Most of you know that I'm into a lot of New Age craziness - I love psychics, astrology, and anything esoteric. I've been that way since I was a little girl, and it just works for me. Some people have religion, some people have no religion, and I'm just sitting over here like a little hippie, believing in the mysteries of the universe. I've been dying to get a chart reading my whole life. I've dabbled in it a little bit, but I've never had the kind of reading I had yesterday. I told Vest that I thought it was better than anyone I've seen thus far. I think a lot of it had to do with having something physical and tangible to refer to - my birth chart.
Basically, the process went as follows - I submit my exact birth date, time, and location, and the astrologer creates a birth chart with a map of where all of the planets were in the sky at that time. Then, on top of that chart, he looks at where the planets are now and over the next year and what that means in relation to my unique birth chart. The reading is basically him going through your personality and identifying strengths and weaknesses and telling you how you can get to your true path. I LOVE LOVE LOVE personality tests - from Myers Briggs, Insights, Strengthsfinder, etc. - so I enjoy this activity immensely.
Most of what he said were things I already know about myself. I'm a Virgo, but my rising sign is Libra, and people often misconstrue and misunderstand me, which is 100% true. I don't know if anyone out there really "gets" me completely - it's the great tragedy of my life. We talked about career and love - the two things that are constantly eluding me. Or to quote @sororityproblem, "My favorite American Horror Story is my love life." My job is a close second. We spoke about my desire for entrepreneurship. He said that it is all there - that I have the capacity and the personality to do it, but I have to take some steps first. One, get my money right. I've never had a reason to really watch my funds (which, let me tell you is a tremendous piece of privilege that I struggle with daily). If I'm going to take the risk of doing my own thing, I have to start caring about the health of my finances. The next piece is deciding what I want to do. Based on my chart, the main thing I need to keep in mind is that I have to be doing something that puts ME first. Not doing something because the money is good (ie wedding planning), but doing something that puts my unique personality and interests at the forefront. It was interesting food for thought.
He highlighted my people-pleasing, and the fact that I am an extremely opinionated person who does everything she can to make other people comfortable and subvert those opinions. I have a really, really strong personality. In my core, I'm the kind of person that people either hate or love, but when I first meet people I hide that in the hopes of getting along with everyone. He says if I stop doing that, it might help attract the kind of love that I need. As far as love goes, I am picky and fickle and I need to be my real self, in order to attract a mate on the same level as I am. He said I'm not the type who wants an "easy" relationship - I need spark, fire, passion, and some degree of argument. I need a challenge. Good on paper ain't gonna work for me, which is a lesson I've learned well over the years. He told me that I'm very particular about my friends, which is the God's honest truth, and has become truer through the years. Most of my friends from SF can attest to this - I'm starting to burn bridges and silo people that don't fit into my life anymore. He also noted my tendency to put friends in boxes - this is friend I go to for love advice, this is the one I drink with, this is the one I talk to about my career - and he recommended mixing that up a bit. Living with the uncertainty of not knowing how my drinking friend will act if we start talking about jobs. That's a hard thing for me to do, but I'm trying.
Anyway, I'm babbling on and on, but the basic jist is that I really, really enjoyed getting the reading done, and it makes me even more interested in resuming my study of astrology. It was a big hobby of mine growing up. I even think it may have broken me of my psychic/tarot habit!
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