Astrology Can Hold the Mirror Up Too

Did anyone spot the deliberate mistake in my last post?

Ok, not so deliberate.

I’m offering the star prize of a three week holiday for two in the human colony on planet Zarg in the very next dimension as soon as it becomes available, subject to availability of course … if you can spot the place where March and April should have been transposed.

Puzzled? So am I. And is the search worth the trip? No, not really.

But here’s what I’m getting at. I have an annoying tendency (well it annoys me) to make small mistakes (large ones too sometimes) in matters of grammar, spelling and language generally, up to and including details of information. And no amount of copy editing seems to be able to prevent it.

Why should this be so? Well an astrologer would say, “Aha! You have a close sextile between Neptune (dreams, illusion, myth) and Mercury (reading, writing, thinking).”

And this is where counseling skills come in. If the said astrologer’s style was particularly blunt (Saturn/Mercury) and if the client were feeling particularly sensitive (Moon in Cancer perhaps), the client might want to punch (Mars) the astrologer on the nose (Mercury or Jupiter depending on which astro authority you talk to).

The point is, a working knowledge of the basic features of your chart can open up some useful self-awareness

And the principle here was expressed a long time ago, as is not unusual, by Shakespeare …

“… the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; (my italics)

So in other words now that I know, I have at least trained myself to re-read my emails before I press send

… but sometim com,mas plaice in the wring.