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Ask a Healer Spiritual Wellness Series
Planetary Alignment at Your Birth - How is astrology useful? What is Astrology? This is part of a series on alternative medicine therapies. It may seem strange that I have included astrology in that list. To me, it is a form of alternative medicine because it helps a person understand their life....well, maybe more of a mental health therapy. In any case, here's some VERY basic info. Astrology has different levels of significance and meaning, to different people. For some, it is reading the horoscope on yahoo. To others, it is a form of spiritual divination. For others, like myself, it's a way of getting a general overview of the planetary influences inherent in the birthdate chosen by the soul. Astrology involves studying the positioning of stars, planets, sun and moon with regard to a person's birth. An astrologist will consider the placement of planetary factors to be influential in a person's life and can create a chart that illuminates challenges, strengths and general life path options. Like any sort of spiritual tool, astrology has the potential to become a spiritual crutch. Some people will not make a decision without consulting their astrological chart and, to me, that's giving it too much power. I see the same pattern of spiritual dependency when people must consult a psychic before doing anything. While useful as a tool for guidance, psychic readings and astrology can start to replace a person's intuitive knowing and that can sometimes lead to an unhealthy dependence. I believe astrology is useful in helping me understand why I came into the earth experience on a certain day and within a certain planetary alignment. I also find astrology useful in understanding my basic personality strengths and areas of challenge. These are areas I chose to play with this time around so it's useful for me to know what they are. After that, I do not allow the placement of the stars to dictate what happens in my life. For me, it is sort of a container that helped form my entry into this plane for certain purposes my soul decided on. I can change that at any time and have, several times in my life. The Astrological Chart: Planets listed on astrological chart : Sun and Moon (both considered as planets by astrologists), Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter and Mars. The earth is not included in the astrological chart because earth is the point in the universe from which we view the other planets. An astrological chart includes information in twelve "houses" with each house representing a particular aspect of a person's life, (health, romance,vocation,family, etc.) Of the 12 houses represented, two remain empty or vacant. These indicate areas of life that you did not choose to work with or experience this time around, as I understand it. You may have already mastered money issues, for example so maybe that area is clear for you this time. The position of the sun in your astrological profile determines what is called your sun sign. Study of an astrological chart begins with the factors associated with your sun sign. After that, the positions of the other planets are studied in relation to the sun sign. Then, the position of what is called the "moon sign" is studied, as it relates to the rest of your chart. By reading the astrological chart, the skilled astrologist can get a pretty good general sense of the life path a person came in to fulfill. Surprisingly accurate, astrological charts often describe the personality of the individual very clearly and a person can recognize themselves in what the chart reveals and begin to understand that they came in with certain personality characteristics that were chosen when they chose the date of birth as spiritual beings wishing to have an experience of life on earth. A different perspective on astrology: I was introduced to the frequency artwork of Bryan DeFlores many years ago. I love his images and have many of his templates. He has a view of astrology that I share as well. Bryan says "The fact is that many of our lives are no longer governed by astrological dates and the shifting of the planets, but by the assimilation of parallel aspects of Self and our own shifts in consciousness. This means that many of us are now directing our own paths and are leaving the lower physical sphere of influence. Our day-to-day lives are determined not so much by the shifting of the planets, sun, moon and stars, but by our own thoughts, words and actions." To read more about a new way of working with astrological information, please visit the Ascension Astrology Section on the website of Bryan DeFlores Related: Psychic Readings * Spotting Psychic Frauds Please note: An astrological chart is a fairly dry piece of information. It's only through the interpretation offered by a skilled astrologists that it makes much sense to me, personally. So, the experience level of the person creating the chart is important to me. A person with long years of experience would appeal more to me that someone just starting out, although I am sure some are just gifted from the beginning to interpret charts with skill. |