Self-analysis by astrology – Religious Media Weblog

  In 1997, I left a medical group in Fort Myers, Florida to begin a brand new job in Miami Seaside that allowed me to apply drugs and likewise take pleasure in free time. That’s once I discovered about Iris, an intuitive astrologer, who would turn into my instructor and pal. I additionally met a small group of people that have been beginning new lives in Miami. All of us met due to an indication: “Yoga on the seaside, 6pm.”

In a single yoga session, whereas discussing her budding enterprise enterprise, my pal Fiona informed me about her yearly visits to Iris, an intuitive astrologer, who appeared to have the ability to reply sensible and particular questions akin to totally different job and funding prospects, relationships, and even concerning the timing of sure actions. What Fiona described was like an annual well being examination with a household physician to make sure a wholesome and productive life, however with an intuitive. As a doctor, a yearly checkup made sense to me, however with regard to a psychic who was an astrologer? I needed to verify this out.

A number of months after I discovered about Iris, I booked a studying together with her to get extra particulars about my life and to see how she labored. She greeted me with a monologue and defined that she was warming up and attending to a heightened state. As she constructed my astrological chart, she suggested that one of the simplest ways to make use of her expertise was simply to pay attention and provides quick solutions when requested. And to “write it down.” She continued, “I’m going to verify dates to see if I’m analyzing your chart or if I have to right the mathematics. What occurred while you have been six or seven years previous?”

I replied, “My household moved from the Philippines to the US.”

“The transfer with your loved ones modified your future. Totally different areas, totally different folks will give totally different influences, good or unhealthy, relying on the surroundings and alternatives introduced. We’re like crops. If somebody takes care of us, we will do nicely. If we’re uncared for, we gained’t. An orchid would thrive in Miami however gained’t do nicely within the desert until tended to. But it surely additionally will depend on your structure, what your character is. “
In the course of the studying, I stored silent as a result of I didn’t wish to disrupt her practice of thought. As if studying my thoughts, Iris stated, “The astrologer reads you. The psychic turns into you. I verify what I see with astrology. I feel I obtained you. The time of beginning you gave me was a bit off, however I feel I rectified your chart. I ask folks to offer me the time that’s written on the beginning certificates. Generally that’s totally different from what the mom remembers. In some nations, they don’t even doc the time of beginning. Then, I ask inquiries to see if necessary occasions occurred when the chart exhibits one thing would’ve occurred. By confirming dates in your life, I see if the time of beginning that you just gave me is right or if I have to rectify it.

I likened Iris’s technique of explaining a chart to my job as a physician describing the course of medical illness to my affected person. If a affected person had a stroke, I would say, “You eat greater than sufficient, and also you seemingly favor wealthy meals. As you bought older, the tendency to develop excessive levels of cholesterol and hypertension manifested in order that even with train and medicine, your arteries nonetheless constructed up a variety of ldl cholesterol plaque. You’ve the genetic predisposition for a cerebrovascular accident (stroke), but it surely’s your surroundings, getting access to wealthy meals, and the habits that you just’ve developed that manifested your stroke.”

As a physician, I studied how a illness progressed and the doable methods it manifested, however I didn’t know when organ injury would seem. I didn’t know when the guts assault or stroke would occur till the circumstances grew to become symptomatic. I solely handled the signs. Iris had studied what the planets and the totally different mixtures meant from the knowledge handed down from the collective observations of historic astrologers. She took the beginning information of the place the planets have been positioned from an ephemeris after which plotted them on an astrological chart. From this astrologic map she was capable of clarify which tendencies would seemingly manifest in an individual’s life—and when.

Iris said, “Astrology is the map of your potential.” She described the trajectory of my previous experiences and the way the astrological chart confirmed the alternatives I made towards greater schooling. She went on to say, “Your natal chart is sort of a street map in time with the place to begin being the date, time, and place of your beginning. And the planets within the sky don’t simply keep in a single place. As they transfer of their orbits, I additionally calculate how the planets revolve in a progressed chart that will even mirror the modifications in your life. The planets will transfer by the twelve totally different homes in your horoscope and proceed to explain how you’re altering, how you’re maturing in your relationships, work, and even in your house life, however to verify what I’m seeing for the longer term, I’ve to ensure I obtained your previous proper.”

Iris defined, “Astrology lets you turn into conscious of your strengths, weaknesses, and choices, so you can also make higher selections. All of the planets contribute to your character. Your Saturn offers you a robust sense of self-discipline to beat obstacles, to study the teachings that he presents to you. It was exhausting, however didn’t you end medical college? There’s a give and soak up life; you possibly can’t have all the things. Saturn additionally represents limitations and resides within the fifth home, which additionally represents kids. Kids are a type of creativity. It’ll be exhausting so that you can have children. It’s not which you could’t have kids, however there could be obstacles. Are you in a relationship now? Are you interested by pursuing one?”

“No. I had an accident at eight years previous and I sustained many inner accidents so I’ve adhesions that might complicate being pregnant.”

“How you reside your life additionally will depend on your surroundings. Not simply location however who you encompass your self with. You go to astrology courses. You’re right here now. You’re asking questions. That is the place you’re placing your efforts. Not all people is meant to have children. Not everybody could be a physician.”

The studying with Iris was like an analytic psychotherapy session however utilizing the shortcut of astrology to get to the purpose in a single go to. She homed in on an inner wrestle that triggered me anxiousness however that I had efficiently deflected from my consciousness.

After I was eighteen, I had the unrealistic expectation that by the age of twenty-five I’d have 5 kids and be in medical college. There was no query in my thoughts that I’d be married as nicely. Actuality stored getting in the best way. After getting established with my profession, my consideration stored getting sidetracked to extra attention-grabbing matters, akin to how intuitives functioned. In the course of the studying with Iris, I grew to become conscious of part of myself I had not been acutely aware of. I had informed myself, it’s okay. I had time. My organic clock was not ticking but. Iris’s seemingly harmless remark, “Not all people is meant to have children,” hit a chord with me.
Later that afternoon, as I walked on the seaside, I thought of what she stated. I’d been fooling myself into pondering that I may have all of it—a household life, a profession, and an unfettered life exploring the esoteric arts. The household life that I laid out as an eighteen-year-old was by no means going to get off the again burner, however part of me didn’t wish to let it go. I nonetheless held onto the convictions of my youthful self. Unconsciously, I used to be making an attempt to maintain a promise to my eighteen-year-old self whose worldview I had outgrown. Iris introduced into the forefront my inner wrestle and allowed me to just accept that marriage and a household weren’t the reply to my query of “What’s subsequent?”

The idea that what is going on within the sky can clarify what has occurred prior to now and supply future prospects for a person’s life is tough to just accept until you expertise it.

Astrology, similar to drugs and different sciences, has basic guidelines, which suggests it may be discovered. Interpretation and prediction comply with tips. As soon as I began learning the topic, the prediction facet of astrology grew to become much less and fewer like magic. I share my experiences informed by the lens of astrology in my memoir, Open for Interpretation, as a result of I really feel that astrology may be useful for any particular person who needs to find out about themselves, whether or not they turn into a pupil of the topic or search skilled recommendation.

Open for Interpretation: A Physician’s Journey into Astrology will probably be out there in June, 2023. Alicia Blando, MD may be contacted at www.aliciablando.com