Astrology -- What It Can Tell You About Yourself -- Using Your Horoscope for Self-Discovery

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An extremely versatile tool

Besides wanting to know about "what the future holds," people come to an astrologer wanting to know about themselves. That's an absolutely valid choice ... and a commendable one. Astrology can be a goldmine of information and assistance for the spiritual traveler who wants to understand himself and his inner terrain as thoroughly as possible.

Still, even this noble motive can have its unfortunate twists. People sometimes want an astrologer to tell them fun and amusing things about themselves -- approaching the serious subject of self-discovery almost in the same light-hearted mood of curiosity that invites them to take the quizzes in Cosmo.

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If you know what you're doing

It's not a bad start, actually ... especially for the client who is willing to learn more about himself than just two or three sentences about his emotional center, or his relationship skills, or the places in life where he feels constantly judged and vulnerable.

Just in that simple list of life categories, you can see why spending an hour to "get your chart done" will only scratch the surface. If you want to take your exploration of your horoscope beyond the limits of a parlor game curiosity and really mine it for the treasure it can reveal, you'd do well to find an astrologer willing and able to do more than just provide an hour's worth of one-liners from the on-the-surface information in your horoscope.

There are plenty of us around. And, yes, it takes a fair investment of time, consideration, effort and money from you ... to gain the benefits of what you're asking to receive.

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Take it seriously

I've said in other pieces that life takes work. Understanding yourself and working with your potentials, developing your abilities, doing something worthwhile with them ... and being something when you grow up ... takes lots of work.

But if you ask me, it's also one of the best ways you can spend your time on this earth. Astrology can tell you loads about what you've got to work with ... and what you may need to work with a lot -- or differently -- to become your best self.

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Do it right

Done right, several sessions of really analyzing your horoscope under the guidance of an astrologer willing to spend the time and take the journey with you can cut through months ... maybe years ... of psychoanalysis and counseling through talk-therapy.

It can certainly give you some fascinating places to start -- and continue -- your study of your own psyche and character, and hand you chunks of information to examine and consider, elegantly organized in ways you might never come up with on your own.

For the introspective soul, Astrology and its information about their personality, their inner workings, their potentials and their destiny can be a blessing beyond words.

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Use it right

But again, you can't escape the fact that the value of any body of information and knowledge depends a lot on what you do with it. A session of in-depth analysis of your horoscope is an invitation to get acquainted with "your stuff," to understand yourself, your values, your priorities, your possibilities, your challenges and your gifts as never before.

In the presence of a willing seeker and a skilled guide, Astrology can cut to the chase on these matters faster than a lightning strike -- and with lightning's brilliance and power, too.

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It can save you lots of time and guess-work

It can also cut years off your wanderings as you search through psychology's dim corridors, seeking answers to the important questions of self-identity, personal standards, your spiritual focus ... and "what you're really like."

For people who like that kind of efficiency, Astrology is pure gold. Seekers and guides who settle for an hour of skimming the surface, doling out and scooping up little tidbits of stuff-about-yourself instead of pursuing a more extensive analysis of your soul's components and what all is available to you through them, truly miss the mark in their use of this amazing treasure.

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An accurate picture of you ...
and how you were designed to work

These are facts that need study, thorough comprehension and conscious use -- to maximize everything at your disposal from earning money in the way you were designed to function to honoring your need for independence and originality to your ability to manage life's major transition points.

These are things we all meet in the course of a lifetime. How much more sensible is it to arrive ready to tackle them with the skills that came with you as "standard equipment" -- than to try to figure it out on your own and in the thick of things ... with hardly a clue to go on.

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Life as art

If your life is a self-created work of art ... and the perplexing patterns that repeat themselves in various guises like different choruses of the same old familiar song are the lessons you're supposed to work with as part of this life's curriculum ...isn't it kind and reasonable to know as much as you can about how you got where you are?

And then either use that environment -- and what you've built there -- to your advantage, or figure out how to get someplace where the climate is more congenial ... and work with the challenges that landed you in trouble so you can smooth them into something easier to manage and more agreeable all around?

I know that sounds like a rhetorical question ... except day after day I see people making that other-than-sensible choice. When I was younger, that used to bother me a lot more than it does now.

