Hudson Valley Astrologer

Thomas Moore wrote Care of the Soul in 1992. He meant for it to be, as the subtitle suggests, “A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life. It was a haymaker, hitting no. 1 on The New York Times, a blend of self-help and psychology. True to yesterday’s post, the book exemplified a sign for the times: Pluto in Scorpio, and the ensuing change that comes through deepening.

To my astonishment I learned, many years after reading Care of the Soul, that Moore also wrote a little gem of a book 2 years earlier, in 1990, called The Planets Within. It was the story of a 15th-century Italian philosopher, astrologer, and priest, which explores the “Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino”.

In 2008, at the height of the Global Financial Crisis, Moore published Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born To Do.

Moore is a writer, he’s written 30 books, after transitioning from practicing psychotherapy for 16 years. Much of his perspective is fueled by a deep sense of narrative identity, and the need as human beings to tell our story; our stories link to what is spiritual and soulful, connecting us on our journey to those who surround us. Life at Work does this with acute perspicacity and such entrainment with the zeitgeist of the day, that one wonders what his next book will be titled (ahh! Just looked it up! It’s to be called We’ll Never Be Fragile Again…) Thomas Moore certainly seems to be “reading the tea leaves.”

In my work, the horoscope provides an outline of the story of the life to be told. It is not the astrologer’s story, but the client’s story (some astrologers are still learning this point). The symbols represent a wide spectrum of potential, that until an individual’s will attends to the fates, the future remains unknown. Telling our stories, sincerely disclosing significant life events that have changed us, can bring perspective, and healing. At a soul level this kind of discussion also coincides with unlocking future potential and possibilities often in spite of what astrology traditionally has to say on a matter, for example referring to a certain principle as “malefic”. The old ways of astrology, not to mention psychotherapy, are filled with boogeymen. Bringing astrology to life through a therapeutic discussion of the past, a focused awareness of the present, and an understanding of cycles that can invite a new future potential and possibility is really the whole point: to reclaim a holistic sense of connectedness, spirit, and soulfulness that joins us all together as one.

HVA

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