Dealing in Astrology

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Many

of us have been fortunate to learn astrology from a Guru. After the

formal learning, books become our guides and we enter the arena by

reading charts and practicing. The more we practice, the more we

realize that the books are far more rigid than the charts in hand and

the people they represent. We feel something is wrong, either with the

books or the dictums, or else with the people. This is the time when we

stop reading and start watching.

Our ancestors have left us with great tradition and legacy. We are

proud to stand on their shoulders as we practice this divine science.

But that tradition at times gets clogged and stiff and set in certain

ways. We should then try to reach a little further, to redefine the

principles yet again, to see them more clearly, more in harmony with

the ebb and flow of human experience.

Astrology supplies the terrain. How we navigate it, is our own

business. When we interact with a stranger and his birth-chart,

together they become our real gurus and rarely fail to teach us

something new. People come to us from different professions, different

strata and with different problems. Through astrology, we get to see

the human common denominators beneath the masks of circumstance.

We get to know that the most universal of those common denominators

is the desire. The desire to "make my life better." And we learn to

help people fulfill their desires, to help them grow, to help them

answer their own questions in happier ways. Astrology is an absorbing

journey into a shadowy borderland, a place where cosmos and

consciousness touch: the human psyche.

Balancing human psyche becomes the key. This separates true

astrology from other types of sooth-sayings. A fixed lagna can be told

to be more accommodating while a cardinal sign can learn to be more

fixed on his decisions. Transformations like that become the goal of a

real astrologer.

Anyone can learn to use astrology by reading some basic book. It may

be like learning a new language. The words are unfamiliar. But the

meaning behind them is as universal. It however, makes no sense till

tested on the terrain. Real skill comes with experience. Experience

with awareness. Astrological knowledge, when applied on the birth

charts then becomes life's decoder. It breaks the code. The chaos, the

pain, and the seeming randomness of our lives coalesce before our eyes

into an orderly system. And once we grasp that system, we spend a lot

less time swimming against the tide.

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