Thursday Thirteen Vol. 2
Thirteen Things about Being an Astrologer1. It’s exhausting. As in any career as a self-employed person, you spend half of your time doing the work and the other half finding the work.2. I’ve developed the most amazing skills in my job as an astrologer. But if I applied for a …
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Taking planets… personally.
Heh. Jeff’s cranky today! Rant on, astro-brother! (Mercury decided to turn retrograde about fifty yards short of my natal Mercury – but I’m trying not to take it personally. Wait… what am I talking about? I take everything personally! Damn Mercury!) Anyway, Jeff’s entry got me thinking about my own …
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The Astrological “I”
by April Elliott Kent This article originally appeared in The Mountain Astrologer magazine, April 2005. “I walk into my local metaphysical bookstore. A string of bells tied to the door tinkles, and I’m hit by a cloud of patchouli. Making my way past the incense burners, small cedar boxes, Tarot …
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Prediction: When the Future is Beside the Point
Even if we could use astrology to predict exactly what’s going to happen next, I’m not sure our predictions would be helpful to our clients, who have usually decided exactly what they’re going to do well before they come to see us. Yet as astrologers, we have a powerful incentive to predict because when it works, we fulfill society’s expectations and both we and astrology look good.
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