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Why study astrology? What is the purpose of interpretation?

One good reason is because it’s fun.

And another very good reason is that astrology can open us up intuitively … It can be a very useful tool for finding your path … seeing the face of God within you … and within others.

Each of the 12 signs has its own unique energy … its own skillful means … its own path … its own power. It’s all part of the beauty and the bounty of the Universe. There are infinite possibilities — and these are reflected when we use a tool such as astrology … or Tarot, or Zen meditation, or music, or dance … or whatever.

Every chart is a Mandala — a complete cosmology in itself … a map of the entire Universe. The ‘macrocosm-microcosm’ teaching is brilliant, and very deep: As above, so below. As below, so above. Each little piece of the Universe is in its own way a complete Universe, reflecting the whole. In the atom, the galaxy is mirrored.

So we can, if we wish, look at a chart as a purely ‘arbitrary’ design, on a piece of paper, that we will sit with, and see what associations will arise … As we take this time to look, as we do this ritual, we start to see many things … Mirrors within mirrors … The chart reflects the person … the person reflects the chart … the chart reflects the Universe … the person reflects the Universe … They are all the same…

The purpose of interpretation is to find your own path … whatever that may mean to you … Every person’s path is different — everyone has a unique birth chart.

Each sign is a face of God … each of us is evolving in our own unique, individual way. Astrology, clearly used, can reflect that evolution.