Tag: Consciousness
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Astrology and Personal Growth: A Holistic Approach
The history of the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction shows significant shifts, coinciding with intellectual and spiritual breakthroughs. The self-help culture, while emphasizing personal development, often falls short of sustained effort required for true transformation. Deliberate practice and consistent effort are essential for growth. Astrologers should adopt a circumspect approach, avoiding mistaking correlations for causation.
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Eclipse Your Present
Know that you are light and that your lived experience coincides with a quality of time in accordance with its own measure. In a sense the eclipse is merely a New Moon, but it’s no doubt a special kind of New Moon which aligns the Sun, Moon, and Earth at the same latitude. It happens…
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A Most Beautiful Story
XII Commentaries My notes on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s Commentaries. Please see footnote for information on the source of this essay or go to the source: The Magical Carousel. The Magical Carousel reaches an apotheosis in chapter 12, and while the action closes the chapter in one book, it simultaneously opens an entirely new book. In the enormous…
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Illumined
“… the point of these notes is simply for my own edification, and to point seekers in a new direction that they might be open to if pedestrian disputes about methods of astrology have become a bore.”
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Peak Consciousness
“This is the true purpose of astrology: to reveal the inherent law of all these dimensions. To use the art for the prediction of the smaller details of life is an incomplete adaptation and can never give really satisfying results, for this is not the true purpose of astrology, its own inherent truth, or dharma.”…
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Solar Ingress into Sagittarius
My Notes on The Magical Carousel by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, chapter ninth, Sagittarius.1 The Higher Mind Moving quickly into the land of Sagittarius, the shallow waters and fiery fog fade into the background, leaving certain death behind. The centaur lets out a belly laugh that is half mockery, half bumptious, and reveling in the delight of…
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Long Live the King
V Commentaries My notes on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s Commentaries. Please see footnote for information on the source of this essay, or simply go to the source: The Magical Carousel. Many spiritual traditions rely on the motif of “sacred mysteries”, namely some trinity that follows the progression of Father, Mother, and Child. The pattern is useful in…
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The Message of the Zodiac
“Most soul work is superficial, unenlightened, ‘slumbering consciousness’.”
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The Astrologer’s Way Part IV
Any approach applied with skill will produce a good outcome if the Astrologer understands how the horoscope is constructed. One of the first distinctions astrologers make in constructing a horoscope is to understand the difference between the “sidereal” time given in the ephemeris and the time indicated on the finished chart. Essentially the difference relates…
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Battle of Midway
Deciding to quite the day job is battle within! Know your preparedness! Are you ready? Willing? Able?
Hudson Valley Astrologer 