The Inner Sky: How to Make Wiser Choices for a More Fulfilling Life

by Steven Forrest

Seven fundamental ideas form the backbone of any growth oriented vision of astrology. Any individual or text that diverges very far from them is probably more a part of astrology’s bad karma than part of its future. Astrological symbols are neutral. There are no good ones, no bad ones. Individuals are responsible for the way they embody their birthcharts. No astrologer can determine a person’s level of response to his birthchart from that birthchart alone. The birthchart is a blueprint for the happiest, most fulfilling, most spiritually creative path of growth available to the individual. All deviations from the ideal growth pattern symbolized by the birthchart are unstable states, usually accompanied by a sense of aimlessness, emptiness, and anxiety. Astrology recognizes only two absolutes: the irreducible mystery of life, and the uniqueness of each individual viewpoint on that mystery. Astrology suffers when wedded too closely to any philosophy or religion. Nothing in the system matters except the intensification of a person’s self-awareness.