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Many paths to knowledge

With a lot of Pisces and Sagittarius in my chart, it was easy for me back then to fall into an it's-my-job-to-help-save-the-world frame of mind. Once I moved into my 40's, and without much effort, I came to a more passive point of view.

If people insist on learning through trial and sad, sad error, that's ok. You and I and everyone on earth learned a lot of early lessons just that way.

Someone else can tell you until he's blue in the face that touching a hot stove is a mighty unpleasant thing to do ... and it still won't pound the point home as well as happened the day you tried that trick for yourself -- and found out what "mighty unpleasant" feels like.

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The Universe has infinite time.
Do you?

The Universe has infinite time and infinite patience. Your evolution and education can progress at a snail's pace or a galloping run ... whichever suits you ... with plenty of stops and mucking around at the way-stations, if you like.

Life's deck may be nicely stacked toward your learning what you need to know and moving on ... eventually. But as for when that happens, or what goes on in the meantime ... for the most part, the Universe doesn't care. That's both the beauty and the peril of free will. Use it any way you like.

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It's worth considering

The same with Astrology. You can use it or not, scoff at it or not. There are folks who find enduring value in its wisdom ... and comfort in its rhythms. And there are folks who get where they want to go by other routes -- which are just as valid, and just as meaningful to them.

And for the whole pack of people still looking for a path they can work with ... and a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, the facility of Astrology might be something to consider -- at least enough to decide whether it has value for them, at this time and in their current place. It's been a lifeline for a lot of souls. Me included. Just a thought.

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If you've always known there was more to Astrology than Sun Sign material and the three line daily horoscope in the newspaper, climb aboard and follow this blog. You'll find a world of wisdom detailing how you were designed to work with life ... and why you are the way you are -- all in quick-to-read, easy-to-digest-and-remember, written-in-plain-English essays that offer plenty of food for thought.

Little by little, I'm doing a set of articles that talks about all the elements in your horoscope and what they have to say about you. If you "know something" about Astrology -- or know something about your chart placements, that will help you get more from this material.

If you don't ... well, this is one place you can learn. We all have to start somewhere ... because we aren't born knowing this stuff. Meanwhile, if you've never seen your horoscope ... and don't have a clue how to work with it, maybe it's time to find out. There are lots of "chart services" on the internet -- some of whom produce decent, readable charts "for free" and some are so awful and confusing that even I can't read them easily -- and I've worked with charts for decades.

One extremely user-friendly chart site is here: AstroLabe. I recommend them if you want a simple, easy-to-read chart. I think they even give a reasonable little interpretive reading of your horoscope as part of the package. You'll need to know your birth information -- day, month, year, time and geographical place. Without all that your chart will have limited accuracy.

Or, if you want to get serious and really talk about this, upvote this post and start a conversation in the comments section sometime in the next six days from the time of publication. We'll go from there depending on what you want to know.

Questions about any of this? -- Upvote this post and talk to me in comments. It's a terrific way to build value for yourself and the community ... and it will give me ideas of what to write about in future posts. Believe me there is lots to say about the way The Sun, The Moon -- and all the other elements in a horoscope, all the other components of Astrology -- work together to interpret you and your story -- and what it all means to the person you've become.

This is who I am.

About the art in our visual essays ...

Although sometimes the background pictures in our visual essays support the topic and text, they don't always. Sometimes the connection is clear. Sometimes it's symbolic and subtle. Sometimes, there's no connection at all.

The scenes depict landscapes and natural features, buildings and wildlife. They were chosen because they show something lovely or interesting ... or simply because the photo appealed to me.

Our spectacular and remarkable planet is changing at astonishing speed. Rarely are these changes for the better. Few people seem to know ... or care ... or have the will and power to do anything about this. It may not be long before the world humans have known and lived in for centuries is forever lost. We certainly won't be able to make repairs as fast as we destroyed it.

So a few years ago I began collecting pictures of the way things were ... and still are for now, a record of the beauty we have while it is still ours to love and honor.

The photos here are part of that collection, with sincere thanks to the artists who saw these moments ... and with their cameras ... preserved them. All of us at Enchanted Spirit are profoundly grateful to them for their generosity and skill ... and for the added grace, depth and dimension their art brings to ours.

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