I was driving home from the airport. Pondering in the car. Radio silent. The value of an astrologer. It is a challenging profession for a number of reasons. Many reasons actually, I could go on for quite a while. To name a few though. Most astrologers I know are treading water, the water is thick with financial sharks, AI agents, automated reports, shallow and quick hints, soundbites, thirty second spots designed for quick consumption that is satisfying and tasty, like Coca Cola and french fries.
It is endemic of pop culture, corporate culture, and modern influencer culture that we don’t allow ourselves to go deep. I like seeing an astrologer twice a year, because they help pull me out of my perspective by looking at the objective and reflective mirror of the chart and help me see things clearer. Whether those are goals, pathways towards those goals, upcoming challenges, or emotional and karmic patterns which I am still unwinding.
The role of an astrologer is to help the client synthesis their current experience and future experiences. I don’t always agree with the astrologers who are giving me a reading, (even some of the best in the business!) but there perspective helps me see the world in a different way, to shine light on the path, and to create conscious space and mindfulness between me and my experience. This is true whether we approach astrology from a traditional predictive perspective or a modern perspective seeking insight into the soul and psyche. It is a good idea though to be clear what you want out of a reading, as some astrologers only focus on traditional methodologies, others only on modern methodologies. It is becoming more popular though to blend both styles, or for an astrologer to learn both styles and incorporate them into a reading. I practice both and depending on the reading will pepper and salt both onto the dish being served. I can focus on either one though if requested.
It is my personal opinion that Pluto is a marker of astrology and how it is approached by different generations. The current ingress of Pluto into Aquarius will orient astrology towards themes that are common with Aquarius as a symbol of orientation or archetype. These themes for Aquarius are individuality, self empowerment, community understanding, and humanism, as well as scientific application of esoteric knowledge. One of the marks of Aquarius being an Air Sign is that it is knowledge based, but that knowledge is viewed from a personal perspective. One of the great dangers of AI, which is certainly an Aquarius invention, is that it gives you answers based on your personal perspective. It does not weigh the exchange as being about coming to a common understanding, which we might find is more of a Piscean theme.
If you have not seen my explanatory video on Pluto through the signs and astrology, it is here:
Be careful with your AI astrology explorations, I find AI astrology to be generally good but often times very bad specifically. The putrid side dish of AI rotten to its core comes from a lack of ability to synthesis what it sees in a wholistic way. It is a spider insect robot grabbing bits of information associated by word and logic concepts. This is not human and does not encompass the capacity to synthesize the human heart, mind, body and soul into a single story in relation to the universe it inhabits. The machines do not have a heartfelt quantum entanglement with you, or anyone else. They are part of the cold mechanistic universe that is not life.
One of my mentors, Kay Taylor, urges all astrologers to practice some form of meditation every morning. This suits my temperament very well given a back ground of intensive retreat. Her advice is worth listening to though for all astrologers, even if it does not suit there temperament. When you sit before a chart, it is a meditation upon a soul, or the embodied soul of a moment. It is a sacred act, one that requires meditation, open mind, zen mind, beginners mind, spontaneous mind, present mind, and then the ability to give voice and words to those forms and the emptiness that surrounds them. This is why we go to astrologers, we seek those who have cultivated the craft of insight from symbols. This is different than seeing therapists, market predictors, weather forecasters, or even psychics (although there are astrologers who also exist in all of those realms) Astrology is one of the oldest most sacred professions and my hope is that its value is realized and made sacred in our fast paced tech society that offers the pop digital byte rendition of everything for the sake of corporate profit through infinite mediation.
I encourage you, if you are reading this, to see real astrologers once or twice a year. Of course I would love it if it was me, and you can book a reading below. More important than it being me though, is it is a human being, that you are lending them support as they lend you support, as we walk through this brave new world together, hand in hand, our mission to observe and craft it in the most beautiful way possible.
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