soul

Where does the soul go after it leaves the body? I'm not sure; there may be no word for it. I call it another dimension, a higher level of consciousness or higher state of consciousness. The soul certainly exists outside of the physical body, and it makes connections not only to the other lifetimes of the person it just departed but to all other souls. We die physically, but this part of us is indestructible and immortal. The soul is timeless. Ultimately, there is probably just one soul, one energy.

There are many of us that know people who when they have reached a certain age, find themselves stuck in a mind-set that they’ll remain single for the rest of their lives. All too often, you’ll hear them say: “I’m too old,” or “It’s too late, I’m not going to meet anyone now.” The same goes for people who feel that a promotion has passed them by, or it’s too late in life to start something new. Too many people fall victim to this self-limiting belief or buy into this perceived societal programming. I love the quote by George Eliot: “It's never too late to be what you might have been.” This Soul Inspiration has my singular message to you: It’s never too late and you are never too old!

A few weeks ago, I was lecturing on one of my favorite topics; the power of the soul. I was in the process of explaining how your soul attracts what it needs and desires, when a woman raised her hand and said that she’d been thinking about the artwork she did when she was younger. She felt that synchronicity was playing its hand in guiding her to go back to the art she so loved to create.

As much as our soul tries to guide us to our highest good, we as humans have a tendency to shrug it off and not pursue what we are being guided to do. We often find excuses, or put up internal barriers that prevent us, as this is the easier option! I looked at her and said, “You’re never too old to do what you feel passionate about.” I also reminded her how Louise Hay, the founder of my publisher Hay House, didn’t start her empire until she was in her late forties. It all started with a small pamphlet, and now her company is the biggest self-help publisher in the world! She will be turning 85 this year, and is still out lecturing. When she’s at an event, she stands there signing books for every person in line. I always recommend to people the importance of having a role model, and to follow how they accomplished their goals.

Excerpt from Chapter 5 of Astrology and the Authentic Self by Demetra George

Now that you have delineated the Ascendant and its ruler, you have a sense of what core drive motivates the soul to action, what planet and house guide the person to his or her destination as the purpose of the life incarnation, and to what extent this will be a successful journey. Next, we will investigate just what this purpose is and how it can be expressed in the daily life. For these answers, we turn to the Sun and the Moon.

Hellenistic astrologers called the Sun and the Moon “the rulers of one’s all,” and described them as having authority over the whole life.¹ Of the seven visible planets known to the ancients, the Sun is the largest body and the Moon is the smallest. Yet, by some exquisite piece of geometry and proportion, at the moment when the Full Moon rises in the east, just as the Sun sets in the west, they appear to be the same size from the perspective of Earth. Together, the Sun and Moon regulate the cycle of day and night, wake and sleep, activity and rest—a tempo that moves us through the days and months and years of our lives.

What distinguishes the Sun from the other planetary bodies in the horoscope is that it is a star. The nature and composition of a star, an enormous generator of fiery energy, is different from that of a planet. In fact, since the ultimate energy source for most of the biological processes on Earth is sunlight, the ancients were not mistaken in their worship of the Sun as the fount of life. Plato thought the stars were a more divine order of celestial entities than the planets, because they moved with a regularity quite different from the erratic movements of the planets. Today we know that the Sun is the center of our solar system; all the other planets revolve around it. As such, it can be said to be the center or heart of our being, around which all other astrological factors constellate.