The various techniques of predicting the future though possessing value I find are one of the most unfruitful aspects of what astrology can offer. Or, perhaps better said, the most renown aspects of astrology tend to be the least actually useful in a deep way. As a result the popular usage of astrology perpetuates its own stagnation and limitation when it could be one of the greatest contributions to our human evolution.
Understanding the most fundamental facets of nature can know no limitation for its usefulness and applicability in every far corner of life on a moment to moment basis. The same fundamental patterns can be recognized and cherished as a means of recognizing ourself and our passing through symbolic vistas of time and space. This is recognition of the most fundamental primary colors of creation and the understanding of how their various combinations create the vast intricacies of all life itself is what astrology truly is at its core. This is very different from gathering various mechanical techniques used to measure and predict limited windows or determined outcomes from the narrow perspective of what should or should not be based on a set of inorganic variables (not that it can’t be done).
The beauty of astrology is that it is a science; It is a means of recognizing the order and structure of beauty as well as the sweet indescribable fragrance of it. The closer we get the the fundamental core and source of life the more rich and beautiful as well as difficult to capture and dissertate life becomes. The true astrologer can weave between that core beauty, the fundamental dance of life, and the seemingly trivial details of our complicated yet mundane living. Yet the hyper-focus on particular techniques, outward mechanical or purely man-made “tricks” that determines set outcomes does not necessarily have to involve this deeper kind of weaving whatsoever and can lead to a disembodied way of getting lost in the static fuzz of rules and regulations that have lost connection to their inherent meaning and purpose in nature.
The potential of astrology is the total reuniting of the largest and smallest, the brightest and darkest, most significant and insignificant. It is an illumination of the future, not in the simply predictable or deterministic sense, but in exposing the greatness of mankind and the world in ways that have not yet been recognized. It holds the keys to the ever-spiraling and evolving relationship life has with itself, so that humanity and the creation can celebrate its nature in ever-deepening and ever-increasing significance. Not only the measured results, or the set variables change as we align ourselves with specific seasons and times of occurrence, sowing and reaping, rising and setting; But also our very core intentions have the possibility to change, the very questions we ask, the way we perceive life itself, the self-image we and others have created, ALL have the possibility of changing in the deepest most incomparable way once astrology is wholly recognized, and not settled for cheaply, as existing as one of the greatest mysteries and truths of life.
I am interested in “divine dance”. Have evolved a free-flow dance offering for earth-healing through many years, that I have called “Sayaw-Bathala” (The dance of “God” within), a spontaneous expressive movement ). I searched for expression in dance (without being technically trained in dance), I started following this “impulse” and urge to dance by exploring worship dances in churches; then left the church to do dance-prayers for “invocation” during school programs – before finally discovering “dance-rituals” doing hours of dance-rituals as devotional dances…..I believe that it is my life calling, that would that lasted for hours out in nature, for earth-healing and hoping for that vision of developing and realizing the “glorious body” , if not for this lifetime, then for the next lifetimes…. Anyway, could this life-direction be confirmed in an astrological reading? How can an astrological reading help me towards understanding this path that I have entered, just on my own initiative (just feeling that I am following an urge to dance, because it hurts if I don’t dance to satisfy the longing within….) The pain of not dancing is greater than the pain of the shame at having to expose myself while dancing and becoming vulnerable as a result of self-exposure….. And so that is how I managed to last through the years….But now, slowly, the people are beginning to accept this kind of dance, and I am endorsed by a community to do Full-Moon Dance Offerings for Earth-Healing at a place called Seascape Marine Sanctuary, San Juan, Batangas, Philippines. I have been doing this continuously since 2008. But I started exploring this path, first in 1985, when I first accepted this “urge” to dance, for the first time….. How would an astrological reading be significant for me? Do I need to have the reading? Or would a prolonged self-reflection be sufficient?