The Enchanted Tarot

Astrology

Enchantments

Alchemy

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Like astrology, itself, The Enchanted Astrologer is a tool possessing both the wisdom of the ages the youthful excitement of discovery. It is my hope that The Enchanted Astrologer provides you with a method for enhancing your understanding of both your life and the lives of those around you.

If you help those around you, you help yourself, because they have an influence on you. But who are "those around you?" Where do you draw the line? Your family? Your friends? They certainly have an influence on you. Your neighbors? Your pets? (our pets probably influence us more than our neighbors!) Your fellow citizens? All the citizens of planet Earth? The Earth itself? It follows that what influences the Earth influences us, all of us.

We all know that the Moon affects the oceans' tides and that people seem to act more weirdly than usual when the Moon is full (ask any policeman). The word "lunatic" actually comes from the Latin word for moon which is "Luna."

The Sun also has an obvious effect on us all. The Suns warmth keeps us alive, but no less than the Sun's light. Sunlight is visible to the naked eye, but the Sun's heat rays vibrate in the frequency range of the infrared part of the spectrum and so they are invisible to us, although we can feel them from a distance of 93 million miles.

The Sun is so big and heavy that it's difficult to comprehend. Think about this for a second and the Sun is losing its mass at the rate of 4 million tons per second as its hydrogen atoms turn into helium atoms through the process of nuclear fusion; it's an enormous hydrogen bomb! Yet it will remain relatively unchanged for another 5,000 million years! It is the Sun's mass that is thought to produce the phenomenon which holds the Earth and all the rest of the planets in orbit around it and the incredible power of another invisible force and gravity.

The genius, Sir Isaac Newton, formulated laws explaining the motions of heavenly bodies. I've read that some of these mathematical works, especially his formulation of Calculus, were done to help him make more accurate astrological predictions. This might sound strange, but astrology and astronomy used to be the same thing.

There are lots of things that scientists and doctors know, but it often seems that there are more things that they don't know. One thing too many of them agree on without studying it at all is that astrology is nonsense. Well, we know electricity, the human memory, and gravity works but we're not sure how or why. After studying astrology for thirty years, I've seen how accurate it can be to describe personality traits and make predictons, but I'm still not sure why it is accurate. Yet, unlike some who call themselves scientists, you don't see astrologers like me calling everyone who believes in the "laws" of gravity a fool or a charlatan. That is because I'm too busy studying astrology and tarot, inventing and playing with The Enchanted Astrologer and my other "oracles" and they work, though I'm not sure how or why. I don't know about you, but I believe in miracles. I've seen a few in my time and I am not sure how they work…but I have my suspicions!

What Is An Oracle?
The Enchanted Astrologer is an oracle. The dictionary defines an oracle as:

1. Since ancient times, the answer given at a shrine as the response of the god to an inquiry.
2. The medium giving such responses
3. The shrine at which they were given

Your The Enchanted Astrologer is all three! It is your personal shrine, twenty-four hour medium and can give you the answer to your every question. You have only to supply the energy and enthusiasm of your Higher Self because without it The Enchanted Astrologer is just a lot of electrons and pixels. But when you use The Enchanted Astrologer, you each become part of everybody's past, present and future.

This is Dr Carl Jung's theory of Synchronicity. The idea that everything that occurs at the same moment has a relationship of significance, if not of causality, underlies both The Enchanted Astrologer as well as other divinatory techniques such as Tarot cards, the I Ching and the Runestones, and many others. But the oldest of all techniques for understanding and predicting situations and events here on Earth is unquestionably Astrology, which was first developed in the northern hemisphere. Astrology has been used for thousands of years by numerous cultures as an important part of what is really the oldest profession: staying alive and living well.

The Birth of Astrology
For our distant ancestors the starry night sky was watched closely. Not only was it incomparably beautiful, but it provided a fixed backdrop against which the Moon's nightly movement could be measured. People noticed that some of the stars moved too and they called these special stars 'planets' (from the Greek word planetes, meaning "wanderer"). Every twenty-nine days or so the Moon swelled full but as it did so, it moved to the next section of the "zodiac," the narrow belt of sky that the Sun, Moon and planets move through as they appear to circle the Earth (from the Greek words kyklos zodiakos, meaning "circle of animals").

Every twelve full Moons or 'months' as we now call them, the seasons would return like clockwork-the first clockwork. This information was vital to our ancestors because they could use it to prepare for the different seasons. It is something we all take for granted now, but then it could be considered a matter of life or death.

The zodiac was divided up into twelve sections and the stars in each section were identified as a unit called a "constellation," which means, appropriately, "a group of stars." Each constellation was assigned a name and a picture to represent it, a 'sign," that symbolized the natural events taking place on Earth during the time of the year when the Sun was moving through, or 'in," each constellation, or sign of the zodiac.