Back To Astrology…

I’ve gotten several requests for how to figure different issues out in terms of astrology such as: when the best time to start a business is and just general information about how to use astrology to help with people’s personal lives.

Astrology is a complex art and it would be difficult for me, even impossible for me to detail the best time to start a business or how to fully interpret a chart in a few posts but I do plan on giving some tips and also I highly recommend this series of books authored by Marion March and Joan McEvers which break down the basics of astrology allowing each individual to put it together in a way that makes sense for them. Here are links to each of the books in the series:
The Only Way to Learn Astrology, Volume 1, Second Edition
The Only Way to Learn Astrology, Vol. 2: Math & Interpretation Techniques
The Only Way to Learn Astrology: Horoscope Analysis Vol. 3
Only Way to Learn About Tomorrow
The Only Way to Learn About Relationships, Vol. 5: Synastry Techniques
The Only Way to Learn about Horary and Electional Astrology, Vol. 6

I started off as a psychic (professionally) and was born with that ability, have always had dreams that came true, knowings, visions, etc. In my teen years when my ability got to be too much for me to handle I tried to turn it off only to find it come back times 100 when I moved out on my own. I was overwhelmed and began studying methods so I could control the ability rather than it controlling me. I learned to read the tarot, and pretty much every form of divination. Studied with a number of old time occultists and learned many tricks on how to stop and start the ability at will, how to psychically protect myself and how to focus the ability so that it could be used in almost any situation. It wasn’t until I was working in my early 20s as a professional psychic that I met many astrologers who started teaching me the art. I did not learn from this set of books, but from other astrologers who all recommended these books once they came out (however by then I already had my system down) and also from earlier books that were more esoteric and not as well organized as this series is. 

It certainly helps a person’s work as an astrologer if they have psychic ability although it is not required to do a good job. And actually astrology is a tool that can be used by everyone to help see them through difficult times by explaining the lessons to be learned and by the gift of knowing the situation a person is in at that time is not permanent but temporal. It also can give clarity when we are lost, and give a person a place to direct their energy.

We are all born with different talents and abilities. It’s always been my theory that we all have some gift given to us, something we are brilliant at, which if tapped into, will not only provide for us financially, but add to the greater collective good, if we use it. However, most people don’t use their true gift because they are encouraged to become this or that by their parents who are often trying to be practical, and have the best intentions by doing so. Often however people are encouraged to go into fields which may pay well at the time they go into them, but they find that not only are they miserable in their job/career the path they have chosen but as time marches on their forced profession becomes antiquated and less and less practical.  

Here’s the thing, if we follow our gifts we are rewarded. If we try to be too logical and do what will pay the most we end up chasing a dollar, and as we’ve seen it doesn’t lead to anymore stability than following our natural gift. This is one of the great gifts of astrology, it enables us to be clear about where to direct our energy and what our true gifts are as well as when the timing in our life will come together with our goals.

I was talking to a musician the other day, he and his wife (who is a writer) both felt when they made their choices at an early age to follow their dreams they were being crazy, foolish and impractical. This is how their families made them feel. He was encouraged to go into a trade and make a good honest living. Well, as he could see 20 years later, he had actually carved a niche for himself and was just as stable as a guy who became a plumber. Actually more stable than someone who took up a trade at least at this juncture in time. He made the point that he felt bad for those people who had abandoned their dreams only to find themselves out of a job now as well as unhappy in their career choice. They often thought they were making a sacrifice to have stability and family taking up what they thought was practical only to have it snatched away from them. (This is an issue I will go into in my next post.)

When my father was born in 1914 (crazy, huh, he was 24 years older than my mother) being a mechanical engineer was the highest paying gig there was. Of course his mother who was very worried about money and status, forced him into that profession. He died in 1977 and even by that time all the big sky scrappers had pretty much been built along with the subway systems in major cities (of which he engineered many in Chicago when he was younger). So by the end of his career he was doing industrial buildings, and had his own construction business which wasn’t very stable. We had wildly varying income flow when I was growing up and of course when he died, it was just all around bad , but you see my point.

What may seem very stable at one point in time can collapse, to be replaced by something else. At this point in our history as Americans we export very few products overseas, mostly we export our culture which is art, music, film, TV. We don’t make many things anymore.

