Truths In Your Astrological Chart

An astrological chart can be a wonderful tool – a marvelous means of gaining insight into who we are as a person. Reading your astrological chart and having it interpreted correctly is the only way to be able to use this tool effectively.

Many people think that their Sun Sign is the only important aspect to know, and little do they realize that it is a mere piece of the astrological puzzle.

We are complex beings, made up of a variety of astrological aspects. It is important to combine all these elements and influences, in order to truly function at the level of which we are capable. The world around us needs a combination of things to ensure the continuation of life and we are exactly the same.

If you over water a plant you can kill it. Too much, or too little, fresh air and sunlight may or may not damage a plant. We are just another expression of nature, except that we have arms and legs.

For example, a young lady has her Sun in Taurus, her Moon and her Venus in Aries and her Ascendant (or rising sign) in Libra. Let’s go one further, and say that all these planets fall into her Seventh House. Can you determine what this young lady’s Achilles heel might be? In other words, what might her downfall or her soft spot be?

The answer is love. The reason for this is that her Moon (who she is on the inside, her deepest darkest self) is in Aries – a fiery passionate sign, prone to impulse. Her Venus is also in Aries, and her rising sign Libra (the ultimate lover). They are all in or near enough to the seventh house, which rules love and partners, to just about control every aspect of her being, until she has been properly ‘broken in’, just like you would a wild horse.

She has great, harsh lessons to learn in her life about love. She will, no doubt, while she is younger and more resilient (at least in her mind) fall in love many times a day, and for each moment give it her absolute all.

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today – Linda Goodman

With each heartbreak or disappointment she will feel it intensely, each loss keened after, as though each one were the last of the great hopes for her to know, and keep true love. It is what drives her, until she has nowhere left to go and all the roads have been exhausted.

Only when all the roads, that she has tried so willingly, so bravely, to run on, and gallop, and scamper, and frolic, have closed, will the true path open up for her. Her ultimate need is to find someone she can be herself with.

Such is the nature and the lessons contained within our charts. Each chart is different; completely unique and an experience unto itself, as is the person whom it represents.

Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to learn all sides of who we are, and conquer the demons that force us to run from ourselves. Once we recognize our weaknesses, we can overcome them and they have no more power over us. This is the challenge our chart represents to us.

It can absolutely be done. I have seen and read charts where the person saw what they needed to do, and they went through the necessary changes and came out whole on the other side of the fence. All the pieces of that puzzle then begin to work for them, instead of against them, and they are no longer held back.

I have seen just the opposite. One chart was a distinctive one, to be sure. This woman had so much Leo in her chart (Sun, Moon, Venus, Rising) that in truth and fact it all worked against her. She thought she knew everything. That of itself is not a bad thing. But the strong influence of so much Leo in her chart made her a very feisty customer indeed.

Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer – Benjamin Franklin

It was bad enough that she thought she knew everything but she also thought there was nothing else she needed to learn. That is where the problem came in. She would get stuck all the time, in her own self-created drama, just because she hated to be proven wrong about anything.

Make it a point at least once in your life to have your chart done and analyzed by a reputable astrologer. Ideally it should be done on at least three occasions, because we have certain rites of passage during our life span where great changes occur.

A chart, when well read and explained to you in a concise manner, can be of great benefit during these times, when you may not know what exactly is making you crazy, but you just know something needs to change.

Odds are you may find out that Saturn, the planet ruling responsibility and change, may be square to your Moon sign. This can and will make you need to follow your muse wherever she may want to lead you. At least you will have a road map of your soul, while you are on your way.