I watched the Russian sputnik in the evening sky pass over London. I became absorbed by the U.S. missions to the Moon and was SO disappointed when the first photos showed no Moon-men!
Maybe Journey into Space created an affinity with the planets.
My youngest daughter loved stories. We had more or less gone through the children’s section of the library. I thought I’d try the ‘Foreign Folk Tales and Sagas’ section in the Adult section for her. There was a book lying on its side. Its bright colours attracted me and I could see a pair of fishes, a ram’s head, a sort of fairy maiden. I slid it out. It was the large foreign edition of ‘Compleat Astrologer’ that had been placed in the wrong section.I glanced through it, recognised much of the sign explanantions of family and decided to take it home. 3 months later I bought the book. I devoured the small astrology section of the library. After a year of self study I telephoned our country’s most renowned astrologer to ask if she could recommend a teacher. She put me on to the Pisces Sun/ Sag. Ascendant person who made astrology live for me and after 3 years sent me on my way with the words, “Don’t just read the books; go beyond them.” A maxim I’ve never forgotten.
In a film I was watching recently, the ‘hero’ says how finding a particular book changed his whole life, to which the reply was, “Maybe you didn’t find the book, the book found you.” In a way, I can relate to that.
Of the accepted planets, only transiting Jupiter ( ruler IC) squared natal Moon (ruler 11th H) when I found the book, but transiting BML in my 3rd house opposed and transiting Chiron conjoined my 9th house Sun. I had been through a very traumatic preceding few years (tr. Uranus opposing and Neptune and Pluto inconjunct natal Sun). Finding astrology initiated the healing process of so many years of ‘living with a pain inside’. When I started classes, transiting Uranus in my 3rd house had just entered Sagittarius to sextile natal Neptune and later trine natal Pluto, whilst tr. Neptune and Pluto aspected natal Mars and Saturn. A whole new world opened before me.
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