The concept is that you, and the actions you take or avoid, are controlled by the placement of particular planets. A planet or combination of planets in a particular sign and house, for example, is said to determine your emotional makeup, intellectual acumen and even your choices and decisions.

The reality underlying personal empowerment, on the other hand, relies on a somewhat different perspective.

Within that equally legitimate reality, your choices and movement within physicality are generated and created by you. That may well be reflected in the planets and stars, but not the other way around. The genesis of your choice and movement is you, not a planet.

To consider otherwise places you in the untenable position of being a rather pathetic victim to what are, in actuality, your own created experiences. Moreover, a victim will doubtlessly require a savior of some sort to help balance out the resulting predicament of physicality.

There is some good news in all of this. Whether you prefer to view yourself as a victim of circumstance or as an empowered personality, by simply listening to your inner voice you will proactively become more aware of the many streams of communication which you provide yourself.

Opening yourself to the vast spectrum of communication that is already playing out within your perceptual array will serve to empower you, whether you view yourself as a victim, a person with choice, or something else.

As you allow yourself access to the spectrum of information available to you through your own internal communication, your choices will naturally and effortlessly increase as will your personal power and freedom of movement.

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A surprising perspective in response to these questions has less to do with the purported influence of the planets and stars and a whole lot to do with your own personal power.

It is commonly believed and accepted that the planets influence or even directly determine the timing of what happens to you. From the empowering perspective of your own personal power, however, no such dynamic actually takes place.

Personal empowerment is based on the recognition that you always retain access to your own personal power. And, freedom to access your own personal power is reflected in both the choices as well as the timing which you present to yourself.

Accordingly, access to your personal power within the dimensional experience of time is not dictated by something or someone outside of you. Nor is it dictated by the planets, stars or heavens beyond.

In point of fact, your relationship with the time element is a critically important access point to the expression of your energy. Restrictions and limitations which you do experience within a linear reality are those which you yourself create and which you draw to yourself. Just like in a hall of mirrors, the planetary environment is designed to reflect back exploratory challenges which you personally generate.

You place yourself in a position of increased choice and freedom of movement as you consciously direct your energy into the power of the moment. In fact, this is one of the most empowering perceptual adjustments you can make. Moreover, this simple movement into the timelessness-of-the-moment is the ultimate, practical response to the influence of time as reflected in planetary movement.

Recognizing that your own personal interaction within the time element is the basis for planetary expression opens many perceptual doors and can lead you to greater access to your own personal power and freedom.

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As an ancient, venerable system, astrology continues to have an incredibly strong influence on our modern day understanding of personal power and empowerment. And, to the extent that it helps us make sense of what goes on in our lives, those beliefs are quite useful.

The long-lasting vitality of astrological science and its underlying belief system originates from the timeless search for potential and possibility in a world of physicality and limitation. This ancient hunt is the clarion call, the precursor, to personal empowerment and personal power in its more modern context.

Yet, deeper still, the grand search for potential within a world of limits ultimately revolves around the dynamics of movement within consciousness. It is the unlimited energy of consciousness which allows for exploration of personal empowerment and freedom in the first place.

In a thoroughly modern context, the drive to explore includes an allowance to broaden life experiences. And, while planetary movement may well reflect that allowance in a myriad of ways, it is not its cause.

To view the planets otherwise would be like thinking that the indicator lights on a photocopy machine are the cause of the copies made. In point of fact, the indicator lights merely reflect the choices and actions you take to make the copies.

Be sure to take credit for your own creations! As you offer yourself movement in any context, recognize that what you present to yourself is neither generated by something outside yourself nor foisted on you as a victim of circumstance.

From this perspective, the movement of the planets and stars can more accurately been viewed as an expression of your wondrous personal power rather than the reason or cause of your own individual, creative, conscious movement. This enriching and empowering perspective about your own energy is your way to personal power and freedom.

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Consider just how incredibly powerful your perception actually is. As your perspective changes, you can and do change your actions and thus you directly influence what then happens. In effect, and not just in a manner of speaking, you employ perception to not only interface within your reality but to create it as well.

