posted January 16, 2017 08:13 AM            

In Personal Readings, I have to bump my own thread after Randall has already bumped it multiple times in order to get at least one response, one that may/may not be a good response at all. It's absolutely frustrating having to go into Personal Readings to see that my thread is ignored because people are into tarot cards more than actually reading charts. I think it interferes with those who do post charts, because they get so little responses. Ask for a tarot reading though and be able to exchange, and you'll be set.

That's why I have to post questions here regarding my chart at times; nobody gives a crap about reading your chart in personal readings. Astrology 2.0 is a different story.

posted January 16, 2017 08:16 AM            

For this one reason I agree personal chart would be better here with luck you get one response there,while here you get much,much more.

posted January 16, 2017 08:25 AM            

If you post a chart in Personal Readings, please specify that you've posted a chart. If you just ask a question, people will assume it's a tarot request.

Also there aren't many people on the forum who regularly try and do readings. I'm guessing that most of us don't feel competent enough. Then it falls on just a few people to do the work. That's exhausting and also a thankless job, since there will be complaints that some were ignored.

posted January 16, 2017 09:02 AM            

Also, in IA or Personal Readings - sometimes people attempt a reading and the thread dies. The original poster doesn't come back with feedback or comments. If this happens a lot, people think, why bother?

We have some professional astrologers here and some equally good non-professional ones. However, like Faith said, a lot of us don't feel competent enough to offer a reading per se. We do offer opinions though, as and when we can. That's a good learning experience for both parties (provided they participate).

posted January 16, 2017 09:05 AM            

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Originally posted by MilaBirkin:
I'm sorry if this is unrespectful, I don't want it to be like that, It's just a suggestion that can be ignored as well. And if It's unrespectful please forgive me.

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Don't worry about it, you're not being disrespectful. It sucks to not get responses! I get it.

posted January 16, 2017 09:21 AM            

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Originally posted by Elysia:
We do offer opinions though, as and when we can. That's a good learning experience for both parties (provided they participate).

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Yes, I think what a lot of people are seeking is actually a conversation. For me, astrology is most enjoyable as a conversation. "Oh I see the moon is here and aspecting this and that...so does that feel like ____?" It's a learning experience for the reader, and an invitation for the chart person to explore some issues.

It's harder when someone asks about the future, because there isn't as much potential for feedback or verification. That's why Solar Return charts are among the hardest to read, in my opinion.

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Originally posted by Elysia:
Maybe if more people would take a stab at it. i.e. offer opinions on any part of it, doesn't have to be a full reading. That would be nice. People who post readings can also post opinions on other people's threads. Participation is a two-way street.

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posted January 16, 2017 08:47 PM            

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Originally posted by Faith:

ETA: Tarot readings are usually done as exchanges, and that balances out the work. It would be nice if people tried to do a chart reading for each one they request from others. Nobody's going to monitor that, but it would be nice, on principle.

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I second this. We should have separate Personal Readings threads for both astro and tarot - and if people should label the threads as exchanges, and if someone is new to astrology and really feel like they can't offer an exchange, they should specify that on the thread title.

I mean people do get free chart readings via Astrology 2.0 - they just don't post the chart and ask something in their chart, but reword it so it's more general sounding...but I think we'd all learn more as astrologers this way b/c we can get practice from each other. Randall pretty please?

posted January 17, 2017 09:07 AM            

Or, when someone does try to offer their interpretation, the person isn't satisfied or goes on and on and on.

I feel like people should just be happy if someone attempts to help you out.

posted January 17, 2017 09:23 AM            

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Originally posted by aquagembaby:
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at first i was hesitant to attempt to interpret people's charts in Personal Readings, but surprisingly i started enjoying it more and more

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posted January 17, 2017 09:41 AM            

i would only move something out of this forum if someone started talking about their dog for example. "agh my dog got out today"

or "hey guys i flew my kite today".

but if its related to astrology, and the person is not new to the site, then they probably wanted to post in this forum. no one goes to asteroid astrology, only like 3 people. but theres a lot to talk about vesta, ceres, pallas, if those came up on here, it would be interesting.

although not interested in all the small ones. not many people go to vedic forum, but if vedic astrlogy sometimes came up in this forum, i bet there would be several replies. cause there is an odd or so person out of every 15-20 that might know a bit of it.

posted January 17, 2017 10:23 AM            

simply because of personal policy of trying to structurize the forum a certain way (reply on every thread)

posted January 17, 2017 10:28 AM            

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Originally posted by Electro DGX:
Randall usually moves threads because they're posted in the wrong forums (such as synastry threads in Astrology 2.0). A member here actually posted in Astrology 2.0 asking people to stop posting synastry threads here and to post them in Interpersonal Astrology, to which people complained that no one replies there.

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If everyone who complains starts pitching in replying there, we will solve the problem fast.

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posted January 17, 2017 10:32 AM            

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Originally posted by Faith:
If everyone who complains starts pitching in replying there, we will solve the problem fast.

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posted January 17, 2017 10:35 AM            

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Originally posted by soren:
faith, those are old-school threads. i think it was the pisces energy that made people simply list aspects, as well as not as in touch with current techno.

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They may be old school, but they still happen quite a bit. If you click around in IA, you will see what I mean. And notice, those are the ones I don't reply to.

posted January 17, 2017 10:45 AM            

if you dont have either, you will retain fixivity and think, 'why bother?' meanwhile a mutable sign is actively pursing new things just because that's how they are.