Phantom DNA and the Soul’s Sense of Smell
This is the fourth article in a five-part series on how your soul experiences the physical senses. In our previous articles, we discussed the senses of sight, sound, and taste. Let’s move now to the sense of smell.
Smell is Stimulated by Emotion
Smell works exactly the same way that your taste buds do. The two senses are inner connected. When a smell is ignited by the engagement of something physical, then that is the same physical reaction of your senses that we have spoken about in previous articles. The soul’s sense of smell, on the other hand, is stimulated by emotion.
When you are having a memory that stirs something inside of you and you can smell something, especially when that something isn’t physically present in the room, then that is your soul speaking to you.
Many people actually get a blending of the two components (the soul sense and the physical sense of smell) at the same time. For example, you walk into a room that you haven’t been into for a long period of time and you smell the scent of a family member who has passed. Perhaps you smell the cologne or perfume they used to wear and there is no question whose scent it is. It could even be a scent you haven’t smelled since childhood, yet you still remember it clearly and it stirs an emotional response inside of you.
When Your Soul is Calling You
The intense emotional response is your soul calling out to you. If there is not a physical being standing there emitting this smell that you are smelling then you are experiencing the energy essence of what is – or what has been – in the room. Perhaps an apparition or a ghost has been there, and you are sensing through smell their energy essence.
The Phantom Effect of DNA
Your DNA is an energetic signature that transcends the need for the body. You’ve already reached a greater level of awareness through your sense of smell – this is your soul transcending materiality.
DNA photons continue spiraling where DNA was once previously. This wave of light being energy creates a phantom of where the DNA was in the first place. This is why you can still smell something from a person who is no longer there.
Your thoughts, your consciousness, your senses, are like satellite signals that can beam around the earth using electromagnetic fields – the heartbeat of the earth. See the data from Nobel-prize-winning scientist Dr. Luc Montagnier in Healing with the Source Field – Part 2 with David Wilcock.
Again, photons – the light – spiral where DNA once was, offering proof that we are light beings.
Learn more about how our energy essence remains in the room long after we leave in episodes of Wisdom Teachings with David Wilcock, one of Gaiam TV’s original shows.
Here is more scientific proof from Dr. Peter Gariaev on DNA phantoms in Beyond Cosmic Consciousness – Part 2.
Dream Sensations
Another example comes when you remember the smells you experienced when you visited a place for the first time. You may not have been consciously aware of the smells at the time, yet something much later triggers a memory and the smells come flooding back to you – even if years have passed and you’re thousands of miles away.
This happens in your dream state all the time. Without digressing too far into the subject of dreams, where do you believe the sensations come from when you dream? Have you ever seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled something in a dream? Most people have, although not everyone remembers their dreams.
Some humans have very emotional experiences when they dream. Dreams can be so vivid that they would swear that they have been somewhere or experienced something and there is no explanation for it. This emotional experience is the Soul’s experience.
When there is nothing physical around you at the time to warrant your reaction that is going on inside of you, then it’s your soul speaking to you.
Feelings vs Emotions
We can’t emphasize this point enough: your feelings are based upon that which is physical. For the most part, they are shallow and fleeting and are easily influenced and changed. Feelings are mostly what’s on the surface, so to speak. An emotion, on the other hand, is the deep resonating experience. It is the expressive and sensory system of the soul.
The emotions that you feel are the deep experiences that are carried with you from lifetime to lifetime, and existence to existence. An emotion is thought in motion. It literally sends an electrical current throughout your embodiment and is felt as an experience. That is why you take emotions with you when you leave this realm.
Your feelings are surface, fleeting, and forgotten, and in the human experience, they are continually changing from moment to moment. They tend to be in reaction to the things going on around you in the illusion. That is why we say they are related to the physical or the physical goings-on that you are doing at that moment in time.
It’s not that you don’t have an emotional experience every time you do something physical; you actually do. But it is the intense emotional experience that moves you that we are referring to in this series.
Remember Your Origins
Isn’t it rather amazing that we have set up for ourselves all these little “helpers” to aid us in experiencing more of what is going on around us? These helpers are your senses! They expand you, shift you, and help you in your creating. They are designed to remind you of who you really are…a LIGHT Being having a PHYSICAL experience.
Most humans don’t live in this perspective and have forgotten their origins. Your embodiment is an incredible mapping system to your soul. If you can come to know this and to embrace this knowing, it will expand you.