It is somewhat like computer software which processes information and then creates the imagery displayed on your computer monitor. Similar to software which defines and creates the virtual reality presented, your perception defines and creates your objective reality.

However, there’s also quite a bit more going on. Perception is not merely a limited neurological process by which you acquire and process information through your brain and senses. Nor is it limited to physical brain functioning. Rather, perception is an active component of your identity which is sourced prior to a resulting physical, mental, biological or chemical process.

That is to say, your physical brain is not the source of your perception any more than a computer monitor is the source of the images which are displayed. Through your perception you generate and create the imagery that you manifest within your world, just as the virtual reality of a computer is actually being created by your interaction with the software which displays the result on the monitor.

Recognizing your perceptual mechanism as a tool which you already wield based on choices you yourself make allows you to more effectively view yourself as the operative director of your reality. This understanding and viewpoint is highly empowering as it places you firmly in the driver’s seat of generating, creating and expressing your reality.

Otherwise, you would view yourself as merely a passenger in your own life or as a victim of circumstance in which your reality is generated by a secondary physical, mental, biological or chemical process which, understandably, appears to be happening to you.

The true power of your perception is in recognizing and appreciating your active, operative role in the creation of every aspect and nuance of your life within each and every moment of time. This recognition and appreciation is your way to personal power and freedom.

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But how do you recognize and act on that spectrum?

The first thing to consider is that you already act within an environment of uncountable time variations which you present to yourself in any particular moment. Consider, for example, the amazing spectrum of time as experienced during your most stressful waking moment, in your dream state, within meditation or during intense emotional experiences such as anger or joy.

The experience of time in each of these situations is undoubtedly quite different. The point being that you are already aware of the complex variations of time available to you as evidenced by the differences you generate. However, it is unlikely that you are objectively aware of that spectrum during a particular, separated experience.

Thus, the dynamic at hand is not about delineating or characterizing that spectrum within the dimensional experience of time. Rather, it has to do with noticing those variations of time which you actually generate and offer yourself within any particular moment.

An effective way to do that within your waking reality is to turn your attention to what you are actually doing within a particular experience at a particular moment in time. Focusing on what you are actually doing generates a perceptual awareness which is somewhat broader than the unscrutinized experience itself. This, in turn, allow you to become more objectively aware of the variations in time which you are presenting to yourself, but which otherwise may not be acknowledged within your consciousness.

This simple yet reflective dynamic allows you to effortlessly create the empowered expression which you actually desire in that precise moment of time.

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Your own empowerment is integral and personal to you. That is to say, your personal power is a significant aspect of who you already are. It is not something that is separate or apart from you which you need to obtain, control or measure. Your own internal, personal power is not determined by how much influence or control you wield over your environment or over others.

In a highly personal sense, it is permission that you give yourself to consciously (in your normal waking state of consciousness) tap into more of you and your own energy. By so doing, you can then easily recognize the choices which are at hand and permit yourself to act on those choices in the here and now.

This is a perceptual action by which you create and accomplish what it is you desire to create and accomplish. It is an internal movement toward access and acceptance of all you, not just acceptance of those aspects or portions which others allow you to express. It is as natural as natural can be.

Empowerment is a gentle movement within yourself which revolves around a simple shift in your perception. It does not involve laborious treadmill exercises to get motivated or improve or develop. This simple perceptual shift within your consciousness may more accurately be viewed as a continuous opening up to who you already are, and thus distinguished from continuously pushing yourself to become something you’re not.

In a nutshell, personal empowerment is your own personal, direct authority over your own life and person, and the present, objective ability to create what you desire in your experience within the physicality of your day-to-day waking reality.

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Consider, for example, the culturally dreaded expression of anger. Along with the clear and rather unmistakable signal which captures your attention (and usually the attention of others), anger also provides a great deal of significant information.

If you’re listening, that is.

Do you actually listen for the content of the communication? Or do you just hear the attention-grabbing signal layer, get carried away and leave it at that?

