Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Glenn Mitchell, author of the new Discover the Aspect Pattern in Your Birth Chart.
Most of my clients have read at least one book on astrology. They also follow astrology topics on social media. Both have reinforced the notion that "this is good" and "this is bad." The terms "benefic" and "malefic" are used.
I resist this sort of astrology. I reject the determinism behind such thinking. The idea that this chart feature is "good" and that that one is "bad" comes from astrology's past. Some astrologers today use astrology to scare people. If all squares are "bad," then the wise client will want periodic sessions to identify when challenging