posted April 22, 2018 03:11 PM            

The other astrologer I used was for rectification.

posted April 23, 2018 04:06 PM            

I had just begun an interest in astrology. I knew some of the language, the basics.

It was 'excellent' to have a professional do the reading. It taught me what is involved when you read.

{{I would highly recommend it if you were interested in giving readings some day. You'll "catch" some tips.}}

Charts are flat. You can get free computerized readings, or compile your own through copy-paste.

As Aries23Degrees was saying, if you already have a good grasp of astrology, you could compile and objectively 'read it out loud to yourself' on an audio recording device, then "listen" to your information.

However, there's a benefit to a "personal" reading with someone who is a 'seasoned' {in age} individual, well-experienced-- and someone who has good instincts about people.

I had two readings with a man (now deceased) who had done readings for (?)40 years.

Even though I can be a lively (life of the party) talkative Gemini (when it's needed, or, if "under-the-influence" of chatty Transits! LOL), I have a super-deep part of me that feels painfully invisible.

I have a wide-range of feelings and emotions that I'll use as I interact socially with others.... Making sure they feel included, noticed, comfortable.

However, in a way, for some people, I am harder to get to know, inwardly? I am deeply reserved inwardly (though, if someone were extra perceptive, they would just-know that about me).

During my first reading, the astrologer read the information from some kind of script he used.

It was the 'little interactions' that occurred during the relationship-experience over the phone that mattered. In both readings, that interaction was worth the price.

Also, one time I was having a 'melt-down' when it suddenly HIT me that transiting NEPTUNE (new in Pisces) was SLOWLY going to be squaring my Sun "for... EVUH!!!"

Laughing at myself so hard here. Yes. I've seen others at LL who 'suddenly' came to the realization that SOME outer planet transits last YEARS.

I was sooooo SHOCKED that I actually called him to express that!

I NEVER abused calling him up. (That was the ONLY 'spontaneous' call in-between readings?)

In fact too-- I remember the 'shock' that he answered his own phone himself. I didn't get an answering service when dialed his number. HE answered, immediately.

Now I know how silly this is...
Took much courage to call.
When HE answered, I was sooo flustered, shocked, and awkward, that I QUICKLY blurted that I liked his work, thank you, then quickly got off the phone so I didn't tie him up unduly. .... He was REALLY nice.

When I had my finances together, I called him again to make the appointment.

I was nervous as hell.

After some brief breaking-the-ice kind of convo, there was a silence. He was looking at the natal chart. ...

Then, I heard him say in the softest, most benefic compassionate tones -- almost as though he was only making a commentary, not expecting me to answer (rhetorical).

He said, with inflection of an 'omg'.
"What happened... in that house... between you and your mother?..."

In a haunting impressive peculiar kind of way it was as though he could SEE me, and some of the impact this life had had on me.
(I had an abusive mother.)

It was almost as though he could 'voice' things for me that were too painful to find words to say (in that moment).

I've got tears just remembering that moment now (aw ~silly?).

Nah... must be the sky's Jupiter retro in Scorpio trining Neptune in Pisces now. -- Those make trines (~wide) to my Jupiter Cancer and the other Cancerian energies in my chart in H8.

I've had a hard life. It's been exquisitely painful, in so many ways.

With him 'just witnessing my life' by seeing my natal chart and 'knowing' without my having given him ANY info about me, I can say it was a POWERFUL experience of having been 'seen.' ..

It was a form of validation of the things I had kept to myself, in denial that it had happened to me.

The second reading I had with him 6 months later went into more depth.

So.
Some years went by.
I couldn't afford readings anymore.

,,,

If you are into astrology, and you DO have funds, then go for it.

posted April 23, 2018 05:09 PM            

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Originally posted by Aries23Degrees:
I had an astrologer do a reading. But I was not that impressed by them as it was nothing out of the ordinary from what I had read online.

The other astrologer I used was for rectification.

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Same experience. I found online software was much better.

I wish they had some kind of Astrology certification or Astrology board just to confirm that the person practicing astrology on a commercial basis is up to some standard.

That way you know the person reading your birth chart actually knows what there doing. Instead of "some bozo that just opened shop".

I did meet a genuine psychic, she became my best female friend (I'm a guy) and she's still guiding me.