We all have something we’re into, I’ve always been quite into astrology. I studied alone, usually whenever I had spare moments, and find I still always do. I’ve decided to finally make a career from it but not as an astrologer. I imagine we can all learn to read through our own charts and the experiences that we go through. It should realistically be something we should just know and understand.. or am I wrong to think that?
Astrologers are great to come by and I’ve had 2 short readings in my life but in all honesty never really felt comfortable trying to find an astrologer to read my chart. Quite skeptical of what others say, I would have to research it further myself, to a good extent too.
I feel what is more important is understanding our own chart and deciding what it means by studying what has been researched and understanding our own experiences through them. It would be in my opinion a good way for astrology to connect and grow, only we hold our charts and as such, should know the meaning of it. But then again we are all into different things so it may be wrong for me to think that way, but somewhere in my mind it almost seems possible like it is teaching maths or science to a child. If it is meant to be great otherwise we grow out of it but the basics of that knowledge stay stored somewhere in our brains for when we do need it. So is it really so far-fetched to think that it could be possible?
It ‘seems’ the view on astrology is somewhat changing, it has been quite misunderstood by most and still is by many, even the oldest astrologers.
The world lost touch with it as it became just a horoscope in the paper, and worse only a sun sign to go by. Of course, a high percentage of people probably will not relate. A lot of people even think that it is just the sun that astrologers look at and most of the people I have met only seem to know their sun sign and have no idea about their moon, ascendent, or other planets. Though this is great for people who study Astrology.
It is best that people do not follow astrology to make up their choices, life is in our own hands. It is only a small part of the biggest picture. How does one understand the whole picture without considering the details it took to create the picture, we cannot see what happens before a photo is taken, we only see the final result, but for that result to happen things had to happen before.
For example, The fruits on a tree are there and visible but what about all those roots under the ground we cannot see? Some of us have a great urge to uncover these hidden sources for further understanding of the whole and some will just be interested in the fruit and not question how it really came to grow there, but the reality is there are hundreds of roots which has played a part in the final result of the fruit.
Astrology has had its fair share of laughs and like many other things, still does. But understanding that is all part of it, we all need a good debate in the end. It would be boring if at this moment we were all only into one thing, with so much to learn more about? I use to be quite dismissive of things I found really uninteresting, let’s say when I was a teenager and through most of my 20s I really didn't like science fiction or any fiction-type film, I never liked Marvel. But when I started working from home and with more time on my hands I came to bring myself to give a science fiction film a watch, I can’t remember now which it was, but I remember I enjoyed it and couldn't believe how much I had been missing out on by dismissing it. I shocked myself because I really thought I could never get into it, it was more than a pleasant surprise when I did and it made me think what else haven’t I given a chance.
I guess it would be true to say, as humans we can brush off or make fun of things we don't understand or relate to, but after coming to realise just that we open a new part of us we never really knew.
At some point, we may come to understand something in a new light, one which we never thought we would and it’ll provoke other thoughts you never thought you would think.
When I really took the time to look into other forms of astrology, I discovered it to be the most intriguing topic I have yet to come across. Even though I had been studying it for years, maybe because I did alone, I knew I could never really fully grasp it all but still enjoyed taking my time to try, there was more I wanted to understand about it and there always will be with astrology, it is a never-ending research.
Now we have the internet, which in reality has not been around all that long. I remember being about 10 and having to unplug the phone line to access the internet and when I did, all I could find was a dancing baby to keep me entertained. Now, thankfully Internet has vastly improved, it’s way more appealing and information is free to be exchanged, talked about, challenged and corrected if needed. It is also a lot more appealing to work with. We have access to a really wide range of old and new knowledge that was not possible to share the way it can be today, this has opened new doors for astrology which is great for furthering research and understanding. We could even see Scientists and Astrologers come together in the future one day.. or maybe that is my imagination gone a bit too far.
We are all into different things which is what makes part of this world most worthy for us, with so much to learn from one another. We humans are full of curiosity and are all in some way trying to comprehend what on earth we are all doing here. I too understand some are just trying to survive and there is much to be improved in terms of a more humane life for all living things.
The world is far from perfect, we all know that. We all wish (I hope) that it would be better but are we prepared, do we share the same vision of perfect. Not really, we go through lessons and some feel right to us, others feel really unfair. Do we find beauty in it after? I guess we have no choice to in the end, even in our own mistakes.
We do learn from experience and in the deepest possible ways, for example, we have to suffer to one day figure out all the ways in which we can prevent that suffering, otherwise, how will we if we have not experienced and understood it in all its forms and ways. This takes more than a long time to cover, and why hurry with so much to learn and create. We haven't even begun to grasp our fullest potentials.
I’ve come to realise that I do like astrology but what I enjoy more is understanding why it all works the way it does. It is quite the mixture of psychology, science, maths and philosophy. It has done well to provoke my thoughts and opened a new way of thinking but more importantly, it has given me an endless source of interesting observations to think about.