Question: Do you ever disagree with other astrologers’ interpretations? Astrologers mediate with universal symbols, transpose them onto everyday life, and they do this through study, experience, and research. A symbol can stand for more than one thing. Astrologers have to interpret all of the interrelationships formed with other symbols on the birth chart. No single...
Question: How do you question astrological claims, whether they are from you, a fellow astrologer, or a book? In determining technique, how do you deal with nuances that defy the logic behind your technique? If you read for others, how do you know that the people you are reading for aren’t just gullible? Psychological astrologers,...
Question: How do you deal with the criticism of Astrology? Astrology does have its vehement criticism as astronomy’s bastard sister. Richard Dawkins noted with disgust that the books promoting astrology easily outsell texts on astronomy. Dawkins reckoned people were holding on to infantile delusions of faith in a magical universe. Astrology was featured in his...
Question: Why and how does Astrology work? Understandably, there are plenty of theories surrounding how the planets can affect our lives on Earth. Astrology maintains that human beings are not separate from the celestial field that enfolds the planet in a sea of radiant light. Lots of strange and complex stuff resulted from the “big...
In the realm of higher celestial beings, perception goes beyond the limitations of human senses. The amazing ability to see all of reality at once allows them to go beyond the constraints of time and space. To them, the universe is a complex web of relationships between the planets and the stars and other mathematical...
Question: Why is Astrology full of stereotypes? Walter Lippman, who coined the term stereotype, did not intend it to have a wholly negative connotation. And Lippman says there is a necessity for and usefulness in stereotypes as well as their being limitations. Stereotypes are a way of ‘ordering’ all of the complex astrological data. It would actually...
A birth chart details the celestial events occurring on the date, time, and place of a person’s birth, and astrology as an art form is made up of symbols, and when they all come together in your birth chart, they produce a one-of-a-kind cosmic pattern that can shed light on your life and the world...
In the book Signs of the Zodiac: A Reference Guide to Historical, Mythological, and Cultural Associations by Mary Ellen Snodgrass, there is this poem by essayist Joseph Addison which the author found limited. To enumerate, Snodgrass felt that the signs were reduced to absurdly small parameters. I, however, found Addison’s poetical work entirely charming, and...
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” Einstein The planets, in astrology, disclose the “whats” and characterise the energy at action in the world. We have all twelve signs and houses represented on the horoscope map, but it is not until the planets are included that...
Astrologers find themselves in a precarious position, as they are confronted with the need to explain the means of their craft. It is only natural for us to desire a comprehensive astrological guide that can seamlessly merge the diverse elements into a harmonious whole. Unfortunately, the information available often appears in scattered fragments, leaving us...
Okay, well this is probably silly as many of us interested in astrology tend to like reading all of the various types of interpretations. It’s really just presented in this fun way so that we can delve into the different astrological schools of thought. In truth, they don’t massively diverge in meaning once we climb … Read moreWhat kind of Astrologer Are You?
