Astral Definition

(Astral Definition from Montalk)

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Pertaining to the more diaphanous portions of the soul in which feelings, archetypes, impressions, and passions exist. There are astral bodies, astral planes, and astral energies.

The astral body is a component of our being that mediates the thoughts of Spirit to the etheric body, and communicates the impressions of the physical body to the Spirit. The astral body is the seat of our feelings, desires, impressions, and passions. Its energies are active in our subconscious.

The astral plane, also known as the “inner planes,” is a nonphysical environment comprised of the energies of consciousness rather than configurations of matter. One can only access it through the mind, by retreating from the outer physical or etheric world and turning within. The dream world, the afterlife, and the astral plane are all closely related. The astral body is composed of the types of energies found in the astral plane. The astral plane is the native environment of Fifth Density, but it intersects through the other densities like an elevator shaft intersecting the floors of a building. The lowest portions of the astral plane are home to demonic beings, the highest to angelic ones, with the middle regions inhabited by 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Density beings in their out of body or afterlife states. Astral beings are those who lack physical and etheric bodies, and exist primarily as discarnate entities in the astral plane.

Astral energies are the basis of feelings, impressions, and passions. But more fundamentally, they are energies that convey archetypes or signatures, specific “Ideas” in the Platonic sense. A particular emotion is simply an impulse that pulls us into conformance with a particular archetype. In thoughtforms, the astral component acts as the core program, impulse, or goal that the archetype attempts to fulfill. In Alchemy, the astral energy of ‘gold’ acts as a vibratory signature that, when impressed upon lead through a potent etheric mediator, reconfigures that substance into gold. Astral energies have a directionally transformative, motivational, transitional quality.