Predictive Astrology Tools for Your Life and Future (Weiser Classics)

From the Publisher: Once you sort out the values and boundaries between technique and intuition, you will be taking the first step towards predictive astrology. Then, with an eagle under one arm and a lark under the other, you will find yourself looking straight into the face of fate.

If we can read the dynamic patterns of a birth chart to give the timing and descriptions of future events, then we must not only acknowledge some "master plan" to which the individual is subject but also realize it is the very raw material with which we are working. As astrologers, we work with fate, just as a cobbler works with leather and a blacksmith works with metals.

Therefore, like any other trade or craft, we need to understand the raw materials of our trade in order to produce results. A blacksmith, in making a horseshoe, does not expect to produce a pound of butter for the simple reason that it is not within the capabilities of the raw material. So what are the limitations of our raw material? What can it do? What can't it do? How much of a person's life is dictated by fate? Just as the blacksmith has to know the metal's limitations, the astrologer needs to know about fate's limitations. These "how much," "how often," type questions do not have easy answers, but for the predictive astrologer, they cannot be avoided.

Every language has an alphabet, and predictive astrology is no different. What the astrologer is trying to do in formulating a prediction is to take the language of the Cosmos and translate that information into the conscious world of the client. The way in which we produce this information from the Cosmos is via the predictive system we use; i.e., transits, progressions, and so on. However, no matter what system you used, there is one common thread, and that is the definition of the basic units or alphabet with which the language or data is written.

The alphabet of astrology is made up of the planets, aspects, houses, and signs. With these basic components, the Cosmos can spin a million or so stories. In a natal chart, the stories are magical and mysterious, involving mythology and the history of a person's race. In such a world, the language creates very complex messages, for people have their whole lives to "tinker" with the particular coded messages termed a natal chart.

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