I am far from a modern astrologer in that I don't think everything is important, but what I do think is astrologically important I have based it in traditional philosophy instead of just using "intuition" because that's not what gets astrology going.
I agree with you about the use of the word 'intuition' to describe how many astrologers believe they work. There's a lot to learn in astrology and, eventually, from years of study and application and, for my own part - observation, many astrologers can pick up on the meaning of aspects in a chart. They aren't being 'intuitive'; they are using the knowledge they have acquired, stored and filed away for future reference. If someone could look at a chart without any knowledge of astrology and decipher the meaning, THAT would be 'intuition'.
I'm much too down to Earth myself to be 'intuitive'. Everything learnt has come from simple practical observation.
However, BML is a particularly hated concept to me because she is NOT THERE.
EXACTLY !!
May I offer just two hypothetical...yet true for many....examples?
For whatever reason a woman undergoes a termination of pregnancy, as seen through a planetary configuration. There is not and never will be that child, yet the woman creates a life of the child in thought and feeling. It would have been x years old; it would now be at school, etec.etc.. It takes on a life of its own yet, just as you say, it is NOT THERE; it does not exist in reality but only through an active inner experience.
How would you explain this 'life' and inner experience in terms of the physical planets?
A man falls in love with a woman who doesn't even know he exists (no pun intended). He imagines all sorts of entanglements if he could only get to meet her, yet it never happens. Or, worse still, he does get to meet her and nothing physical occurs,.... or worse still, something does happen through which she treats him so badly that he
inwardly feels, but isn't actually in physical terms, emasculated, that puts him off entering into any other relationship.
To which physical planets would you apply what is going on inside him?
We're giving a blank spot in space power over us, so why not give all of those blank spots power? Oh, I know why, because that would totally disprove anything astrology has offered us thus far.
I don't profess to have even 1% of the answers as to why some astrologers are tuned into various 'unaccepted' aspects of astrology and experience ideas/thoughts/feelings that others do not. Yet as another example, I find it extraordinary that my daughter 'had a thing' for a friend, a Sun in Pisces Royal Naval Officer, who happened to have a name that had been given to an asteroid. The 'thing' almost wrecked her marriage at the time that the asteroid transited her 11th house IN PISCES square her Mars in Sagittarius. I can't conceive how and why that particular asteroid should correlate to events at the time it did, but it does make me wonder if there is more to asteroid lore than we have available now.
Incidentally, nothing happened between them. How could it when transiting Black Moon Lilith was in her 8th house opposing her Saturn-Sun?
I do give other astrologers the same respect..... Have I made points against them? You bet I have, but people have made points agaisnt mine as well, and I do not find this challenging of astrological philosophy to be "disrespectful". If you cannot bear to have your philosophy questioned or challenged and in fact find it "disrespectful" for someone to do so, I suggest not talking about it at all.
It's not a question of 'cannot bear' to have my philosophy questioned; I'm used to that and do it myself often enough. It's the implication that astrologers who delve into unfamiliar aspects of the craft are making things up. Why would you think that? What would be the point and what would it serve? What good would it do? All I have personally learnt regarding the effect of Black Moon called Lilith has come from what many, many people have themselves told and/or confirmed for me. Unfortunately, I have natal Black Moon Lilith in Virgo, so I can't prove a darn thing.
Frisiangal
