posted May 02, 2019 01:12 PM
SoulOfABird
Glad to see you posting.As you said, SoulOfABird, you have an Advantage because you 'know' your astrology, and can make the tweaks that you need, to have Awareness and to make a Balance when and where you need adjusting.
No secret-- is that I'm a very devout Christian, and, I 'love' astrology very much. I have the 'markers' in my chart OF an astrologer. So, humorously, God Planned it for my life??!!
I think that as far as Religion and Faith, and dogmas?? go-- that it's the same as Astrology.
Both Religion and Astrology practice, involve a process of introduction, "immersion" phase, then a true "conversion" 'inside' of you, and finally, deeply studying the texts with assimilation time -- to TRULY Understand.
With Both,
you have to get acquainted with it,
spend time learning some proper-rules/dogmas, foundation, basics.
You have to "spend the time (Saturn)" to be "steeped" in it for a VERY long time. You 'live' it.
You walk it, every single day.
In order to begin to 'really-truly' say you know things about it, it has to go DEEP.
There are phases in getting to know MORE about both. Loads of errors BECAUSE that's what happens when you are trying to 'grasp' ALL of its meanings.
And the teacher/pastor/group you belong to, matters very much, in how they influence the way you approach.
You MUST go beyond just the "superficial" and parlor-mental understandings, and develop a living Relationship to it.
{Some people might not understand what I'm saying.. ~oy.}
You have to BE it, you have to GROK everything about it. Immerse.
Same goes for Christ, the Bible, learning your astrology-- You must become a 'proper-student' with someone (a school, a good teacher-mentor) that is an ACTUAL proven trained-expert in it. Someone that will take your understanding, and plunge you DEEPLY. You have to 'do the work' as far as the 'learning'-- and Spirit inside you, begins the melding process. Talking to you personally about everything you see, hear, touch, experience.
I love what UK astrologer Steve Judd says-- He believes that the spirit of astrology chooses 'you'. The SAME thing happens, in a spiritual relationship to GOD. "You" think that you have to find God?... no. GOD, is IN your Heart. He, The Spirit, communes with you.
There are other paths that people follow, to get to know and Know God.
I remember a moment VERY Clearly when I was in college, and the Jesus Freaks and Hari Krishnas were very heavily evangelizing their own belief systems.
At that time, I was very-well into NewAge thinking. Had been since ~13 years old. 50 years ago. Cayce, and The Seth Materials; then, Yogananda's Book.
I was raised as a very devout (and REAL) Christian. (REAL, because, It "took" inside me.) Prayed the Rosary (with my grandmother every night when I was little and lived with her a while-- went to daily Mass with her), temporarily joined a cloistered monastic order in my mid-20s.
Later, went for a year of college-level training on the Foundations of Christian faith, where I learned how to use the tools I learned to 'shred' apart the entire Bible-- much like astrology students learn various tools and dig into everything-deep about astrology.
I've lived my whole life, one foot in devout Christianity, the other foot in new-age philosophies; then, for curiosity and wanting to learn something 'new' to me (beginner's mind), I started looking at astrology. Detected there were 'patterns' and that caught my attention. Soon, I was delving and increasing my Understanding into the Mysteries of the Cosmos, the study of astrology.
And doing 'all', I learned about my self, each step of the way, walking IN it. Seeing it Present, in Everything. Seeing GOD play-- As In Heaven, so on earth.
Studying astrology INCREASED my Love for God.
God has ALWAYS existed as 'I Am' ..
He created people for true and REAL Relationship.
God gave us "free will" to choose what we want, because, who wants to be in a 'forced' relationship with an other? How can you really KNOW if that other really 'means' what they say, when they tell you "I Love You."
"I Heart You".
"I Accept You".
And, I want to Know more about you … Deeply.
Back to my college experience--
Jesus Freaks, and Krishnas.
.. I had one moment when 'enough was enough' of hearing everyone 'talk'.
I told the team of Jesus Freaks who went after me several times a week for a few months --
Well, the Bible/you say that "Jesus is The Light"?
Well, I'm looking for The Light, with all my might. {Logic} When I find The Light, then, IF Jesus 'is' The Light, you won't have to "worry" about me (my soul).
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Then one night {about 12 years later}, when I was 'the least spiritually-seeking' that I'd EVER been in my adult life, I went to sleep, and had a mystical-experience and 'thorough' conversion. Dream turned 'Lucid'. (During a Full Moon Eclipse to my Neptune Libra 10th, April 1987-- 32 years now. It changed me.)
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I was NOT following ANY religion formally then.
I was a simply a tired mom of a newborn and a toddler.
Living like a Taurus 'milk-machine' roflmao!!
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I didn't find him/God... HE, in the Right Time, found me. .. (yay)
I didn't have to 'do the work'.. he did.
