The Inner Sky: How to Make Wiser Choices for a More Fulfilling Life

Always remember that a house is only a territory our awareness can enter and within which it can express itself. Some of those territories are visible. Some are invisible. They still answer the question where.

The stellium itself becomes the focalizer, and the needs of that sign or the events of that house become dominant features in the individual’s experience.

The houses on the birthchart, in other words, are simply empty slots – each planet and sign passes through all of them as it appears to spin around the earth every twenty-four hours.

The point is not personality; hemisphere emphasis describes the shape of the life, not the tones and textures that make up the fabric of the person’s nature. It reveals the rules of the game, not the personality of the player.

To be human is to be mutable. To be capable of change. To be indeterminate. To know growth.

Astrology is technical, but it is the technology of life.

astrology is not a study of the soul. It is a study of the personality. The power of the astrological language lies in its particularity, the way it addresses the uniqueness of each individual’s personal reality.

Are we spirit or are we flesh? Astrologically, the proper answer is: who cares? If we are depressed or jealous or lonely or in any other unpleasant state of consciousness, changing that condition is our work whether we are nuclear physicists or Hindu pundits.

Some people confuse signs and houses at first. A good way to keep them separated in your mind is to remember that houses are linked to the local horizon, while signs are linked to space itself. As earth spins in space, signs appear to spin around the earth.