Hello once again. I am definitely finding the audio recording process very much to my liking, so here is a new recording for my latest blog entry.
A little background for this recording should be helpful. I do have a Facebook account and through that account I found an
Astrology Bloggers group. This group is an excellent resource for professional astrologers who want a "teacher's lounge" and for serious students of Astrology. Novice visitors would likely find the discussions difficult to follow without a very solid foundation in Astrology jargon and theory. A member of the group, actually the founder, Jeffrey Kishner, recently posed this question: What do you think is "behind" astrology?
My written answer to the group was: Astrology, for me, is a very useful explanatory model, depending, of course, on which model you take up (Tropical, Sidereal, Cosmobiological, and so on). What's "behind it" ... all of the above and anything that is added next? I see the actual practice as a comparison of narratives. Clients come to me filled with narratives and ask me to read their chart, which is another narrative. We compare the narratives and see where that "takes" the client. How does the narrative of the chart reading fit against/with the narrative of the client (especially around common narratives like romance, work, health, and spirituality). Does the reading reinforce/support the existing narrative and leave the client feeling, "I'm on the right track" or does it challenge the client, "wow, I've got a bit more work to do, don't I?" Astrology trumps psychology for me because the language is, honestly, more beautiful, romantic, engaging, heroic, humanistic, juicy, and any other adjectives that describe, or are used, to describe/write a great story. Intuitively, I believe people are drawn to Astrology because its all about the outlier and the individual, its all about them and not statistical groupings.
