Destination: Moon

I have been on a journey for years studying astrology here and there (more there than here). You can’t really just skimp the material. It’s an intricate language woven with symbols and ideas that seem at first like a fascinating but overwhelming code of life’s secrets to uncover.

It’s as if a highly attuned chef gave you a bowl of ramen with its showy vegetables and asked you to explain to him the ingredients, their amounts, and the recipe, but only after you tasted it.

There is the obvious: noodles, marinated eggs, broth, seaweed, bok choy, and mushrooms. Just as I could see, there are seven classical planets in a birth chart. I may even be able to grasp the flavors of lemongrass and spring onion and sense that a birth chart has more subtle relationships that weave the significances of the planets, signs, and houses together.

Ramen is the culmination of the cook procuring the ingredients, combining the flavors, adding heat, and offering it to others to enjoy. Reading a birth chart is like uncovering the terroir of the veggie’s soil in order to explain the story of why the ramen exists.

The more I study, the more I realize that the beginning astrologer, like the diner, takes a bite of a birth chart, and in that bite, while you can only get a mouthful of the whole bowl of soup, you can still taste all of the flavors. And it’s addictive.

The obsession to go deeper and know more is vast, and the ability to combine the different aspects of life seems endless. But I felt at a precipice - I knew just enough delineations to begin chart synthesis so what next? Do I dive in reading charts for free for the experience? Do I look for astrology based design jobs for osmosis?

I asked my teacher to give me an assignment. Something to hold me accountable and trigger the next level of knowing. He asked that I get into a meditative state (with hypnosis) and journey to connect and establish a relationship with the spirit of the moon. 108 times.