40 years ago when my grandmother worked at US Steel in Gary, Indiana if you would have told someone America would be producing almost nothing they would have thought you were a crazy person. “But America is known for making the best products in the world. We are known for our great craftsmanship, and innovation.” Well, now that would be Japan for autos and everything else is made in what used to be an industrial joke, China.

Back to astrology again. The thing about it is every planet rules different professions, industries and they can be very diverse. For example: Neptune rules music, film, photography, oil, fisherman, drunks, drug addicts, psychics, spirituality, gurus, spiritual products and anything to do with the sea, so boats, boat making etc. Now depending on what house Neptune falls (as each house has a meaning) and what sign we can narrow down how Neptune will act in a person’s chart. This along with aspects the planets make to each other and a weighting system, a lot can be told. But still there are many permutations of each planet and each house, even how aspects work. This is where intuition comes in handy, or if one is a more left brained full blown astrologer some strictures and systems that an astrologer develops over time as their personal guide.

To make things more complicated there are numerous types of house systems based on different theories. I use the old stand by Placidus, but many people prefer Koch, or any variety of dozens of different ways to break the heavens down. And to even further complicate things there are 2 entirely different types of astrology, Western/Tropical and Vedic/Sidereal. Tropical uses the ancient placement of the heavens and Sidereal the actual placement. As the poles have shifted (they are always on the move and go completely through a constellation over a period of about 2000 years — we entered the Piscean age around the time of Christ and are now getting close to the Aquarian age) the placement of the stars within the constellations shifts. Currently, the two systems are off by about 24 degrees. So unless a person is born at the end of a sign, such as a Capricorn born on January 20th, then that person would sidereally be a Sagittarius.

There is good news though for anyone interested in studying the ancient art of astrology, as long as a person commits to a system it seems to work. It doesn’t seem to matter which system, somehow there is enough repetition and synchronicity in the stars for all of the different permutations of astrology to work. Astrologers generally arrive at the same conclusions no matter what system they use. I suppose it’s like the old adage all roads lead to the same mountain peak. Or to be more contemporary, astrology is fractal, a microcosm of the macrocosm, and when examining a chart the system a person uses, decodes the chart according to the strictures of that system. 

I have found that for westerners the western systems works best as the eastern/vedic type of astrology has a tendency to be more fatalistic which is appropriate in countries and cultures where people have arranged marriages, or are tracked in certain ways and given less freedom to pursue themselves than in western cultures. I would imagine for those who are born and live in those cultures it would be best to stick with the astrology of that culture as it would be most accurate to the environment. 

So over the next couple of weeks I’ll try and give some basic break downs of how astrology works, and how people can interpret their own charts, and even perhaps find the best time to buy cars, set up business, etc. I will use the charts of some of the people who have written me via e-mail without of course using their names so they can remain anonymous.

If anyone has an astrological question about how to read something in their chart or wants me to cover a specific astrological question you can e-mail me at: happypeopleusa@aol.com. I will use your info and question anonymously to be answered on the blog. I may not be able to answer everyone if there are too many questions, but I will try.

Best wishes and many blessings to all you good people,

Denise

Reader’s Comments and Questions…

Hi everyone,

Tonight I tried to catch up on a bit of news.  It was just confirmed that the bones of Caylie Marie Anthony, found about a block and a half away from where the toddler was living were indeed the remains of the little girl. I watched the news in horror. And noticed that this was in Orange County. I had to roll back the DVR to make sure, because Hope and A Plan had posted this after the orange light incident/poltergeist activity:

hopeandaplan

Hi Denise,

I just saw in the news that there was an earthquake in S Carolina, early this morning. I had a thought about the orange garage light experience you had last night. Sometimes when I get signs they are literal. Do you think its somewhere called Orange? Orange county Florida, California, or Orange the city in different areas??? And, Do you think there is anything to worry about with the Soviets doing naval excercises in the waters off of Venezuela? Thanks for keeping up the blog!

