Michael O’Connor’s Sunstar Astrology Monthly Newsletter for November 2006

  November will prove extra exciting this month for us all! The planetary pace seems to be quickening along with the rest of reality. Big drums are beating in the background. The future is rolling in faster than usual and some significant curves and turns are just ahead. Learn more about it from my Astro Weather update for this month on my site in UPDATES. I hope you will enjoy the new layout and please send me any feedback about the synchronicities you experience.

  While ‘our future is infinitely bright’ (Chinese Proverb) it is useful and hopefully enjoyable to cruise along with more awareness and attunement with the Ch’i flow, as Tao suggests. The binary code of Yin and Yang pervade the Universe from the stars to computers to you and me. This basis of understanding is a key to all metaphysics where duality and polarity processes are mapped out, like an Astrology Chart which is cast for the moment a person takes their first breath at birth measuring the time of day and the season and the placement of the Sun, Moon and other moving lights called Planets. How natural is that? It is all very natural.

  Of course, there are other maps, your hands hold maps on them and Palmistry works according to the rules of the science that it is. Your eyes are maps that truly mirror your soul. Iridology is a Map of the Eye that measures your entire physiology assisting healers in their diagnostic and prognostic efforts. Rayid is what I call the psychological counterpart to Iridology in that it is also a map which is used to look at the same eyes yet from a different perspective or map system and as is able to tell a great deal about you and your basic character traits, personality and temperament. There is much more to a name than many know. A Numerologist translates the letters in your name into numbers and can then decode not only your entire essential character with alarming accuracy, they can also measure the cycles of evolutionary unfolding, experience and growth that you will ideally experience, if you are in tune with yourself and not sort of asleep and missing out on the fullness of your destiny and life. The same man who invented the Rayid eye interpretation system, Denny Johnson, also intuited a dynamic and sophisticated map system that provides powerful insights into our character and destiny based on Birth Order. The Tarot is an encoded philosophy and divination tool which finds its roots in a synthesis between Astrology, Numerology and the Tree of Life of ancient Jewish Mysticism. There are many other such systems of Astrology and other ‘fractals’ that map out and illustrate the cosmic whole holographic universe. “As above so below” is the ancient metaphysical saying. These systems have nothing to do with belief as many believe. Each is a science whole unto itself and yet intrinsically related one to the other despite their widely divergent origins. The above list of ‘fractal map systems’ are a good example of the best available. The key point is that not only does each work wonderfully, they also cross reference. Cross referencing these various systems has and continues to be my life passion and I use them to help my clients understand themselves, their destiny. I affirm and help to bring objectivity to the complexity of their journey as well as guidance for greater attunement, health, happiness and success.

  Translating these maps and transferring the information that they offer to us is where my expertise with my international host of clients comes to the fore. Understanding each system, let alone many of them, and knowing the points of connection between each for the sake of cross referencing is one thing. Making this information accessible with clear language that is useable with realistic strategies balanced by psychological and spiritual insight is an entirely other thing. When the two work well together you can obtain from an Astrologer what very few others who aim to assist people with guidance and insight can provide. Psychics may be able to peg people, names and dates but they cannot necessarily come to such exact, eloquent, deep evolutionary understandings as these systems can easily and quickly provide. There are, of course, exceptions and these tools in the hands of less aware or conscious beings will neither be as effective, so it does depend on the practitioner.

  Often when prospective clients ask me what they might get and how they will benefit from a personal reading with me, I generally will reply that I will use my various tools, my intuition and sincere regard for their success and well-being and my years experience with richly satisfying results for both myself and my clients to answer the following questions:

1)  Who are you?

2)  Where are you coming from?

3)  Where are you now in your life?

4)  Where you are going?

5)  What is next?

Woven into these answers are why things are as they are you are who you are and what you can do about it in terms of learning to live more consciously, in tune with yourself, your life and your destiny.

 By way of review I will expand upon each of the 5 points listed above.

1)  Who are you? Answering this question addresses you both as a person with a personality and with a soul. Life is spiritual and we are spiritual beings. Since Astrology and all the map techniques listed above are tools to provide insights about the interface between our personality and soul, free-will and destiny, it is actually a tool designed to offer celestial, cosmic, spiritual and or universal attunement. You can choose which word you like; they are all synonyms in this respect. Further, this question involves overview and insight into your essential nature and the subsequent characteristics that stem from it. We are extensions of nature at least as much as we are socialized beings. When it comes to asking the question: Is it nature or nurture? The answer is simple: both! Who we ‘think’ we are, is not necessarily accurate because often we have been conditioned by outer influences to not know our true self, who we really are. This is why there is such a strong movement in the world to help people reclaim their authenticity. This is a process implying its own mystery and Astrology and related techniques can greatly enhance the de-mystification process. In certain regards, it is much simpler than it may seem. Of course this simplicity can only be purely gained once a deep and wide understanding of human nature and human evolution is activated in the consciousness of the person endeavouring to help you. I am and have been an ardent student of human nature and of the nature of things for 25 years.

