The insurance company Budget Direct has found in a study of 30,000 claims that over a year people of the star sign Cancer lodged 14 per cent more car-accident claims than the people of Capricorn, and 14 per cent does seem to be a significant difference in a survey of that size. It's puzzling. I have a close friend who is a Cancerian and she is a good and safe driver, but I do understand that there may be exceptions to the Cancer profile if the birth date is on a cusp.
At least I understand that now, because yesterday I talked to a professional astrologer about the danger presented by Cancerians.
Lisa Jones (0412 013 744) lives at Nelson Bay and specialises in psychological, spiritual and evolutionary astrology, and in case you don't know psychological astrology goes out to Pluto and is concerned with shape shift, spiritual astrology is concerned with the growth of the soul and evolutionary astrology is about karmic experiences, challenges and gifts.
This summary of just a part of my conversation with Lisa yesterday may clear up any confusion you may have about astrology.
The sun is about where we’re going consciously and it is important but not everything. The moon is the subconscious inner world, and everything we absorb from the moment of our first breath is the moon. It is the total of all our lifetimes, of everything a soul has encountered.
Rather than relying on just the sun, Lisa charts the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron (a planetoid), Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, the north and south nodes (where the moon crosses the axis of Earth as it goes around the sun), the ascendant-descendant axis and the MCIC axis (the ascendant being how the world sees us on first glimpse, the descendant the part of our personality we don’t own, and the MC is the fullest potential in our life’s direction and the IC is our emotional foundation), aspects (dialogues between the planets), the progressions (which are the internal shifts within us as we grow) and the transits (the external influences on us every day).
Did you find that illuminating?
And Lisa tells us not to draw too much from the Cancerians' crash statistics because Cancer is about to undergo a profound change.
Do you have any lingering doubts about the validity of astrology? I'm hoping Lisa will come onto the blog to help clear them up.
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