I am both a logical, scientifically minded person and a daydreaming romantic and utopian. I'm also open minded enough to at least consider the validity of practically anything. And like so many of us, i spend a lot time trying to figure out who i am and what roles i am best fitted to play. So it was only natural that i would decide to take a slightly deep look into astrology and what it might say about me and my life. Heretofore I have never known anything more than that I'm a libra. I read "Free Will Astrology" with some amusement and the daily newspaper horoscopes with derision. If you asked me how astrology is possible (assuming it even works at all) I wouldn't have been able to give the vaguest
answer.
And i still can't. I have no idea how there could be any correlation (much less causation) between the positions of various celestial bodies and my personality and the events of my life. However, after having an in-depth birth chart and reading from a very bright woman in Eugene named Connie Bender, I can assert without a shadow of a doubt that astrology provides the most accurate and insightful portrait of my psychology and identity that I have ever discovered. I don't know how it works, i just know it does. In the charts and Connie's interpretation I recognize myself with vivid clarity, but in an objectively presented way. It's not so much that I didn't know who I was, but my self knowledge was (as it always is) self-reflective and unconscious, like trying to figure oneself out and plot a course in a hall of mirrors. The charts just simply show myself to myself. Things only dimly guessed are shown clearly.
Again, i don't know how. I'm not trying to convince the skeptical or get into an argument about the validity of astrology. I'm just telling you my experience of it.
If you are reflexively dismissive of it, well, maybe try a little liberal-mindedness and give it a shot. I don't mean reading the horoscope in the comics pages, I mean getting a serious chart and reading.
I won't go into any great detail about my profile except the basics. My sun sign is Libra, with Aquarius ascendent (rising) and a Pisces moon. The bulk of the planets are in either the first or 7th and 8th houses. In the coming natal year (birthday to birthday) I will have a Scorpio rising and Gemini moon.I could tell you what all this means but jeez, just because i don't want to be a mystery to myself doesn't mean i want to be an open book to the world!
One of the most striking moments in the reading was when Connie pointed to part of the chart where Sagitarrius sat alone in the mid-heavens (most everything else being crowded into houses 1, 7, and 8) and said "this tells me you're the type who goes out where others won't, out on quests into the unknown, and reports back on what you find to the people in your life." Mind you she didn't know anything about Traveling Dan before this. The rest of the chart rang just as true but like i said, i'll spare the details. Get yer own dang reading.