Stephen Arroyo quotes

“The higher purpose of #‎ astrology is not to try to change one's destiny, but to fulfill it through growing in awareness”
-- Stephen Arroyo

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“We are here to learn lessons and our birth chart tells us what our lessons are, what type of energy we possess in the first place, and how, by facing up to the challenges presented to us in life, spiritual growth will ensue. The birth chart is a 'tool' to guide us through our life. By understanding our basic make up, we can learn to make the most out of our positive points and try to improve on our weaker ones.”
-- Stephen Arroyo

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“Seeks to grow and improve oneself through creative activity, freely expressing one’s exuberant vitality, and through warm, supportive encouragement of others.”
-- Stephen Arroyo

Source : Stephen Arroyo, Jerilynn Marshall (1989). “Chart Interpretation Handbook: Guidelines for Understanding the Essentials of the Birth Chart”, p.36, Dubois Publishing

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“I always take an aspect between the ruling planets (i.e., the rulers of their Ascendants) as a testimony to the fact that the two people are likely to have a relationship of extraordinary intensity and importance… The close interaction of the ruling planets’ energies can be seen as indicative of a particularly specific symbol of how the two people interact with each other… in the vast majority of such cases, all of the other levels of interaction shown in a comparison will be secondary to the intense type of interchange symbolized by the aspect between the rulers.”
-- Stephen Arroyo

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“The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology”
-- Stephen Arroyo

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“The higher purpose of #‎ astrology is not to try to change one's destiny, but to fulfill it through growing in awareness”
-- Stephen Arroyo

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“Our choices determine our destiny”

Source : A. R. Bernard (2016). “Four Things Women Want from a Man”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

“Geography is destiny.”

“Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.”

“The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

“Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.”

“The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!”

“The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...”

“So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.”

“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013

“Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.”