Let me provide a little background.
I started giving reading when I was a teenager, (think Wednesday of the Adam’s family). I don’t give happy horsesh**t readings or tell people what they want to hear. I do have a dumbass tax for people that repeatedly ask for astrological information and then don’t take it.
I was blessed and am very grateful to have had a community that allowed me to learn with each reading and I am still learning.
That being said.
The internet has been both a boon and a curse for Astrology and the metaphysical arts. When I started giving readings there were a few tarot decks and now there are hundreds. Astrology books were hard to come by and I devoured every book I could find. Again, I was blessed with kind individuals who gave me tarot decks that they didn’t use and books they didn’t want. Now there are volumes of astrology books written by world-class astrologers covering every aspect from mundane to esoteric. Project Hindsight has translated the ancient tomes of Hellenistic Astrologers; Vettius Valens (160 CE), Ptolemy (150 CE), Paulus Alexandrines (378 CE), and more. The world of astrology has expanded; you can now attend astrological schools, conferences, and retreats. I could live many more lifetimes and not learn all there is to know.
Standing next to all this brilliant cacophony of astrological scholarly knowledge is someone on TikTok/Facebook/Instagram/Youtube telling people about the magic portal being opened by whatever transit is currently about to happen.
And my head wants to explode.
Please don’t give these frauds your time and not your money. Today’s eclipse brought with it a multitude of “predictions.” I understand and sympathize that we live in capitalism and people need a money-making shtick. Both the “hooey phooey” hope opium and the irresponsible fear factor predictions that can be big money makers do not serve people interested in what authentic astrology has to offer.
I would like to invite you to follow me in my upcoming posts, I am going to walk you through how to delineate and hopefully de-mystify how to do astrological prediction.