Betsy Rippentrop - Chakra Healing

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I was on a train going from Grand Central Station in New York City up to New Canaan, Connecticut. I dug into a book I had just bought impulsivelyjust as you have perhaps bought this one. I found myself immediately fascinated: there were juicy new power words to learn, ways to say things that sounded a little mysterious but, according to the author, were as clear as the Liberty Bell clanging for my personal freedom, my individuality as a birthright gift from the gods! Im a Capricorn } because the Sun was located in that sign when I was born! I mean business. I get things done. (I can be pretty melancholic sometimes, but dont tell anyone.) But Im in there for the long haul. I age well!

My brain was racing through the pages to pick up more things about my Capricorn } nature. There was something pointed out about my tremendous attraction to any Pisces W woman who ever lived. I filed that away (and remembered it regularly throughout 27 years with two Pisces W ladies!).

There was a lot about my incompatibility with Aries E people. (And I knew that that explained everything about my relationship with my mother, God take her soul!)

Okay, when I finally settled down, I saw that astrology had reasons for these generalities. I saw those reasons were tied to the miracle of creation and to millennia of keen observations by wise people. And I saw that the mysteries of being were easily converted into strategies of becomingI was hooked!

By the time I had arrived at New Canaan on that hot summer day, I didnt need a cool drink as much as I needed a pencil and paper. I was going to follow the guidelines in the book and start to build my birth chartthe portrait of my birth in space and time and the portrait of who I am (the nice stuff, the tough stuffall of it!).

Books, lines, and thinkers: how hooked was I? I studied, studied, and studied, and gradually I realized that nothing was more interesting to me in the world than astrologyand it probably was also in a previous life, as I was learning. I saw how I could appreciate myself, my purpose in life, and how I could help others to do the same. Time and space now started to mean something more than three meals a day, a raise now and then, college education for the children, and the IRS.

And that book, with the neat lines and the quotes from all the wise men from Ptolemy to Newton to Einstein to J. P. Morgan, was nowhere near as good as this one youre holding right now.

Watch out! Be warned: Madeline Gerwick has the lines that will hook you, too; shes one of those wise thinkers in astrology who really knows what shes talking about.

And Madeline and her book producer at Amaranth, Lee Ann Chearneyi, have style. This book is a breeze. For example (getting back to the Pisces issue, please), their Fish Facts talks about Pisces (delightful) character trait to live largely in the world of the imagination, the realm of dreams, and where objects and events seem to have no connection to outer reality. (I, the Capricorn } warlord of accomplishment, love it!) But then they tack on the lines that show you the substance within all the fun: Above all, Fishes [Pisces] are here to give their help, love, and whatever else is needednot just to those like themselves, but to anyone in need. Isnt that lovely? Isnt that valid? And thats just the beginning. How do all the traits, powers, and interrelationships among the planets within the signs reflect your life, the details of your progress, the outlines of your dreams, and the dynamics of your relationships?