All emotion holds and transmits a great deal more information than that contained in the attention-grabbing layer. That layer is, of course, quite significant in that it was how you were able to attract your attention in the first place. At the same time, recognize that there’s a whole lot more going on where that came from!

Within that complex, multilayered emotional communication you will also find – assuming you look, that is – a great deal of additional information you are trying to share with yourself. That includes specific information about the substance of the matter at hand. And you certainly don’t want to miss the substance, do you?

Not paying attention to the specific information you are trying to share with yourself would be like ignoring the contents of a gift package and, instead, only focusing on the overarching excitement (or fear or anger, etc) of the package itself!

A broader perceptual strategy which leads to personal empowerment is to take a moment, a deep breath, and actually reflect on the content within the emotional signal. What beliefs are you expressing? What values are on the line? What fear or anticipation is being expressed? What is the basis for the urgency or strength of that emotional signal? What specifically are you saying to yourself beyond the obvious?

Once you begin to distinguish the emotional signal from the content of the message being communicated, you will have opened yourself up to a huge stream of additional information that you otherwise are not likely to have incorporated into your reality. This is incredibly empowering.

And need I say; that broad stream of powerful multilayered communication directly impacts the spectrum of choices you offer to yourself and, in turn, your direct awareness of the personal power you wield at that precise moment in time.

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This scenario is similar to your relationship with your own personal power. So long as you only allow yourself access to twenty dollars worth of information about yourself, you will likely remain somewhat confused and frustrated.

Why do you accept limited information about yourself and about your personal power? One reason is because there is a tendency to rely on the narrow, familiar part of yourself as reflected within your thought process as the primary, if not sole, source of information about yourself and about your personal power.

However, you also provide yourself an incredible amount of useful information about yourself through other valid avenues of communication. Those include, for example, your emotions, intelligence, intuition, feelings, impressions, senses, impulses, daydreams, imagination and so on.

To the extent you are open to all of yourself, to all of your communications in all forms, you are then positioned to recognize and interact with all of your reality, not merely that portion represented and presented to you within your thought process.

By being actively aware of the wide array of communications you offer yourself in the moment, you effortlessly provide yourself access to much more of you. At that point your recognition of the actual value of your personal power will begin to soar.

To swing open the door to your own personal empowerment, simply recognize that you already possess a billion dollars worth of listening power – and then listen!

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The experience of time during pain and pleasure, for example, offers striking differences. Pain seems to take forever – pleasure is here and gone. Or consider the difference between the linear experience of time while awake as compared to the juxtaposed experience of time while asleep or in meditation. Again, striking differences are apparent.

By taking the time element for granted – as being fixed and always there in the background – an important element of your reality may easily be overlooked. When time appears fixed you may feel locked in and stressed out. When viewed as an unwavering constant, the time element must be complied with at all cost.

Therefore, recognizing that there are substantial differences and complex variations within the time element is incredibly significant to the expression of your personal power. This is because within infinite variations of time you can offer yourself more options and more choice. And by offering yourself more choice, you naturally generate more freedom of movement.

The question may then arise as to how to maneuver within this vast environment of uncountable time variations. Looking at your experience within your dream state or when daydreaming, as an example, notice that you do not assert control or restraint within that experience. Rather, you simply allow the movement to unfold, naturally.

That operative dynamic of flowing maneuverability within the time element is based on an allowance and trust of yourself. To the extent you simply allow a flow toward acceptance and trust, you may well find that the push and panic to assert control and restraint within the time element will naturally subside.

Within this natural flow and calm expression of personal empowerment, the otherwise all encompassing influence of time may then be pleasantly experienced in peaceful freedom rather than in crippling fear.

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Traveling to the moon may sound easier.

An alternate perspective – which if nothing else will get you a good night sleep – is that you already have personal power. It is as much a natural and inseparable aspect of yourself as is your identity. You therefore don’t actually need to improve or change what is already there within yourself. You only need to get in touch with that aspect of yourself which you may feel the need to expand and explore.

