The AstroSophia

The Goddess Power Oracle - Colette Baron Reid In this day and age, social media platforms offer instant gratification in terms of accumulating "likes" and "followers", but I long for the days of blogging where I could browse through deck reviews and read about peoples thoughts on certain decks or tarot spreads.  They seem to have died a death in favor of the picture with short commentary and hashtag format.  I guess it's just easy - you don't have to upload a photo or worry about formatting.  You don't have to worry about being any sort of writer either.  Reading other peoples thoughts can be very boring - I'm the first to admit it.  Unless the writing has some sort of poetic, magical quality to it I'm rarely interested.  Even the meatiest information can be dragged down by clunky prose, so I totally understand the transition to more user friendly platforms.     But there is something to be said for taking the time to word something more thoughtf...

We all have a notion of what astrology means to us, and what it represents in our lives.  This is usually based on how we were exposed to it culturally.  Most of the time, if I mention the word "astrology" to people, they immediately say something about reading their horoscope, and whether or not they believe in it.  Rarely do I hear anyone comment on their sign, or accord it any sort of importance or consideration.  Their "sign" (which astrologers refer to as the Sun Sign - which sign the Sun was in at the time of their birth) tends to be seen more as a piece of data which is used to reference when looking up the horoscope section. When I read books on astrology, they are either too simple or too complex.  Most of the time what they lack in my eyes is a certain sensitivity to the beauty and uniqueness of the human spirit.  Astrology has become an extreme form of categorization,where labels from the "outside" (planets and signs) are pinned on to us to ...