posted April 01, 2017 12:02 AM            

See the thing is, Astrology has been dead on accurate for me and at first it was fun and exciting but as time has gone on, it's become depressing.

Everyone just comes off as totally predictable now. I see a current transit coming for someone and automatically I will know how they will behave during that transit.

For instance, my girl has transit mars in her 8th house. Her sex drive has been insatiable as of late and we are having sex everyday but the funny thing is she doesn't really have a high sex drive but now...she does. What the heck? Why now? Is it transit mars in the 8th house? I believe so. She even admitted to me she doesn't even know where the sudden spike of lust has come from. And this is where I start getting sad. Once her transit is over, she'll be back to normal I know she will. Wanting sex only once a week.

I guess I like life spontaneous and not predictable.

I've tried just giving astrology a break or even walking away from it completely but I just keep coming back.

posted April 01, 2017 02:18 AM            

Of course, you shouldn't use astrology to the point where you overdo it. And I don't look into transits THAT deeply, I mean I do check them but only to know the general themes that will be coming up in my life

I use it mainly to discover people's personalities (and my own). It's like psychology and I find it fascinating.

posted April 01, 2017 03:23 AM            

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Originally posted by Gemini30:
I sure as heck am feeling that now. Ever since I got into astrology, I feel like it has taken me to a very lonely place.

See the thing is, Astrology has been dead on accurate for me and at first it was fun and exciting but as time has gone on, it's become depressing.

Everyone just comes off as totally predictable now. I see a current transit coming for someone and automatically I will know how they will behave during that transit.

For instance, my girl has transit mars in her 8th house. Her sex drive has been insatiable as of late and we are having sex everyday but the funny thing is she doesn't really have a high sex drive but now...she does. What the heck? Why now? Is it transit mars in the 8th house? I believe so. She even admitted to me she doesn't even know where the sudden spike of lust has come from. And this is where I start getting sad. Once her transit is over, she'll be back to normal I know she will. Wanting sex only once a week.

I guess I like life spontaneous and not predictable.

I've tried just giving astrology a break or even walking away from it completely but I just keep coming back.

Anyone else feel the same way?

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Are you sure you know how everything, and everyone, is going to work out?

posted April 01, 2017 05:34 AM            

I started studying Astrology when I was 10.

I will be 24 this year.

I am obsessed and can't help but use it all day every day.

You can't unlearn something but knowledge IS power..which isn't always good if it gets out of control (hint hint).

I used to check transits down to the exact second every day at least 5 times just to see when planets exactly go EXACT and how it effects me. I was my own experiment.. that is until Astro removed the 'current' option under the date on the website.

I wish I would've never got into Astrology because all of us who study it were once completely happy and living normal lives without. I can guarantee our relationships felt a lot freer too. I see so many people living peacefully unaware of this magnificent subject and I truly envy them. Like you mentioned, it was fun for awhile but now it's depressing.

I've tried to just drop Astrology for good and not think about it but I can't yet.

The interesting thing is, most of the people who aren't into Astrology and know nothing about synastry, charts, etc are in relationships with people who they have the worst synastries and/ or composites with. It's mind-blowing because we spend so much time on forums, websites, research, etc when your Gemini next door neighbor is happily married to that Capricorn man.

I do believe the answer is always in Astrology somewhere but our human intelligence is limited. We can pick a part charts all day long but there are transits and free will also. We can make educated guesses based off previous lknowledge, experience, and education but no one can predict the outcome of anything. Life is already unpredictable, Astrology aside. Astrology is not the only answer.

posted April 01, 2017 07:53 AM            

I however don't see how astrology can be a hindrance to a happy relationship. If anything, it could theoretically explain why an attraction/issues exist. But it nevet gets "predictable" at all for me.

Going " back" would be like reading a chapter of a book, expanding your experience with that book and then wishing to go back to ignorance?😕 You just can't.

I can however understand the reservations when it comes to transits.The change that is anticipated and the subsequent fear that accompanies certain planets etc.

But even in that, its not wholly bad. The predictions are more speculative than specific. More generic in perspective than personally detailed.

So if u feel it too "predictable", my guess would be that you would be closer to letting it go? Unless what u mean is that it has gotten to a point where u feel it "inevitable"- making the spontaneity lost.

I am into living life from a conscious point of view. So even with my Moon being in Cancer, you would think that I would be attracted to water moons consistently. That is not so.

