Astrological Repair Manual

Midheaven and its relationship to other factors in your chart.)
All the other Houses in your chart derive their meanings from these two—your
individualized way of perceiving life and your unique way of growing into it. The Houses
can be thought of as the Activities of your life while the Signs are the Energies you use in
those Activities and the Planets are the Functions that channel those Energies in those
Activities. Another way to say this is that the Function “uses” the Energy to “perform”
the Activity. You’ll get a lot of practice with this basic astrological formula in The
Instructions when you begin interpreting your own chart!
So, the Houses are determined by where and when you were born and define your
Space of Activity. The Signs are determined by the motion of the Earth around the Sun
and define the Energies that are used in that space.
There is a moment in the Earth’s journey around the Sun that we call Spring—
when day and night are equal and day is beginning to be longer than night. This moment
and the place the Sun is in at that time is what we call the beginning of the Sign Aries. In
a very important way, saying what Spring means is saying what Aries means. There is
another time in the Earth’s journey around the Sun that happens when night is longest and
day is shortest and day is just beginning to increase again. This time and the place the Sun
is in then is called Capricorn and (without using any of the negative meanings) saying
Capricorn is the same as saying Winter. These two Signs and times determine all the
other Sign’s meanings, similarly to the Ascendant and Midheaven giving meaning to all
the other Houses. I’ll direct your attention to the web site link in The Instructions that
goes to Khaldea where you’ll find more than enough information to go as deeply as you
desire into the lush fields of Sign and House meanings...
Earlier in this book I said something to the effect that nothing in astrology has
meaning without everything else—kind of like your head means nothing without your
neck... Even things like the Ascendant or the first House, which give meaning to other
factors, don’t have meaning by themselves. It’s our position on the Earth and it’s
relationship to the rest of the solar system that give meaning to Ascendant and first
House. When we get to the last chapter, you’ll get a feeling for how even this solar
system gets its meaning from the rest of space...
Most of my time on this Earth has been spent learning to find the core meanings
of the various factors of astrology. The journey has been wild with discovery and, at
times, perilous with risk. I mentioned two languages earlier—the one that astrology has
crystallized into—traditional words and meanings—and the one that holds the truth. Even
though you’ll be able to interpret your own chart by the time you finish reading this book,
you won’t have reached the end of that interpretation until you die. The reason I've stuck
with astrology for so many years is that its deepest meanings are the "seeds" that give
meaning to everything else. The structure of astrology is, at root, the structure of our
psyche.
Bold statement, that! Hard-won truth, too. Back behind all the lunacies of popular
astrology, far deeper than anything I can say about the subject, is the ocean of our
unconscious mind. Our mind, because, at that level, it is a collective mind—heir to the
full history of humanity and parent to any individual ego consciousness. There is a man,
someone I’ve called the Einstein of psychology—Carl Jung. If you want to delve into this
magnificent arena of the origin of consciousness, read Jung...
And what about our feelings? Ah! We must travel to Venus to begin to unravel the
mysteries of feeling...