Astrology Report
After expanding upon Carl Jung’s exploration of personality typing, Isabel Briggs Myers pronounced:
“Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of your personality type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgments sounder, and your life closer to your heart’s desire.”
The same can be said for understanding your soul blueprint, which includes your astrology chart also known as a natal chart.
If we boiled it down to 3 reasons why it can be invaluable to work with an astrologist they would be
#1 Gaining greater self-understanding and awareness of one's strengths and direction in life.
#2 Appreciation of our unique challenges, blindspots and karmic patterns to overcome
#3 Negating the separation myth to move into a worldview of interconnection and mystique
As author Katherine May found her life stagnant based on the rationalistic model she expressed the desire for other viewpoints and a return to enchantment, saying:
"I need to change. I need to soften, to let go of my tight empirical boundaries, to find a greater fluidity in my being. I’m seeking what the poet John Keats called negative capability, that intuitive mode of thought that allows us to reside in “uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.” The subtle magic of the world offers comfort, but I don’t know how to receive it.
I have lost some fundamental part of my knowing, some elemental human feeling. Without it, the world feels like tap water left overnight, flat and chemical, devoid of life. I am like lightning seeking earth. Uneasy, I carry the prickle of potential energy in my limbs, ever deferred from the point of contact, the moment of release. Instead, it gathers in me, massing like a storm that never comes. I lack the language to even describe it, this vast unsettled sense that I am slipping over the glassy surface of things, afraid of what lurks beneath. I need a better way to walk through this life. I want to be enchanted again.
Enchantment is small wonder magnified through meaning, fascination caught in the web of fable and memory. It relies on small doses of awe, almost homeopathic: those quiet traces of fascination that are found only when we look for them. It is the sense that we are joined together in one continuous thread of existence with the elements constituting this earth, and that there is a potency trapped in this interconnection, a tingle on the border of our perception. It is the forgotten seam in our geology, the elusive particle that binds our unstable matter."
Astrology in Science
Dethroning Hyper Rationalism
The sun and the moon appear to be around the same size when we look at them in the sky. This is because the sun is around 400 times further away than the moon and around 400 times larger.
We also experience eclipses when a particular new moon and the sun come together.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell once said, 'If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.’
It could be argued that living on the only planet we know where the sun and moon appear the same size and where we experience eclipses, symbolises that we are all taking part in an evolutionary journey that is equal parts solar and lunar, masculine and feminine.
Looking back through history, too much lunar focus led to the dominance of religion and all of the damage that came with that.
More recently, the polar swing has led to the solar approach of rationalism and materialism dominating the dance between ego and soul.
Indigenous cultures lived in harmony with the natural environment for millennia, engendering healthy communities that contributed to life and evolution.
Our modern, industrialised culture inculcates a survival of the fittest/everyone for themselves mentality that causes us to harm ourselves, each other and annihilate the world that conceived and sustains us.
Take the example of hurricanes.
In 1959, hundreds of scientists gathered at San Fransisco to discuss what they could do with nuclear weapons. One suggestion was to detonate them in the eye of a hurricane to try and derail storms. Fortunately, the masculine approach was tempered by the realisation that radioactive storms don’t really benefit anyone.
Consider how nature adopts a more feminine, cooperative approach.
Mangroves grow along the barrier between land and sea on subtropical and tropical coastlines and are routinely flooded as the tide rises and retreats. Mangroves absorb the water that hurricanes unleash. Storms strip their leaves and uproot or snap trees into pieces. The result is a blanket of fine, grey soil rich in nutrients. This sediment layer fertilisers the roots of the mangroves helping to build up soil elevation. Their growth counters rising sea levels.
But with modern society removing greenery and encroaching more in flood prone land we destroy the natural protection of the ecosystem. And with every increase in the sea level and temperature rise, the possibility of future storms increase.
Birth Chart Readings
Eckhart Tolle spoke of how human cleverness (ego) divides whereas intelligence (collective consciousness) bonds:
The ego may be clever, but it is not intelligent. Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected. Cleverness is motivated by self-interest, and it is extremely short-sighted.
Sogyal Rinpoche captured the inability of our egos to recognise how imbalanced we have become, saying:
The ordinary mind has a false, dull stability, a smug and self-protective inertia, a stone-like calm of ingrained habits.
Astrology offers a different perspective from the nihilistic worldview that rationalistic science tends to offer. It is one of many tools we can draw on to move beyond the old paradigm and into one that is more inclusive, restorative and interconnecting.
As went enter the Age of Aquarius we enter a more scientific age, but one that is progressive and more humanitarian. The emergence of quantum physics continues to perplex old school scientists wanting concrete explanations for the mysteries.
Evolutionary astrology allows us to recognise intelligent design not just in the cosmos but in our soul’s growth. As Einstein famously pointed out:
Astrology Courses
Our astrology courses introduce you to the essential components of astrology while helping you understand your own chart through personal mentoring. Take our astrology course online or face to face at our retreat centre.
