Eclipses in 10th and 4th Houses: Direction and Connection
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 5 of 7. | Read the previous installment here Don’t know how to find where an eclipse will fall in your birthchart? This post will help. It’s a couple of years since our young woman rediscovered that story she’d written, and eclipses have …
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Eclipses in 11th and 5th Houses: Crisis in Reception and Self-Expression
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 4 of 7. | Read Part 3 here Don’t know how to find where an eclipse will fall in your birthchart? This post will help. After awhile our young bride, a little stronger and better rested, emerges into the world to reconnect with …
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Eclipses in 12th and 6th Houses: Crisis in Retreat and Adaptation
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 3 of 7. | Read the previous installment here Don’t know how to find where an eclipse will fall in your birthchart? This post will help. After the hectic activity of eclipses moving through the first house and seventh houses, eclipses move into …
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Eclipses in 1st and 7th Houses: Crisis of Individualism and Relationship
Eclipses falling in the first and seventh houses don’t always describe a marriage, but it is an event that well describes the fundamental crisis of this cycle: profound challenges to self and identity brought about through close relationships. It’s a cycle that frequently describes turning points such as marriage, divorce, or moving away from home.
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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.
Read MoreHow I Learned Astrology
Everyone follows his or her particular path to astrological enlightenment, but I suspect all these routes share a few common landmarks: first wading in shyly, then stalking and mastering various techniques, proceeding to the preliminary stage of inflicting ghastly readings on unsuspecting clients, and eventually learning from experience and from great people you respect.
But only recently has the astrological culture hinted at a final initiation rite, that of finding one’s own astrological voice and making the leap from technician to artist. It’s a difficult leap to make, because artistry is by its very nature personal, and so no one else can tell you exactly how to get there.
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