UNDERSTANDING ASTROLOGY

The astrology chart has two facets to it. First, there is the birth chart which portrays your overall potential in this lifetime, what I call "the gameplan of your Soul", and it stays with you throughout this life. This unique energy pattern at the Time and Space of your birth (not to be repeated for 26,000 years) becomes imprinted when the cord is cut and you become an independent entity.

Secondly, there is the unfolding of this gameplan in Time. Imagine that your birth chart is a snapshot of the sky at your birth. It is a fixed picture of a moment in space, but of course, Life goes on and, the planets continue on their orbital paths which are cyclical. The relationship of the continually changing sky to the original snapshot then depicts the unfolding of the gameplan over time.

"Do Not Wish To Be Anything But What You Are, And Try To Be That Perfectly."                                                                                                                                           Saint Francis De Sale

I view our lives on Earth as going to school, and will often use this analogy during our session. Just as we planned our year in advance during college by choosing what our subjects of study would be, similarly, our Souls plan our time here in astounding detail. Ultimately, our only lessons are our Choices as we play in the illusion of Free Will. The real goal is to regain Soul awareness for guidance in making these choices rather than from ego based past experiences. The birth chart provides us with the ultimate owner's manual of our Life Purpose and Path. Our horoscopes represent our electro-magnetic blueprint (or Aura) which then determines what types of experiences we will magnetize and draw to ourselves. Having a psychology background, I have a deep interest in how our mental patterns attract our reality to us: "We Are What We Think" (leading to) "Character is Destiny".

"You Don't Attract What You Want, You Attract What You Are"  Dr. Wayne Dyer

 We choose specific talents/lessons to work on in stages (semesters) through a series of lives, ultimately bringing it to a peak and then moving on to the next field that we want to explore. My favorite example is Mozart composing music at a young age, that being his peaking lifetime. Before birthing on Earth this time your Soul carefully chose the ideal experiences, circumstances, talents and relationships that would lead to successful learning of the current stage of the lesson. Just think of the preparations you would need to make before you went on a long journey to a new land. You would first plan your itinerary in detail. Then you would want to acquire the appropriate clothing (body) and equipment (abilities) necessary for each stage of the trip. You would also carefully select companions to share your journey with and arrange to meet them at specific junctures to guide you to the most meaningful experiences.

Once we are immersed in the density and intense drama of this world, though, we become tunnel-visioned and lose sight of the bigger picture. As we slow down our vibration to experience on Earth, we lose touch with the higher frequency of Soul awareness. Through infinite compassion and wisdom the Creator has given us various gifts/tools to assist us to remedy this amnesia. Of all these gifts that I've explored, Astrology has provided the most far-reaching and intricate perspectives. In the example of our trip, it would be easy to get so immersed in the various new locales and experiences so as to forget the larger plan and timetable. All we would need to do is to refer back to the original itinerary and map to find our way again. This was the original, and still is, the true purpose of Astrology. 

 
I will go back and forth between these two parts of your chart. I'll explain the "why and what" of your current path by providing practical information on the lessons your Higher Self has chosen to experience this time on Earth. This is usually two-fold - perfecting past life talents/gifts; and correcting Karmic imbalances. These seemingly separate tasks tie in with each other as our greatest tests ultimately become our greatest gifts/inspiration to others.

The predictive part of the session focuses on the "where and when" during the journey. As a further understanding of this process, it is important to realize that Time is cyclical, even though we experience it as being linear (past, present & future in a straight line). This is why we can see that history does repeat itself. Also, Time is not just a circle that goes around and around but more an upward moving Spiral. So, when a cycle completes, we then move to the next level in the spiral of Life. Otherwise, we would be stuck in a perpetual "Groundhog Day" :) And, if that weren't enough, we have many cycles within cycles with each cycle operating in the context of a larger cycle (just as there are 4 weeks in a month, 7 days in a week, 24 hours in a day, etc.). 

I will first cover the longer cycles that are operating in your life to help you understand the larger context before moving onto the shorter ones to fill in the details of the immediate future. Vedic Astrology utilizes a unique system of phenomenally accurate long-term lifecycles. Using these we can easily paint a broad but rich picture of the next 15-20 years while also being able to zero in on more immediate timeframes. This helps us to understand which specific lesson the Soul is focusing on over a number of years. Combining this with modern western micro techniques leads to a more detailed understanding of the next few years.

The true purpose of prediction is to alert us to what's coming next on the Soul's agenda so that we can achieve the optimum potential of that experience. Otherwise, knowing the future is pointless since it's going to happen anyway. The sooner we get the lesson the sooner it ends, hence the need to understand why an event is happening to us rather than only knowing when it's going to happen. It is profoundly empowering to know/understand that not only have we drawn an experience to ourselves but that we also have direct control over how intense that experience will be and when it will end.

An analogy that I often use explains how to make the most of the predictive information provided during the reading. It's of a surfer swimming out into the ocean, waiting for the right wave to bring them back to shore. There are waves every few seconds, but there's that one perfect wave that brings you all the way back. Astrology tells you when that wave is coming and then, you have two choices. One is to swim with the wave to maximize it's potential. The other is to do nothing. The wave will still carry you forward,  just not as far. You can't make the wave come; it comes on it's on (and is sent by the Soul). But, you can choose to make the most of it.

    "We Cannot Change The Cards We Are Dealt, Just How We Play The Hand".  Randy Pausch