ASTROLOGY - YOUR SPIRITUAL DIRECTION..

All through the centuries mankind has asked and cried ' What am I here for?..What is my direction... Have I reached it yet? I don't know what my skills are!.
That was all taken care of when you were born.  You were born when the Planets were in a position to show you WHO you are and WHAT you are capable of.  They will show you your DIRECTION and the wounds you have that you have come to overcome in this lifetime.
You are then supplied with at least ONE Guardian Angel for life who tries to push and prod you into working with the skills you have and also to the direction you have decided on this lifetime.  Later in life when we are moving into special needs other Specialist Angels will come along to help you obtain your goal.   They can only GUIDE you however, it is up to you to be brave enough to follow your heart to develop the skills that you are capable of.
Most people know what Sun sign they are.   That gives you an overall look at who you are.  You could be a firey Fire sign, a practical Earth sign, an emotional Water sign or an intellectual Air sign.
This is just the beginning.   You have decided to be that sign in order to have the ability to follow through your choice of situations in this lifetime.   WE choose what we need to improve in our Soul each lifetime, you can't blame your parents or husband or wife.   They are only there to push you to learn what it is you have chosen to learn

When I first learned Astrology about 40 years ago we only used the 10 Planets.   With the discovery of newer Signs some of the Planets have more spiritual rulers than they did.   Scorpio was ruled by Mars the planet of war (like Aries) but is now considered to be ruled by Pluto the planet of transformation..  Aquarius was ruled by Saturn, the planet of tradition and responsibility, is now ruled by Uranus , the planet of sudden and unusual events (so even if you are an Aquarian and like to shock people, there is still a bit of serious Saturn tucked away in you).  Virgo was ruled  by Mercury, the planet of communication and is now ruled by Chiron (the wounded healer).   As Virgo is the sign of the Doctor they often try to fix others instead of themselves.   Pisces  was ruled by Jupiter but is now ruled by Neptune (all things spiritual and imaginative)  As Jupiter is always connected with BIG:  Pisces have BIG imaginations, and must watch that they don't get carried away with them.

In an Astrology chart there are three main sections in the houses of the chart.  The top four houses indicate a life 'up there' or in public.  The four houses on the Ascendant side of the chart indicate working on your own life to try to understand yourself.   The four houses opposite that indicate the need to work with companions in this lifetime.  When one of these sections of the chart  is filled it is an indication of the need to work on that area in your life.

To understand WHY certain planets and signs are in your chart we need to look at the North and South Nodes of the Moon.  These are the indicators of what it is you have come to improve and overcome this lifetime and what direction you need to take.   There is an excellent book called Astrology for the Soul, by Jan Spiller that spells out where you need to go and what to move away from.   She only talks about the North Node, but the things she says to avoid relate to the South Node.

Your Birth Chart is your report card from your Past lives.  It can have lovely lines (aspects) called Trines in it that show you have learned this well and don't need to learn it again.  There is an aspect called a square that is connected with things you have to learn and are difficult for you.  However, once you master them you may not have to learn it again next time.  There is an aspect called Opposition.  This one gives you the chance to look at both sides and to work out (intellectually) how to improve it.   They often go from your early childhood area and your family area to the top of the chart (your public area).  This shows you that your early training can still affect your judgement out in the world until you look at it and sort it out yourself. And there is another small aspect called a Sextile that shows the different areas in your chart that work well together. You can also have Conjuctions, where two or more Planets are within a few degrees of each other. This helps them all work together and strengthens each one.

Your NUMEROLOGY is also in place when you are born, date, name (given by your parents but often suggested by your guides).   This is also a wonderful guide to who you are and when life will change for you.

