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ElsaElsa Boards Topic: When did astrology really hit home for you? http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ ElsaElsa Boards Topic: When did astrology really hit home for you? en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:19:47 +0000 Sue Ellen on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22976 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:08:25 +0000 Sue Ellen 22976@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ Astrology made sense for me when I saw my first computer generated chart.  My sister did my natal chart for me and handed me several books a little later.  I'd tried several decades earlier to make my own chart and couldn't quite decide where my moon was.   The moon changed signs on my birthday.  The book I was reading said to read both signs and decide.  NOT to offend anyone, but I thought Cancer was too mushy and Leo too arrogant.  It turns out my moon is in the last few degrees of Cancer.  After reading some more, I've learned that Cancer fits.   I'm a hobbiest only.   I've learned a lot by looking at the charts of my family members.   chamirose on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22960 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:27:09 +0000 chamirose 22960@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ My brother gave me an astrology book with software for xmas one year (10? years ago) and I was shocked, surprised and delighted (he is aquarius with a lot of scorpio and he always gives me fantastic gifts). The rest has been little by little with periods of Aha! brilliance and depressing plateaus and seas of confusion, but its all growth, i think. mokihana on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22946 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:54:38 +0000 mokihana 22946@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ Goddess, what you said about Elsa "it snuck in, little by little, and i started to connect the dots when it was always on target. i'd check this or that aspect in my own chart" is something that has made a major positive difference for me, too.  Through osmosis the astrology began to make sense! I've used astrology and other cosmic windows most of my life; but the details of the craft was out of my reach.  When I found Elsa's blog a year ago astrology in real life starting talking a language I could understand.  The aspects, houses, transits made sense through her stories.  I relate to story ... I was raised on stories.  Finding Elsa's blog and reading the comments from people fleshed out a theory of looking at life; and then I began to speak up on the blog.  Little by little I could add the astrology of things to my real life.  At a very crucial time in my life, I found astrology to be a way to look at my choices.  Building upon Elsa's stories, I am better able to understand and feel my way through the Houses, and appreciate the Moon to my Sun ... on and on. Elsa storys (like creates) real life astrology and then I can get how it works/doesn't work because of the sky at work/play/war.  At this later stage of my life, I appreciate astrology as a navigation tool.      silver gun on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22692 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:21:56 +0000 silver gun 22692@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ Some time after Saturn Return. Strawberry Fields on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22611 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:20:04 +0000 Strawberry Fields 22611@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ When did astrology really hit home for you? When I applied it to a (criminal) situation that had been playing out over many decades, involving many players, but had never "burst" (of its own) or been busted... until ~I~ came along. Looking at all the charts involved (including mine) spelled out "why me", why ~I~ was the agent of exposure, and what all the other parties' parts were, and why. Even the "victim", who knew nothing about astrology and was not a believer until then, dropped her jaw and "saw it all", clear as spring water. That "case" was a turning point in my own development as an astrologer. athenian200 on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22551 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:24:11 +0000 athenian200 22551@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ It didn't. I just find it to be another lens through which I can look at myself, like a personality test or something. It's definitely just as useful. lindsey on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22541 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:47:29 +0000 lindsey 22541@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ Neva....I hear you!!  I also have Saturn crossing my Ascendant (my ASC at 2 degrees Libra) and there is ole Pluto on the IC in 4th house.  Life feels VERY different. I've believed in astrology since I first learned of it...I guess as young teen.  Not sure if I knew about it as a child...I just don't remember my first encounter.   But it HIT home in the biggest way with my first reading with ELSA not too many months ago.   Suddenly my pain wrapped up with my 7th house impestuous Venus in Aries ...always squaring and jarring with my Saturn in CAP....well, I saw the 'script' of my life and loves floating in front of me with such clarity  for the first time.  I had the reading just before a vacation and spent a lot of time in the pool swimming and crying under the water (...true to Pisces)  I realized that all those years when I wondered why my life was not turning out like my sister or star-blessed trined (and otherwise) friends....was....well, it was written.  It has been a life of blessings and burdens, but my life to live and come to terms with.  And I thought .... thank god I lived to this age (48) to really begin to understand astrology.....imagine not knowing this. So I guess this is the way I'm approaching  this somewhat monumental  Saturn sq. Pluto....and on the angles.... it's my life....I want to live it and simulataneously transcend it.  Astrology brings this home, now more than ever. OK ... sorry, I was waxing poetic....fish tales !!  Elsa on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22536 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:31:20 +0000 Elsa 22536@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ Thank you, goddess. :) goddess on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22528 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:15:03 +0000 goddess 22528@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ it was from reading elsa's old blog that it started to sink in. i didn't even characterize myself as interested any anything metaphysical at the time (although i'd dabbled in my younger years). that was maybe 5 years ago? i thought it was all a bunch of wishful thinking hocus-pocus. i used to skim over allllllll the planetary references and just read the story part of posts. snort! then it snuck in, little by little, and i started to connect the dots when it was always on target. i'd check this or that aspect in my own chart. elsa did a solar return reading for me several years ago and bam - she nailed who it to the wall with a flourish. i remember when i read the "miracle healing" story on the old blog. initally, i'd thought the old blog must be true life, but when i read that, I thought, "Wait a minute. Those kind of things don't happen." I was confused for a while until Elsa started specifying her stories were true and including a few photos. I realized the stories weren't a clever literary device, and this chick was for real and it challenged my preconceived perceptions dramatically. in fact, opening my mind up and putting my own truth on the line as i see it beyond what others might think has been a specific gift i've gotten from elsa's work.  that's a BIG one, man... user on "When did astrology really hit home for you?" http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/when-did-astrology-really-hit-home-for-you#post-22527 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:59:58 +0000 user 22527@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ I agree with you, citygirl. I was seeing a therapist during my saturn return who recommended I get my chart done. Before that, I hadn't really known much about astrology except for sun sign stuff. Saturn was transiting my 12th house and hitting my natal Saturn, Sun, and Mercury over a period of time. I think once I started reading about experiencing your whole chart, that was when it hit home for me. The most helpful thing about it was that it showed me that I'm not crazy just because my emotions have little relation to what's going on in the outside world sometimes. That there isn't always a rational 'reason.' That helped alleviate a lot of the self hatred I had felt before then, because I was taught that feelings are concrete, and mine are anything but, sometimes.