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Contrary to its detractors
concerted opinion, Astrology is not superstition. Superstition is
more akin to: "If I break a mirror, I will have 7 years bad luck."
or "If a bird flies into my house, someone will die." or "If I step
on a sidewalk crack, I will break my mother's back." or "When It's
Christmas and the weather is warm, it will be cold at Easter."
Those are superstitions. Astrology is not superstition. Not even
close. Astrology is a language. It exists. Like Estonian or French.
It just plain exists. Like hard boiled eggs or chutney. Now, for
some, languages that they do not know and are unable to read or
converse in, constitute a sort of threat. When we hear friends
chatting in a language that we don't know and we are present, we
almost automatically imagine that they are talking about us. This is
a kind of natural paranoia. We cannot understand. So we feel
threatened or left out and perhaps even targeted as a victim.
Astrology, like any language, does have to be learned in order to be
used. That's why some people are astrologers and others have other
learnèd professions such as doctors. An astrologer might tell you
that your Sun in Leo means that you tend to want to be in the
spotlight, but if your rising sign is Pisces, that Leo need for the
spotlight might be mitigated.
This sort of "diagnosis" is not unsimilar to when a Dr tells you
that the lump on your arm looks like a cyst, but if the tests come
out positive, it might be something more serious. He looks at the
cystic physical evidence, but he also digs further to find out if it
might be something more threatening.
Now the language of Astrology has been much squelched and derided by
a sector of the population we refer to as "scientists" or , in any
case, people who believe that science (another language) is the
pathway to understanding every human ill - including mental,
emotional and physical ailments - and to conquering and refining and
owning whatever commodity is available to man. (Space flight for
example or improved hard boiled eggs)
But squelching a language doesn't always put it out of existence.
And Astrology has survived the giant squelch of science and remains
a means of communication between peoples and a method of both
diagnosing and better understanding the human condition. Astrology
is not in competition with science. It's just there alongside it the
way that TV is there alongside the Internet. The two media must co-exist.
They cannot afford to be at war. The Internet will win. It's bigger.
And younger. TV knows that the way that Astrology knows that it must
coexist with science because if there was a war between them Science
would win. It's bigger. And younger.
Nonetheless, there is wisdom in what is ancient. So Astrology
continues to exist. Some people study it and are able to use it in
their work and daily lives. Other people don't study it sufficiently
to become astrologers. But they dabble and they enjoy dabbling.
Other people (most people) consult astrologers. They are the clients
or the patients or the consultees who come to people like me for
advice and information about their astrological charts: Who am I?
What should I do about my mother-in-law's interfering in my marriage?
How can I get a divorce and keep my children? Why do I not have self-confidence?
Where am I making my mistakes and why do I keep making them over and
over again?
What some skeptical people (the Science-blinded or prejudiced) don't
know is that the answers to all of those questions are sitting right
there in peoples' astrological charts. Moreover, just because most
people don't know how to read their charts and don't speak the
language or know how to interpret the letters (symbols), doesn't
mean the answers are not there. They are.
Astrology never lies. I have heard it tell me and my clients the
truth over and over and over again, thousands of times. A client
writes and asks me why she cannot seem to get a husband. She's young
and beautiful and accomplished and owns her own home. Yet, she has
nobody to share it with. What should she do?
I find out her birth date, time and place (sometimes she sends me a
photo as well) and I do her chart. First thing I note is that she is
more accomplished than she let on in her query letter. I know
already that she is president of her own company. But she is also an
Aries with Leo rising and she was born in a Rooster year. This woman
is what my mother used to call "a tough cookie" and a multitalented
cookie at that!
She doesn't bend easily. She is not soulful and won't listen to
whining - even her own. She wants to be in the spotlight (Leo rising)
and she is indeed in her own spotlight all the time. She's also a
Rooster which is one of the most successfully non-flexible signs out
there. Rigidity lurks in this woman's chart and has already done
some damage to her private life.
But... I look further and...Eureka! This young woman has the Moon in
Cancer. She is longing for a home and children and a man to share it
with. But, because the Aries and the Rooster and the Leo ganged up
and got a hold on her soul (Moon) when she was still very young, she
followed them to her own multimillion dollar successful oblivion.
She learned how NOT to share and she made her fortune by being
ruthless and firm in her opinions. (Aries/Rooster w Leo rising)
It's gets better. I dig a bit deeper and what do I find? This woman
has Venus in Scorpio!
NB: I know. I know. You just don't get it when we tell you that
there's a planet in some sign or other about which you know less
than zero. Why? Because we are speaking to you in a language which
is foreign to you. And this time it is about YOU. But we are not
trying to hide anyting. You can learn the language too. Nobody is
stopping you.
So our young woman has Venus in Scorpio. This means for some
astrologers( We are not all alike. Just like doctors... Get a second
opinion) that she equates love with sex and mystery and passion. She
is hunting for passion and she is only finding suits and ties and
expensive trappings. Why?
Because here she is, the president of a thriving software company,
owner of her own 3000 sq ft. house and two luxury cars, 35 years old
and beautiful and she cannot find a husband - someone to love and be
loved by and make a family and a life with.
So?
She's too strong by half. And she is moreover "attracted" to the
wrong kind of suitor. She has always thought she needed "someone
like me." A mensch. A boss person. A leader of men (and women).
Balderdash! Two bosses in the same household? Ouch.
She needs either a steadying, long-suffering Ox or a lovely,
langourous Snake or even a tempestuous Tiger - born in Gemini or Leo
or perhaps Sagittarius because she has Mercury (her communication
planet) in Sagittarius. And those guys she should be looking for are
not necessarily world beaters. They might be teachers or poets or
musicians or even weedy scientists who leave their brains in the
laboratories when they come home at night. They should not be head
honchos. She is the head honcho. She needs soul. So she should find
someone with extra soul to share.
Need I say more? Astrology simply never lies!
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