Moreover, a hugely significant point is that you already express personal power in everything you do. Just consider all that you’ve been through in your life and the fact that you have made it this far! Thus, there is no need to acquire what you already possess, nor is there need to add what is already an inextricable aspect of yourself.

What you may consider doing, however, is to allow yourself more objective awareness of your personal power within each moment of each day. In fact, this is precisely what happens as you begin to focus with appreciation on each moment as it unfolds rather than chasing after a new and improved version of you in some future time frame.

By gently directing your attention toward genuine appreciation of yourself within this moment, right now, you will effortlessly gain an expanded perspective. The result of this action is that you naturally place yourself in greater awareness of the incredible power and freedom which you already possess in vast quantity.

Become aware of your own personal empowerment by simply appreciating each moment as it unfolds. Not only will you meet a complete and wonderful person (you), but you’ll also find that it’s a whole lot easier than traveling to the moon in search of a new and improved version of who you already are.

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As you focus your energy within this pristine moment, right now, you position yourself to see more of the choices which are available to you. Being in the now allows you to tap into a great deal of the ongoing, dynamic and creative communication within yourself which would otherwise remain unnoticed or be automatically pushed away.

Focusing your attention within the now also prevents you from limiting yourself through the memories of the past or the expectations of the future. When you project your energy into the past or into the future, what you may actually be doing is looking outside or beyond yourself to authorize your decisions and actions.

On the other hand, as you rely on yourself in the moment, you validate yourself and trust in yourself naturally grows. Thus, the creative environment of the moment provides an effective platform for personal empowerment by which you can consciously direct your own personal power in the areas and in the ways that are important to you.

Moreover, by focusing your energy in the moment, right now, it is easier to recognize what you are actually doing. By becoming more familiar with what you are actually doing, you will naturally accomplish more of what you want to accomplish with efficiency and ease.

As the dynamic flow of the moment and your own internal rhythm become more in sync, your life will naturally bloom. This one simple adjustment of focusing your energy within the moment is one of the most natural, powerful and empowering actions you can take to tap into your full potential in any situation or circumstance.

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Others have a vested interest in convincing you of the opposite: that something or someone other than yourself is a better, more complete, higher or more pure source of information about you than you are. That is the business of all manner of social, political and religious belief systems and institutions.

Getting in touch with your own personal power is not, however, a result or a function of being granted some sort of temporary stewardship over yourself, or of having your choices dictated to you by others. That approach leads to dis-empowerment.

Empowerment, on the other hand, is the moment-to-moment trust in your own guidance as well as a reliance on your own internal indicators. And those indicators and internal communications are immediately available – right here and right now – from within yourself.

This does not mean that you cannot or should not share information or take advice from another. Nor does it mean that you are an island independent from all others. What it does mean, however, is that you are the immediate as well as the ultimate source of your own personal power and freedom.

While you may not be objectively or fully aware of how to access and act on the information you provide yourself, know that it is there, and that it is available to you. You only need to look to yourself, rely on yourself and trust yourself.

Consciously acknowledging and recognizing yourself as your own best authority in all matters pertaining to you is a critically important key to unlocking your own personal power. And trusting yourself to act as your own authority is essential to sustaining your personal power in all circumstances and at all times.

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The expression of victim has to do with choosing to view your life as an unrelenting series of events and circumstances which unavoidably happen to you. In this mode, rather than viewing your life as an incredible, wondrous expression within physicality, you view yourself as a helpless victim of your environment, of your own personal history and experiences, of other people and even of yourself. Pain, suffering, anxiety and trauma abound.

Directing your own energy, on the other hand, generates quite a different view and experience. As you direct your own energy you literally empower yourself to go in the direction that you prefer to go in. As a result, you naturally feel better and more in touch, in sync, with yourself. And for good reason – you are more in sync with yourself. In this orientation, life is an uplifting, inspiring and satisfying experience. And, yes, even fun!

