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Friday, November 27, 2009

Approaching the Astrologer - Part 2 of 3

There is one other way whereby you don’t need to give your birth particulars and that would be when you use the services of a “horary” astrologer. Obviously this is a professional astrologer who is adept at using a special branch of astrology called Horary Astrology. That’s where you ask a very specific question and you get a very specific answer to that question on the spot. But that horoscope cannot be used for anything else. But even these professional astrologers report that their horary techniques are used best when used in conjunction with a reliable birth chart.

Going further back now remember your personal sign that you normally refer to in the news and magazines and normally refer to yourself as? Well really it’s not very personal. What you’ve always called your personal sign is what astrologers call your Sun Sign. No real astrologer uses this. But this is what people generally use and refer to at party chats. It’s anything but personal. The sun occupies a zodiacal sign for a whole month. So what this kind of sun sign astrology says is if the sidereal sun occupies the general zodiac sign Capricorn between 15 January and 15 February and you were born anywhere between those dates just like a few million other people then you are all Capricorn people. This is technically true. But what is wrong is to think that you and your millions of other Capricorn siblings all behave precisely like how a Capricorn should and should exhibit similar Capricorn attributes and go through the typical life experiences that a Capricorn should. It is this basic assumption that has put real astrology to shame. The popularity of this uneducated assumption is the continued cause of the “educated” people’s general argument against astrology. You need to know that nothing so oversimplified and general can offer anything so precise and individualistic.

If you want to know the specifics of your own life then you need to get the astrologer to work on your personal chart (there cannot be another similar one; with the exception of twins). And you only get the best of this when you give your personal birth particulars. These are the important things you will normally hear pertaining to the technical aspects of your personal birth chart:

Your Ascendant

This is the single most important thing in real personal astrology. Everything revolves around where this little thing is placed in your personal horoscope. It’s also called your Rising Point or in Sanskrit your Lagna.

Your Planetary Longitudes

These are the astronomical positions of the planets in the zodiac at the precise moment of your birth. The sun and moon are luminaries but also included together with some other factors which are not planets but considered significant in the astrological scheme of things; such as the asteroids moon’s nodes and some other sensitive “points” as a result of unique astrological formula.

Your M/C I/C and your Descendant

These your Medium Coeli Idium Coeli Descendant and together with your Ascendant earlier form the crucial “angles” that astrologers find to be very important in every horoscope.

The Progressions

These are astrological (not astronomical) techniques that “project” your zodiac to certain ages in life and form part of the astrologer’s “predictive” inventory.

The Transits

These are the “real” or actual positions of the physical planets for any given time. If the astrologer says something like “Transiting Pluto is going to hit your natal Mars next year…” then it means that the physically moving Pluto will be positioning itself to settle on the exact degree in the zodiac where Mars was during your birth. And of course that would trigger off a certain “prediction”.

And a crucial thing you need to know is that there are basically two schools of astrology; the sidereal and the tropical. However all of the above still apply to both schools. The school that is normally used in the west is typically tropical while the one used in the east is typically sidereal. The former deals a lot with how character breeds destiny and how self-knowledge and astrological foresight can offer some amount to changing a destiny that you don’t like. The latter deals a lot with what they think is a destiny that is almost absolute and unchangeable as if written by some gods for you. This of course is a simplistic description. Good modern astrology students make it a point to learn the good essentials of all systems available.

About the author: Dr Agni has been using astrology for 37 years and has taught astrology for free since 1986, every week, till today. He is adviser to the Institute of Astrological Science, Malaysia, with its website at http://astrologyuniversitymalaysia.com

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