A Very Brief Introduction to Astrology

The Universe created you as a part of IT and ‘speaks’ to you energetically at all times. This is never more evident than when the central fire of your individual sun (your zodiac sign) meets up with the cool magnetic pull of your individual moon (your moon sign).

If you understand the zodiac, then this will just be repetitive information. However, if you are new to astrology and how it operates in your daily life, then this might be helpful to you.  Please keep in mind that astrology is entirely algorithmic; it is as much a mathematical science as it is philosophical, psychological and predictive.

The basics to know are as follows: your Sun Sign is the energy that you exhibit to the world, your Moon Sign is the way that you think and process emotions and your Ascendant is the 'mask' that you wear and the 'archetype' that you are rising to become and emulate in this life.

The ancients were very much aware of our connection with the heavenly forces because they, unlike us, did not divide things up into separate parts and compartmentalize the universe; they understood that everything in the universe was inextricably connected.

The zodiac, like a road atlas, is a map of the stars rather than of roads and highways across the nation’s geography. All stars have mathematical coordinates; this is how and why the earliest navigators understood that a sextant could read the stars and create a map of the oceans.

Those mathematical coordinates of the zodiac positions are written as degrees and minutes versus a physical map of the country which has coordinates written as longitude and latitude. At the same time, our physical map does track ‘time’ as hours, minutes and seconds. So, the heavenly coordinates of the planets/stars record one time whereas the planet Earth records the same time.

And, as the planets/stars are constantly in motion, their positions and their astrological times are always in motion. The zodiac also has twelve houses which will map out the degrees/minutes of the planets’ position when you were born; and, great astrologers were also consider your progressed chart to compare the current position of your ‘natal planets’ and the houses that they have ‘moved into’ since your birth.

The reason that the progressed chart is a factor that astrologers consider is that stars and ‘planets’ behave differently in the houses that they are in and, as such, it means that your natal chart is constantly evolving as you are through time.

Added to this is that every planet moves through your chart at different times; sometimes it takes decades for a planet to move all the way around your chart. Some planets and stars are very fast moving (like the Sun/Moon/Mercury) whereas others like Saturn or Uranus take a very long time to fully transit your houses.

Astrologers must also take the relationships between the planets and the houses into consideration. They will do this through mathematical measurements because planets and stars can also be calculated as being conjunct, sextile, opposite and so on. All of those ‘degrees’ have significance because the planets and stars have ‘personalities’ and ‘symbolism’ that will impact their relationships through time.

Astrology in some European countries is taught as a science at the University level that is awarded as a four-year degree. There is far too complicated of a subject to illustrate in a few paragraphs; however, understanding planetary influences and how they operate in your life can significantly transform your mind, body and spirit.

Astrology is another tool that has the ability to empower you so that you can begin smoothing out the negative or limiting ‘influences’ that you might have once thought were working against you but were actually placed in your ‘chart’ to teach or guide you. Astrology will be an asset when you embark on the power that is inherent in this candle healing process to further transmute distorted elemental energies.