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How to start?

So you read my last post and you're an astrologer and want to start doing this one day-at-time Sun Sign astrology. Where to start?

How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time. 

Don't make any big dramatic announcements. If you have a website, Twitter account or other online channel for publishing stuff, start where you are and come up with a schedule that makes sense to you.

If you Tweet DAILY, do "Today's birthday..." If you blog once a week, do "This week's birthday kids."

Ideally, then ADD at least the date and approximate degree of X sign to a CHART for people to consult.

In the future when you write about things like transits, make sure you give exact degrees rather than hand wavy generalizations. 

Start saying over and over "IF you have your Natal Chart, any heavenly body at THIS degree of ANY sign will feel some sort of impact. If you don't have your custom chart, look up your birthday on this work-in-progress chart of Sun positions to get an approximate position of your Sun so you can at least check this information against your Sun."

I'm clearly a business idiot who has never figured out how to make bank, but if you actually make money at this, add whatever language makes sense to you to say "Hey, you can pay me to do your chart..."

You want to start normalizing giving exact degrees instead of just the Sign and start educating people that there are more obscure aspects, like Septiles and Quintiles, that aren't easily spotted by merely counting signs.

Expect this to take substantial time to start changing minds about what serious astrology really involves. Do your best to drop the carney-act language hedging your bets and start educating people in a meaningful fashion that if they only know the exact Sun position, there's a LOT of other stuff in the chart not being examined and events may happen or seem to happen a few days later because X happened on that date -- say your landlord finding something out -- but it's a few days later that it clearly shows up in your life because that's when they put notice on your door they need to address some issue.

We all deal with partial information in life and this sometimes makes astrology look less exact because we don't always know about the decision or event impacting our life until a later point.

Like medicine, astrology is an art, not a science. Like an IQ test, an astrological chart is a TOOL useful to the right professional and doesn't really stand on its own just like law requires courts and judges to interpret it for a specific case with all the complex details.

The fact that surgery isn't something an untrained average Joe can successfully do on their own isn't evidence medicine is hokum. Astrology is similar: There's a lot to know to read a chart at all.

Stop saying "You will get money/fall in love because X planet is in blah sign." Start telling people "This planet rules x, y and z, among other things. Here's a link to a more in depth write up. The exact angle it forms to things in your chart will influence how it plays out."

Money is related to value. An aspect that typically gets interpreted as "money" can also mean something else of material value OR an experience related to your values, such as a choice asking you "Which do you value more: x or y?"

Astrological charts existed long before money was the default norm. Influences now interpreted as "money" already existed before money was created. Figure out the "not money per se" stuff that also get covered by the same astrological influences.

You may wish to do a write up about the fact that love and money sell. Everyone wants to hear about those things. But "money" isn't the only possible interpretation of x, y and z.

Then link to that every time you talk about money and leave footnotes or similar about that if you are concerned about losing your audience if you spend too much time being wordy and sounding philosophical.

Yes, it's absolutely true that X astrological influence -- an eclipse, for example -- may seem to have an influence a month later or whatever. But if you are, say, given an eviction notice the week of the eclipse, that's a 30 day notice in the US.

Try to find ways to drop the hedging-your-bets language and talk more about time lags between cause and effect.

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