Being of Assistance

Never belittle yourself with the thought that you have nothing to offer.  You are special and have an important role in this life whether you believe this or not.  You are able to assist others through channelling your energy into proper focus based on love and compassion.  You have the ability to tap into your resources and assist anyone in need; you just have to believe in yourself. 

We are all human.  We all make bad decisions and pick up bad habits.  Make alterations to your thinking so that you can forgive and any repair any internal damages.  The first step is accepting responsibility for your own shortcomings.

You choose which route to take in life and will meet up with individuals that temporarily sway your life’s direction and its direct route.  When someone interferes with your own personal growth, you have to take charge and move yourself away from this situation.  This begins with the realization that this individual needed to come into your life to enable you to learn from them.  When you awaken to the lesson, take the information needed and move forward.

If someone comes into your life with issues, know that what they have come to you for guidance with recovery or at least for you to point the way for them to activate their healing.  It is not by chance that people crossed paths.  You can help others deal with their challenges, but ultimately, they always have to personally make the changes.  You promote action; you initiate the recognition process, but they decide when to move away from their dilemma.  If they are not ready for change, it does not matter what you do.  You cannot force them.  It might start with you but it ends with them. 

Ego cannot interfere.  As long as you are aware that you are only a conduit and not the actual healer, the ego remains in its place.  We are all capable to assisting with healing.  Often without even realizing it, we say just the right thing at the right time or offer just the right approach to assist others in their time of need.  The ego is a force that can either work with you or work against you.  It provides reinforcement and can help you with promote confidence that can aid or it will hinder you by wanting praise and recognition.

The next time someone knocks on your proverbial front door and asks for help, know that you have the tools to unlock any problem and open any door.  Have faith!

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The Sixth House in Astrology

To continue our recently look at the Houses in Astrology, today we will write about the Sixth House.  The first Six Houses in Astrology are considered to be the personal Houses, while the last six Houses are considered more universal in their nature.  The final six are connected to spiritual learning, the occult, higher learning and social conditioning. 

The Sixth House is naturally ruled by Virgo, the sign of service rendered to others.  It could be considered somewhat of a “sober” house in that it calls you back to the business of practical living.  The fifth house was all about romance and having fun and the sixth house is very real and functions on a much more serious note.

In its highest sense, the Sixth House teaches us to love one another through selfless acts of service.  To promote this higher level of service, the actions must be carried out willingly and freely.  These fields of service include our working conditions and environment.  The Sixth House will reveal how we relate to our working atmosphere, our work contacts, and our working associates.

The Sixth House also deals with health matters, although chronic health conditions are connected to the Twelfth House.  Much can be assessed when we take into consideration the conditions of the Sixth and Twelfth houses, along with the Ascendants aspects when it comes to our health.  The Sixth House is where we have the potential to clean up our health through routine exercise and proper diet.  The Sixth House can also indicate, depending on conditions surrounding this house, eating disorders.  These three areas (Ascendant, Twelfth and Sixth House) can pinpoint physical conditions.  Your Astrologer is not your physician however and can only advise as to what is suggested in your Chart.  It is always advisable that you seek diagnosis from a medical professional. 

Even if there are health issues related to these houses, it can be transformed into a house of wellness as there are many roads to healing.  Meditation and health consciousness are always at anyone’s disposal to assist on the road to healing.  If you Birth Chart points toward medical issues, these issues are not written in stone.  Someone who works to be healthy and makes continual healthy choices can overcome any difficulties suggested in their Charts.  The strong aspects in Astrology such as the conjunction, square and opposition are the greatest learning tools available to us all.  The easy flowing aspects like the sextile and trine create calm conditions and opportunities.  We gain valued lessons by confronting our challenging aspects and making them work for us, instead of against us.  We are never at life’s mercy.  There are always alternatives and choices.

The Sixth house also deals with small animals and our pets, but in most cases the central areas of focus deal with service, health, hygiene and the working environment. 

To get a clearer picture of how your Sixth House is represented in your Chart, check the aspects, planetary locations and the condition of the ruler of this house.  To receive a clearer understanding and a comprehensive detailed report of the trend in your life, do not hesitate to contact Holm Astrology to commission the preparation of a Natal Chart.

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United

There are many religious organizations throughout our world.  There are individuals that have great faith in their specific religious beliefs.  Most of us, whether we have a religious background or not, share one common goal and that is the pursuit of love.  We seek to aid one another through various acts of kindness and share a common belief of the existence of a higher force or the original pure essence.

For most religious leaders, their intentions are admirable for the pursuit is one of love and compassion for our fellow man.  We all walk this earth together.  Although our customs vary, we are still brothers and sisters at heart.  Surely the pursuit of love and compassion can become a common ground for all of us.  Surely we can walk this earth in peace and a shared feeling of unity.  Why is it taking so long for our religious leaders to band together and work in unity?  Religious, mystical or spiritual, each may have its own route but each is evolving.  We must respect one another for our end goal ultimately is the same.

Why must our differences segregate us?  Imagine what a force for good our world could experience if we could all unite.  Imagine what global interaction could mean to our poor, the lonely and the desolate?

We have the foundation required to join as one.  Inside all of us there is a place where we are in touch with our own pure essence.  Inside we each have our own temple of peace.  We are individual pieces of the whole but always linked through consciousness.

The next time you expend your energy on our differences (differences that only serve to divide us), remember that you could have been born anywhere--within any culture.  Count your blessings each and every day whatever they may be and spread love.  Teach our world by being a living example and let the wave of love encompass our earth. 

