To be technical, I mean a natal chart as may be obvious.
I have and went "Wowers!" when I read the description of my primary personality characteristics that it identified. Bingo, and again, BINGO!
In fact, I re-read the interp every now and again and am awestruck all over again at how very precisely most of it describes my strengths and weaknesses.
Anyone else had a similar experience...or a quite different one?
A good reading can be spot on, but it takes years to even get close. I have been doing it on and off for about twenty years and I still find it humbling. A good astrologer has to have the communication skills of the best psychologist or counselor, the math skills of an engineer, and the patience of an archaeologist. Needless to say most people do not have all of these traits! I mostly got out of it due to the fact that it takes an inordinate amount of time to honestly process these charts -- although it takes no time now to generate calculations due to computers; the interpretations still take a rather exhaustive process. I still know the math and whatnot to do it by hand and generally have if it is the first times I've used a program, and still own ephemerides, and tables of houses. I'll warn against accepting any interpretations from computers though -- they generally aren't aware of classical 'omens' in charts.
The last few times I have done any astrology I've mostly been focused on horary which is a completely different beast and is more concerned about current happenings. Many deem this practice worthless, but they simply haven't the skill to pull it off -- in my case most of the time I do not consider the issue important enough for the time to read the chart.
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I tend to leave minor issues to chance, and only get down to it in important circumstances.
Few people anymore have the patience to learn the craft right and as frivolous as it seems at first after years of study you are still learning. Horary is even more complicated with a lot of special cases. This and tarot are probably the most underrated things, so deceivingly basic but so unbelievable useful. I typically find tarot easier for daily things personally, and astrology for births/big undertakings.