What is the basic idea behind astrology?

What is the basic idea behind astrology?
What is the basic idea behind astrology?

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As above, so below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism

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Making money, astrology is a business first. You either have to pay someone to read your chart or take the time and expense of “learning” astrology.

How good an astrologer or website is not measurable. You have only their say-so. The goal is not of accuracy but of customer satisfaction. No one pays money to unsatisfied so the customer is more than willing to accept whatever is said. See the link for an example. Satisfied people are more likely to pay again.

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for me its a form of psychology, know thyself and then to understand how others function.

First you need to understand you are not the sum total of your sun sign. There are 10planets in a natal chart and they can be in any one of 12 houses…so that’s 144 combinations for each planet. Next, mercury can only be upto one sign away from your sun sign and venus can only be upto two signs away. Your natal chart is as unique as your fingerprints.

Planets are modified by signs, where they express are houses and how they express are *aspects.* the aspects are simply mathematical matters, which one planet makes to another. Think back to your school days, when an opposition = 180′ and a square =90′ a trine =120′ and these aspects are ‘facets of your personality’ The houses are like the backdrop of a stage, the setting if you like, the planets are like actors and the aspects are how the planets behave in that settings/stage…

Now basically your sun sign is your ‘core beliefs, values, ego’ and Asc is your physical body, mode of expression and mask and persona that we all wear and hide behind, but definitely not what’s going on underneath. What’s going on underneath is your Sun sign. Moon sign, house placements and aspects describe your emotional and intuitive responses, also describes your view of your mother, as saturn describes your father by sign and house position.

So, think of a glass milk bottle the bottle is your Asc and your sun the milk, but the milk still has to ‘come out’ through the glass neck of the milk bottle….

Now aspects within a natal chart represent ‘facets’ of our personality, because we are all multifaceted beings. What these do is ‘break down and compartmentalise’ these facets into smaller bite size chunks. This does take quite a lot of self analysis and objectivity to ‘see yourself’ and why you do certain things and behave in certain ways. Actually it can be quite good therapy…

First go to astro.com and get your free chart, then use their interactive model to get an explanation, then go to cafeastrology.com and do the same, but do *not* use their charts as they inferior. Then come to mytribe reached via my homepage and get the link *start with basics.*

If you cannot get past this idea of JUST sun signs, you will always stay in kindergarden. perhaps if you learn more some of the basics in astrology then with your future questions this should help you ask more poignant questions, for your own evolution

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This slide shows the meanings of the planets

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this slide shows the house meanings, natural house rulers and notice the compass points are reversed? this is not a mistake

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Astrology lovers out there?
Anyone know any good websites? Cafe Astrology is one of my favorites that has Birth Chart Interpretations. I’m into palm reading, tarots, etc. also
I don’t interpret astrology as having anything to do with predicting the future… I do believe that the cosmos can definitely have an influence on one’s personality.

With all due respect, take a hike zealots. This question is here for people with open minds.

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I’m more of a fortune cookie type of guy.

Suggestion by Bulldog Drummond
If you like astrology, you might also want to look into alchemy, witchcraft, creationism, and scientology.

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Have you tried Extispicy? Scientific tests have shown it to be equally as accurate as Astrology.

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