Understanding choices in one's life is dependent upon knowing the challenges that are presented emotionally and in thinking right now. All of us are driven to use our gifts by the challenges that life is offering us in the immediate moment.

At each period of our lives we are presented with a different set of challenges. We have the un-accomplished baggage of a challenges we did not accomplish yet, as well as those that are impacting us now. The challenges of the birth chart are basically superseded by age 25. And while those not fulfilled remain, we are all presented with new challenges continually throughout our lives.

Looking at this as it progresses every year can greatly assist the accomplishment of our Mission in Life(Book 4).

Change is the only stable influence in any existence. How we deal with change, and how change comes upon each of us is essential to understanding how we make choices in our lives.

Change comes to everyone. Most of us are ambushed by change and so we continually act in a response to stimuli. We don’t know how to look ahead and be able to proactively understand how change works in our lives. Until we can do this, we will not be able to have the energy to focus on managing our lives to accomplish our Mission in Life.

While Humans want to believe that every one thinks in the same way. Many authors in psychology have shown that this is not true. Astrology can take it one step further, and define the very special way in which each of us experiences the world. Knowing how we experience the world with our own mind/brain combination makes it possible to identify our choices in a completely new way.

Unless we can know how our minds think about the world in this body, we cannot know how to effectively understand how to focus on our Mission in Life(Book 4).

Each of us has an essential MISSION in this life. We all know this. The struggle for meaning comes from grappling with the need to understand this mission. Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling Astrology can assist in learning how we can make our mission be us.

We learn what the elements of our Mission are shown, and then as individuals(not the astrologer) we fill in the blanks with the substance of our lives.

Traditionally, this used to be called weaknesses. But they are NOT THAT. Each of us comes into this life with a Mission(Book Four), and that mission is defined partially by the areas that we should not spend time in doing. Cognitive-Behavioral Astrological Counseling calls these Pathways of Limitation. To function in this life, we need to know "what apples we should not be eating”. We need to not be re-heating the skills that we obtained in a past life.

To accomplish our Mission in Life, we are presented with Pathways leading to transformation. Some of us have many paths open; some of us have just a few. These paths help us understand personal transformation.

These Paths are invariably hard. They represent skills we did not yet develop or developed imperfectly in past lives. Growth only comes from doing what we have not done yet.