Educational Background fro Astro-Weather 

Before reading the Astro Weather for the week, which by the way are called the TRANSITS I hope you will take a moment to review this brief outline of hints which will make the information more useful and enjoyable and provide some extra background about Astrology and my services. The Astro Weather is general and just like the weather outside we all experience it differently. How we meet the energy of any given day depends on the following factors:

1)  Our overall attitude and especially our sensitivity to the celestial influences will play a part. If we do not know what to look for we will not see or feel much and each day may simply prove to be another day instead of a new day. Yet, when we do have an idea of what is going on we can both feel it personally and even witness it in others and outer events. This can assist us to tune-in.

2)   How the Planetary configurations and Aspects of any given day actually connect with your own Birth Chart and personal experience is the other most significant point to consider. This is where the generic weather is brought more fully to bear in any given person’s life. This is basically and in effect what a professional Astrologer is hired to do - to interpret the Birth Chart and the Transits and other techniques for interpreting what is going on in terms of cycles and make the information useful for people. These include, in addition to the Transits, Progressions, Solar Returns (Birthday Charts), Solar Arcs, Eclipses and other such techniques used to measure your life cycles for any particular given time period - usually people are interested in the Present and the Future, in this regard.

3)  Destiny and Karma are the other key words that hint at the depth and authenticity of Astrology. Altogether, these remind us and demonstrate that:

*  We are truly spiritual beings having human experiences in duality.

*  Nature is conscious, intelligent, loving, creative and purposeful and all pervasive. And, we are nature and one with nature and not merely in nature.

*  We have souls which take on physical bodies or re-incarnate many, many times as a function of the divine plan for us to evolve and mature as souls and this process can be understood with the words Karma (Cause and Effect) and Dharma (Destiny).

4)  The summary in bold at the top of each entry below for each consecutive day of the week is a translation of what is otherwise written in code in Astrological Calendars, Daytimers and Pocket Astrologers. These are growing in popularity as more and more people are awakening and realizing that they actually do work. In this respect Astrology proves itself on a more objective level, even though the observations are ultimately subjective based on our own experience. The ones I am aware of are Jim Maynard’s “Celestial Guides” www.quicksilverproductions.com  (my personal choice) We Moon www.wemoon.ws  and Llewellyn Books www.llewellyn.com  .

  I only outline the Major Aspects: Conjunction, Sextile, Square, Trine and Opposition and do not use Minor Aspects (Semi-Sextile, Semi Square, Icnonjunct, etcetera) which some of these calendars include. I do not use them because they distort the picture in regard to V/C Moons especially. This translation in English, as opposed to code, will help you to learn to decode what is listed for each day and the interpretations are an example of probability offering a guideline and should not be considered as certainty or fact. The facts are the Aspects – the astronomy/math/science part of the deal and the interpretations are just that – the art part of the deal. Thus Astrology is an art and science and is invariably interpretive. To want to scientifically eradicate interpretation is to eradicate the art of life. This is why computer generated astrology reports are less than 50 % of what a qualified Astrologer can offer to you – like a snapshot without the story. In other words details without a living context.  I teach a class called “Living In-Tune with the Sun and the Moon” which is further described in Workshops on my site. Please contact me if you are interested in learning how to follow a Pocket Astrologer, Astrological Calendar, Celestial Guide etcetera more effectively. (Each of these contains essentially the same information except some are more technical than others and some do not get to the point directly enough, for my interests. That is why I choose Jim Maynard’s)