Butterfly, Emerging from a Chrysalis is the Sabian Symbol for the 29th degree of Aqaurius. Here it is described using the 7 Words System - a way of understanding the complexity of human interactions that can be applied to all aspects of self-awareness and relationship, so that you quickly change your perspectives and get to a deep sense of what to do to improve things.

When you think about it - have you ever contemplated that your sun sign, even if it does give a huge amount of information about you, cannot really characterize you exactly? Certainly not with an exceptional sense so that all of life will seem very changed from then on. Well then, have a glimpse at these Sabian Symbols – they may make you change your mind! The Sabian slant is somewhat unique.

What exactly are Sabian Symbols? The Sabian Symbols are 360 images – one for each degree – that were clairvoyantly discovered by a mystic, Elsie Wheeler, and illuminated by a foremost astrologer, Dr Marc Edmund Jones. Each of them offers a subtle clue about the central sense of that degree, which can release some very useful and provoking perceptions for you.

It works even if it’s not your particular degree – and yet a lot better if it is. It’s best to allow yourself time to do it slowly, like a meditation. Let each of the short paragraphs sink in slowly and try to feel what it means, as well as using the mind…or just sit with the images for a while and use your power of imagination to create some playful stories around it. (You will find your own Sabian Symbol by following the link below)

Having come to some new realizations about the essence of who you are, there is another stage you can adopt – to decide to be different. You can influence a lot more of your circumstances than you usually do when you engage fully with the deepest part of your unique identity, by taking on the qualities indicated by your Sabian symbol.

Also if you are clearer about who you are, then you become a lot more certain about what you want out of life. You can set your goals according to an overall vision of the bigger picture, and that itself leads to a much greater chance of success. It helps with focus so that you keep your attention fixed on the required outcome.

Reading your own Sabian Symbol is a bit like getting a brother or sister to speak honestly about you. They know you well, with all your dark bits and your light, and although they love you, they’ll tell you the hard truth! It can be difficult to hear, yet useful for those who are trying to become better people. It may be necessary to reread it a few times and think deeply about what is actually being said.

There is so much we could do with our lives! Opportunities are endless and very diverse, each day bringing little clues and teases to nudge us toward a little more unfolding of potential. Saying No to this and Yes to that surely requires us to trust our feelings and surrender to the inevitable – that, come what may, we all end up being who we are: nothing more, nothing less.

Mind is the cornerstone of humanity’s supremacy on earth, and one invests hugely in the intellect in order to develop and maintain the self assurance that is required to function with effective certainty of purpose.

There is an voracious appetite for experience, an insatiable well of curiosity for knowledge, and a constant yearning in the mind to get to the bottom of things, which propels individuals to seek answers to inner questions.

What springs forth spontaneously, in response to such persistent questioning, is an emanation of new ideas, each one a butterfly in its ephemeral transience. Some of them trickle forward and, without the force to survive, are lost; others grow like streams that become rivers feeding the ocean of humanity’s collective conception of the nature of existence.

The root of this activity is the elemental self-regeneration of mind. At a personal level and at the universal level, Mind needs to go through a process of constant renewal in order to purify itself – so that its outpourings are sparkling and clear.

We understand somehow that the degenerative aspect of Mind – to be utterly sluggish, lazy and crystallized into hard opinion, staunch belief and unwillingness to learn – can be used as a springboard. Pushing away from such dysfunctionality to affirm our unwavering faith in life’s promise, we awaken to a dream of great joy.

There is then the sense of continually being reborn – to an even greater expanse of awareness that has the eagerness of emergent new life – with a thirst to grasp and assimilate every scrap of knowledge from all perspectives.

We are all co-creating Creation in each moment. The feeling we get when we remember this – and fervently participate with it – is a blend of incomparable keenness, wonder and amazement.