Spirit opened me.
It wasn't a man, a church, an institution.
It was God, Supernaturally through my sleep.
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Didn't really understand what had happened. Found out. Joined a 'church' one year later.
I do 'know' how cruel dogmatism can be. How narrow. How hurting.. (and I feel sorrow when I think of some of the damages that some dogmatics have done-- 'please' forgive them, because, 'some' of these don't know what they did, in their Zeal. You have to "GROW OLD in God" before 'what you know mentally' sinks in very very deeply and works in you. In the end, it's like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, looking behind the curtain.)
There's a Difference between 'knowing' God, and Knowing God.
And a person can't really Completely Know, because it's the Nature of God to keep Changing {to 'us' because of Saturn slicing our 'experience' in Time-- when the truth is he never changes}. And we See and can behold the various 'parts' of Him, through-out Saturn-Time, until we die.
God Invented Time.
We know him 'now' .. in-part, through the Glass Darkly-- But some day, Face-to-Face. {scripture}
We are All Students of Life.
So. It's OKAY if you need to "take a break" and step-back from 'astrology'.. Sometimes when you get too obsessed, and it upsets you, give it Rest. It's good to explore the various paths philosophies dogmas religions-- or to just be nothing, for a while.
And yes, I agree that when some transits go super super hard and tough, it's GOOD when you have Jesus and your Angels to be able to call on, for Help, .. SoulOfABird.
I-myself think/believe that the Key to Everything, is to Go Deeply. Whatever you do, and whatever interests you in life-- if you HAVE the Opportunity (and the Finances, and The Time) … then BE a DEEP DIVER. Be Thorough in your Studies, then, lean-back. And Feel. Feel 'who' you are, in the river, in the streams.
Paddle, swim. REST. Swim again. Keep on Swimming.

Jesus of Nazareth Event Charts
- http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Jesus_of_Nazareth
I've seen and paid attention to all kinds of vids and articles on astrology and Jesus.
My FAVORITE one of all, is the vid I came across, which I'll leave below. The man was a bit eccentric, and into 'conspiracy theories'. Got himself in trouble?? oh no. Disappeared for a while now. (I think he's in university now. Concentrating on his degrees.)
(topic) The Holy Grail of Astrology: Birth Chart of Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth (GianPaolo Di Cocco, posted Nov 16, 2017) [50:34] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4wHfEMyoa4
Opens with a little drama, and flair.
Cloaked in mysterious..
Says that someone 'from the Vatican' called him anonymously, with disguised voice, and 'told' him this data.
WHEN I 'saw' this chart, and his delineation, I was enrapt. This is truly a marvelous discovery he made. It's my favorite Jesus Chart.
(And has GREAT synastry to my own??? awww *wink* *Heart*)
Listening to his explanations, any student of astrology will 'learn' things about configurations, aspects-- how to pull-apart a birth chart to 'read' it. Defend it.
I think this vid is a "learning experience" for a student.
For me... It's a Marvel.
* Astrodienst chart-comments BEGIN vid-mark ^6:32
* BIRTHDATA Chart at sound-vid mark ^9:20
* Chart ASPECTS/Configs, "Grand-Sextile" mark ^10:52
* Jesus, (theory) was Astrologer, delineation ^36:32
One thing I found interesting was how he at one point said that Jesus could have been 'viewed' as a 'delusional and confused soul' by the people he was in relationship to, in that day.
I chuckled at that-- as the people who followed him, had not had 'revealed' Knowledge till the week Jesus died... When Peter "got it".
Whereupon Jesus said that it was GOD who had 'Revealed this Knowledge' to him-- (an Awakening, inside of Peter-- God-Revealed information/experience).
So. Analogy. If you are a person who can see Color-- and you are walking with and trying to teach people who ONLY see black-and-white and greys, about the World of Colors... it might be hard for those B/W viewers to understand Color.
In fact, they might call you delusional?
It takes "faith" in the teacher that Color Exists. Without FIRST having a little-faith, and taking the 'risk' that Color Exists, you might 'miss' the Reveal-moment.
Awww. I Love you All!
Nice topic, SoulOfABird.
(music) Cells, Planets
.. ~same thing (Erika Lloyd, arr Peterson, perf by Avante, very rich-accapella) [6:15] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQMOH4C7CAc
So that I can edit for Clarity, and errors..
*Please no whole quote yet, thanks*
BirthData (ref DiCocco)
Jesus of Nazareth
Sunday, 28 March, julian year 28 A.D.
Time 5:40 a.m. Local Mean Time LMT
GMT 3:19:12 {same as Universal Time UT}
Sidereal Time 17:54:52
Bethlehem, ISRL
35e12, 31n43