I wondered if this was a visitation from the little girl, trying to get a message through. I was after all alone with my  11 month old daughter. Child murders are always extremely upsetting, but this one in particular always made me sick to my stomach, its not like Casey (the mother and talk about some narcissism with the name freakishness of Casey, grandma Cindy, I mean come on) was having a psychotic break like Andrea Yates which was horrifying, but at least she was out of her mind, this woman Casey is clearly just a sociopath. Every time I’d see her disgusting face on the news my stomach would turn. She just oozes manipulative, sociopathic, self-centered, self-indulgent slime bag. The pictures of that poor daughter are just heart breaking especially after having a daughter myself. Anyway, perhaps this was an attempt by the child’s spirit to communicate, or just a total coincidence. Either way it’s weird.

prabhat

dear sir, i went thru your analysis about -india pakistan war.i agree with you. transit of mars and rahu in capricorn –interchange of sun and saturn and presence of transit mercury in capricorn……indictions are horrifying….may lead to ANTHRAX BOMB and other such inhumane attacks. destiny cannot be altered. thnx and regards,and… see u in the dreams. bye http://www.astrokhare.com

Hi Prabhat,

It’s fascinating how both Vedic/Sideral astrology and Western/Tropical astrology use completely different systems, calculations, even planets and both come to similar conclusions. As my readers can see that Prabhat says, “destiny cannot be altered,” this is a common theme in Vedic astrology although westerners who practice Vedic astrology will argue that, Indian astrologers will not. I have studied both systems and I find that they are both accurate, however in the west we do have more ability to exercise our free will and therefore have more control of our destiny. The reality is that in India, marriages are arranged, and people are tracked toward a particular career, and although the cast system is outlawed, it still exists. People born in India do have to contend with fate in a much different way then we do in the west which is why I think Vedic astrology is so accurate for people in that part of the world, but less so for westerners. And why western astrology is much more accurate for us on this side of the globe.

They are both equally accurate and important despite the entirely different viewpoints, calculations, house systems, aspects, including planets, even the signs are different for example if you are an Aries in western astrology, unless you were born at the very end of that sign you’d be a Pisces. Pretty different yet both are accurate. The universe sure is complex and amazing.

grace43

Funny, my husband and I were talking about places he had lived that we would like to go back to. He has been longing to return to Italy for several days now. My kids also have an annoying toy that plays the alphabet song that’s been going off a lot lately. Unlike your baby’s toy, this one goes off at the drop of a hat. An interesting thing is that this fall before the election it was another toy that plays Peter and the Wolf went off constantly. Just out of curiousity, my 2 year old got out a deck of cards and completely crumpled the 8 of hearts, King of Diamonds and the Jack of Diamonds. What do these cards correspond with in the tarot? I thought she was destroying face cards because her older sister and I were playing Slap Jack earlier. Then I remembered, she thinks every card is a “slap jack”. She also pretty much destroyed a joker, but we give her the jokers to play with while we are playing other games, so I didn’t think much of it. I’m glad you’re feeling better. Congratulations on the book deal! Happy Holidays!

Hi Grace,

The 8 of hearts is the 8 of cups in the tarot. It means so many options that the person can’t decide what to do. Often there is an element of illusion involved in this card. The King of Diamonds is the King of Pentacles, and this is a tricky one because in order for Rider/Waite to publish the first tarot deck and honor their vows to the magical order they were involved in they had to switch certain cards to get around things. The King of Pentacles, most books will tell you, is an earth sign man, but according to the Brotherhood of Light, which is where I really learned the craft of reading (rather then just using them as clairvoyant jumping off points) the card is actually a Gemini male if it is right side up, and a Gemini woman if it is reversed.

The Jack of Diamonds is the Page of Pentacles which would actually be an Aquarian male right side up or an Aquarian female if reveresed. Again a book would tell you it was an earth sign, but it really isn’t. This little switch-a-roo is evident when you actually look at the cards, there are clues built into the illustrations.

 

Sag1999

Sorry, Denise, Sept. 7, 1630, from the blog I cited before was a more accurate date for the founding of Boston (not 11/17/1630). Please use the Sept date if you are doing the chart.

Hi Sag,

There are two charts I ran for Sept. 7 because I guess back in 1630 they were using a different calendar and my computer compensated for that putting the actual date at 9/17/1630 but just in case it was already compensated for, I ran a chart for Sept. 7, 1630 as well. The compensated chart has some tension with Mars conjuncting the part of fortune in Aries in the 8th house inconjuncting the Sun and Mercury. However you must bare in mind that these are both just solar charts so there maybe things going on in the chart of Boston that are hidden from me since we don’t have an exact time. In general though neither chart looks terrible. Hope that helps calm your fears. Below are the two solar charts.

