HEAVEN'S MESSAGE

The desire for greater understanding and awareness of how human beings fit into the scheme of things within our star (Solar) system ensures Astrology’s survival in the world. Because change and upheaval continue to disrupt our culture due to natural disasters, wars, social/political revolution, mental and physical illness, nervous disorders and accidents. Astrology is able to provide us with a strong base of pattern, rhythm and order that is noticeably missing these days. One reason behind the existence of this strong base involves the essentially constant variety of human nature throughout written history. Probably, in no previous age, has such a strong base been more important and so badly needed. Contrary to public perception modern astrologers are wary of predicting events. They believe that Astrology’s greatest practical value lies in the diagnosis of a person’s character coupled with the assessment of his/her potential. Having assembled a person’s characteristics we can pick out his/her strengths and weaknesses and so try to decide what suits him/her best. Armed with the unbiased insight into his/her qualities of disposition and temperament that they find themselves endowed with, the belief is that they can then lead better, happier, more fulfilled and purposeful lives through this enhanced understanding of themselves. One great difficulty for Astrology is specifying interpretations accurately especially when compared with that of specifying the contents of natal charts. The accuracy of character interpretations, being abstract, is much broader but could become improved with more experience of working with combined natal charts coupled with greater confidence in their correctness. Hone and Mayo recommended the use of keywords that tended to introduce an astrologer’s subjectivity at an early stage and placed significant emphasis on preparation for interpretation. All this involved considerable time and effort, producing a stilted character assessment that then required converting into acceptable English. A possible alternative method uses interpretations of indicators published by eminent astrologers based on their long, hard work, built-up experience and special aptitude, together with logical deduction and good practice. Blending these interpretations into an acceptable result also takes time and effort and produces a somewhat stilted result but it has the virtues of being more objective and more impartial. On balance, we shall use this method.