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Planetary
Influences

Angels In Astrology

by Sandra Randel

If all of creation is from the mind of God, then angels are the part that never left home. I've come to understand angels as thoughts of God and the planetary influences as the multidimensional creative force of those thoughts. From the time I left the corporate world and began practicing astrology, I've been surrounded and assisted by angels. Until then I knew very little about angels. What I knew came from Biblical stories or catechism lessons as a child. Raised Catholic, I was taught that Mother Mary had the title, Queen of Angels. Don't forget the Three Wise Men or Magi were astrologers.

For me the angel interaction began with unusual light phenomena in my home, synchronicities that brought to me channeled messages from angels and then voices from my heart describing themselves to me as “what I would think of as angels”. Needless to say, this led me to seek more information. I discovered angels have been written about for thousands of years in almost every civilized culture. To my surprise, several ancient mystical texts even credited angels with holding in place the astrological influences symbolized by the planets. Slowly my rational mind found acceptance for the concept of angels in astrology. Perhaps I had somehow aligned with this higher intelligence. The more I opened to the idea, the more love and joy they offered in turn and gradually I came to embrace their presence.

The Kabbalah, the Talmud, Islamic literature and even the Catholic Church, prior to the Inquisition taught that specific angels are assigned to our solar system. According to A Dictionary of Angels, each planetary force is maintained by a team of nine angels. These nine are categorized into three types, The Spirits, The Messengers and The Intelligences. We are also told, the Chief over all the planetary angels is Rahatiel. When you look at the names of the angels below, don't be disappointed if you aren't familiar with most of them. Antiquity tells us there are millions of angels governing the 196 provinces of heaven. Who could know them all? We can know the angel of our birth sign or planetary ruler. References to astrology in the ancient texts imply the “Planetary Intelligences” as Pope Leo III called them, work like currents of energy through the soul prompting certain kinds of responses in people. Essentially this is the same way astrology understands the influences today. It's unfortunate we no longer give credit to the angels because I believe astrology is the cyber space of angels and the planetary forces are like E-Mail to the soul. This isn't a bad analogy when you consider the similarities. Where is cyberspace? Where is an influence?

From as early as age fourteen, I was drawn to the study of astrology, but I didn't believe a planet so far away could have an effect on my life. Gradually I reached the understanding that planetary forces are an inside job, the creative force of a Creative Source rather than a three dimensional, external, magnetism. Astrology isn't magic or superstition. It's the only mechanism we have to describe the unconscious, involuntary, intangible multidimensional forces at work within the intuitive mind. More succinctly, astrology attempts to describe our resonance, that which is us, our essence and elemental nature. The “astrological” forces are speaking to our soul. What we call the planetary forces and what we call the soul or subtle body are of the same substance, they're made of the same “stuff.” When astrologers talk about influences they're actually referring to a frequency or resonance. The effects of it are witnessed in the wake of our lives' activities, looking at manifestations and responses. An individual's awareness of a resonance is after the fact. Receiving it is intuitive. It's a function of what I call our Resonance-Response System. Your Resonance-Response System is on all the time, even while you sleep. Resonance-Response Systems aren't just for processing planetary forces. All life has frequency. We intuit the frequencies all around us whether plant, animal, human or planetary. The planetary forces or frequencies have as their function in creation the job of gently guiding or informing us in some way. Your soul's response to a planetary resonance and the resulting effects in your life are determined by your karma. Karma is the software of the soul. It's based on the past, on your memories. In other words, your karma consists of the cumulative experiences of all your lifetimes and all experiences in between lifetimes.

Trust in the oneness of all living things affords you access to deeper stratas of living energy. Planetary Resonance or Influences are a part of the creation and like the rest of creation they have purpose and are designed to complement all life. They are living, functioning, intelligent links between the Creative Source and all creation. Physical bodies do things in three-dimensional space, however souls function multi-dimensionally. We are designed to communicate with each other in or apart from matter. When two souls meet, their Resonance-Response Systems conduct intuitive exchanges and these exchanges form the real basis for their relationship. This is because the agendas of the two souls will always take precedence over the agendas of the two egos. When you look to astrology for insight, remember its primary function is the business of the soul. This is frequently overlooked in favor of its predictive qualities.

When a soul is born, the arrangement of the planets form a template. Insights into that soul's past, karma and purpose for incarnation can be derived. The template of the soul, the astrology chart and map, by no means provides a comprehensive description of the individual's future or full potential. No human could ever fully comprehend, let alone express that. The soul, that illusive, intangible, misunderstood, all-important component of our lives, has a source of wisdom all its own. To find that source we must look beyond three dimensions. Astrology helps us expand the mind from three dimensional into multidimensional thinking through the understanding that life itself has energy and specific force with which to incite specific stimuli. When an individual links with that specific force and renders it powerful, many levels of power and possibility reveal themselves. At each level a door into the next is found. The door is at the appropriate place and time for the continuation of growth and expansion of life through the mind's gifts.

For more on angels read A Dictionary of Angels by Gustav Davidson.

Sandra Randel is an astrologer and past life regressionist, and a contributor to Aquarius. Contact her at 404-609-9593 or sandra@creatingheavennow.com.

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