Understand Astrology’s Role in Your Life – Day 0
Other advanced techniques explore where you are in life. The transits, or current planetary positions, activate areas of your chart and your life. When transits hit your natal planets, doors open or close. A solar return or birthday chart, cast for when the sun is in the same position now as when you were born, gives the flavor of what you will experience in the coming year. Progressions move your chart forward in time and indicate how your personality has evolved. They can also indicate when certain types of events are likely to happen, based on how the progressions interact with your natal chart. More discussion of these three tools appears below under the heading Planning and Decision-Making.
Understanding Other People
Astrology can also help you get along better with family and friends. It can do this in two main ways.
The first is opening your eyes and mind to the other person’s reality. When you learn the dynamics in someone’s birth chart, you get a glimpse into into how that person is wired. A birth chart can tell you how someone takes in and processes information, what he values, what motivates him, where he feels unsure of himself, how he expresses emotion (or not) and what he needs in order to feel safe, secure and loved.
Knowing this gives you an instruction manual for interacting with that person. You wouldn’t yell at left-handed person for not catching a ball with his right hand. You wouldn’t speak Russian to someone you know speaks only Spanish and blow up when he doesn’t respond. If someone’s chart tells you that he has a detail-oriented mind that goes through a matter step by step by step, you won’t (or shouldn’t) lose patience with his inability to jump immediately to the big picture, as obvious as it may be to you.
