Three Things You Need to Ask for
in an Astrological Reading
Who are you
apart from your family, roles, and relationships? Is your history and the way
you frame your life story—your “personal mythology”—dictating your life? If
this self is not an expression of your Soul, you may find you are in the midst
of a Soul Revolution—and the Soul revolts through physical symptoms, fear, and a
general feeling of “stuckness.” None of it is pleasant.
So how do you dialogue with your Soul to find
out what it wants? Are you willing to take on the project of finding out what
your heart really needs? Your head says: there are things I must do, there are issues
around time, money, my family, and—on top of that, I just don’t feel so good!
Maybe I’m sick or depressed. Maybe. Maybe you need a soul dialogue.
And so you
try. You pray, meditate, try new things and approaches…you gain new insights,
summon your courage, and plan to endure the process of
finding your life direction and soul purpose. Brilliant. A great start. Maybe you
change your diet and de-clutter your bedroom or office, or you join a 12 step
program and talk to others about that initial insight or abyss or stuckness
that you’re getting over. So far, so good!
But some morning something happens. The
fabric doesn’t hold, and you need something else—now you don’t need astrology
to change your life, but it sure can help—not only with a fresh insight, but with
sensing how things change, and how you can learn to trust the process of change
and growth.
So here are three things you need to know to understand
your astrology chart and what you need to ask for in an astrology reading:
1—Look to
see if there is a “resonance and compatibility” between your Sun sign and the way you live
your life. This should be obvious, because the Sun represents your life
force energy, and holds the key to your identity. Ideally, something about who
you are and your way of doing things should have a resonance with the nature of
your Sun sign. Learn what your sign really
means, what it likes and how to work
with it!—i.e. if you know you’re a Sagittarian in your early twenties, will
you want to take the office job for the corporation? Will you want to marry
early? Ever hear the refrain “don’t fence me in”? A Sagittarian screamed it
from the top of a mountain. But if that job proposal allows you long week-ends
and time away to travel with your friends, hike the mountains, or to dig into
your favorite books and take night classes, then why not? Don’t settle for
simple answers or clichés. Find the deeper meanings in that Sun sign.
2—Consider
the gifts and challenges of your North and South Nodes. There’s a
strong message there—a long term Soul warning of what may be a “Soul Cage” for
you in your South Node default patterns, and what may be “good medicine” for you
in your North Node. This is about your life direction and soul purpose. It’s
what you need to know to stay in alignment with your original soul contract.
But why does the sign of your North Node often feel “not you”? Because it’s the
compensatory medicine that helps you to align and dialogue from a place of
safety within your Soul. It may feel more of what you need than what you have.
3—Consider
your transits. What’s happening for you now? What’s the best place to
focus now? The day to day transits you
read on the internet, like the morning weather forecast, are fleeting moments—it’s
the outer planet transits that matter—as
they conjunct, oppose or square your natal planets….look closely at how that “committee
of inner selves” that we call planetary archetypes, is being “besieged” by the current
transits. When, where and why is this happening to me? When will this be over?
Where should I focus now? Why is it happening? Remember that no transit happens
before its time. You’re ready; that’s why. You can handle it, and it’s time to
make a move….but if it’s a Pluto transit you may have to practice surrender,
and if it’s a Uranus transit, you can’t wait any longer to begin a real change.
Find out your astrological weather forecast.
This is what
I help you do in a “reading.” And so, this is why I ask you to tell me in an
email letter before our time together: What brought you to this moment in your
life now? What’s your story? And what might you need to know? Of course, you
can do this yourself, or you can do it with an astrologer…but you’ll do the
most important talk with your Self when the “reading” is over, and the insights
sink in. That’s when the true dialogue with your Soul begins.