What is the difference between a birth chart, transits, and a solar return?
The birth chart
(birth chart) is a map of the symbols inherent in the evolutionary development of the person, a map that guides us in the search for understanding and investigation of our character throughout our life.
Transits and solar revolution
The annual chart is an astrological technique that allows us to understand what life is asking us to update and understand about ourselves in the present moment or year. In other words, it’s a symbolic map of the themes that this basic character, revealed by the birth chart, will have to face each year. Therefore, rather than offering elements for reflection on our essential character and individuality, it provides elements for reflecting on the meaning and purpose of the year we are experiencing.
Thus, the birth chart is the potential of the natal essence, which has as its ideal goal its progressive unfolding throughout life, while the chart of the year and the transits offer us a map of the possibility of updating the potential inherent in the person during the current year.
Birth chart as a seed
We can understand the natal chart metaphorically as a seed that is progressively updated from the act of its birth and throughout its entire existence in the same way that the oranges that an orange tree will bear in the future are already present in a latent form in its seed.
Psychological astrology understands the human being as a being who is continually becoming what they essentially already ARE at birth, and in this way the birth chart is understood as a symbolic image of the soul’s evolutionary purpose. Like any seed, the image of the birth chart contains, in latent form, the potential of the being, the essence of what we already are unconsciously from birth.
A space for vital reflection:
What is offered is a space for vital reflection, not merely a transmission by the astrologer of information about predictions projected onto a fantasy of the future detached from the present. There is no future that is not already contained in the present as latent potential. “Preoccupying ourselves” with a hypothetical future prevents us from “occupying” ourselves with the present; and by neglecting the present, we live only with fantasies linked to an illusory future.
The treasure of astrology lies not so much in defining what a person is like, but in the fact that it shows us how they could become, in order to live in greater harmony with their true, essential being and with the invisible reason for their existence.
“ When your child (or money, the ambition for power, the search for Prince Charming, etc.) becomes the reason for your life, you have abandoned the invisible reason you are here .” J. Hillman
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