Five Reasons Why Now is the Time to Learn How to Read Birth Charts

FIVE REASONS WHY NOW IS THE TIME TO LEARN HOW TO READ BIRTH CHARTS

MILLENNIALS MAY be indifferent to religion and the notion of a faraway God, but they are positively “on fire” with the felt sensing of soul. Nowhere is this more evident than in the dramatic uptick of interest in astrology and online astrological consultations.

As the economy contracts and conventional mental health becomes pricey and inaccessible, new, archetypally savvy modalities (condensed into pithy, single-session formats) are rising up to take its place.

This punchy, existential kind of counsel– no matter how impressively accurate — has its downside. Long-term change requires sustained introspection and accountability over time. This is the power of standard therapy.

On the other hand, the paradigmatic jolt of encountering Creation’s archetypal fingerprint upon us– has its own long-term impact. We don’t just get personal insight and direction; we get a visceral experience of being embedded in a intelligently designed, soul-evolving universe.

Why the renaissance of astrology? Because, for the average Millennial (26-40 years old), soul-brand is all the “god” they need.

It’s not hard to see where this is going. The therapist of the future will succeed because they couple counseling skill with archetypal insight; ego-management with capacity to align with soul.

Imagine handing out a business card whose tagline was,”Healthy habits of mind within an orphaned paradigm.” Creepy, no? Constrained by the paperwork and pigeonholing protocols of health insurance companies devoted to the god of scientific materialism, many of today’s therapists feel like compassionate prostitutes.

Clearly, the two halves of the Sagittarian archetype (counselor/priest) long to be stitched back together. As the astrological one-two punch of the Saturn/Pluto conjunction (2020) & the Uranus/Saturn square (2021-2022) continue to destabilize the world economy, how long before the reduced economic benefits offered by bankrupt corporate health plans finally free therapists to take the risk of soulful self-employment? The therapeutically strategic are beginning the transition now.

Accelerated Generational Change

To understand how quickly attitudes toward psychology and spirituality are changing, check out the three generational categories below. Notice how the zeitgeist of each generation shifts in progressively shorter periods of time: from 20 years (Boomers) to 15 years (Gen X) to 5 years (Millennials).

Boomers: 1944-1964 (56-76 years old)
Gen X: 1965-1980 (41-55 years old)
Millennials: 1981-1986 (26-40 years old)

What are we rushing towards? Simply put:

Less God-fearing, more Soul-nearing

In a healthy psyche, the impersonal, lawful aspect of god (masculine) and the personal, nurturing aspect of god (feminine) are equally attended to. Indeed, “being present” demands that we stand strong in the tension between these two apparently antithetical realms.

What happens when mind becomes too remotely witnessing or too emotionally enmeshed? On a religious level: Rigid dogmatism or flaccid relativism. On a therapeutic level: soul-less clinicality or a kind of dharmicly directionless empathy.

Tomorrow’s counselor/priests will not be obligated to affirm the illusion of otherness, but they will be karmically compelled to have compassion for the cosmic claustrophobia that it produces. At last, they will be free to facilitate the archetypal self-inquiry needed to wake up as witness of ego and live responsibly within its dream.

Will astrology be one of the soul-seeing modalities favored by future therapists? Here’s five reasons why the answer may be “yes.”

Five Reasons to add astrology to your therapeutic tool box

1) Millennial/GenX souls sense the cosmic roots of personality and are uncomfortable with overly materialistic, matrix-molding approaches to mentoring.

Helping people integrate into society without, at the same time, helping them honor their soul’s unique, divinely-ordained style of awakening is a tacit vote for the scientific materialism that’s sterilizing the planet. Self-saving without world-saving dishonors the feminine face of god. Defund the (therapy) police!

2) Millennial/GenX souls want fast therapy

Unsure of how much time they have left on the planet, climate-conscious Millennials want compressed, intuitively verifiable and immediately actionable insights about how to better manage their psyche, choose a fulfilling career and build healthy intimate relationships– exactly the areas where astrology shines.

3) Millennial/GenX souls are entrepreneurial and skeptical of any therapy that makes them dependent on an outside authority figure.

If a therapeutic process cannot, at some point, be self-administered, Millennial/GenX souls aren’t interested. The profound, yet digitally accessible, insights of archetypal astrology fit the bill perfectly.

4) Millennial/GenX souls define mental health as a capacity to honor the equality of all souls, the sacredness of nature and the innocence of the body’s animal impulses. Self-saving minus world-saving = narcissism.

Astrology reestablishes an oracular connection to the cycles of nature. Personality traits are regarded as the outward face of divinely-ordained styles of awakening. In this way, astrology re-sacrilizes the earth and what it means to be human. It’s a intuitively-verifiable, dogma-free way of restoring individual and collective sanity, accessible to all beings regardless of economic or educational rank, race, religion or sexual preference.

5) Millennial/GenX souls understand the stakes: despair about the planet’s dystopian direction or a profound re-aiming of their change-agent impulses at an eternally evolving consciousness.

In the face of seemingly insurmountable world-threatening problems, Millennial/GenX souls view most career and community service roles as “a drop in the bucket.” Only a lifetimes-long, psycho-spiritual art project has the power to inspire them to fully invest in this incarnation. This is the very heart and soul of astrology.

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