When we are born, we are all equal and when we depart, we leave this existence simply as a soul.  Neither our material richness nor our beliefs change our exit.  We came with nothing and leave with nothing as measured by the material world.  Our beliefs may alter and mature as we mature but our pure essence it always preparing us for that final day’s journey.  Our life ties us to the eternal moment and we all move in the same direction.  Our routes may vary but we all reach the final destination point.  Why should we not do this hand in hand?

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Child Empowerment Charts

Child Empowerment Charts

 The definition of empowerment is to increase the spiritual, social and educational strength of an individual. This chart by Holm Astrology is prepared for the parent to assist in just that. Understand your child's personality traits and their potential.  By so doing, you can help them develop the skills with which they were born with.

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OUR TETERING WORLD

Some days it is overwhelming to listen to the news.  It would appear that our world is teetering in many ways on the brink of ruin with the many world leaders playing a major part in this evolving story.  Sometimes it is hard not to question if there is any point in our efforts to promoting peace.  Each of us has our little circle of friends and acquaintances and our small seemingly insignificant part to play. 

Although you may consider your part unimportant, you should have a look at the ripple effect from your efforts.  Sadly, we rarely receive feedback and we feel as though our efforts slip by the wayside with little if any effect. 

Stop focusing on the big pictures.  Take a look at your microenvironment.  Can you see a pattern of your own immediate environment evolving?  Does life seems to be changing and synchronizing with what is taking place within?  If so, you are on the right path.  Each of us adds to the ripple effect.  Many of us through joint effort can change our ripple to a wave and so forth.  Although the world at large seems distraught and caught in a web of confusion, dismay and even destruction, your efforts assist in the transformation in your own little microenvironment which eventually will ripple out on a global scale.  It is important to understand that external change and transformation only begins to surface when we are beginning to alignment internally.

It is imperative that you keep focused on your objectives and push towards inner peace and balance.  Meditate on how you would like your immediate environment to respond to your efforts.  Create that change regardless of the time element and regardless of the ever wanted instant gratification that many individuals seek. 

Inner transformation takes time and great effort.  Go beyond positive thinking to transform your world.  Along with positive reinforcement, channel your thoughts in directions that enhance what it is you are attempting to create.  It has taken you your whole life to reach the summit that you are now standing on; therefore, you can imagine that it will also take time to transcend this life into what you want it to become in the future.

We are living examples of our environment and we are certainly imperfect beings, but we can mold ourselves through perseverance and focused energies towards the direction of our choice.  We are only held captive by our belief structure and our expectations.  Release yourself from the grips of the past and open up to your potential future.  It begins with you.  YOU activate the ripple effect in your life and in our world.

We may feel insignificant, but in the grand scheme of things, we all move as one force and our numbers are expanding.  We are reaching out to others that are open to this channel of expression.  Regardless of life events, we always have a choice of whether to let life sweep us away or slowly gain control of our own private destiny.  Never give up.  Always push forward and as time passes, you will begin to see small glimmers of hope and potential growth.  Hold true to yourself and persevere.  The challenges life hurtles at us build inner strength and stamina.  We will persevere and we will open that door to true perception which is available to everyone.    

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RETROGRADE MOTION OF PLANETS IN ASTROLOGY

Retrograde motion is a phenomenon that actually occurs quite frequently in our heavenly skies.  Our Earth is tilted on its axis at 23 ½ degrees and the planets are in a continuous motion in the skies.  They rise in the east and set in the west due to our Earth’s rotation.  The planets in our solar system travel along the ecliptic and because of our Earth’s rotation move from west to east.

At some point in this rotation the planets appear to slow down and actually stop their movement in the heavens, this phase is known as the stationary position, and then appear to move backwards and this is termed retrograde motion.  This is only an appearance and does not actually happen.

During these times of retrograde motion and it can last from a couple of weeks to several months depending on the planet involved, if the placement of the planet moving into retrograde makes an aspect to one of the planets in the Birth chart something is defined.  What is defined depends entirely on the aspect involved, the planets involved along with the houses that become activated during this motion.

Quite often a planet such as Pluto will go into retrograde motion and then begin to move forward again and then go back into retrograde two or three times before it remains direct and passes beyond that linking degree with the planetary force it touches.  The first contact when a planet goes retrograde is always the most intense period.  It is as if something has been activated and we act accordingly.   Each subsequent contact is less intense and the final contact is usually associated with coming to terms with whatever took place upon original contact.

A contact with Pluto to an angle, especially the Ascendant or the Midheaven can have a profound effect on our being.  Often the retrograde motion lasts a month or two and then passes over the same degree only to go retrograde again and pass over the same degree again.  The total orb of influence can last six month to one year.  This will transform whatever is being suggested through the sign on the angle and aspects from other Natal positions.  Great transformations occur during such incidents and individuals will go through changes both internally and externally that alter their lives often permanently.

To find out more on retrograde planets in your Birth chart or retrograde planets affecting planets or angles in your Chart, you will have to locate these movements in an ephemeris.  Further delineation can be defined by having a Chart prepared when there are these influences affecting your life, which is relatively a common experience.

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Holm Astrology's First Anniversary on Facebook

April 9 – On this day in 1413 Henry V was crowned King of England.  In 1953, TV guide published its first issue.  In 2013, Holm Astrology started its Facebook page.  Our Facebook anniversary may not make the local newspaper but the encouragement, patronage and the people that have touched our lives over the past year are extraordinary to us.  We want to express our gratitude to each and every one you!  Creating our daily posts is a work of love and each of you add an even greater meaning to these creations.

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