Why make use of Astrology?

Why Astrology?

A story...

         A woman has a baby and is blissful about it. Another one does the same, and spends the rest of her life dreaming about how she might have been a ballerina. The same choice: having a kid.
         But only one smiling woman.
         Nobody has a generic formula for happiness, at least not one that does the trick for everyone.
         That's where astrology comes in.
         The birth chart, stripped to bare bones, is simply a description of the happiest, most fulfilling life that's available to you... personally. It spells out a set of strategies you can use to avoid boring routines, bad choices, and dead ends. It lists your resources. And it talks about how your life looks when you're misusing the resources and distorting the strategies -- shooting yourself in the foot, in other words.
         All from a map of the sky?
         Hard to believe. But think for a minute...
         "How can the planets possibly affect us? They're millions of miles away." Astrology's critics are fond of rolling out that argument. But it doesn't hold water. Go out and gaze at the moon.
         What's really happening? Incomprehensible energies are plunging across one quarter million miles of void, crashing through your eyeballs and creating electro-chemical changes in your brain. We call the process "seeing the moon." Certainly the planets affect us. The question is where do we draw the boundaries around those effects?
         Let's go a step further.
         Open your eyes on a starry night. What do you see? If you are blessed with normal or correctable human eyesight you probably see a vast, luminous space full of shadows and light. Now close your eyes so tight they ache. Where are you now? What do you see?
         Perhaps a vast, luminous space, full of shadows and light once again? Consciousness and cosmos are structured around the same laws, follow the same patterns, and even feel pretty much the same to our senses. I prefer to think of this as what is known as Chaos Theory.
         "As above, so below." Just as the starry night awes us with its vastness, there's something infinitely deep inside you, a place you go when you close your eyes, a place that's beyond being an Aries or a Gemini or even a specific gender. At the most profound level, a birth chart is a map back to that magical center. It describes a series of earthly experiences which, if you're brave and open enough, will trigger certain states of consciousness in you -- states that operate like powerful spiritual catalysts, vaulting you into higher levels of being.
         In most of the reports we produce for you, you'll tour your personal birth chart. But don't expect the usual "Scorpios are sexy" stuff. You are a mysterious being in a mysterious cosmos. You're here in this incarnation for just a little while, a blink of God's eye. You face a monumental task: figuring out what's going on! In that spiritual work, astrology is your ally. How will it help?
         Certainly not by pigeonholing you as a certain "type."
         Astrology works by reminding you who you are, by warning you about the comforting lies we all tell ourselves, and by illuminating the experiences that trigger your most explosive leaps in awareness.
         After that, the rest is up to you.
         Trust your Horoscope; the symbols are Spirit's message to you. In the course of a lifetime, you'll make a billion choices. Any one of them could potentially hurt you terribly, sending you down a barren road. How can you steer a true course? The answer is so profound that it circles around and sounds trivial: listen to your heart, be true to your soul for you will only find your own truth deep within. These are noble and accurate words, but tough to follow.
         The Universe, in its primal intelligence, seems to understand that difficulty. It supplies us with many external supports: Inspiring religions and philosophies. Dear friends who hold the mirror of truth before us. Omens of a thousand kinds are there to see if we merely look for them. And, above all, the sky itself, which weaves its cryptic message above each newborn infant.
         In the pages of your natal report, you'll experience one reading of that celestial message as it pertains to you.
         There are others. You may want to consider sitting with a real astrologer ... microchips are fine, but a human heart can still express nuances of meaning that no computer can grasp. You may want to order other reports, ones that illuminate your current astrological "weather, " or that analyze important relationships. Best of all, you may choose to learn this ancient language yourself, and begin unraveling your own message in your own words.
         Whatever your course, we thank you for your time and attention, and wish you grace for your journeys in this life. May your Spirit guide you onto a path of wisdom that efficiently leads you to your own inner truth.