Potential Astrology

Non-Divinatory Astrology

Introduction

Potential Astrology is a branch of Perennial Astrology that is not divinatory but revelatory in character, in that it deals with the revelation of the client’s unique life mission, and that mirrors to the client their special karmic gifts and talents ideally to be realized in this life cycle. It is a preferred astrological method to help young adults finding their career, and also for parents to have a reading for their newborn child, so as to know what the unique gifts and talents of the child are. Some parents also surprise their children with a potential chart reading as a birthday gift.

For example, the reputed American-Swiss astrologer Liz Green offers computer-printed potential chart readings on astro.com.

Ancient Greek philosophers, and among them especially Socrates, spoke in this context about the daimon of an individual which could also be called the cosmic imprint of the soul. Knowing this cosmic imprint in its cosmic cycle and development through karmic astrology is a unique opportunity for personal growth.

What is Potential Astrology?

Potential Astrology is a particular branch of astrology that deals exclusively with the birth chart looking for the unique gifts and talents of a person, by preference a newborn, an infant, a toddler or school child or an adolescent, their power potential and the areas where they can possibly realize it to its fullest.

This kind of astrology starts from the insight that we do not incarnate as blank books. There always is karma, which simply is cause-and-effect, and as a result of that, we all come here with an agenda. This agenda is a mix between elements we can’t control and that are karmic, and elements that we have put, by choice, before we decided to incarnate.

Potential Astrology is thus primarily a diagnostic tool for the life consultant in order for them to know the particular inner maps of the client. The life consultant does not do any forecasting and this is what distinguishes him or her from the general astrologer.

This is at least how I myself define my role. Our central goal in potential astrology is to assist people in their quest for leading happy and fulfilled lives in maximizing the effectiveness with which they realize and deploy their specific talents and character strengths while, at the same time, minimizing character weaknesses and misbalances.

Every Child is Buddha

Potential Astrology serves as a mirror to reflect our hidden potential. It is therefore a precious tool for those who desire to know more about themselves, or of the destiny and the unique possibilities of their children or children in their care.

The birth chart reveals where our talents are and how we can possibly realize them, provided we are willing to invest the energy needed to achieve this goal. In fact, potential astrology draws a soul pictogram that includes karma and dharma of the soul.

It clearly indicates the traits of our unconscious and our conscious personalities, not only the ones that we show like a mask to the outside world (persona, old Greek, means mask), but also the personalities that we bear inside of us (and try to hide) and that represent our shadow and most of which are still virgin or in a state of potential. This entity in us has been called by the old Greek the daimon, and it has been given a name in all the ancient wisdom traditions.

Let me now explain a little more in detail the following vectors of potential astrology:

—Character and Talents
—Life Lessons
—Karma Lessons

Character and Talents

The first broad area that potential astrology looks at is the character and the talents of the client, be it an adult or a child.

Every soul comes with a special and unique potential of talents and skills when it incarnates for a particular lifetime. These talents have been developed and worked on either during one or several life cycles. Some talents are in a state of virginity or potentiality when the soul incarnates, which means that their realization is intended by the soul, and by the specific constellation of energies their realization is indeed highly probable. Yet they are not yet real in the sense that they need to be worked on by constant practice, refinement and mature realization.

Character is a special mixture of male/female energies and energies from the four elements, as well as planetary energies that have molded a certain thought, emotion and behavior pattern. This pattern is distinct in the birth chart and it can be seen in which ways it has developed from former life cycles and in which way it is supposed to evolve according to the cosmic life plan.

This part of the analysis also deals with particular obstructions, energy blockades and misbalances that lead or have lead to karmic challenges and/or life lessons. Karmic astrology can reveal what exactly those particular blockages are and in which areas of the client’s life they are located.

Generally, if the person refuses to work on those issues, stagnation and/or health problems, accidents and other ‘misfortunes’ tend to happen until consciousness is mature enough to face the issues.

Life Lessons

Life Lessons are created by the soul in order to become more perfect and pure. You can imagine them as something like a plan that we have build before we incarnated. Let me formulate one of my own life lessons:

“In this life cycle I wish to become more autonomous. I wish to dissolve attachments and bonds that keep me enslaved in unhealthy relationships that chain my development and evolution. At the same time I wish to learn what healthy and constructive relationships are like and how to build such relationships. This is valid both for the private and professional sphere.”

The problem is that we generally forget about our life plan after we incarnate. Only highly evolved souls such as, for example, Tibetan Lamas can remember them. This makes us believe that life lessons are ‘fallen from heaven’ in order to ‘punish’ us. Nothing is farther from the truth! We have full control about how to accomplish our life lessons once we have rendered them conscious and accept them.

Potential astrology helps us identify, recognize, acknowledge and fully accept our life lessons so as to face and master them. The key of tremendous success in many lives can be seen in facing particular life lessons and ‘thus turning the bad into good.’

Karmic Challenges

Karmic Challenges are life lessons from former lives that have not been met and thus been taken over into the present life cycle.

Thus, these are past issues that however have an impact on the present life cycle, either through unconscious or half-conscious remembrance, repeated dreams, patterns in behavior or relationships that are self-repeating (and often self-defeating) or a general lack of success or power in life.

Sometimes clients resent karma lessons as something like a magic spell that has been cast upon their lives and that is more or less difficult to identify let alone remove without astrological, therapeutic or otherwise spiritual help.

However, karma lessons are neither magical nor mysterious but are the mere result from our own past choices that, in most cases, we have forgotten or overridden by following contradictory options or interests. They can be residues of forgotten projects that are unfulfilled yet necessary in order to complete soul lessons, or they can result from hurts or injustice inflicted to others and/or self.

Potential astrology helps to consciously recognize and face karmic challenges so that they are easier to be dealt with and met constructively and creatively. This is by far a better way than how most people do, i.e. by merely suffer them.