About astrology (Part III: Traditional astrology)

Astrology was fatalist until the first half of the twentieth century. The map presents a personality and the course already established by the influence of planets. Map's aspects were seen whether as benefits whether as detriments. Until the discovery of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (1781, 1846 and 1930) interpretations were strictly bound on the interior planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, in addition to the moon and the Sun, often known as "The two lights". Planets were symbolizing very specifically people and aspects of their lives and the accent was put on what might happen in the future. A major influence on traditional astrology, which continues to form astrology today, had Theosophia, a system of believes in Hinduism, founded in 1800 by the occult prophet Mrs. Helena Blavatsky. Alice Bailey (1880-1949), a theosophic descendent, wrote "Esoteric Astrology" which added to Bailey's own drain, information from her spiritual guide. Those spiritual ideas promote Reincarnation, the belief that somebody will return after death many times to evolve; a spiritual hierarchy of Exalted Teachers who guide those on the earth to a better and higher spiritual understanding, and Pantheism, the believe that God is everything and everything is God. Thereby, everyone gets a divine side and evolves to deity. Most of these ideas were developed by the map interpretation of the prominent astrologist Isabel Hickey who died in 1960. She emphasized the importance of everyone to read his karma lesson (anterior life lesson) from the map and spiritual interpretations. Those spiritual ideas were the predecessors of today’s move: The New Era.