Amy Herring - Astrology of the Moon: An Illuminating Journey Through the Signs and Houses

About the Author

Amy Herring (Shoreline, Washington) has been a consultant and teacher of astrology since 1995. A graduate of Steven Forrests Evolutionary Astrology Apprenticeship program, her articles have appeared in various astrology publications, including Dell Horoscope . Visit her online at www.heavenlytruth.com.

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Astrology of the Moon: An Illuminating Journey Through the Signs and Houses 2010 by Amy Herring.

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Many things in life will catch your eye
but few will catch your heart Pursue those.

Anonymous

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Finish your book so I can have a nap.

My husband

Acknowledgments

The Virgo in me wants to thank people for all the little things they did to enable me to finish this book:

Thank you to my husband and my best friend for talking me out of my not good enough Virgoan downward spirals of confidence.

Thanks especially to my husband for holding me together for fifteen years and counting

Thanks to my daughter for being so cute that I sent a picture of her to my astrologer friend, which started a ball rolling that led to this book being in your hands.

Thanks to my kitty cats, Tori and especially Fritz, who sat next to me while I wrote and gave me good kitty mojo.

Thanks to my mentor, Steven Forrest, who not only contributed directly to the book but also in countless indirect ways, and has enriched my life in the most important way one can for a Virgo: helped me be better at what Im made for.

Thanks to the guinea pigs that made Life Notes possible, for their vulnerability and willingness to spill their lives all over the floor so we could painfully scrutinize the pieces (you know who you are).

Thanks to Kai for uttering the sentence that shook my brain half awake and, surprisingly, to Walt Disney for shaking it the rest of the way awake.

Thanks to my mom for about a bajillion things over my entire life, but especially for washing every dish in my house when our dishwasher broke right before my deadline!

Thank you to everyone who participated on the livejournal.com astrology communitys tell me about your progressed Moon and what youre feeling extravaganza, and to the astrologers willing to review this book and tell me it doesnt stink.

I do this work because I love to listen to peoples stories and help them write the plots they truly desire. Its my sincere hope that this book will help you know and be proud of your journey, and it is with all this gratitude that I finally Finish This Book and release it into the wild. Go book, go!

Foreword

Much astrological work today still reflects the last gasps of the most recent era of astrology: it is rigid, fatalistic, predictive, and descriptive. Amy Herrings Astrology of the Moon belongs on tomorrows book shelf, not yesterdays.

As you have the pleasure of reading through the pages ahead, I encourage you to notice how invariably all her interpretations pivot on consciousness and choice. Appreciate, along with me, how deftly she weaves an ultimately encouraging and positive view of life into an honest appraisal of lifes darkness.

Amy Herring has invited the ancient Moon into the quantum magic of astrologys Third Age. I celebrate her for that. I welcome her into the community of mature astrological voices. And I look forward to the years ahead when we will see what she has to teach us about the Sun, Mercury, Venus and the rest of our ever-changing, ever-evolving heavenly hosts.

Steven Forrest

Author of The Inner Sky

Contents

Free Will and Conscious Choice:
Freedom within Destiny

Astrology is a science of potential , trends, and likelihoods, not fact. Most astrologers will tell you that its easier to see how an event that has already happened is reflected in where the planets were at the time it happened, versus trying to predict that event ahead of time. This is because there are several potential events that could happen as a result of the same energy. Carl Jung said, When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. It is our choices and our level of consciousness that determine whether were going to find ourselves playing out the negative stereotypes or maximizing the use of our planetary energies. This book is written with this perspective in mind: that our choices, not the stars, direct our lives. The sky, like a mirror, reflects our internal and external state, but does not cause that state to exist. The planets do not compel us, but can draw our attention to the true sources of our own internal compulsions.