What an Astrologer Can (and Can’t) Do 

Astrology has its specialized areas of study.  Individual astrologers are stronger in some specialties than in others. 

Most clients that I see are looking for a basic natal chart reading that deals with 6 months or 1 year cycles.  They want, as we all do, to seek pleasure and avoid pain.  Astrology, however, does not provide the means to do that – regardless of what the fabled ‘fortune teller’ may advise.  One’s chart is a personal life map, as individual as a fingerprint.  It reveals patterns of probability, but says nothing about the choices you make.  To use a physical analogy (instructive if not quite accurate) – suppose you made your way through a forest, to find your path blocked by a torrential river.  This represents a field of probability.  You can plunge in (and maybe drown); you can follow along the bank and look for a safe crossing; you can build a raft and let the current take you downstream; you can wait until the river subsides, and then wade across; you can turn around and go back through the forest; or you can change your destination. 

Your life does not belong to astrology.  It belongs to you.  Your astrologer is helpful in predicting the “river’s” condition – the likelihood of a safe crossing downstream or upstream, what materials are available to build your raft, how soon the river may subside, etc.  In other words, astrology is a tool (among others) that you can use to make choices.  But it cannot choose for you.