OK , Bill D., one or two 'detours' around the potholes.

There are other conceptions of how the universe is than the one proposed by science as normally practised. Somebody - ah, I've found it.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." (F.Scott Fitzgerald).

Also, I don't see astrology so much in terms of prediction, more, like Gestalt Therapy, as uncovering potentialities and the choices of the person (or country, organization etc.) whose horoscope is under consideration.(Even tho' I have two serious-astrology tomes, both published 1981, both suggesting the Soviet Union would break up by the end of the 80s, when Pluto would, for the first time, pass over the place in the zodiac where the Sun was when the Soviet Union came about in 1917. Pluto signifies death and regeneration, the Sun the heart or core.)



Someone reading a 'cold' interpretation is likely, as already demonstrated, not to see varying amounts of the reading as sounding like them. That's in part because none of us has realised much of our true being, whereas the chart is really a 'portrait' of the full potential of the person.

I got interested in astrology because I wanted to get to the bottom of things, because I'm left-field/contrary/Uranian enough (Uranus in 12th conjunct Ascendant), and because I was curious how this other world had been so invisible to me up to then. ('Occult'
means 'hidden').

Bill, I've already put some potholes of my own in earlier posts. Discussion is a two-way sort of thing, of course.

Ivor