Mary O'Gara

When clients meet with an astrologer for a reading, what the client usually wants (or thinks she wants) are answers.  While there’s a science to astrology that lets astrologers predict accurately the hours the Moon will be void or the duration of Saturn in Libra, answers are only the tip of the iceberg of the art of astrology.

Astrology is also a language and a powerful mnemonic device, a way of categorizing and reducing everything in the human’s universe to symbols that can be manipulated and discussed.   The questions astrological patterns raise are truly more significant than the answers.

Here are questions worth asking about significant relationships (both personal and professional) now:

1.  Is this relationship vital and fulfilling for both of parties?

2.  What’s right about the relationship?

3.  What would make it even better?

4.  And, after asking the first questions, sometimes it is important to ask, Would we both be better if we put this relationship on hold, either temporarily or permanently?

Use the questions and your journal for a little serious study.   Ask the question more than once and check out the answer with your personal experience, with people who observe the relationship and with the other party.   Dig deeply and make changes carefully.  Remember Saturn brings concentration and focus as well as boundaries and endings.