When considering which evolutionary stage a soul is in, if there have been definite characteristics of a few stages throughout this life would you determine the soul to have evolved through each of those stages in this lifetime? If so would you then determine the soul to presently be at the latter stage which they identify with? Also is there typically a maximum number of stages a soul evolves through?
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Hi Michelle,
There are four natural evolutionary stages that have three subdivisions within each of them. Any given Soul is somewhere within this as A BOTTOM LINE to how they are orientated to life on the planet. There is is evolution within this of course so a given Soul can, for example, be evolving from the last stage of the 3rd Consensus stage of evolution to the 1st stage of the Individuated stage of evolution.
This reflects that natural way all Souls evolve. It is not possible to suddenly evolve, for example, from the 2nd Stage Consensus stage of evolution to say the 1st Stage of spiritual evolution: there is a natural progression through the Four natural stages of evolution and the three subdivisions within them.
There are also certain kinds of aspects within a chart that can appear to to reflect or mimic the characteristics of these four natural evolutionary states that can of themselves confuse an EA astrologer in understanding the bottom line evolutionary state of evolution for any given Soul. For example, a last quarter square wherein the core archetype of this aspect correlates to a 'crisis in consciousness' in which the two planets that have this aspect are pulling away from the consensus way of actualizing the archetypes of how those two planets are developed within the Soul. Thus, a natural rebellion relative to those two planets that then creates the characteristic of the Individuated stage of evolution.
Yet if the Soul 's bottom line state of evolution is within the Consensus stage of evolution then this can then confuse of EA astrologer relative to that bottom line stage of evolutionary development. In other words, because of the last quarter square exhibiting the characteristic of rebellion relative to the two planets with that aspect then thinking that the Soul in question is in the 1st Individuated stage of evolution itself.
So, again, any given Soul has a bottom line of their natural evolutionary stage of development that is a constant throughout their life in which a natural evolution progression takes place. And that natural evolutionary progression occurs within any given chart relative to the types of aspects that occur within it such as the example of the last quarter square wherein that archetype of necessary rebellion against the consensus is intended by the Soul to accelerate it's evolution within the bottom line of the evolutionary state of evolution that it is within.
God Bless, Rad