We humans take so very much for granted. When we age or manifest disease or decay in our bodies, we forget the incredible senses we retain. It is those senses that can aid us in our continued journey toward enlightenment.
When we’re distracted by pain, it is common to forget the automated system in our body that still remains in place. Our senses seem so simple and yet are so complex. We should honor each of them and hold them in our hearts with gratitude, knowing that despite all that goes on in the physical we truly remain light embodiments for all eternity.
As you reach for expanded states of consciousness, it is the senses that will take you there. In all the physical things that we do as humans, we have forgotten that. Hopefully, these discussions are igniting your senses within and expanding you to greater heights as your experience continues on this earthly plane of existence.
Brad Wallis
Kasey and Brad Wallis along with Julius empower people all over the world. Through Julius’s higher consciousness teachings they are expanding the awareness of who we truly are by knowing our Source essence as limitless light beings. Kasey/Brad along with Julius bring their work forward through many forums today including Books by Brad that encompass Julius’s teachings, Personal Readings with Julius, Interactive Teaching Classes with Julius, and the I Am Academy, which is a membership community that is an advanced academy for people who want to expand their lives with Julius. Visit Expand with Julius .
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What Is a Birth Chart and What Does It Reveal About Your Personality?
You know what your sign is, and you say it without thinking when someone asks. But that word —Aries, Cancer, Libra— is only the tip of something much larger and more personal. Your birth chart is the complete map of the sky at the exact instant you were born, and it contains much more information than can fit into a single sign.
In this article, we explore what a birth chart is, what elements make it up, and what it can reveal about your way of being, feeling, and existing in the world.
Table of Contents
- What Is a Birth Chart
- Main Elements of a Birth Chart
- What Do the Houses Mean in a Birth Chart?
- What Each Planet Represents in the Natal Chart
- Venus, Lilith, and Other Important Points in the Birth Chart
- How to Read a Birth Chart at a Basic Level
- What Is the Purpose of Knowing Your Natal Chart?
What Is a Birth Chart
Imagine a photograph of the sky taken at the exact instant of your first breath, from the precise place where you were born. That is, in essence, a birth chart: a record of where the Sun, the Moon, and the planets were at that unique moment. Each of them appears positioned in one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and that position is what is later interpreted. Since no two people are born in the same second and in the same place on the planet, no two charts are identical: yours is as particular as a fingerprint.
Astrology begins from a simple and very ancient idea: what happens above is connected to what we are down here. It is not that the stars decide your life, but that their position at the moment of your birth draws a symbolic map of your character, your talents, and your challenges. Understanding that map is a way of knowing yourself better: of putting into words traits of yours that perhaps you always sensed, but had never known how to name.
Unlike magazine horoscopes, which only look at the sign where your Sun is, the natal chart takes the entire sky into account. That is why it can tell you much more, and in a much more precise way, about who you are.
If you want to see how these symbols are interpreted in practice, the episode Fundamentals of Astrology, from the series Beyond Belief, available on Gaia, is a good place to start. In it, Heather Arielle explores the foundations of astrology —houses, planets, rising signs and the reading of a natal chart— showing how this symbolic language can help you recognize your personal cycles and make more conscious decisions.
Main Elements of a Birth Chart
The first time you see your chart, it can look like a hieroglyph: a circle full of symbols, lines, and numbers that seem to say nothing at first glance. The good news is that behind that apparent chaos, there are a few key elements. Once you understand what each one is, the drawing begins to make sense.
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The Sun and Essential Identity
When you say “I’m a Taurus” or “I’m a Scorpio,” you are actually talking about your Sun. Your sign is simply the place in the zodiac where the Sun was on the day you were born. And the Sun is the central piece of the chart: it represents the core of who you are, your underlying character, and what truly moves you. It is the part of you that shows most clearly when you are doing something you love and feel fully like yourself.
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The Moon and the Emotional World
If the Sun is who you are, the Moon is how you feel. It represents your emotional world: the way you react internally, what you need in order to feel calm and safe, and what moves you even if you do not always show it. It is the most intimate part of you, the one that appears when you are in a place of trust and let your guard down. That is why knowing your Moon helps you understand why certain things affect you more than you might say out loud.
