22 Comments

Thank you for this information.

Expand full comment

THAT's the way to describe Astrology. Thank you Brother.

Expand full comment

This is both lovely and exhilarating. The codex. Yes. Thank you.

Expand full comment

You might enjoy my perspective as you have positively acknowledged my previous comments. After some 50 years of casual Astrological pondering, I currently consider Astrology as a mirrored filing cabinet of experience. The Zodiac provides a framework for “housing” 12 categories of all thing’s possible. Not unlike The I Ching or the Tarot, the permutations of elements and modalities are a periodic table of consciousness. The mirrored surface asks “do you recognize this influence?”.

More often than not the synchronicity applies. Nonetheless, we all want to know what it means and if Leo can get along with Pisces. We’re human.

Expand full comment

Yes, the all-holding, all containing power of a circle. Beautiful description Michael!

Expand full comment

Well - wow?! I bumped into some Old Souls - and yes we had that weird vibratory recognition - besides Indegenous experience - what is your ascendant? - an 80 year old personage - Apache?! Whoah ?!

Well okay that’s when you breathe and say the moon and ley lines are n alignment in this particular place we have been drawn to - our little group, all compatible sign wise

Expand full comment

And turns out they live a town away from me - she was a trained singer from Berklee College of Music🥹

Expand full comment

Beautifully expressed, thanks. I relate to astrology being a lived experience. I experience it as a full time relationships with the moon, planets and stars, a relationship that evolves in time and space, and that nourishes me so much.

Expand full comment

...i've been a lifelong student of the stars. a few years ago, i began contemplating my birth chart/natal planets while singing mantra in the bathtub (Venus conjunct Neptune square Pisces Moon) anytime i got triggered. i quickly started astral traveling through the solar system, and have since developed relationships with my natal planets. i don't know if i am "doing" archetypal astrology, Shamanic astrology, evolutionary astrology --- but i can feel the planets in my body, and see their archetypal expression woven throughout my existence.

i believe planets resonate energy centers, and that tones resonate planets. i believe humans project their energy centers (planets) on to other humans, and go about their lives unconsciously seeking to reclaim their externalized authority. i am a quantum healer... i use astrology for all kinds of things, but don't really read charts or identify as an astrologer. i'm mostly interested in how the planets are communicating with one another; how transits/my stars activate clients' charts; prominent asteroids as spirit guides/past life experience/splintered aspects of consciousness seeking to be embodied.

familiar w Gene Keys?

Expand full comment

I’m not familiar with Keys.

Expand full comment

check it out! the system was channeled by Richard Rudd. there’s an astrological component that is essentially showing how transiting planets activate the genetic code.

Expand full comment

I appreciate your approach so much, Frederick.

Expand full comment

Thank you Natalie. It simplifies astrology greatly when we view it as part of our natural heritage as Earthlings.

Expand full comment

Yessir

Expand full comment

One of these days I'll get a reading!

Expand full comment

When a bunch of my online community decided sidereal was the only way to go, I looked at it and saw it changed my Sun from Pisces to Aquarius. I immediately said No! I have Aquarius rising, so I'm not shunning my Aquarian parts but I *feel* like a Pisces.

I've also got my own ideas about Mercury. I see him as kind of a "trickster" like spider or coyote in some Native American stories.

I like the idea of making astrology a personal thing. Now if I could just remember all the basics🤪 I'm thinking I might need to create a Quick Reference Card or something😂

Expand full comment

That’s the great thing about studying sidereal astrology; it’s akin to the ancient Greek ‘via negativa’ path — or as the Hindus put it ‘neti neti’ = not this, not that.

There’s no way I’m a Gemini. 😂

Expand full comment

What do you think about the power spots - the ley lines?! I know for a fact Essex St in Salem, MASS is fully loaded!!

Expand full comment

I picked up a tarot deck again but it’s pretty hysterical. It’s by Edward Gorey. I also used to do more I Ching then consult astrological matters

Expand full comment

catastrophic astrology mayhaps to study the next great insult to the Earth from our Sun...perhaps tis even time to stop being bullied by every plasmoid and atom with an attitude & KICK OUT THE MF JAMS, BROTHERS AND SISTAS

Expand full comment

Your thoughts on this matter, and your way of expressing them, are almost shockingly winsome, Frederick.

Expand full comment

That's a great combo (IMO) -- shocking and winsome. I'll take it! Thanks, Matt.

Expand full comment