How to Use Astrology

Astrology is a very powerful and dynamic tool. It has a lot more to offer than just your sun sign or whether you are compatible with someone you meet.

Start with a professional natal horoscope reading.

Perhaps the most important way to use astrology is to get a natal astrology reading from a professional astrologer. Many people have their charts done on the web or by a friend, and this is not a very good introduction to astrology as it invites an inaccurate description of who you are and where in life you are going.

It is important to start out with a good reading, because astrology offers you a manual as it were, of who you are, what makes you tick, what pulls you or pushes you away, and it lays out your tendencies for getting into trouble and for moving forward in your life. Working from an incomplete or unreliable manual may be very counterproductive.

Understanding the significant events in your life.

If the natal reading was invaluable to you, then a good step is to have a look at what has been happening to you in the past year, what is going on with you in the present, and what challenges and gifts may be coming to you over the next year.

Astrologers use transits, progressions, solar returns, and arcs, among other tools in order to reveal the patterns that you are encountering and what the nature of these patterns are. This is very important. We tend to be reactive or we project our hopes and fears on situations in ways that often obscure what is really going on. For this, astrology is able to present the clear overview - the road map of where you have been, where you are and where you are going. It can help you from getting lost and it can be invaluable in bringing to focus your goals and destination.

Astrology can reveal the dynamics of a situation

Astrology is not limited to individuals. It works just as effectively for couples, families, groups, companies, projects and even whole countries. Astrology reveals the main patterns and issues that are easily lost because of bias, belief, history, myths, and misunderstandings.

Often with couples, the significant interactions in terms of communication, feelings, trust, security, appreciation, and needs become clearer and easier to express and work with when understood as dynamics.