posted July 06, 2006 06:11 PM              

Just wanted to know if any of you have sometimes felt cursed by Astrology??? By that I mean, do you ever find yourself mentally "charting" people that you meet based upon their looks, demeanor, and so on?

OR, once you know their birth information, are you quick to compose a chart to see how they may or may not fit with you?

And if so, has it ever come back to bite you, because instead of letting nature take its course, your knowledge of Astrology and their birth chart possibly influenced and/or alterered the outcome?

Just wondering,

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Tanae'

posted July 06, 2006 10:08 PM              

I ususally ask people their b-days when I meet them. (after I feel them out a bit. I have gotten a few bad reactions from people. The closeminded, such a waste at times huh?) If i get to know someone alot better I may push for the rest of their birth info.

posted July 07, 2006 12:47 AM            

Can I ask you the degrees of your Sun and Moon?

AG

posted July 07, 2006 01:05 AM              

Welcome to Linda-Land!

Yes, I know exactly what you mean!! There's always the risk of becoming an "astrological bigot" if you're not careful, lol.

Btw, just noticed that you, AcousticGod, & I all seem to have some pretty similar astrological placements.

We all have Virgo/Cap suns, Virgo/Cap moons, and Air risings.

GLLF

Asc: Aquarius
Sun: Capricorn
Moon: Virgo

posted July 07, 2006 11:59 AM              

I think this is a danger if you believe that astrology is about a "fated" answer and, if you understand astrology you will understand what will happen in your own and everybody else's life. But if you are open to astrology as a description of energies we have and how those energies interact with others, with each of us deciding how to use our own energies best for ourselves, then astrology can be very empowering for us and we can help those around us develop their power through our astrological knowledge.

Long-windedly,

Tim

posted July 09, 2006 04:06 PM              

Acoustiic God, from the chart I constructed my degrees are:

Asc: 17 degrees Libra
Sun: 22 degrees Virgo
Moon: 27 degrees Capricorn

Wilsontc, the link you gave is GREAT!!! I've been reading Joanna Woolfolks "The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need" and its been helpful to me in interpreting my chart.

Most appreciative,

posted July 10, 2006 06:32 PM            

My good friend, a Capricorn / Leo rising asked if I felt there were environmental aspects that could influence and person's traits. I said "ABSOLUTELY"!! It depends on where the person was born, their family influence and their social mores.

I likened an astro chart to the blue-print of a house. A person knows where the pipes, walls, appliances will go - they may even know the entire layout of the house BUT... what is not known is how that person will decorate the inside, what kind of colors will be used on the walls, what about the landscaping or the painting on the exterior walls.

posted July 10, 2006 06:36 PM              

Free will... it can change everything**

posted July 11, 2006 12:50 AM              

You said:

quote:

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Wilsontc, the link you gave is GREAT!!!...My chart seems to basically say, that at this moment, I'm not living up to the full potential that my life may have in store for me

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I am pleased that the link is helpful to you! And, now that you know that you have more "potential" to you, perhaps you might want to use astrology to find out what exactly that "potential" is and then begin using it!

Here is a sliver of sunshine: You have Jupiter (expansion, also opportunity) conjunct (energy is combined with) Descendant (others), so you may find your opportunities through others around you.

Astronomically yours,

posted July 11, 2006 06:26 PM              

I did interpret from my chart that my success and/or financial gain is to come through partnership and/or marriage, but could you tell me what you know about planets that are in mutual reception?

I read that they argur strength and luck in a birth chart... For me they are Moon in Capricorn in the 4th House and Saturn in Cancer in the 10th House.

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Tanae'

posted July 12, 2006 12:53 AM              

Mutual receptions are "exchanges" of planetary energy. The "astro-sentence" (see Step 5 in the link below) makes this clear. In the example you gave:

Capricorn (duty) modifies Moon (home)
Cancer (home) modifies Saturn (duty)

Notice how each "exchanges" energy with each other:
duty --> home
home --> duty

So BOTH home and duty are emphasized in this chart and home and duty re-emphasize each other: energy given to duty becomes energy given to home becomes energy given to duty becomes energy given to home becomes energy given to duty becomes energy given to home becomes energy given to duty...are you dizzy yet?

Receptively,

Tim

posted July 12, 2006 06:03 PM              

Much obliged,

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Tanae'

posted July 13, 2006 12:41 AM              

Thank you for the compliment! My Sun, Moon, and Ascendant are all in Virgo.

Multi-virgonically,

Tim

posted July 16, 2006 01:35 PM              

As for being cursed by astrology, I DO understand your question and I've thought about this A LOT TOO over many years !!

To me, there's a way to deal with it internally within yourself, and there's also a way to frame it within a larger historical picture.

When you feel this sense of "curse", perhaps because you feel like you've looked through a peephole and saw something you're not sure you should have seen ... why do you think that is? Do you think it's a universal human challenge when it comes to questioning the unknown? Is it lonely to feel like you may be the only one out in leftfield who knows what you know?

Then there's the bigger picture, basically I mean, a transcendence from Polytheism to a one God union. When the volcano erupts, you try to appease the "god of volcano". When lightening strikes, you try to appease the "god of lightening", etc. It's not the volcano or the lightening which is in itself good or bad, but how they shape us as human beings.

If someone had a disease or damaged body parts, they might have eliminated them from society all together by killing them off because they may have been a burden or an embarrassment. They started cutting in the brain to see what would happen LONG AGO. But is the brain to blame?

Eventually, all these things come to an apex. There's a constant feeling of dissatisfaction in our lives motivating us to understand what our own role is among all this fear and destruction. There's the "one", the "center" of us, one God which is entitled to adopt all these compartmentalized parts of us into one cohesive form.

What you do with it is up to you. If you open my skull and look at my brain, are you really looking at me?

Some people are jugglers and quite good at it. Some of us juggle and drop everything once in a while. Some don't want to juggle, and prefer to find that one main theme which runs through everything.

To me THAT'S the goal when attempting to understand and incorporate astrological knowledge in our lives. Don't know if that made any sense ...

We are constantly in the process of understanding ourselves. How astrology will eventually be incorporated into your life and how it takes form may never be something which can be predicted. How's THAT for a mind f*k?

posted July 17, 2006 08:43 PM              

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Tanae'