The spirit is light.
Time (or more accurately, the conditions surrounding the timing of our gestation and birth) are like a filtering prism.
Light does exist prior to entering a prism. But it’s appearance and behavior are also influenced by the act of passing through the prism.
There’s not really a contradiction.
You are a complex individual named @AlexanderGraves (well on this forum anyway). Yet this complex individual, if living and working at a high-stress job in a crowded, urban center under ambient air temperatures of 85 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit for too long a period of time will start to complexly lose his complex temper on a more frequent than average basis. hahaha.
We are complex. That’s actually why some of these systems can accurately describe us.
But it’s also important to remember: astrology does not predict the decisions and choices that you will make; rather it does describe the issues about which you will need to decide.
When you go into your average supermarket, you can choose to buy whatever you can afford. You can choose to enter, walk around, and exit empty-handed. What you *can’t choose is to buy a horse or an alpaca. They are not sold there.
If you live in Peru? Well, I can’t say. You may be faced with additional choices.
This is like being born in a particular sign-house-planet combination.