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Introduction
ago, when people looked heavenward and observed the patterns of the stars, they observed how these patterns were reflected in the emotions and patterns of human behavior. As above, so below; celestial and terrestrial events were correlated. Furthermore, the ancients understood that the universe was ensouled. Many people today have lost that understanding. This book invites you to make your way back to the ancient knowing that still runs through you. You are living and breathing your star map, your cosmic blueprint—your astrology—every second of every day. You walk it, you talk it, you think it—or it thinks you—whether or not you believe in it. Astrology is a portal, an access route, to higher consciousness. The times in which we find ourselves living are pressuring us, like never before, to grow our consciousness—to open up to the truth of who we are. They are demanding we do so, and they will ensure we continue to do so, due to a breakdown of much that we know and love in the world of form. This demand is an evolutionary impulse, an evolutionary imperative, designed to steer us back home. The sky on a clear night, its star-studded vastness stretching to infinity, is an external version of who and what we are on the inside. Our interior landscape, our mental and emotional patterning, is mirrored in the heavens. We can touch the Infinite in ourselves by feeling our resonance with the stars and the cosmos, and by learning how their vibrations affect our psychology, our physiology, and our spirituality. And when we touch the Infinite, we touch home.