2)  Where are you coming from? This question includes a few layers as well. First, a brief yet penetrating examination of your early childhood conditioning is useful. Parental and sibling issues and themes can play deep and significant roles in our lives all our life. From another perspective this question leads me to examine your needs and goals, your core motivations, what excites and inspires you and what blocks or challenges you to flourish and live a full life in tune with yourself. How do we know when a person is living in tune with themselves, you may ask? When they are passionate, creative, happy and basically healthy vibrant beings, just as nature intended.

3)  Where are you now in your life? Using tools and techniques designed to effectively measure cycles of unfoldment, it is exciting to see people either light up as the interpretation places them in time linked to both the outer world and to their own inner process of thought, feeling and aspiration, or sigh with relief that they are on track and that their choices and decisions are either on track or not, warranted or not. We all have relationships whether with our family, spouse, friends, boss, colleague’s etcetera, yet the primary relationship is ever with our self, implying personality and SELF, implying soul. Balancing deep respect for ourselves and for everyone and thing in our outer life is a significant aspect of being a centered and balanced person.

4) Where are you going? This question largely surrounds destiny and yet is as much a negotiation process with your free will. It is a paradox but we have both a destiny and we have free will. This is so because we are spiritual beings. Learning to bring our free will choices and intention into alignment with our destiny is the key to happiness. Claiming that such and such an activity, direction and approach is the cry of a madman justifying crazy or cruel actions to be their “Destiny” is either Hollywood movies emphasizing over dramtic fictions or a sign of severe pathology. Destiny is a path of probability towards authentic self-actualization implying they we are functioning in conscious deliberate ways to co-create our lives in fulfilling and healthy ways and in so doing realize true success, which is generally a personal matter yet ultimately a spiritual alignment. There is chaos within probability and there is probability within chaos. We co-create our lives because we are natural, divine and spiritual beings. In other words, we are not simply “in” nature or reality, we are one with it. Reality functions as it does according to laws. These laws can basically be categorized as:

  A) Spiritual

  B) Natural

  C) Human or man made.

Appreciating that all three of this ABC of laws are ever operative simultaneously and the lesser especially, human laws as a by product of society and civilization, cannot truly be operative at all without the other two. Of course, this positions Spiritual Law in the top position. Although it may not always seem that this it is so, it is so.

  The other more obvious layer of the answer to the above question is a combination of assessing the specific cycles, trends and patterns currently operative in a persons life and what they want, what their tendency is and how they might choose to follow co-create their life. There are no exact, easy, direct answers when it comes to the future; it is its own mystery that we can and do invariably choose to engage in. It is all about doing so more consciously, happily and successfully. This is why on my site the header reads: “Guiding your future Probabilities and Possibilities.”  I want to support your destiny and your free will choices, not impose my own thoughts and ideas about what it should be, only perhaps what it could be and what your life, dare I say it, wants to be. Consciousness is all-pervasive and does not only exist in our brains. Life is conscious.

5) What is next? This is where the probability end of the deal comes more to the fore. Prediction is all about probability and possibility. Probability is based more on nature and natural cycles of unfoldment, growth and evolution. Possibility is linked to how you will or might approach your life and move towards your future. Coming to know the probabilities implies turns, trends and cycles with high points and low points as well as with probable events and/or processes that can be measured in time and so given approximate and even exact dates when these will occur. Still, discussion can enter the picture as possibilities are discussed because free-will is a part of destiny, a part of the divine plan, and probable events can, sometimes at least, be changed or avoided or approached differently whether on mental, emotional and/or physical levels. Reality is intelligent and flexible enough to absorb our choices and continue as though they were a part of destiny all along. This is an example of the magic, the mystery, the paradox of life. Knowing future probabilities is exactly what gives us the edge to be able to live more according to possibility which implies our conscious co-creation and it keeps the mystery alive.

The above outline is a more detailed answer to a basic question that I am often asked. I did briefly outline it elsewhere on my site in the READINGS section. I invite you there to more fully answer any questions you may have before you proceed to call me for a personal appointment or to get one for a family member loved one or friend. Admittedly, life is and is often experienced as complex in part due to Karma and the natures of our soul and personality. That is why it is so worth it to at least once make the investment to have a professional Astrologer like myself to interpret your birth chart based on your birth date at least once in your life. It may well prove to be one of the best investments you ever made and I offer you my personal GUARANTEE that unless you are fully satisfied with the results of your reading there will be no charge. Of course, one read of your birth chart can be very insightful and useful, however due to the complexity of life and Astrology, getting readings annually, for example, is best, if not necessary to appreciate the fullness of what Astrology and the related disciplines listed in general, and with me specifically, can offer. Incidentally, my rates are generally cheaper than average because I want to make this experience available to all regardless of their financial situation. Of course, I do have to make a living as well, so unless you actually are experiencing financial challenges I trust that you are willing to pay the full price of a reading based on the exact time given to you and as I mentioned, each reading is backed by my policy of SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!

Michael O’Connor

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