How I Use Astrology
This page is about as “astro-technical” as I’m likely to get. As I’ve said elsewhere, I’m not here as an astrology teacher. There are many resources out there if you want to learn how Western astrology looks at planetary influences, aspects, houses, and all the other bits and bobs of reading these symbols. Here, you’ll find a bit about my use of the natal chart, transits, and solar arc directions. Suffice it to say, it’s likely to be a bit different than what you’ve experienced, elsewhere.
In practice, I read through three lenses in sequence
The first is the natal chart, which shows how identity is organized.
The second is the current transit picture, which shows what is being activated, strained, reinforced, or exposed now.
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The third is solar arc directions, which paints an image of how the mind evolves a story of the personality through the illusion of time.
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Taken together, they can clarify why a certain conflict keeps recurring, why a period of life feels unusually charged, and what the chart reveals about the underlying structure of that story. That way, we can “tag” those structures so they're unmistakable when they're prompted to reappear.
The natal chart does not tell me who you truly are.
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It shows the structure of the person, how identity forms itself, where it compensates, where it clings, where it splits, and where it tends to repeat itself.
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I’m looking for the pattern underneath the biography.
Recurring Patterns I Look For
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Where identity is most invested.
Where the self-image is doing the most work to establish itself.
What experiences keep repeating
Patterns that recur across relationships, work, conflict, and self-image.
What is being mistaken for “me”
The structure the person is taking to be the self.
Where it compensates or defends
The places where strain, overcorrection, or self-protection become visible.
What is under pressure now
The area of life currently being activated, tightened, or exposed.
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I don’t use astrology to predict life events.
I don’t use it to flatter the personality.
I don’t treat the chart as your definition.
What I don’t do.
“If the chart isn’t me and you don’t do predictions, what good is any of this?”
When you’re finally able to step back and see these patterns of pressure and recurrence playing out clearly in. real time, they usually start to lose their urgency and a lot of their theatrical flair.
They can stop feeling like they are bullying you.
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What once felt personal, fated, or confusing be recognized for the tyrant it is when it shows its face. That won’t make life painless, but it can make it less chaotic.
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My clients are often left with greater clarity, more room to respond rather than react, and less compulsion to keep hauling the same old confusions around like they’re family heirlooms.