Astrology is a Map, Life the Ground

The map is not the ground. Having a map is in no sense deterministic because we decide at every turn which way to go. Free will is everything and the answer to why we are living is in large part exactly so that we may choose the way, I feel.

Think of it like this that we are on a road trip happily starting our vacation with the car packed for fun. One thing that comes to mind is just the general approach to the trip, is it a type A trip barreling down on Yellowstone with blinders on only stopping at drive through restaurants and highway rest stations for relief, or, are we planning to stop and smell the roses along the way – or, are we just winging it altogether?

I will go modern so we are looking at our MAPS app here and it can tell us not only what is the most direct route by distance but by time as well considering nowadays everything from traffic patterns to road construction to spontaneous road hazards and delays and even the weather can be considered here. This is very much the analogy of how so astrology can be helpful in the most literal sense. There are predictive techniques, mainly transits to natal and progressed charts. We can even look at why we are taking this trip, a bonus feature of astrology not properly addressed in the analogy because modern, western astrology particularly, is geared to deep psychology and we can even bring in Evolutionary astrology to consider past life energies and our soul´s purpose. Astrology has no beginning or end, just like our soul, it was never born and never dies and can take our breath away when it hits us just how great is the expanse of it´s potential.

The map that is astrology can help us decide where it is we want to go, where it is perhaps most auspicious for us and where and when we may encounter bumps along the road and how and when to best negotiate the inevitable travails of long distance travel. Whether we are at that point where we understand that we are never lost because we are always right here and now, or, even if we are completely lost, a map is a handy tool to have in our toolbox.