And your gf's Mars in 8th is great for you guys now. You should be happy about that- as it is not always Mars in 8th that increases ones sex drive ya know.

posted April 01, 2017 08:18 AM            

Because astrology offers a keyhole into an orderly view of the cosmos, even life that is non-judgmental, many of us find ourselves drawn to it in near unrelenting fashion. However, it is good to take breaks from it. I have done so even as a professional. Breaks 9 months to a year long. It cuts the narrowed view of obsession that can become unhealthy. Many of us study astrology in obsessive fashion, part of how we get good at it and learn it by heart.

If it seems to make things boring and predictable, then I suggest you take up an alternate interest to pursue when taking breaks from attention on astrology. Maybe another intellectual interest or personal discipline that you feel puts you into the cosmic/metaphysical flow of things.

posted April 01, 2017 03:16 PM            

And since I got into astrology originally to get to know myself and others better (potentially to get more true relationships with others) it has in fact been a failure, cause I don't think learning about astrology got me more friends...I think its healthier to get to know people, relying on your own judgement and feelings, instead of listening too much to what the stars tells you.

posted April 01, 2017 03:53 PM            

Unfortunately, while I'm not bored of astrology, I am seeing patterns everywhere and these patterns often have predictable outcomes or similarities that take the fun out of just enjoying stuff. It's not even that I try to pick up on them. My brain just automatically does it and right now I'm having to figure out how to enjoy life again and experience new things. Granted, I'm probably just in one of my "boredom" phases that'll go away on its own.

posted April 01, 2017 04:07 PM            

It is good when you are having the worst years of your life and see the transits causing this- it is comforting to know that these aspects won't last forever and there are good times ahead.. but it's bad when you're having the times of your life and see a dozen of horrible aspects are on the horizon. The moment is spoiled.

Also, checking the synastry - composite with other people; even though you keep telling yourself aspects do not determine the future of a relationship, I can't help but eliminate people from your life because of what ý see in these charts. My very best friend - 30 years of friendship- we have bad composite/synastry. If I'd knew astrology when we first met, I would not have been friends with her.. Awful...

posted April 01, 2017 04:38 PM            

I swear!!!! I must have been an old astronomer-astrologer Monk in some past life?

I have a profound Love for God, while having a very very keen interest in astrology.

Some say that the two can't coexist in the same world of interests, and I keep trying to reconcile these, back and forth.

Actually, I give a lot of credit to my interest in astrology to helping me recover my mental health back at a time when the 'system' had failed me quite miserably.

It gave my ptolemiac unaspected Gemmy Sun --
(trine Astrowizard/ Astropis/ Hygeia/ Harmonia Libra),
{trine Chiron-rx Aqua);
and my busy voracious mind-(thinking) --
with a Gemmy Mercury
(trine Urania-Neptune,
btw, with tMercury transiting ON these when I printed my first natal chart);
a way to analyze my own self --
with a very analytical (and caring sextile Uranus-Cancer) Virgo Moon,
by giving me an inner-outer symbolic language to latch on to, and 'make sense' of everything that had happened, and 'why' --

(In a light kind of way, it was like the movie {The Miracle Worker} about deaf-blind-(~mute at first) Helen Keller, who finally 'grasped' the connection of water to w-a-t-e-r, and gained a fluid expressive language as an interface between her deep self and the world outside of her).

I wear eyeglasses in order to see the things in my environment.
Astrology provided me with an interface in much the same way. It took astrology-symbolic language, and wonderful work of yt vidders, to help me bring my life back together, as far as it has.

I was very very lucky at the time I got into astrology, to have had some live (phone) key readings by a professional astrologer, who described my past sooooo darn spooky accurately (with such compassion in his voice). And who TOLD me deliberately to BE selfish... that I am not selfish-enough.
(He said he had never had the inkling to tell another client that.... but his advice to me, said it would be important for me to "ACT" out what MY version of selfishness would be.)
*crying today! LOL, and so grateful to EVERY life that ever had an input into my life*

I might still have a LONG way to go-- AND, I am sooo grateful for HOW FAR I was able to come, from where I had been.

posted April 01, 2017 04:50 PM            

(I recently had my Eros-Return... super ~strange when that happens! It's a romantic part of my chart? w/~asteroids)

posted April 01, 2017 05:47 PM            

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posted April 01, 2017 11:50 PM            

Gemini30... Another thing that can turn sexual appetites on and off is Vesta. Vesta transits, Vesta Returns.

She's wrapping up a long transit in Cancer right now, 3rd deconate, and heading back for Leo (where she had retrograded from earlier).

One of the areas she is associated with, is the ways we use personal sexual energy.

Maybe even a certain period of time feeling a bit alienated sexually for a while.