This choice of perceptual orientation also influences your experience in another powerful way. What and how you express within your energy essentially attracts more of the same. Now, that doesn’t happen due to some sort of immutable like-attracts-like cosmic law, as is fashionable to say.

Rather, as you get more in sync with yourself by directing your own energy, and as you view and appreciate your day-to-day reality as a creation of your own energy, you reflect that and allow yourself more freedom of movement.

Now, let’s do a quick time out and consider another perspective: there is nothing inherently wrong with orienting and viewing yourself as a victim. Victim is also your own creation. And the creation of victim is not any better or any worse than any other expression – assuming, that is, that you have chosen that expression. What is dis-empowering and enervating, however, is being stuck on auto-pilot, so to speak, and not recognizing the ever-present choices you do actually have.

Recognize that you always have choice and that you configure and express your personal power to the extent that you consciously act as a director of your energy. This perceptual awareness and conscious action puts you in sync with yourself and thus leads you, naturally and effortlessly, to personal empowerment and freedom.

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Step one. Consider the fact that while you may be in first gear, there are many other gears available to you! This is a significant point. The reason you may not feel that you can get out of first gear may simply be that you are not actually offering yourself a genuine choice of moving into second gear.

And to be naturally motivated, the choice needs to come from inside you. It needs to be a real world possibility in your life in the here and now.

So what keeps you from seeing more of your available choices? Well, are you receiving enough information from yourself about moving forward into second gear? Or are you focused primarily, if not exclusively, on your thoughts and the resulting frustration of not moving forward?

Focusing your attention on your thoughts would be like limiting yourself to, say, the fuel gauge while driving. Don’t get me wrong, the fuel gauge is important. But it’s certainly not the whole picture. To actually shift gears, you need to take in quite a bit more information in real time. You need a tachometer worth of information!

Similarly, although you continuously offer yourself a great deal of information, by-and-large you may only be focused on what your thoughts are telling you. And that focus on your thoughts to the exclusion of other internal communication is likely to limit your choices. Or, more accurately, limit your view of your choices.

From this perspective, a simple solution to get yourself into second gear, to move forward, to get motivated, is to allow yourself to be open and aware of what information you are already, continuously, offering yourself.

For example, are you in touch with your feelings and emotions? How about your intuition and imagination? Are you taking advantage all of that content rich information?

Once you start to take advantage of the broad spectrum of information available through your own personal empowerment dashboard, you may find that shifting gears in your life can be quite easy, even to the point of being effortless!

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Without the slightest exaggeration, genuinely understanding exactly how these two actions are different can bring you to the magical heart of personal empowerment.

Why is it such an important distinction? Well, it’s important because you actually express your power by doing, not by merely thinking about doing. Of course, there is obviously nothing wrong with thinking, and we would all do well to encourage more of it – as anyone who even skims the daily news already knows!

As you connect and get grounded, or, in other words, as you begin to focus more of your attention on what you are actually doing – rather than remaining focused almost exclusively on what you may think you are doing – you will begin to gently move toward yourself. And being in touch with yourself is the best motivator.

This is no small thing! In fact, it’s quite magical. Many personal empowerment systems from cultures around the world are based on this simple perceptual adjustment. And the beauty of it is that there are no outside restrictions – you are free to refocus your attention anytime and anywhere.

Being more in touch with yourself by noticing what you are actually doing is also quite powerful. It puts you in a position of allowing yourself to then adjust and direct the experiences that you are generating in your life – rather than having to plod and suffer through what otherwise might appear to be happening to you. And that’s because what you are actually experiencing moment-to-moment is about the best indication you actually have as to what you have chosen to do and experience.

Directing your experiences within an awareness of yourself and your own action instead of carrying around the weight of your existence as a helpless victim will, almost magically, produce a sea change in your life. By redirecting your attention in this way, you will begin to move rather effortlessly with increased awareness and freedom.

It all begins with simply noticing what you are actually doing rather than mindlessly focusing on what you think you are doing. Try it. Get grounded by noticing and paying attention to what you are actually doing, and see what happens.

No doubt you will be in for a real surprise!

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