Also I saw a few things I wanted to make sure no one missed, Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol’s, future mother-in-law was arrested for crank. That can’t be good for Mrs. Palin’s career – karma anyone? There has been a minor auto industry bail-out which I thought would happen earlier then this, they really dragged this one out. And there is an investigation that has been started by congress here’s a passage I found about it:

A bipartisan Senate report, issued on December 11, accuses Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials – including Condoleezza Rice – of being directly responsible for the abuse and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and other US prisons. It is the result of a two-year investigation conducted by the Senate Armed Services Committee under the direction of Democratic Senator Carl Levin and Republican John McCain, the former presidential candidate.

Although the report remains confidential, a 29 page summary was made public. It states that the source of the CIA’s resort to methods of “aggressive interrogation’ of terrorist suspects lay in Bush’s decision on February 7, 2002 that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to Taliban and Al Qaida prisoners. This opened the door for water-boarding (simulation of drowning), nudity, tying prisoners in stress positions for long periods and, of course, “extraordinary rendition”, that is to say the practice of sending prisoners abroad to be tortured in foreign countries on behalf of the United States.

Another critical report – not yet published but circulating among top officials in Washington – is a 513-page history of America’s lamentable yet highly-expensive failure at rebuilding Iraq after the devastation it caused in overthrowing Saddam. Entitled Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience, the report was compiled by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, led by Stuart Bowen, a Republican lawyer.

Also I’ve heard that Rumsfeld can’t go to certain countries because there are warrants for his arrest to be tried for war crimes. It has long been my prediction that this administration will be tried for war crimes by an international court, and that many, if not all will end up in prison. I’ve been saying that since we went into Iraq, and of course no one believed me. My friends and family have heard me rail on about this prediction for a long time now. So lets all do something positive and imagine the Bush administration and all their lacky’s behind bars. They deserve that times a billion.

All the lives lost, the death, destruction, tearing apart a soveirgn nation for what? Imbalancing the power in that region so that Iran has become a real threat, and making the Muslim population of the world hate us ten fold?

We know how many of our people have died. But how many innocent Iraqi people, men, women and children have died due to this arrogant, disgusting and perverted, vile, administration? They have been more like a gang of greedy psychopaths then a group of leaders.

Let’s not lie to ourselves and pretend the Bush administration is the first and only vile administration. There were others, one that springs to mine was old Hickory – Andrew Jackson, a real horror show with his trail of tears, or what we would now call ethnic cleansing.

It makes me angry that we Americans somehow think we are always the good guys, and that’s exactly how we become the bad guys — we forget to look at ourselves, that’s when we get into trouble. This is exactly why the patriotic BS after 9/11 was so destructive, as if criticizing the government was somehow anything other then those among us with a moral compass trying to keep our government on the straight and narrow.  

My great hope is for those out there who we have hurt or wounded, trampled on with our mighty power, or abandoned in their time of need, just know it is not us the people of the US, it is and has been our lame government. There are people here who care about the world, who understand we are not perfect and who believe we should rectify the mistakes we’ve made.

It’s important to remember there are good and bad people everywhere, and terrorism hurts only the innocent. It accomplishes nothing and is just an empty egomaniacal gesture and vein attempt at fleeting self-importance and world attention that leads directly to the dark side. There are no virgins awaiting you in paradise. Terrorism isn’t martyrdom. It’s the way of cowards killing innocent people because those terrorists are too small, cowardly and weak to take up arms against the real people in power who oppress them.

Martyrdom is serving, and helping your fellow human beings, feeding the hungry, saving the broken, not murdering innocent people. Mother Teressa was a martyr. Bin Laden was a (I have a strong feeling he’s dead now or  is in the process of dying) maladjusted lost soul looking to be important because his ego was weak, and just being wealthy wasn’t enough for him, he had to be important, even if that meant killing innocent human beings to feed his pathetic ego.

OK, sorry I got very angry there thinking about people who do such evil deeds in the name of religion or God. It literally drives me nuts. It’s absolutely the most vile thing, justifying murder via God. Horrible.

Anyway, on a lighter note, hope all are having a good weekend, and hopefully nothing crazy will happen over the next few days.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you good and wise readers,

Denise