I. Introduction

The vault of the heavens is a lacework of stars that people find awe inspiring. The starry sky, however, is more than just beautiful. It also carries wisdom contained within stories.

This report explores those stories. It offers you information that enables you to actively work with your stars. Its aim is to help you understand how the stars contribute to your actions, your choices and your attitudes. For by understanding the role of the stars in your life you can step upon a path that allows you to be in greater harmony with them.

This star report contains three sections – the stars that shape your character, the stars that shape your vocation, and the stars that shape the journey of your life.

 

II. The Stars that Shape your Character

This is the starting point for discovering your stars. Your journey begins with focusing on the stars and their myths that add their unique qualities to your character. Star qualities are particular features that contribute to your seed potential. They become apparent as your skills and resources through your life's experiences, for it is only by using them to deal with problems that you discover the potentials they offer you and how you can handle them wisely.

 

Sadalmelek in the Water Bearer

Sadalmelek is a distinct orange star in the right shoulder of Aquarius the Water Bearer. Sadalmelek is one of a pair of stars in the constellation of Aquarius. Both stars are named as a form of luck, Sadalmelek being translated as Lucky One of the King, and Sadalsuud, its twin, meaning Luckiest of the Lucky. They form the shoulders, and thus the power and responsibility of the Water Carrier. Each star brings life and fertility - Sadalmelek in the right shoulder [...]

[..] As a child you were busy with friends and companions, sharing, talking, planning, and creating social events together. From this you learned to value good friendships and now you happily help your friends as they, in turn, help you. For you, life is about social networks and you enthusiastically challenge [...]

 

III. The Stars that Shape your Vocation

The themes of your vocation stars are fundamental to your idea of what you stand for and what is important to you and how you spend your life, far more than just your job or career. It could, however, become your career or surface in your life as your passion or a cause to which you devote your free time. Hence your vocational stars suggest how you can lead a meaningful life. Pursuing the themes suggested by these stars may not bring you riches but they will allow you to feel that you are in your proper place, living a life of purpose. No matter what other paths you take in your life, your vocation stars will always pull you back to their themes.

 

Alcyone in the Pleiades

The star Alcyone shapes your thoughts about how to steer your life and discover your vocation. Alcyone is the small blue-green star which is the main star of the Pleiades, an asterism of seven stars called The Seven Gods by the Babylonians. Across many cultures these stars were said to contain the power to protect a person from difficulties through magical incantations. Thus, as part of your vocation, you are drawn to areas which involve metaphysical issues or that which [...]

Devoting your life to probing a mystery

Your life's journey will also contain drama-filled situations where you discover your skill in handling crisis. For the same penetrating inner vision allows you to see such intense situations clearly when everyone else is in turmoil or full of doubt. Thus by [...]

 

IV. The Star Stories in Your Life

Your star stories are the narrative which provides the stage for your star qualities and your vocation stars. Some of these stories come from the stars and will make themselves apparent through re-occurring patterns of events. Knowing your star stories enables you to be alert at the beginning of the cycle before you find yourself slipping into old habit patterns with their predictable outcomes.

The Explorer: The vision to see and pursue fresh options

Yours is the star story of a mighty ship that sails around the heavens, and you are its captain who dares to dream. This starry vessel and its commander represent the quest for adventure and it has been sailing in the heavens for a long time. The Egyptian kings used this great ship to journey to the underworld. The Greeks called it the Argo, the vessel captained by the mythic hero Jason to travel to mysterious lands in quest of the Golden Fleece. Christianity turned it into Noah's Ark, the biblical [...]

[..] The difficulty with such a way of life is that you struggle with accumulating anything that will anchor you, for you fear putting down roots. To do so means making commitments and this limits how and where you can travel. This can cause difficulty in terms of finding a secure base for yourself, thus [...]

 

V. Conclusion

In the face of the starry heavens you may feel that you are small, but by understanding your personal relationship with the stars, you can step upon a path that allows you to gain a greater harmony with them. This harmony can give you insights about what it is to be a part of a living cosmos. As you come to understand your stars through this report, go outside on a clear night and learn to see your stars in the night sky. Visually connecting with them can help you to understand their union with your life.

Personal Star Map

The upper part of the image shows the eastern hemisphere of the sky, as seen at the time and location of your birth. It is centered on the east point (E).

The lower part of the image shows the western hemisphere of the sky, as seen at the time and location of your birth. It is centered on the west point (W).

The highlighted stars play a key role in this astrological reading. The red ones appear in chapter II, the blue ones in chapter III and the green ones in chapter IV.

The bright halves of the diagrams show the sky above the horizon; the dark halves show the sky below the horizon.

The horizon is indicated by horizontal lines, the boundary circles themselves represent the meridian. The planets (drawn red) move along the band of the zodiac. Dashed lines indicate the celestial equator and circumpolar circles.

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