A
quick, but regrettably necessary note about this tutorial:
Since 2001, I've offered this tutorial online, free of charge, simply because
I believe in empowering people to do their own astrology work if they can. All
I ask in return is that this work not be used in any other form or context without
my written permission and proper attribution. Any other use is in violation
of copyright. ~ AEK
Introduction
A man and a woman decide to
get married, and in the first flush of excitement they might do a number of things:
call everyone they know, make a pilgrimage to the newstand to stock up on five-pound
bridal magazines, start fighting over the kind of wedding they'll have.
But what an astrologer or serious student of astrology does as soon as the question
has been popped is pretty much what my spouse and I did: We made a beeline to
my astrology teacher to choose an astrologically appropriate day to tie the knot.
In my years as a professional
astrologer, I've been honored to perform the same service for a number of my clients.
It's work I've always enjoyed, much the same way that in a previous career incarnation
I always enjoyed singing at weddings. After all, I was born with the moon
in the seventh house of marriage: I dig weddings, marriage, love, all that.
But one of the main reasons I've
always enjoyed choosing wedding dates for people is that it's so straightforward.
The rules are simple and clear. Anyone with the ability to read an ephemeris
can do it -- which I intend to prove to you in this tutorial.
Why
bother at all choosing an astrologically fabulous date/time for a wedding?
The premise of electional astrology is that a marriage, business venture, presidency,
or what have you begins at a specific moment, and that within that moment are
the seeds of how subsequent events will unfold. It's the same idea as
casting a chart for the moment of a person's birth and assuming it will tell us
something about how the person's life and character might unfold.
In electional astrology we determine
(1) what moment something will truly begin; in a marriage, it's that moment in
the wedding ceremony where the couple says "I Do"; and (2) what astrological factors
correspond to making this particular thing unfold to maximum benefit of all involved.
Then a date and time are chosen that will provide the greatest number of these
astrological factors.
For
the record, I rarely use electional astrology in my own life. I think it's
best used for events of tremendous importance (like getting married, planning
important surgery, buying a house), and I would feel kind of frivolous trying
to choose the most adventageous time to, say, shop for produce. It's electional
astrology of that kind that tends to make astrology and its devotees appear a
bit--well, silly.
Lunar
Workshop for Brides
