Depth Astrology

Bruno and Louise Huber, pioneers of Huber astrology, conducted painstaking research over many years to conclude that each horoscope house contains a cycle of energy that gets reflected in the patterns of the chart native’s life. When combined with the Hubers’ Age Point research, it is easy to look at a horoscope chart and identify the cycle of life in which a person is currently engaged.

Mysteriously, but perhaps not surprisingly, the division of each horoscope house into three cycles is based on the Golden Mean, which is found everywhere in nature: in the spinning of stars and the vein patterns in leaves and the anatomy of human beings. It is a profound testament to our interconnectedness.

In the first cycle of each horoscope house, the energy is outward, extraverted, manifesting. There comes a particular time, then, when the energy makes a slow turn toward a more internal, introverted, reflective way of being. The energy becomes deeper and heavier, and traditional productivity can be hard. After a period of time, then, the energy turns again, becoming lighter, searching for the next path, pushing up out of darkness into light.

We go through the set of three phases in roughly six-year cycles, and the phases are marked by different neuroses depending on the particular planets encountered and — importantly — the basic makeup of the chart native’s personality. If you’re an especially fiery, extraverted person, it can be hard to cope with the slowness and heaviness of an Age Point period that is quieter, more introverted. If you’re generally contemplative, those external phases can be demanding and exhausting.

And if your Age Point comes upon a place in the horoscope chart that demands action — such as Mars or Aries — during an internal phase of life, the extra energy can be turned inward, resulting in a hypercritical attitude toward the self, or depression, or inexplicable anger. Similarly, if you’re pulled toward silence during a period of intense external demands, people may perceive you as “clamming up,” or ineffective, or shy, or stand-offish.

Alignment between the external and the internal always makes it easier to cope in life. But even with the best intentions and plans, that alignment is not always possible. When tension arises from conflicted expectations — that is, when your energy naturally gravitates toward one way of being while the world is demanding something different of you — it’s easy to get alienated from deep instinct and self-knowledge. It’s almost impossible, sometimes, to balance your own needs with the things that others need and expect of you.

It’s always bothered me when politicians are criticized for “flip-flopping” — changing their positions on certain subjects over the course of their careers. If we’re honest with ourselves, we can see that we all flip-flop, in fairly predictable cycles. For a period of time, we feel confident and extraverted; for a period of time we are brooding and solitary; and then we move back into sociability and productivity. These are all okay ways of being, even for one person. We cannot expect to always be exactly the same from day to day, throughout the life.

If we welcome ambiguity and change, we’re much better able to move with the rhythms of our Age Point rather than fight against them. If we can do this, we honor the whole self and not just the self others expect us to be.

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