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Important Tips to
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Experience is always a great teacher! The best experience you can have in astrology is doing face-to-face or phone-to- phone consultations in a professional setting. In a paid consultation, client expectations are higher and the pressure is on the astrologer to produce and be helpful. This is not the case in a casual setting, such as on an Internet Forum.
Every consultation gives the astrologer an opportunity to learn. You have worked hard to prepare for your consultation and you have expectations. Your expectations become adjusted when you actually consult with the client and while the client learns from you, you are also learning more about astrology from the client. This kind of experience is the best teacher, not a book, not Internet activity but the actual paid, professional consultation.
Every professional astrologer has tips that can be shared based on her/his many years of observation through consultation. In the next few installments of this essay, I will share with you, in no particular order, what I consider to be important points to consider in all forms of analysis.
Synastry
One of the things that the mainstream public looks to astrology for is relationship guidance via synastry. If you go to the astrology center of any bookstore, by and large, you will see a great deal of mostly basic, unhelpful books on relationships.
Relationship analysis, at the most foundational level, is a comparison of “compatible” and “incompatible” Sun Signs. Experience teaches all of us that that kind of analysis is extremely flawed and we move past it to a deeper analysis that eventually incorporates the whole of the horoscopes involved. But even at this level of analysis, where “my Mars trines your Venus and your Saturn squares my Sun” kinds of considerations are made, we still miss out on something that I think is very important. We have to look at a person’s capacity for relationship and a central ingredient in making that determination is what the person thinks of her or himself in terms of worth and identity. If you know someone with a lot of issues, chances are high that that person has also had above average relationship concerns
When you are examining two horoscopes for purposes of synastry, put one of them away first and analyze the other one completely, as if that person was coming to you alone for a consultation. Go down the list of important steps in analysis: hemisphere emphasis; Sun-Moon-Ascendant blend; parental tension dynamics, idealism, etc. Know that person’s horoscope, especially in terms of self-worth. Once you know that person fully, analyze the other horoscope in the exact same way. Once you know both people well, take what you know about life, use common sense, and make an assessment about whether or not these two people have the capacity to have a healthy relationship with each other. Once determined, you are ready to have a very helpful consultation with these two people based on what their individual needs are and not based upon whether or not her Jupiter falls in my 7th House and that kind of thing which, in the end, is more of an astrological reality than an actual reality.
Example
This is the horoscope of a beautiful, intelligent woman loaded with talent and social poise. The first impression of her horoscope reveals a northeastern hemisphere emphasis. Immediately, we know that there is a suggestion of defensiveness and self-protection that is probably linked to conditions in the formative years of development. Already, with just this assessment, we suspect that the capacity for relationship fulfillment is challenged because of a tendency to walk through life with her arms crossed in front of her, never really opening up to others, etc. A defensive posture can and often does work against relationship.
Is there corroboration for this first impression? Absolutely! Venus and Pluto, rulers of the IV and X, are widely square. Saturn is conjunct Venus in IV. Mercury, co-ruler of X, is conjoined by Mars. What’s more, Uranus is exactly square the Nodal Axis. All of this tells emphasizes the suggestion of parental tension and also tells us that the mother or a maternal figure in the family played a key role in the development of the identity (or that the woman relates her own identity to the mother, grandmother, an Aunt, etc).
As it turns out, the woman’s father was a drug-addict who was never around much. Her mother was challenged with schizophrenia her entire life and spent a great deal of time in treatment homes for it. The woman’s grandmother, who never had a successful relationship in her life, became the dominant force. All of her poisonous perspectives on men were passed down. There was never an example in the home for how men and women relate to each other in a healthy, fulfilling relationship. What she learned was stories about how men were no good and how she should “make them pay for you.” Quite naturally, this was the foundation for what would become defensiveness in relationships.
When parental tension is decided, we always, always expect self-worth tension to follow. In this horoscope, we see a stellium of planets in Libra in II squared by the Moon in XI. This suggests self-worth tension in terms of attracting others (XI) that will also spill over into concerns that have to do with the House experiences symbolized by all planets involved here: Houses I, II, III, IV, IX, X, XI, and XII!!!! This is a very ubiquitous statement of self-esteem concerns as a dominant issue in her life.
It is often times extremely difficult to give and receive love fulfillingly when one has self-esteem concerns. Here, we see Saturn, ruler of V, conjoining Venus. This suggests a tightness, a control factor on all that is intimate because of the ever-present voice of her grandmother in the back of her mind. The woman was afraid to “let go” for fear of losing some kind of control. She rarely experienced orgasm during sex and, even at a young age, had very little in the way of sexual urges. Instead, she focused on gaining security through friendships (Moon in Cancer in XI).
So we have a situation here with this woman where, no matter what or no matter who it is, she is going to feel uncomfortable in intimate situations because of the self-worth concerns developed in her formative years of development. In order for her to have a healthy relationship, all of these concerns must be managed. If they are not managed, situations occur that fracture the relationship. It doesn’t matter if another person’s Jupiter sits atop her Sun. None of the classic things that you’ve read about in synastry matter here. What matters is how this woman manages the inner concerns she has and this cannot be seen or determined in a horoscope.
Now let’s assume that this lady has come to you for a synastric consultation. You are going to have a discussion about everything that is suggested in her horoscope. She is going to tell you that she indeed is pretty tight, pretty controlled and defensive and that her grandmother planted a lot of unhelpful ideas in her head about relating. The two of you need to have a discussion so that you can learn from her just how these concerns have been managed or if they have been managed.
You will do the exact same kind of analysis with the man she is considering having a relationship with. You then bring them together and “lay all the cards on the table.” You tell him about her defensiveness, where it comes from, etc. If, for example, his horoscope shows the opposite kind of influence – his upbringing was perfect, he has no issues with intimacy, etc., he is going to have to be patient with her in many ways. Both people are given a realistic perception of the other person based on reality, and not because “his Venus is in my 7th House.”
This is a healthy, realistic way to approach synastry and not rely totally upon the measurements in one horoscope to the other horoscope. You don’t want to dismiss the latter but these measurements should be of secondary importance, not primary.
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Basil Fearrington,
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Basil Fearrington is the author of "The New Way To Learn Astrology." He has been a professional astrologer for 22 years.
Basil's articles have appeared in the leading astrological publications around the world. He was the Inaugural Chairman for the MilleyDome project in Johannesburg, South Africa and taught astrology there for one year.
Basil has twice been a faculty member of UAC and spoke at Astro 2000. In addition to his work in astrology, Basil is a professional musician who has toured with and/or recorded for artists such as Stevie Wonder and George Benson.
He was on a team of composers who did the music for a network show called "New York Undercover." The same team won a Grammy award in 1980.
bfearr@aol.com
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