Today the science of Astrology has been debased in a lot of ways by the desire for a quick and straightforward sound bite of info and an elemental focus found in several mags, on Astrology that only accounts for the position of the sun and not the full natal chart. A birth chart isn’t replicated for 25,000 years because all of the planets are traveling at different speeds round the sun. A full birth chart looks at the sign positions of all the planets, the axis that was active when the individual was born, the nodes, the eclipses and the like. The ambiguity is that while we are living in a period of gigantic quantities of negligible media friendly info flowing constantly, it's now possible to quickly and easily figure out the most complex mathematical astrological material. The heavens have always charmed the human imagination and attention. As far as we all know, Astrology, mankind’s first faith, was developed by the traditional Babylonians millenia ago when they noted that events on earth may be interrelated to celestial phenomena. This information was passed on to the Persians, the Egyptians and then on to India and the Americas, developing and mutating itself through each stage of history.

In Astrology, your life is closely hooked up to the astronomical activities that distinguish the heavens at the time of your birth. A horoscope is a specific map, setting out the positions of the sun, moon and planets as well as the sign that hovered on the horizon at your birth to bare complex mathematical relationships that portray your personal plan and potential for development. This map can exhibit your physical, mental, emotional and religious gifts and challenges. Always keeping in mind of course, your own free will to choose to exercise those gifts or take up those challenges. Especially notable and part of the new Astrology of our time is attention on nodal points which exhibit what many astrologers consider our soul urges or those deeper underlying drives that may sit below the level of the more obvious personality. Nodal points are the locations where the path of the earth and the moon intersect forming the north and south nodes. The north and south nodes are called the head and tail of the sky dragon and the situation of the sky dragon in your chart is of the greatest significance as it exposes the direction in which you are heading as well as the place you're issuing from.

One of the proponents of this approach is Jan Spiller, an Astrologist, and a NY Times fastest selling writer of the book “Astrology of the Soul” which distills twenty years of her work. In her words, “Astrology, if explored from a mental or scientific level, has zilch to do with belief. It has got to do with gaining data and doing experiments” Regardless of what your personal views, these new directions in Astrology make fascinating and thought inciting reading. Kristen Jones.

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