Musings
Astrology is an ancient art that has been practiced for thousands of years. The real significance of a chart draws into deep esoteric roots and have to do with the essence of the relationship between Humans and the universe.
I want to say this right now: at its core, Astrology is not about prediction (although it’s been widely used that way), it is about movement, flux and relationships. Astrology is not about the tangible, it is about the quantum, the intangible. Because of the secret nature of ancient astrology, what is left to us nowadays is often only surface meaning.
We, as humans, lean toward certainty. We want to know what is going to happen, we want to know that our world is going to behave a certain way. This explains why lots of time, we use the tools that astrology provides to tell the future. However, this is not what we will talk about on this website, and this is not what we will teach in the Astro Coach Academy course (by the way, if you have not signed up yet to the mailing list, do so now by clicking this link).
What we will talk about is how to practice the art of astrology to catalyse and unlock potentials. There is a difference between telling people what is going to happen to them (remind to tell you a story about self-fulfilling prophecies) and assist them to unlock their own potentials from inside. An Astro Coach knows to tell the stories to their client that will help their unconscious minds to do the work needed.
More on that later.
Ah! And another thing. The ‘astrology’ you read in magazines has nothing to do with astrology. It is based on what is called “solar astrology”, which only takes into account… well… the Sun! You may know that the Sun changes sign approximately every 30 days. When we say “I am a Leo”, it means that the Sun was in Leo at the time of you birth.
To put it bluntly, there is no way you can tell a person’s character or predict his or her future solely from the Sun. Solar astrology has other interesting applications, but not to mass predict what the coming week will be like for the 126 millions Aries in the world (and if you are wondering where I got that figure.. I just made it up).
There are 10 planets (11 if you include Chiron) in a chart. We use the word in its wider sense here. Strictly speaking, the Sun and the Moon are Luminaries, not planets. Also, even though Pluto was ‘demoted’ from it’s status as a planet some time ago, in astrology we still consider it as a planet). So you can imagine the mind-bloggling amounts of possible ways those planets can combine to create a totally unique chart.
Plus, as we will learn during the first part of the course, even if you have exactly the same chart as someone else (as in the case of twins for example), you do not manifest the meaning of the planets, signs and house the same way (hang on there, we’ll explain all those words later).
Voila, that’s it for this first post. I will come back on many of the concepts that we’ve touched upon in the coming posts. And of course, we will learn what is, and how to give meaning to a chart, as well as to how to use it in a coaching context with people.
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Bye for now.