Large Hat with Streamers Flying, Facing East is the Sabian Symbol for the 8th degree of Aries. 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.

Perhaps you have thought that your birth sign, even if it does give a huge amount of information about you, does not truly classify you very specifically? Undeniably not in a spine-tingling kind of way that formulates the whole of life so that it must feel very altered from then on. Well, perhaps you may want to have a look at these Sabian Symbols – they could well make you see things differently! The Sabian approach certainly is somewhat unique.

So you may want to find out what these Sabian Symbols actually are? There are 360 Sabian Symbols – one for each degree – that were clairvoyantly revealed in 1925, by a mystic, Elsie Wheeler, and unravelled by an American astrologer, Dr Marc Edmund Jones. Each of them gives a subtle clue about the underlying importance of that single degree, which can unlock some very useful and provocative perspectives that undoubtedly will get you thinking.

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.

A primal assertive force presides within each of us, equivalent to the excitation indicated by an erect phallus, and stirred into expression by the imminence of new experience, into which we feel to inject an initiative. Those of us, who have watched the sun rise, know how all-pervasive and compellingly pure this feeling can be. We feel powerful, even in the face of the absolute life-giver.

Naively, we show our joyful exuberance by showing off our fine feathers, tying streamers to a party hat which catches the wind, so we are noticed and seen to be filled with life force.

In this mood we enter relationships with those around us and are ready to engage with any and all of the possible variations and novelties that humanity throws up.

We come to realise that we can utilise all life experiences, all kinds of interactions and involvements, to the benefit of all concerned, simply by having sensitivity and responding positively to the potential in all situations.

Every scenario is new; each moment has its own dawn, its own birthing of potential – and the one who sees it first can claim it, and integrate much of the great force of its life energy into their growing expression of self.

It does not serve to posture or pretend, because a false interest or involvement leads to unhelpful kickback. The required commitment is an absolute, unconditional assertiveness – half-hearted warriors die.

At its highest level, this person can find the underlying trend, and actually see it as their life purpose, to which they are able to offer complete and unconditional cooperation in every moment.