Friday, November 18, 2011

Astrological Options - Ways and Approaches For Reading the Wheel

By Gilbert Karlis


Once you have learned the basics: planets, signs, houses and aspects, and have set the wheel into a readable format, probably the most component of astrology comes for the table, how to read the wheel. I would love to say there is one correct way to do this, set in concrete, signed by deity, but which is just not true. As always, you'll find several alternatives for reading the wheel, which fit nicely into our series on astrological choices.

As I studied astrology over the years, the ways sifted themselves into preferences, individuals which were easy for me to course of action and which gave probably the most results. However, all the reading skill from the globe will not do you a bit of very good if the person cannot identify with your reading. At times, the program itself will be the key on the reading. Looking through different methods ought to allow you to determine which works most effective for you personally over a regular basis. You are able to always trot out other ways for occasional use if your standard program isn't giving you beneficial results. The end result is really a reading that both advantages the client and that with which they are able to identify.

It is possible to create a effortless beginning location for reading a wheel including the Ascendant or the Midheaven (both are household cusps), or a world this kind of the Sun, or a theme such as work, family, lovers, or to go with whatever comes towards the forefront of one's mind whenever you begin the reading. I have had moments when some pattern or signature leaps off the page and assaults my senses and generally causes me to start there. You can find readings which are extremely organized. You will find those people that hop, skip and start all over the place. I am sure I were guilty of that more than the course of my study. Once I first started out my study, it was rather scattered simply because I had not formulated a format for reading. Why even bother to develop a format?

There is so a lot facts contained inside a wheel that it would be simple to miss important pieces in case you did not have some method, framework or order to what you might be doing. I remember way back as soon as a lady approached me and stated she had been studying astrology for 11 years and nevertheless was not able to do a complete reading. Bless her heart... I gave that lady A for effort and tenacity and proceeded to show her how to assemble a reading. As I went from student to teacher this was 1 on the areas I tackled first. It's simple to do an all-over-the-place reading, but you are able to miss so much. It is not that hard to develop a format for reading so you will at least touch to the more important parts on the reading for the client. Rigidity is not beneficial because there's also anything to become stated for spontaneity and that occasional flash of insight. So we want a uncomplicated but flexible format, a single that will adapt itself to such spontaneity and insight but will hit the high notes and crucial things for each wheel.

If you begin with houses, specifically the Ascendant or Midheaven, you'll would like to jobs systematically for the wheel. You will wish to cover

what the property represents

the sign of influence on the cusp

the house position from the cusp ruler and its aspects

any planets in the house

aspects to and from people planets

aspects for the houses of rulership for those people planets

That is just the commencing of the reading.

If you begin with planets you'll do approximately the exact same technique but you will focus over a energy of each world systematically for the wheel.

select a globe and describe the energy of that globe in general

describe it from the sign it inhabits

describe it within the household it inhabits

appear to the rulership sign by home and read that

read the aspects for that planet

apply that aspect reading to the residence of occupation and rulership

In other words develop the reading for that single planet thoroughly after which do every on the other ten bodies within the same manner. Should you develop your reading this way, do not forget to also read the Ascendant and Midheaven as well because they will have been left out of this method. For suggestions on developing this deeper read the notes on derivative property systems given below.

If you start having a theme just like jobs or family, list what pertains to that theme after which systematically work your way through the list. Select several important themes and systematically jobs your way via them. For example, jobs is both a 6th property along with a 10th household issue so you...

glimpse on the 6th and 10th house of the wheel

consider the signs on the cusps

the planets in those houses

their home rulerships

and any aspects

jobs is also a natural Virgo and Capricorn problem so is often a natural Mercury and Saturn issue, so you need to include individuals inside your work reading as well

Another possibility, finance can be closely associated with jobs since it is really a by-product. The finance houses are named succedent: 2, 5, 8, and 11. Now we now have likely gone outside your safe zone astrologically, but they are somewhat related and might be valuable for ones "work" reading. The second property stands out as the money that flows via your pocket or portable possessions. The eighth house is long-range or joint financing. The fifth is speculation and short-term financing, play money. The 11th is the material outcomes of the career.

The very best way to learn what I have just described is referred to as the "derivative house system" or "wheeling the houses". I mentioned earlier that you just can do the really same factor on the planets. Every planet, every sign, and each house becomes their unique very first position and the succeeding houses and planets contained inside each succeeding house become the 2nd, 3rd, 4th from the plane, the house, or the sign, whichever procedure you will be following. Put your finger on the Sun and which is house range 1 for ones self-identity and ego. The next home and any planets contained within that property are the significance method to your Sun, the third household and planets are the communication for ones Sun, and so forth. You are able to do this for every entire world and for every household as well. You could go back and study the signs in this manner just to give yourself a deeper understanding in the signs themselves. I would not do this particular sign workout for somebody wheel.

There is really a larger picture to reading a wheel that we now have not examined, what I call the overview. Should you had been an artist painting a picture, you'd almost certainly not put a daub of paint the following and an additional daub of paint more than there until somewhere along the line you ended up using a portrait of somebody or a picture of the moving train.

you'd probably decide what type of painting you planned to complete in accordance with your skills and own preference

you would choose the size and kind of canvas

you would pick the medium ahead of you started

you will plot out your general strategy

and mentally type an overall game plan to your jobs of art

You can do the same issue astrologically. Begin on the large picture and work your way into the detail.

take into account the overall spread in the wheel such as the seven patterns by Marc Edmund Jones, that may be the person's overall approach to life

look at any major configurations for example T-squares, grand squares, grand trines, yods, kites, etc. for your dominating or controlling pattern

take into account the hemispheres and also the quadratures to discover the key activities during the life and the developmental attitudes

look at the distribution of signs and houses to see strengths and weaknesses, areas of good import and individuals areas much less considered. Weakness and strength are both valid reading points

look for compensation causes previous to you decide weakness or absence of a quality. For example: no earth inside a wheel can easily be compensated for by getting Saturn on the Ascendant or conjunct the Sun or wheel ruler.

glimpse on the Sun, Moon and Ascendant for your quick thumbnail sketch from the person. You are looking at their pro-active self, their reactive self and their coping skills, respectively.

As you are able to see you will discover numerous ways and I have described only a few. For myself, I start with that overall method after which fill inside the detail with 1 with the other methods. Occasionally I'll encounter a wheel that causes insight to start at me and spontaneity occurs. Whatever you do, discover the way that may be comfortable to you and gives you the details you'll want to do a beneficial employment on each reading. Be flexible ample to accommodate numerous demands, just be thorough. You will flow into a system of reading that satisfies you. Just remember it's not the "only" way or the "right" way. Nothing is carved in stone and signed by deity. When you lock yourself into "only" and "right" your ego has entered your perception. Your chosen process is great for you personally but others may have an additional yet potent way.




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