The Truth About Astrology
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The Truth About Astrology
I've been a student of astrology for about 36 years now and the
most amazing thing to me is all the untruths or half-truths that
are constantly circulated about it. If your level of
understanding of astrology has been what the newspapers put out
( on the comic pages, usually...), this article should be
mind-boggling. If you've read a few magazine articles, you'll
find a few things you may not have considered. But if you're a
person who's read a number of books about astrology, this
article may say nothing new to you OR it may seem like it's not
actually about astrology--depends on the books you've been
reading.
The first truth about astrology I want to share is that no one
has only one Sign. Let's say you were born on April 15th. You'd
be expected to say, "I'm an Aries." Well, that's true as far as
it goes but it just doesn't go far enough. In fact, if you think
that what's said about Aries in the books, magazines or
newspapers is "exactly" what you are and only what you are, you
really need to look a little deeper into yourself--you're
missing a lot!
The fact that you're "an Aries" or "a Capricorn" or "Whatever"
is saying that, when you were born, the Sun was in that Sign of
the Zodiac. And, it is very important where your Sun was when
you were born because the Sun in astrology refers to your
Central Life Purpose--can't get much more important than that!
However...
How do you actually go about "doing" that central purpose? The
first place to look for an answer to that question is where the
Moon was when you were born. And, since there are twelve places
(the Signs) the Moon could have been, there are twelve different
ways someone with any particular Sun-Sign can Do their central
purpose. So, if someone says to me, "I'm a ______{fill in the
Sign}.", I want to say (but may not due to tact), "Which of the
twelve kinds of ______ are you?"
So, the truth is you have a Sun-Sign, a Moon-Sign, and eight
other important Signs because everyone has eight other planets
in their full chart. Some of these planets may be in the same
Sign (happens often) so most people end up with about four or
five of the twelve Signs very prominent in their lives. It's
like a chord of notes being sounded--like the truth of
psychology that everyone has many sides to their whole self.
An even deeper truth about astrology is that we all have all
twelve Signs in our personalities. It's just that certain ones
are stronger depending on where the planets are. Still, if
someone says to me, "I just can't stand ______{fill in the
Sign}!", I really have to wonder why they've met so many
screwed-up people with their Sun in _______ OR I have to wonder
why they don't like the _______part of themselves. Since
everyone has all twelve Signs and they all have a place in our
lives, if someone can say they don't like one of the Signs,
aren't they also saying they don't like a certain part of
themselves? Think about it...
So, we all have all twelve of the energies represented by the
Signs of astrology and most of us have four or five of them very
prominent in our personalities. One thing this truth shoots down
is the common practice of saying that certain Signs get along
well or poorly with other Signs. Because most people think your
"Sign" (and that we have only one) is all there is to astrology,
they can be very surprised when a person with one of the "Signs"
they're supposed to get along with turns out to be someone they
wish they'd never met! That's why it's so important to know more
than just a Sun-Sign if you're going to use astrology to help
you with relationships.
And, that leads us to another important truth about astrology.
This may be real hard for some folks to understand but here it
is: Astrology does not, will not, and never has predicted
events. What?! Yes. It's the absolute truth, no matter if some
astrologer has "predicted" something for you. What astrology
does "predict" or reveal is Meaning. And, if an astrologer tells
you something is going to happen, don't you think that if it
does there may just be a bit of self-fulfillment in that? O.K.
What if an astrologer says some event happened in your past and
that, in fact, it did happen? Believe it or not, what happened
is that the astrologer saw a meaning in the chart and made a
very good guess at the exact event. And, here's some proof of
that:
Many years ago, I had the opportunity to talk to two men, born
of different mothers but at the same time at the same hospital.
Since they had the same chart you'd think they would have had
the same events happening in their lives, right? Well, all it
takes is one contrary occurrence of something to disprove a
theory and here it is:
There was a strong indicator in their charts at a certain time
and I asked the first man what happened. He said his father had
died. I asked the other man with the same chart what happened
and he said he'd been on his first nude beach...
Obviously, the same chart had shown two very different events!
Then, I asked the first man (and, by the way, I interviewed
these men separately), "What did it mean when your father died?"
He said that he'd felt like he'd had shackles removed (his
father had been rather authoritarian). I asked the other man,
"What did it mean to be on your first nude beach?" He said that
he had dropped his shackles... They used exactly the same, and
not so common, word to describe what two very different events
meant.
So, we all have all twelve Signs and astrology doesn't predict
events. Whew!
There are other truths about astrology that most people have no
knowledge about but those two should help open a few minds, eh?
It's been 36 years since I was like a lot of people--believing
whatever I'd been told about astrology. Now, I know the truth.
Fact is, I'm finally working on a book about what I've learned.
Should be out pretty soon. Gonna call it, "Astrological Repair
Manual", 'cause I want to help repair various perceptions about
it that I feel can be pretty harmful if folks think they're
true. I'll be featuring the book on my web site--
http://www.lulu.com/amzolt --so, stop by from time to time and
see if it's there yet. Till then, you may want to download a
free short story I have there called, "PlanIt--The Future Fable
of an Action Designer". It's based on a very old cycle and has a
strong tie to the truths of astrology. And, that's another truth
about astrology--it's really all about cycles... But, that's
gonna be in the book, so I'll end this article with this piece
of advice:
Question most of what you've read or heard about astrology!
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Also, I'd love to hear from you with any comments or criticisms
you may have about this article. Everything can be improved,
right ?
Write to me at:
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