conscious Mind. The second part is the “Personal Unconscious Mind” and the third is “Collective Unconscious Mind”. He says it is the result of every human’s psychic inheritance which is nothing but a store of past experiences everyone is born with. Are we conscious of this? He says “No”. But these will always get reflected by the knowledge of some religious faiths or myth or feeling the vibrations for someone and many more. It is the result of a mixture of the individual’s outer reality and his or her innermost unconscious experiences in the past. This theory also says that we always deny in ourselves the personification of the mixture of the past but project them into others. This, he calls it as “Shadow”.

We play either a male or female. This is generally decided by the physical gender. But we are all, in real, bisexual. This is what CG Jung also says in agreement with people like Freud. Some psychologists call it as Anima and Animus. They say it is a collective image which motivates each sex to respond and understand the members of the other gender. Man apprehends the nature of a woman by virtue of his hidden Anima and a woman does the same with a man by virtue of her Animus. The Anima is lying with men in their unconscious mind and the Animus does the same with a woman. It is the masculine personality of a woman lying with her without her knowledge.

If you look out this concept using Astrology as a science, you will understand that the disposition of planets in individual charts decide about the inner bent of mind or cravings or capacity to perceive. This capacity helps us to have an image of our partner and we search such one when we reaches the age of accepting one in our life. It is a successful achievement for some. Some others make a search and search but end up with disappointments and with more cravings. Some people drop the idea of such search in shear disgust after repeated failure. For some a realization comes after a trial and failure of the results. They come out and try to search again. This is what we call as soul mate. It is all an individualistic phenomenon.  It is again a fact that two persons having similar destiny meet on the path of life, enjoy as well as suffer their life together or have a mixed experience according to the karmic results and linkage of the past and previous births.

How this karmic linkage is identified in the horoscopes?

·        Lagna and Moon signs, Seventh House and its Lord in a male chart.

·        Lagna, Sun and Mars, the seventh house and its lord in a female chart.

In a male chart the Anima which is called the female element is decided by Venus. Venus indicates the anima of a male and his subconscious desire about womanhood. Moon helps him to imagine about the woman he desires and he will project this image on various women that attract him in his life. The lagna will portray the social image and his personality, his independent thoughts and his capacity to face worldly matters. The 7^th house and its ruler will govern his interactions with women and the resulting experiences in his lifetime.

So when Moon and Venus have either aspects to each other, or association or when Moon is in the star of Venus or Venus is in the star of Moon or either of them occupy the place owned by other in D1 or D9 is to be taken very seriously by any astrologer which will speak of the quality of his association with women. This is because Moon represents inner image and Venus represents outer projection of female image.

The male element which is called as animus, in a woman’s unconscious mind represents her boldness and courage. It also reflects her independent opinion and power of action. Mars stands for this animus and creates a desire to have a man in her life. Sun works in the inner level to create a male image in her mind which will govern her interactions with men. Lagna will picturise her skills, freedom of action and outer behavior projecting her real personality to the outer world, the seventh house and its lord will govern her interactions and their success or failure with men, the persons of opposite gender.

So in a female chart if there is an aspect, association or any sort of relationship as said above exists the same will speak the quality of her interactions with men.

Here Sun represents the inner image and Mars represents the outer projection of male image.

How the shadow theory is relevant here? We have to discuss this with the first as well as seventh house together. The first house relates the inner skill and the seventh house represents how they are demonstrated. The shadow is camouflaged in the lagna and it is an integral part of the personality. The first house represents the personality, role etc. We all know that there is a special lagna called Arudhalagna which is the real mask of the lagna.  This is the perception of others about an individual. When we project the first house as representing the personality the seventh house represents our interactions with others. Then this is the real shadow of the individual.  We unconsciously look for the valued shadow qualities when we are looking for a partner or life mate. So the seventh house indicates the values. This is decided by the seventh house, its ruler, the planets in 7^th house, the planets aspect the seventh house, the planets aspect the ruler of seventh house. Again it is karmic effect. So the native will have a soul mate meeting these desired values or the native will force unconsciously the values on the partner.

One should be aware that our shadow may create a pit where our personality falls and can lose its identity. On the other hand the experience with the shadow can be a enjoyable one. It all depends on the karmic results.

This article is written to just help everyone to understand the link between Astrology and psychology.