Jeffrey Wolf Green is the founder of the concept of evolutionary astrology – a revolutionary astrological paradigm that was revealed to him in a dream in 1977. In that dream, spiritual master Swami Sri Yukteswar, who was the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, gave Jeffrey Wolf Green the entire paradigm of evolutionary astrology.
What is new about this? It it is complete and comprehensive view of how the soul evolves from one lifetime to another.
From 1977 to 2001, Jeffrey conceptualised the entire system, lectured and taught it around the world. He wrote books and founded schools of evolutionary astrology in several countries.
His first book, Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, Volume I, was published in 1984. It has been in continuous publication ever since and has become one of the best-selling astrology books of all time.
Since starting his original Pluto School in 1994, Jeffrey has had many students in evolutionary astrology, a number of whom are now professional astrologers. He has personally counseled over 30,000 clients in his long career. This exposure to so many Souls from so many different backgrounds and orientations has allowed him to reach the deepest possible understandings of the nature of Soul. He has communicated these insights through all of his teachings.
In 2008, his daughter, Deva Green, took over her father’s work. She founded the Jeffrey Wolf Green School of Evolutionary Astrology website (https://schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/)
What is evolutionary astrology?
For the first time in the history of astrology, a unique paradigm has been developed that is able to accurately measure the evolutionary development of a Soul from lifetime to lifetime.
It is able to do this because the evolution of a Soul is based on the natural law of desire. Thus, the evolutionary paradigm, as reflected in this astrology, is able to accurately determine the types of desires a Soul had before this current life and the types of desires it has in the life that is currently being lived, which reflect those that are currently underway. This is the evolutionary journey.
This type of astrology allows the individual to understand the WHY behind anything: why these emotions, why these fears, why these goals, why a certain type of partner? Why am I here and what are the lessons I must learn?
We all arrive in a particular life, such as the one we are living now, as a result of the composition of all previous desires. The past always shapes and conditions the nature of any given moment (the present, a new birth), as well as the future. The future itself is a function of the desires within the Soul that reflect its ongoing need to evolve, to go beyond where it has already been.
Through the specific paradigm of Evolutionary Astrology, the astrologer is able to measure this dynamic evolutionary process in each lifetime.
Most current astrology is descriptive, simply providing keywords and descriptions. Evolutionary Astrology is the opposite, as it allows us to understand WHY and what the next steps are in a soul’s evolutionary development.
Essentially, the Evolutionary Astrologer is a SOUL WORKER who is able to help others understand their own unique evolutionary journey from lifetime to lifetime. This requires no beliefs: just a validation of real life experience.
So, how does the Soul evolve?
In all human souls there are two antithetical desires – and DESIRE IS THE MOTOR of evolution.
Evolution is determined by the dynamics of desire, between two polars: the desire to return to the origin of all Creation and the desire to separate ourselves from what is the origin of all things.
This inner dynamic that unfolds within each soul is also the natural cause of free choice or free will. The evolution of the soul is simply based on a progressive elimination of all desires that separate, with the exclusion of a single desire that can remain: returning to the origin of all things. It is a simple truth, a consequence of a natural law, and does not require any belief system or any religion to which we must belong.
It is not true, for example, that any of us can have any separating desire that we can imagine. For example, not all of us feel the desire for a new lover or a new career position, the desire for a new possession, and so on.
It is true, however, that we can all have the ability to manifest what we desire. And when we do, there is a sense of satisfaction that we have what we wanted.
But soon this is replaced by a sense of dissatisfaction, a sense that there is actually “more to the world than that.”
This latter feeling echoes the ultimate desire, which is the desire to return to the origin of all things—the only desire that will bring us that ultimate satisfaction. We all have this universal experience.
How can we all know, regardless of our belief systems, that there is actually an ultimate source?
Long ago, before the manifestation of religions and before the establishment of complicated cosmologies, the human being lived this truth through inner contemplation, through inner “gazing”. Respectively, humans knew that when the breath, the inhale and exhale, becomes very, very rare or even stops, a LIGHT appears within the consciousness. This happens as a natural function of very rare breath. Naturally.
Much later, in the history of mankind, this would bear the famous name of the “third eye”. And it was precisely this light that symbolized and connected the individual consciousness reflected in the Soul with that universal consciousness that is the origin of all things.
The human being also learned long ago that by merging the human individual consciousness, or human soul, with that light, the consciousness would then expand in such a way that the individual consciousness itself would become universal. Then humans were able to consciously experience that ultimate source of all things: the tide turned into the ocean.
The point here, again, is that any human being can recognise and validate these natural laws through his or her own actual experience, which does not require belief systems of any kind. The key to doing this, again, is to progressively reduce and stop breathing.
Anyone can do this. If you doubt this or are wondering how, Jeffrey recommends simply trying the following natural method: breathe in, while simply mentally affirming the number one. As you exhale, simply mentally affirm the number two. The “secret” here is to simply focus as much as you can on the numbers one and two. This act of concentration, intensified by the desire that manifests as will, will cause the breath to become progressively rarefied until it stops. (Jeffrey insists that consciousness is energy and cannot be destroyed. It can only change its form. Thus, when breathing stops it does not mean that you have to die. Consciousness is not dependent on human form.)
When the breath is stopped, the inner light, which is intrinsic to consciousness, will soon begin to appear. When you see it appearing, simply step into it, by a conscious act of surrender. This will then allow a merging of your own consciousness with that universal consciousness, symbolised in light. Anyone can do this, thus knowing this natural truth personally.
The Natural Law of Breath
This natural law of breath, when stopped or very rare, is what allows for what all the great teachers of relatively recent centuries, on a planetary scale, including Jesus, say: “When your eye is single, the whole body is full of light.”
