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Most clients that we see are looking for a basic natal chart reading that deals with 6-month or 1-year cycles. They want, as we all do, to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Astrology, however, does not provide the means to do that -- regardless of what the fabled "fortune-teller" may advise. One's chart is a personal life map, as individual as a fingerprint.

It reveals patterns of probability, but says nothing about the choices you make. To use a physical analogy (instructive if not quite accurate) -- suppose you made your way through a forest, to find your path blocked by a torrential river. This represents a field of probability: You can plunge in (and maybe drown): you can follow along the bank and look for a safe crossing: you can build a raft and let the current take you downstream: you can wait until the river subsides, and then wade across; you can turn around and go back through the forest; you can change your destination.

Your life does not belong to astrology. It belongs to you. Your astrologer is helpful in predicting the "river's" condition -- the likelihood of a safe crossing downstream or upstream, what materials are available to build your raft, how soon the river may subside, etc. In other words, astrology is a tool (among others) that you can use to make choices. But it cannot choose for you.

Carole Ray & her sister, Patricia Perkins, were the original owners of Mountain Books & Gifts. Carole currently practices astrology in Boston, MA. Patricia practices astrology in Lansing and is president of the Learning Center for Astrological Studies. Carole's daughter Sara is also a reader at Mountain Books.