THE FIVE MINUTE TWINS

I have been an Astrologer for over forty years and have always included counselling in my readings.
Recently however, I have begun advertising that I am doing Astrological Counselling.  I have had a few clients so far and they have found it extremely helpful to understand what their partner has been trying to tell them for years.
A couple I read for recently were so pleased with their own counselling that they asked me to show them how to work with their twins as they had very different natures.  I have done charts for twins in the past and found that it helped the parents to understand them.   I asked the couple how far apart they were born.  Much to my surprise they said " five minutes". , a boy and a girl who were now only eleven months old.
Well, I did not know if I could find any differences in two charts in five minutes, but I said I would try.   As I always do a Numerology Chart with Astrology I thought that perhaps the Numerological names would help to show the differences.
I did an Astrological Birth Chart for each of them and naturally all the Planets were the same and in the same places.  However, just five minutes had moved a part of a degree difference on the cusps of the houses of the charts.   The cusps are the doorways into each of the twelve sections of the chart.   On the cusp of the 7th house (the house connected with Libra and partnerships/marriage etc.) the small change in the part of a degree had moved Saturn in Libra into the boy's 8th house (the house of occult studies, working for others,etc.) and had left Saturn in Libra in the girl's 7th house.
As Saturn is the Planet connected with our responsibilities and learning about our life's work this was a very important change in their Charts.
The parents had given the boy a name that held most of the numbers he needed to accomplish his work and the girl had a name with fewer numbers but more connected with her desire for responsibility in a partnership or marriage.
The parents confirmed my reading of the boys' character and the girl's.   I was able to help them to understand the needs of both of them and the best  way to talk to them to help them to understand their natures.     
I am always amazed at how helpful and accurate Astrology can be.  Just a small part of a degree was able to help these parents to understand their little children and help them to develop their own paths.
We all come into the world with our own paths to travel and if we can know the right minute we are born we can gain so much more understanding of what to do and where to go.
Fortunately I discovered  about twenty years ago that my faithful crystal pendulum can help me to gain correct time for the many people I have done Astrology charts for over the years.
A palmist told me recently that babies have all the lines on their hand in place five months before they are  born.   So we have our Life's journey Charts and our life in our hands.
We are provided for our journey before we enter.   It is OUR journey, no others.  We should strive to be the best we can  be of who we decided to be this lifetime and not try to copy another's journey.  

EASTER AND JESUS

I am not a Catholic, or a Church of England or a Baptist.  I was told I was a Prespiterian, but I could not write that down as I could never figure out how to spell it.   My religious training was one visit to a Sunday School meeting.   I saw my friends going to Sunday School and thought I might like to try it.  I asked my mum and she said "go ahead, if you like it you can go, if not don't go".   So I tried it and was not impressed and that was the end of my religious training.  
Growing up I did not like all the rules and dogma I saw at Churches, but when a friend of mine finally got me to a Spiritualist Church and I saw their principles, specially Personal Responsibility I felt I had come home.   This was helped by the fact that Marcia, who had been on the platform that night healed my stiff neck and in the next six weeks healed a rash on my legs that had been there for 20 years.   The doctors said it was incurable.   I thought " there really must be something in this Spiritual stuff" and I still think that twenty years later.
Easter now seems to be all about holidays and chocolate eggs.   But really Jesus is the reason for the season.   I have been writing lots of articles about the New Era we are living in now since the end of the Mayan Calendar in 2012.   What has been reported about Jesus was that he was trying to get over the same message as we are getting again now  Love and acceptance.   Because he was the person who was at the beginning of the Piscean Age (the age of Sacrifice)  Jesus brought this message to us through sacrifice.   Now, we are entering into the Aquarian Age (the age of acceptance) this message is being brought to us by many beautiful people and many situations.  
It is time now to follow Jesus's message of Love and acceptance in a new way.  Not by sacrificing our own personality for ideas that have been handed down from the Piscean Age but to use the knowledge and progress that mankind has made over the years to look at life in a different way, appreciating the wonderful body that we have been given and the wonderful country we live in.  We need to stop criticising and judging and start to really look at others.   Just because other people and other countries have different ideas to us does not mean that they are wrong.    Acceptance brings tolerance and those two things could stop many disagreements and heartaches and wars.
I would like to add to this something about my Mum.   She was a kind lady, who thought that kindness was the very best characteristic anyone could have.   She never raised her voice and always supported me and my sister and brothers to do the things that we loved to do.  She was rather concerned about my interest in Spiritualism but accepted that this was who I was.   I think that she was carrying out the teachings of Jesus although she never went to Church but was loved by all who knew her.

ACCEPTANCE

Recently the word Acceptance has been brought to my attention over and over again.
Having studied and taught Astrology over the past 40 years has helped me to accept the ideas, views and personalities of others.   I know that it does not matter what I think or what my values are the other person has their own thoughts and values that are just as important to them as mine are to me.   Having looked at hundreds of Astrology Charts and taught many students I have found that No one has exactly the same birth chart as anyone else.  We all come into the world with our own mission and our own personality.  So, how do we think we have the right to say that our way is the only way to go.

This is also connected with my interest in Relationships as most problems in relationships are brought about by the fact that each person has to find a way to be their own person whilst connecting with another.   If each person thinks that what they think and what they expect from the other is the only way to go relationships cannot last long.  But if we can find a way to still have our own beliefs and accept the fact that the other person does also we should be able to live in harmony.

