A midpoint picture reveals how a PLANETARY
archetype can be best developed.
It's part of the scripts & decorations that make up your soul’s success sectors.
Focal Point
can be accomplished through
planetary archetype
planetary archetype
Midpoint pictures are useful for mastering your soul's gifts.
They're also great for working with those parts of you that you feel insecure about, because they point to methods with which those archetypes can develop more confidence & clarity.
Consider how you’ve worked with your inner Mercury archetype thus far. This is the part of us who can exercise mental agility by shapeshifting or "borrowing” skill sets or qualities from others which we ourselves might not yet possess. He allows us to increase our standing in the world in strategic ways.
Are you good at increasing your standing in life with your intellectual abilities, wheeling and dealing in order to come out making a profit, or getting what you want in relationships using effective negotiation strategies? If not, it might be useful to look at any midpoints you may have involving Mercury.
In the formula at the top, Mercury is the focal point. His archetype (our inner intellectual abilities) is the focus of development in this Midpoint picture. Mercury is the "what" while the other two planets in the picture illuminate the "how."
To be considered a Focal Point, Mercury must be within a two degree orb of the midpoint between Mars and Jupiter in the chart (as shown in a midpoint sort). Wider orbs are considered not significant, unless the focal point involves the Sun or the Moon, in which case the orb might be extended by a degree or so.
Before the application of your intention, the equation reads:
"Mastery of my communication skills & intellectual gifts (Mercury) can be developed through an undertaking symbolized by (Mars) combined with an undertaking symbolized by (Jupiter)."
Through this Midpoin picture, your chart is indicating that the combination of the Mars/Jupiter archetypal energies is the lynchpin to both accessing and mastering your Mercurial gifts!
What will differ from person to person is the intention they have for their Mercucial gifts (e.g. a vision for what they want to do with them). This is what determines the exact Mars-ruled and Jupiter ruled principles & activities they choose to plug into their personal Midpoint picture equation.
Let's differentiate between the domains ruled by Mars & Jupiter before we go further.
Mars' Domain
Mars represents the inner masculine principle & rules our sexual drives, aggression, anger, physical activity, one-pointedness, outward activity, competition and the way we use our willpower to get what we want in the world.
Jupiter's Domain
Jupiter represents the principles of expansion & goodness & rules higher learning, spiritual enlightenment, religion, travel, faith, optimism, wisdom & the ability to receive more abundance in our lives by ridding ourselves of inner negativity.
In our equation, Mars & Jupiter must co-create.
The picture shows ways they can potentially collaborate:
"Mastery of my intellectual gifts can be accomplished through:
aggressive & one-pointed (Mars) expansion of my spiritual path (Jupiter); or
using the willpower (Mars) to cultivate of optimism & faith (Jupiter); or
winning people over (Mars) so they're inspired to uncover inner truths for themselves (Jupiter)."
Step 1: Clarify your intention for your Mars & Jupiter collaboration.
Your soul intuitively knows how she wanted your Mars & Jupiter archetypes to express for you in this lifetime. The trick to finding this exact combination is two-fold. Step 1 is about feeling (not thinking) your way there.
If you allow the soul to feel her way there intuitively, you will know when you uncover the exact expression because the soul will light up in joy.
Step 2: Lower importance for both Mars & Jupiter archetypes.
This step is about consciously deciding to be lighter about it, like a child at play. When you choose a light-hearted attitude by lowering importance, your physical world will change more quickly.
From your natal chart, note the sign your Mars & Jupiter fall into. Each sign has a unique set of values & tends to artificially elevate importance for certain subjects.
Lowering importance on the "how" side of the equation will create a smooth path to your focal point: access to & mastery of your unique Mercurial gifts.
Co-create with your Mars + Jupiter Archetypes
Lower Importance
Co-create with your Mars + Jupiter Archetypes
Lower Importance
midpoint picture: Martha Stewart
The midpoint picture below is from Martha Stewart's natal chart. It reads: successful expression of her will in the world (Mars) can be accomplished through: a growing inner faith & expectation of positive reward (Jupiter) for building a strong public image through her career pursuits (MC).
FOCAL POINT
MIDPOINT
Martha Stewart recently related that she could have remained an unfulfilled housewife (which would have indicated a repression of her Mars-ruled willpower), but instead she chose to expect more & more positive recognition (Jupiter) for each and every step she took in her career to advance her relationship with the public (MC).
Her poignant observation illustrates that if we do nothing about the tension contained within any midpoint, we feel at the mercy of our circumstances. If instead, we choose to creatively develop the archetypes involved according to our soul's highest expression—as Martha did—then we give ourselves the opportunity to inwardly tune into our soul's success sectors, thereby allowing them to unfold on the physical plane.
We have to be in touch with the inner experience of the soul in order to make something of the tension that is part & parcel of midpoint pictures.
The inner image between soul & mind determines
which sector of reality unfolds in our layer of the world.
We must always be aware of what we are tuned into. When importance is artificially elevated for the two archetypes in the midpoint (or if any other excess potential is present), then we automatically become blocked because of the energy imbalance.
For example, if Martha was carrying the excess potential of inferiority—believing that the higher levels of success were not meant for her because she was a woman—then she would have run into obstacles & problems which vibrationally match the sector of reality where she would be seen as inferior. The ability to let go of that excess potential was what allowed her to tune into her soul's success sectors & increase her own abundance.