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I have a friend who is a typical Virgo. She admits it. Being very Virgo she needs to understand how everything works, and has a very analytical mind. Yet her Aquarius Moon drives her towards the metaphysical things that she cannot really fathom, so there is a spark of interest in things like astrology. We had a long talk on the subject and in the end she was very frustrated because, even though she in a way accepted everything I told her, especially with me backing it up with charts and graphs etc (very Virgoan!) her mind still wouldn't acknowledge it because she could not prove it.

Put an acorn in the ground and you know it will grow into an oak tree. Nothing quite as logical as that with a square between Venus and Pluto making a person possessive. She needs to be able to see and understand why these things work in astrology and the other mystic subjects. I told her that her Virgo mind will never accept these alternative beliefs, because there is no tried and tested way of really ascertaining how and why such things come to be. She reluctantly accepted that, and went back to working out why her car wouldn't start.

It reminded me of my early days of getting to grips with astrology. Initially I had set out to disprove it. I was on a training course teaching us how to train others. One week the tutor sent us away with the idea of coming back next week prepared with a three minute talk on a subject we knew very little or nothing about. I chose astrology and set out to ridicule it: how can all Sagittarians react the same way, that sort of stuff. Well, it opened a can of worms - everyone was fascinated and we went to the pub afterwards for one of those wonderful long winded open ended conversations where there are no real answers, just more questions.

...the more I learned, the more I wanted to learn...

That was the beginning for me, from then on there was no holding me back, the more I learned the more I wanted to learn more. But in those early days, my logical Capricorn mind (I am a Sagittarian with Mercury in Capricorn) didn't like the sort of unanswerable things I kept coming up with. One part of me was perfectly ok with the astrological results I had arrived at via comparing persons charts that had similar factors that made them all behave in the same manner. I knew, for instance, that people with Mars in Scorpio never settled for second best if they wanted something badly enough, and people with Jupiter-Saturn oppositions swung from optimism to pessimism.

But why? What was the exact cause of these factors? I needed to know the logical answers, and was in a deadlock situation going nowhere. Then one day I made a decision. Because I could see that if I could just accept that these things were mysterious and probably not meant to be understand to the nth degree, then I could accept the workings of astrology. After all, the very nature of the art/science is clouded in mystique. So that is what I did. Simply accepted it, safe in the knowledge that I knew I would get the necessary results for my client's questions. And I have never looked back. Some things are not meant to be fully understood and by accepting that philosophy and working with and trusting in what we know, we can only get better on this enlightened path. Unlike a certain friend of mine with an over analytical mind...

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