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The Ascendant and the Way You Present Yourself to the World
The Sun is who you are and the Moon is how you feel; the ascendant is how others see you. It is the image you project without realizing it and your spontaneous way of responding to what is new, the thing others notice about you before they know you deeply. It depends on the exact time you were born, which is why it is so personal; without a precise birth time, it cannot be calculated properly. Sometimes it looks very different from how you feel inside, and that is where the feeling comes from that people perceive you differently from who you really are.
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The Planets and Their Areas of Influence
You already know the Sun, the Moon, and the ascendant. Your chart also has other protagonists: the planets. The best way to understand them is to think of them as a cast of characters living inside you, each one in charge of something different: one of how you think, another of what attracts you, another of how you pursue what you want. None of them acts alone; together, they shape your way of being. Later, you will see what each one represents, but for now, that image is enough: an inner team working all at once.
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The Astrological Houses and the Areas of Life
So far, we have talked about parts of you: the Sun, the Moon, the ascendant, the planets. The houses are something different: they represent the areas of your life. The chart is divided into twelve sections, and each one corresponds to a specific field: work, money, love, family, health. And what do they have to do with the planets? Each planet is placed within one of those twelve houses, and that tells you in which part of your life it acts with the most strength.
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The Aspects Between Planets
The planets in your chart are not isolated: they “converse” with one another. In the drawing, those conversations appear as lines crossing the center of the wheel and connecting some planets to others. They are called aspects. Some are harmonious: two planets that get along well and strengthen each other. Others are tense: they create friction, that small inner struggle between what you want and what you end up doing. That is why aspects explain much of your contradiction and, also, your richness.
What Do the Houses Mean in a Birth Chart?
For the houses to make sense, it helps to see how the three basic pieces of the chart fit together. They work like a play. The planet is the actor: a part of you that does something; for example, Mars is your drive, your way of taking action and going after what you want. The sign is its character: the style in which it moves, whether calmly, intensely, or cautiously. And the house is the stage: the area of your life where that actor steps into the scene, such as work, love, or money.
What matters is that every planet has all three things at once: it is a part of you, it acts with the style of a sign, and it appears on the stage of a house.
The twelve houses, one by one, cover these areas:
- House 1: your image and the way you show yourself to the world.
- House 2: money, what you have, and what you value.
- House 3: communication, early studies, and siblings.
- House 4: home, family, and your roots.
- House 5: creativity, pleasure, romance, and children.
- House 6: daily work, routine, and health.
- House 7: partnership and one-on-one relationships.
- House 8: deep intimacy, what you share with others, and major transformations.
- House 9: travel, higher studies, and the search for meaning.
- House 10: vocation, career, and your public place in the world.
- House 11: friends, groups, and future projects.
- House 12: the inner world, rest, and what happens in silence.
Let’s look at a complete example. Imagine that your Mars is in the sign of Aries —which gives it an impulsive and direct style— and that it falls in the 6th house, the house of daily work. The reading would be something like this: you put your energy mainly into your work life (that is shown by the house), and you do it quickly and decisively, without overthinking things (that is shown by the sign).
That same Mars in Aries, but placed in the 7th house, the house of partnership, would direct that impulsive drive into your relationships. The actor and its character are the same; the only thing that changes is the stage: the area of your life where all of that is most visible.
What Each Planet Represents in the Natal Chart
The Sun, the Moon, and the ascendant are the main headlines of your chart; the other planets add the details. Each one governs a part of your inner world and expresses itself according to the sign and house where it is placed. Getting to know them is like getting to know the different characters that live within you.
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Mercury, Venus, and Mars
These three move close to the Sun and touch the most everyday parts of your life. Mercury rules how you think and communicate: whether you get straight to the point or take detours, whether you learn quickly or need your time. Venus speaks of what you enjoy and what you value: your sense of beauty, pleasure, and what attracts you almost without trying. Mars is your engine: how you pursue what you desire, how you get angry, and how much initiative you bring to making things happen.
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Jupiter and Saturn
After Mars, the rhythm changes. Jupiter and Saturn are the great teachers of the chart, and they often pull in opposite directions. Jupiter is expansion, confidence, and abundance; it shows where you grow with ease and where life invites you to open up and take risks. Saturn is the opposite: limits, responsibility, and sustained effort. It marks where you are asked to mature, take responsibility, and build with patience. Together, they represent that balance between casting off the moorings and keeping your feet on the ground.