Symbolically speaking, the two physical eyes that we have correlate with the two movements of the breath: inhalation and exhalation. It is the inhalation and exhalation that keeps one’s consciousness fully engaged and caught up in the duality or polarity of life itself.
Likes and dislikes, joy and sadness, love and hate, correlate and demonstrate this natural law. The numbers one and two correlate with the natural law of finitude and duality: cause and effect.
However, between one and two, there is an interval, or zero. The interval, or zero, correlates with Universal Consciousness, or infinity. Thus, when breathing stops or becomes very, very rare, this interval comes to be perceived.
What is perceived with the single eye, the “third eye,” which naturally exists within consciousness and can be accessed, is our Soul. When this happens, the law of duality ceases to exist. We merge with our soul. Supreme satisfaction is thus achieved. The soul correlates astrologically with Pluto.
From the point of view of natural laws, it is interesting to note, historically, that advanced mathematics such as algebra, trigonometry, quantum physics, and so on could not have existed unless there was the idea of zero. This happened in the third century AD in India. Indian mathematicians conceived of the number zero. And, of course, from the point of view of Indian cosmologies, this happened as a direct extension of their natural understanding of the origin of Creation: from nothing, or from zero, came the manifested Creation: from the unmanifested came manifestation, or from the causeless came the cause.
Coming into human form, the Soul will manifest what is known as the ego. The ego correlates astrologically with the Moon. The ego, too, is pure energy. We cannot open the brain and find the ego.
Unlike the energy of the Soul, which is sustained from lifetime to lifetime until the final fusion with Source occurs, the energy of the ego in any lifetime is dissolved after that physical life ends.
The Ego as a Vehicle of Evolution
In each lifetime, the ego is created by the Soul in such a way that it serves as a vehicle through which the evolutionary intentions of the Soul can manifest in that lifetime. Each ego that the Soul creates is oriented toward reality in such a way that the very nature of the orientation serves as a vehicle through which the appropriate life lessons can exist and they can be understood by the Soul. In each lifetime, the ego allows a self-image of the Soul to emerge, in relation to the individualizing aspect of the Soul.
The Astral Plane
When “death” occurs in any given lifetime, the ego that the Soul created for one lifetime will dissolve back into its origin: the Soul. Since both are energy, and energy cannot be destroyed, where does the Soul go upon the physical death of the body? In other words, where is the Soul on an energetic level?
Most of us have heard the words “astral plane,” or heaven and hell. These types of words refer to other realities or planes of existence. Because there are actually other energetic realities or planes of existence.
Simply speaking, the astral plane is an energetic plane of existence that all Souls go to after completing a physical life on places like Earth. Energetically, this plane of existence is much less materially dense than places like Earth.
After physical death, the Soul “goes to” the astral plane to review the life that has just been lived and to prepare for another birth on places like Earth. At the end of a life on Earth, the “ego” dissolves back into the Soul such that the center of gravity within consciousness, on the astral plane, is the Soul itself.
But for most people living on the material plane we call Earth, the center of gravity of consciousness is the ego itself. This is why the vast majority of people feel within themselves that they are “separate” from everything else, the center of gravity being the egocentric “I.” On the astral plane, the center of gravity shifts to the Soul itself, so that when death occurs in a given lifetime, the “memory” of the ego of that lifetime is sustained.
Future Lives
This ego memory is necessary for the Soul, because it is the ego memory that allows the Soul to not only review the life that has just been lived, but also serves as the basis for the next life to be lived, in relation to the continuing evolution of the Soul itself. In each life, we all pick up where we left off before. Thus, this ego memory from each life serves as the causative factor for the type of egocentric structure that the Soul must create in the next life.
Essentially, the ego memory, the “images” contained within it, will serve as the basis for the next ego that the Soul must generate, for the life to come, in order to further its continued evolution. Astrologically speaking, this is symbolised by Pluto (the Soul) and the South and North Nodes of the Moon.
The South Node of the Moon correlates with the Soul’s previous egocentric “memories” which determine the Moon’s natal placement in each lifetime – the current ego.
The North Node of the Moon correlates with the Soul’s evolving ego – the nature and types of inner and outer experiences that the Soul needs, desires, to facilitate its continued evolution. These in turn will constitute the “new” egocentric memories, images, that the Soul will draw upon when a lifetime has been lived and ended at physical “death.”
Most of us are aware that the Moon also correlates with the family of origin in any given lifetime. It should be clear then that at the “death” of the physical body, the Soul “goes into” the astral plane and reunites with important family members and others close to the Soul. This is also why many Souls continue to reunite with family members upon rebirth into another physical life in places like Earth. This phenomenon is sustained until there is no longer any evolutionary or karmic need to sustain such relationships.
What do you read and how do you read an astrogram?
Any detached observer will be able to register these four natural evolutionary conditions. The four conditions are:
1 the “rudimentary” or “dimly evolved” state – this is the state in which 3-4% of all Souls are. They are either souls that evolve into human consciousness from other life forms, such as animals and plants, or souls that “de-evolve” back into this human state, due to “karmic” causes.
2 the “Consensus” state comprises approximately 70% of all Souls on the planet at this time.
3 the “individualized” state of evolution, in the Jungian sense of the word. These are the approximately 20% of souls that have completed the individuation process that CG Jung speaks of.
4 the “spiritual” state of evolution – 4-6% of all souls on the planet.
But no astrologer can determine in what evolutionary condition a particular Soul is just by looking at the natal chart. To learn such details, the astrologer must observe and interact with the client. He may ask the client: why did you come and what questions do you have? Generally, the very nature of the questions the client has will give the astrologer clues as to the evolutionary condition of that client. For example, if one client asks “when can I expect enlightenment” and another asks “when will I have my new BMW,” the difference clearly reflects the level of evolutionary progression of the Soul.
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