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We’ve all had those moments when we feel less than loving and understanding towards ourselves. Self-acceptance means embracing our inner light as well as the parts of us that we find hard to love or “shadow aspects.”

There is a whole spectrum within each person’s individual behaviors, thought processes, emotional nature and deeper soul path playing out very differently for each of us. Astrology is an incredible tool to discover these aspects as a way to understand and accept who we are on a really deep level. This is the greatest gift the astrological birth chart provides. It’s like a blueprint of our inner psychological wiring. It helps us better understand our behaviors and see both the gifts and challenges we face. No two birth charts are the same, although some are very similar in nature. It never ceases to amaze me how accurately they reflect the psychology of the individual from personality to soul path.

The birth chart shows us how we are motivated, how we process our emotions, how we love and show love, where we tend to get stuck and our higher ideals. For instance, with the objective awareness from one’s birth chart that their emotional nature (the moon position at birth) is highly passionate and creative in its light side, yet the shadow contains impatience — one can’t help but make new choices in their interactions with others. At the same time, it helps to release any judgment one may have carried about themself when the shadow parts are triggered. It comes with the awareness that everyone has both light and shadow, but there are simply many different personality aspects within each of us. It’s important to recognize the gifts of the light aspects and to release judgment on the shadow aspects, since they are part of that same wiring.