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Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
The three most distant planets move so slowly that they mark entire generations, not just one person. Even so, the place they occupy in your chart says something intimate about you. Uranus is rupture and originality, the impulse to break out of the mold and do things your own way. Neptune dissolves boundaries: it rules imagination, dreams, spiritual sensitivity, and also the tendency to idealize. Pluto is depth and power, what dies and is reborn within you after the crises that transform you from the root.
Venus, Lilith, and Other Important Points in the Birth Chart
A chart does not stop at the planets. There are other points that astrologers also look at because they add very revealing nuances. Some are angles of the drawing itself, highlighted places on the wheel, and others are lesser-known celestial bodies. You do not need to master them to begin, but it is worth knowing four of the most commonly used ones. Let’s start with one we have already named: Venus.
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Venus and the Way of Loving
We have already seen that Venus speaks of what you like and what you value. But Venus has a second side, just as important: the way you love. Its position describes what you look for in relationships, how you show affection, and what makes you feel truly loved. Some people need constant words and gestures; others feel loved through a calm presence, without so much display. Looking at your Venus helps you understand why you fall in love the way you do.
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Lilith and Instinctive Energy
Lilith is not a planet, or a sign, or a house: it is a point calculated in the chart and known as the Black Moon. It represents your most instinctive and untamed side: the desire that does not ask permission and the part of you that refuses to fit into what is expected. It shows where you struggle to follow the rules and where you hold a strength, an anger, or a passion that you may have learned to silence. When listened to well, Lilith is not something dark: it is the voice that appears when you stop trying to please everyone and show yourself exactly as you are.
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The Midheaven and Vocation
The Midheaven is another of those key points: it marks the highest point in your chart, the top of the sky at the moment of your birth, which is where its name comes from. Because it looks upward, toward what is visible, it speaks of your public life: your vocation, your professional image, and what you feel you are moving toward, even if you do not yet know how to name it. If the ascendant is the impression you give when you enter a place, the Midheaven is the mark you leave on the world. When your work comes close to what this point indicates, the effort feels lighter, because you feel you are moving in the right direction.
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Chiron and the Wound That Can Become Medicine
Chiron is a small celestial body that astrology incorporated a few decades ago. It takes its name from a figure in Greek mythology: a wise being who knew how to heal others but carried a wound of his own that he could not heal. In your chart, Chiron points precisely to that: a sensitive wound, almost always linked to something that hurt early on and still touches a nerve. What is valuable is that this same wound, when you move through it, becomes your greatest capacity to understand and accompany others. That is why Chiron is said to be the wound that can become medicine.
How to Read a Birth Chart at a Basic Level
You do not need to be an astrologer to begin understanding your chart. In fact, you do not take the first step yourself: today, any astrology website or app can draw your chart for free. You simply give it your date, time, and place of birth, and it shows everything in order: which sign and house each planet occupies, and which lines, the aspects, connect them. With that image in front of you, you can read it like this:
- Start with your basic trio: Look for your Sun, your Moon, and your ascendant: they are the backbone of your chart and, together, they already tell a large part of your story.
- Notice which house each planet is in: The chart already shows you; all you have to do is look at which area of life, such as work, love, or money, each one is located in.
- Observe the lines in the center: These are the aspects: harmonious connections show you your natural talents, while tense ones point to the areas where you often feel an internal push and pull.
- Read the whole before the parts: One isolated detail says little; meaning appears when you see how all the elements combine.
Take it as a conversation with yourself, not as an exam. If one part does not fit, let it rest: many times, a piece of the chart only begins to make sense when life places before you the situation that explains it.
What Is the Purpose of Knowing Your Natal Chart?
At this point, the most important question remains: what is all this for? The natal chart does not tell you what is going to happen, nor does it hand you a written destiny. What it does is return a more complete image of yourself to you, with your light and your shadows, without asking you to change anything.
Knowing it often brings a form of relief. You understand why you react the way you react, why certain things are harder for you and others come naturally, why you repeat certain patterns. And when you understand that, you judge yourself a little less. Where you once saw a flaw, you begin to see a trait you can work with.
More than an oracle, the birth chart is a mirror and a compass. A mirror, because it shows you who you are with an honesty that is difficult to find anywhere else. A compass, because it helps you make decisions that are more faithful to your nature, instead of living according to what others expect of you. And that is, perhaps, its greatest gift: not turning you into someone different, but bringing you closer to the person you already are.
