My mother introduced me to the art/science many years ago, when she was a professional astrologer. As a curious Capricorn adolescent, who used to be good at math, I learned the ropes of casting charts the hard way - before personal computers were programmed to do it for you!
After some years of doing charts for friends, and myself, I grew up and lost interest in Astrology.
Then life got hard. It was the 80’s. A literal “trip” to the library searching for answers led me to help in an unexpected way. I was walking through the stacks, when a book jumped out at me, falling to my feet. It was Steven Forrest’s book, “The Inner Sky ”. I read the back cover - the part about how he was a Capricorn. Intrigued, I looked at the introduction and read that because he was a Capricorn, nobody would ever get very excited about him.
I laughed and that was what I needed - to take myself less seriously. I took the book home, read it, and laughed some more. It made sense. It addressed and cured all the fatalistic issues that had turned me away from astrology many years ago. I was hooked again.
I never lost interest in Astrology, but kept it on a back burner. I lived with my ephemeris nearby and continued to do charts for friends and family. Years past. Someday I would pursue the avocation, but not yet. I was waiting for the “right time.” I would know it when it came.
The time is now. I experience an odd shift in my psyche. Pluto is entering my sign of Capricorn – a devil-may-care, now-or-never event. My progressed moon is now in my first house, squaring my midheaven, north-node and Neptune, and I am inspired to start anew with a vengeance. Did I mention that progressed moon in the first house is also conjuncting my natal moon? I have done what the stars have impelled me to do, quite by accident, tripping over the obvious.
I have re-invented myself. I have brought to life something that was hidden there all the time. Ready to admit the truth of my being.
I am an astrologer!
This is my blog!
