I frequently get asked "what happens in a reading" or "what will I gain from having my chart looked at?" While it varies from reading to reading, I thought I would give you some idea about what can take place in an Astrological reading with me. Below you will find information on:

• Your Current Transits and Influences
• Your Questions and Issues
• Natal Chart Interpretation & Basic Reading Themes
• Soul Purpose & Astrology
• How Astrology can help you during a challenging time
• Typical Issues and Applications

Your Current Transits and Influences
When I do a reading, I will go over with you in detail which planet(s) are most significantly impacting you and how they will be affecting you, as well as how long each influence will last. Every planet carries a particular frequency and rules specific areas of our life. Each transit impacts us with what I call lower, mundane, and higher vibrations. (Read below for more info on How Astrology Can Help You During A Challenging Time.) When we are more fully aware of this dynamic, we can exercise our free will to a greater degree as to how we will choose our response to these celestial influences. I then give you a feel for "what it wants of you", of how you can grow and learn from these influences, ways to work with the energies, and ideas for how to dilute and direct their sometimes more difficult expressions.

Your Questions and Issues
You can certainly bring your questions to a session and in fact, I encourage it. They may be anything from what is my purpose to when is it a good time to take a vacation to why can't I seem to get along with ___________ (whomever) to why do I keep having this recurring issue in my life. I would also suggest that you look over the information below and consider which areas are of most import for you at this time [Please refer to Typical Issues and Reading Themes below for more information.

Natal Chart Interpretation & Basic Reading Themes
In this reading, you will receive an in-depth overview of your Natal Chart. Some areas that will likely be covered are:

• how your world views you
• your basic health, constitution, and strength
• what you value and care about/your relationship to money/finances/abundance
• your capacity for nurturing and to be nurtured
• communications styles and blocks
• family and early influences
• generational patterns that influence you
• your innate talents, recreation and creativity
• your passions and what inspires you
• health and habits
• relationship patterns and lessons
• sexual dynamics and issues
• learning style and education, travel, open-mindedness
• career, how you are seen in the world, what you contribute
• friends, and community
• the vision for your life
• your spiritual life and concerns
• karma and past life influences
• how you find peace and issues related to surrendering to life

Each of these areas may be viewed from the vantage of what your issues are around them, blocks, things to be learned, and potentials. We will focus in on whatever areas are of the most concern to you.

Soul Purpose & Astrology
We all have an interesting position in our natal chart called the "Lunar Nodal Axis", containing a North Node and a South Node. These points are indications of what your Soul wants from this incarnation, or, what you are working on this lifetime. Once a clearer understanding of this is known, many aspects of our charts fall into place and make sense. I have been fascinated with the Nodal Axis for a long time, and have come to give them great significance in my readings. (Not all Astrologers give this enough attention, I feel.) I find it to be a powerful indication for determining your Soul Purpose, and over and over I have seen my clients gain considerable insights and clearer life direction once given this information. In nearly all readings, we will discuss this.

How Astrology can help you during a challenging time One of the approaches I take with clients, especially while being influenced by a challenging aspect, is to discuss what it is that a transit "wants" of them. Or, how they can best work with the energy. I feel that by not resisting the influence, but rather to work with it, one can benefit even from what could classically (by Astrology standards) be considered a challenging or difficult time. I go into the various ways one can respond to a celestial influence, which opens up options perhaps not previously seen. I often refer to this process as being 3-fold.

1. We can come from a place of resistance thus bringing forth the lower or more negative expressions of an aspect.
2. We can come from a more neutral place, thus bringing forth the more mundane expressions.
3. Or we can engage the energy, looking for the lessons and gifts by choice, thus bringing forth the more positive and growth-producing elements of an influence.

I have found that most will likely experience all three "levels" at some point during the time of influence, this being especially true with the longer, more potent Astrological influences. And having a clear(er) frame of reference for this, can be most helpful in navigating a challenging time.

This particular approach often helps a client to move with the energies that are indeed approaching them anyway with greater harmony. Further, it assists in "explaining" why particular events are taking place in their lives and perhaps most importantly, how to work with the energies at hand. And then, how long they will last.

There are often other aspects to this process as well, such as past life influences and patterns, hidden resistances, and many other topics to discuss with regard to Astrology and its influences, being a wonderfully rich, deep, and helpful subject.

Please feel free to contact me if you have more questions about this aspect of a reading or my approach.

Typical Issues and Applications
RELATIONSHIPS
Partner compatibility and attractions; personal patterns; lessons to be learned; purpose; blocks to intimacy
TRANSITIONS
Career and job changes; relationship changes; relocation; energy shifts; reprioritizing your goals and/or life direction
SPIRITUAL CONCERNS
Opening to and working with your higher self; discovering your Soul Purpose, dreams and intuition; developing spiritual gifts and talents; karmic paths; past-life influences; spiritual emergencies
CHILDREN
Your child's special gifts, talents and potentials; Plus information about their problems and blocks; creativity & self-expression; Newborn readings (a great gift for any new parent!)
CAREER & LIFEWORK
Finding your true work; discovering your unique way to contribute; on-the-job issues and relationships
EVENT TIMING
When to get married, make major purchases, sign contracts, start businesses, move, travel, begin new ventures, make major career moves, return to school or embark on a new course of study, or any event that has significance for you.