Astro Coach Academy

Tag: Communication

  • You’re Not The Boss Of Me

    Have you ever had the experience of meeting someone and communication just flows? You understand each other without efforts? The conversation brings you new insights, you feel supported, encouraged and, in turn, you support and encourage. Your ideas are valued and recognised.

    And have you ever had the exact opposite experience? No matter what you say or do, no matter how much efforts you make, you seem to be misunderstood, misread, belittled, denigrated, underestimated or even controlled, and very frustrated.

    Communication Between Planets

    Remember the theatre play: some characters have a natural empathy for each other, they inherently understand and support each other. And some characters just don’t. It’s the same for planets.

    How do you know whether 2 planets have smooth or challenging connection? Look at the aspects (the lines connecting the planets inside the inner circle).

    By the way, notice that we talk about “smooth” or “challenging” communication, not “good or bad”. Nothing in an astro chart is good or bad per se. Sometimes challenging communication leads to the deepest insights and achievements. So try to use a descriptive language rather than judge.

    Most astro charts will have some kind of ways to differentiate. In the example above (and many softwares will use this convention), blue means smooth and red means challenging.

    How do you determine whether the line is red or blue? It has to do with the elements of the signs the planets are in. Some elements just have an innate friendliness, some don’t.

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  • Communication Is Key

    Following up on the post “Introduction to the astro chart”, there is one more thing you want to know about planets. They communicate with each other.

    Let’s have a look at the astro chart again.

    Planets Communicate

    You see the planets around the zodiac (represented by the circle). Then, you can see lines running within the inner limits of the circle from one planet to the other. Those are called ‘Aspects’ between planets, and essentially, it tells you:
    1. that 2 (or more) planets are having a conversation,
    2. and whether the conversation is flowing smoothly or not.

    Why is it important to understand?

    Well, just think about real people for a moment. Say you are faced with a dilemma or a problem, you have been thinking about it all by yourself for a moment, but you do not seem to see an answer. If you have no access to anyone, you’ll need to keep thinking about it all by yourself, maybe sleep over it and see whether an insight comes up the next morning. If you have a phone, you can call an expert you know will be able to assist you, or talk to a friend who may be able to give some insight because they know you well. If you have online access, you can connect and get a much wider range of information.

    It is the same for the planets.

    To go back to the theatre play analogy we used in a previous post, the actors either appear on-stage alone, or pairs, or in larger groups. Each actor has his or her own character, they behave in certain ways, but their behaviour may vary depending on who they interact with. Their environment will highlight different sides of their personality. Say a King will probably not behave the same way at a dinner party and on the battlefield.

    The relationship between planets, as indicated by the aspects, will therefore give many insights as to how the planets interact with each other, what sides of their ‘personalities’ come out more readily and the general environment they live in.

    More on aspects coming next.

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