“You say your chart is hard-wired. Where does free will come in?”

Your chart is hard wired. You have certain things to work with but what you do with your energy is entirely up to you.

In the simplest terms, let’s say you’re born with blond hair. Now how do you want to comb it? Or maybe you want to cover it up / dye and deny it? People get to choose, see?

Barbra Streisand kept her big nose. She played it up. The other gal had a nose job. Free will.

Barbra Streisand has her Sun in Taurus… in tact self esteem. This may have had something to do with her decision.

Do you consciously direct your energy?

“Is there any significance to having one side of your chart have all the activity? I was looking as my mother’s chart tonight, and all her planets are aligned on the left side of the chart, with literally nothing going on in the right.”

Yes. You should always note an emphasis of anything in a chart and when you have one that is lopsided it does give information.
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You’ll never be able to really read a chart unless you overcome your prejudice. You have to be able to look at the whole which is akin to standing in front of a mirror, naked.

Now people have their bias but when reading a chart you must transcend this so the symbols can speak to you. To illustrate, it is very common people deny part of their chart and they have all kinds of hinky ways they do it.
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“You’ll experiment and find your way. Post your birthday, you find yourself wearing these new shoes. You’re not sure how you’re going to walk in them but invariably you adjust and it is almost always a pretty smooth process.”

I wrote that to a client regarding her solar return chart and I find this is the case. For some reason, people are almost always daunted by their solar return.
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“My mom is a Taurus but all of the rest of her planets appear in Aquarius. Does this make her “more Aquarius then Taurus?”

Not really. You could say that and many astrologers would but before you do, you should understand exactly what you’re saying. This would be like taking a telephone poll and tying ribbons all over and then concluding it was a ribbon not a telephone pole!
Continue reading Demystifying Astrology: What Does It Mean If My Sun Is In One Sign But I Have A Lot Of Planets In Another Sign?

Start with the Sun and the Moon, also called the “lights”. The Sun shows what a person has to do to be vitally alive. The Moon shows way they need to feel secure. Sun is the Male side, Moon the female. The Yin and Yang of a person’s nature.

Read, Live Your Sun, Satisfy Your Moon for better understanding but just get it in your head what it is you’re looking at here in the simplest terms.

You can think of it like painting. Forget about blending. You have to know RED when you see it before you can mix things up.

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