Astrologers are meant to be master teachers of the enhancement of free will.”
Barbara Hand Clow
I think we all eventually reach a place in our lives where we start to ask deeper questions about ourselves and our stories — and need deeper answers. We realize that we can no longer operate on auto-pilot and yet we still have to move forward in some way.
This forward motion however, if it is to keep you from entering the same cycles you were in before, must be informed by your own conscious intent. What strategies and tools do you have at your disposable to live more intentionally?
Astrology as a tool
Awareness of the patterns in your life is the first step to making any sort of meaningful change. And that is also where astrology enters the picture.
An astrology reading should first help expose, gracefully, your basic personality structure and life picture, and through that exposure help you feel more aware of who you are as a person.
Life is beautiful, and essential to that beauty is the unavoidable complication and messiness that we all work to resolve every day. An astrology reading should also help expose your strengths and challenges alike, and most importantly situate them in the context of your overall purpose, which only you can choose.
Bringing awareness to your overall predisposition is the first step I take in my readings, since it sets the stage for all the potential that lies within you and gives you essential information required to live more consciously moving forward.
But what do I mean by potential?
The function of astrology is not to tell us what will, or rather, what may, happen in the future, but what significance there is in every moment or cycle lived or about to be lived.
Dane Rudhyar, The Astrology of Personality: A Reformulation of Astrological Concepts and Ideals in Contemporary Psychology and Philosophy, p. 95
Astrology is a mathematical tool that tracks timing, so it is easy to think that it can be used to predict the future. That kind of thinking, however, is actually misleading and has given astrology a bad reputation at times.
The kind of potential that I believe astrology can actually offer insight into is the significance of a cycle you are experiencing. Are you going through something related to your parents, and does it look based on the astrology that this will be easy or challenging, related to money or work, and when can you expect resolution or the cycle to end? How does what you’re going through right now, or what you’ve been through before, relate to the bigger picture of your life path and purpose?
Astrology will expose the significance of situations, but it will not determine what you are going through; you always have free will. Think of astrology as a reflection of life experience, not the cause of it. This is, in brief, my approach during readings.
Functional coherency
Astrology is a language, and at its best it can give vocabulary to parts of ourselves and events in our lives that we may not have even been able to express before.
Astrology is not a religion, it is not anything you can believe in or not (to say you don’t believe in astrology is like saying you don’t believe in any other language!), and it is not something that is trying to convert you or determine what is going to happen in your life. It is a vocabulary of symbols based on the stars we live among (of which we humans are made of the same material). It demonstrates that we are not alone and separated from our universe, but instead an active part of it, and that the planets reflect our lives. Astrology reminds us that we relate to something bigger.
By the end of a reading, you should feel seen, heard, and understood. And hopefully with new awareness, you will feel empowered to live your life more intentionally and with purpose.
Moon Counsel 