This can be true of all relationships, parent and child, lovers, friends etc. Our society is programmed by movies, TV, magazines etc.  The main topic in magazines is 'who is breaking up with who' or 'who cheated on the other'.  On TV as soon as a couple get together or 'fall in love' you can be sure that within the next few weeks they are fighting or 'breaking up'.  This is usually caused by the fact that one of the couple does something that the other does not feel is right.  Quite often it is just talking to someone of the opposite sex or saying something that does not suit the other.  If they truly 'loved' someone they would accept that the person really 'loved' them and was not intending to do anything that would offend them.

Being 'in love' seems to imply that each person worship the other and has no interest in anyone else in the world except them.  They can not be friends with another or even look at another person.  This creates so many heart-aches that now seems to be the accepted way to live.

At the moment there is a town in Australia and one in China where they are trying to create a 'Peace City'.  A representative from each of the different religions in the town have joined together in a group in order to accept the views and ideals of all the other groups.

Obama said on telly that he wanted to get together with the opposition party and work on America's problems together!!  Fancy two opposite political groups getting together.  Our leaders also have recently joined forces to fight child abuse.
If these leaders in the world are starting to pick up the idea of accepting and working with not against, then we are starting to work along with the new Aquarian Age we are now in.

ONE DAY

One day recently I realised that all of the information I was receiving and feeling passionate about was about Relationships..  I see Astrology as a major factor in the way we relate to others so I was astounded to receive on my computer an article from a well known American Astrologer writing about Astrology and Relationships.  His words and ideas were very much like the words and ideas I had just written about on my Blog.

When something needs to be brought to the attention of people it seems that the idea is sent out by the Universe and picked up by various people who suddenly get the urge to talk about it.  Many inventions have been created at the same time around the world.  often causing arguments as to who thought of it first.   This does not matter as it must have been the right time for that invention to be made available to the public.

Day after day I have been receiving articles about this important year 2012.  I have read so many articles about how important it is to change our old values and accept others for their values.
Relationships with all the people you have lived with during your life need to be seen in a different way if humanity is to grow and be able to handle the new energies entering the Planet now.
We need to understand that every person is unique.  We all came back here to School Earth in order to learn and grow to our full potential.   Every person has brought with them a map of their personality and direction for this life in the form of their Astrology Birth Chart.   So it is important for all of us to recognise the needs of others just as we recognise our own need.
Each life has a plan.  Each person is part of a soul group and has come here to play their role with this group.  Your partner this life could have been your mother or child in another existence.  You both have things to learn from the other so acceptance of their personality and behaviour is required.  A soul group is about 12 people who swap roles each lifetime to learn whatever is needed for their growth.  This group cannot finish their comings and goings to the Earth until all of the group has evolved.  This is why we often feel so stressed when someone close to us, partner, mother, father, child or friend does not seem to be trying to evolve.  This of course is our way of thinking.  The person we are upset with is probably growing in their own way and must go through certain situations before they decide to change.
Because Planets move all the time through the constellations they influence all of us in different ways.         We may suddenly have a need to do something entirely different to anything we have done before.           This will shock those around us unless they understand that this is a perfectly normal situation and that they too have probably changed some of their ideas and expect others to accept them.
The lack of understanding about others close to us can also be applied to others in other religions, countries or colour of their skin.
One day has been coming for a long time.  This year 2012 has been predicted for thousands of years in many countries as a year when there are to be great changes.
Changes start with each person.  If every person in the world (particularly those who run countries) changed their attitudes from war to peace the world could finally be the beautiful place it was intended to be. 

RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING

I have been an Astrologer for over 40 years. I studied with a man who taught us the Spiritual Aspects of Astrology and the importance of understanding what made you 'tick' and the purpose of your time here in this lifetime.                                                                                                                                               

 During my many years of working with people and helping them to understand themselves through Astrology I have had couples come to me to help them to understand their differences.                          

Understanding and accepting others is a key factor in moving into the Aquarian Age                                  All confrontations, personal, religious and countries are all based in the idea that I am right, you are wrong, My way is best, or the only way, your way is wrong. When this happens in a personal situation it is extremely helpful to have an Astrological Birth chart made for each person and be able to show each one why they have certain attitudes that are different to the other. Once each person can see that the other person has planetry patterns that make them think a certain way it is easier to understand their behaviour.

The word relationships seems to be more important than ever now as we are going into a new time of helping and undersanding each other. This is different to the old Piscean way of sacrifice and following whatever has been taught to them.                                                                                                              

I am available for Relationship Counselling for lovers, parents and children, friends etc. I will create a Birth chart for each person and spend time with you both showing you the reasons that you find it difficult to communicate and also suggest ways in which you can work together and accept the others needs. You can come and have a consultation with me at my home in Mayfield West (Newcastle) or I can do charts for you and do a reading for you on a USB stick.   You can contact me on my e mail address shirleydarby@dodo.com.au or by phone (02)40238406.