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About Astrology

Astrology (from Greek: αστρολογ?α = ?στρον, astron, "star" + λ?γος, logos, "word") is any of several traditions or systems in which knowledge of the apparent positions of celestial bodies is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing knowledge about reality and human existence on earth. It is classified as a pseudoscience because it makes use of observed data about the heavens to draw conclusions that are unsupported by science. All astrological traditions are based on the relative positions and movements of various real and construed celestial bodies as seen at the time and place of the birth or other event being studied. These are chiefly the Sun, Moon, planets, Ascendant & Midheaven axes, and the lunar nodes. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer, or sometimes an astrologist.

Many of those who practice astrology believe the positions of certain celestial bodies either influence or correlate with people's personality traits, important events in their lives, and even physical characteristics.

Astrology is not considered to be a science, but is more appropriately a spiritual discipline, and is separate from astronomy, the scientific study of outer space. For many astrologers the purported relationship between the celestial bodies and events on earth need not be causal, nor even scientific. Although there are astrologers who try to put astrology on sound scientific grounds, for many more it is a technology and an art that merges calculations with intuitive perceptions.

For more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology

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Planets in Astrology

| Sun | Moon | Mercury | Venus | Mars |

| Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |

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About the Astrologer

CK Simmons has long had an interest in astrology. “I first really learned about it,” she says, “when I was about 10. I picked up an old astrology book I found in the house. It was something my parents had bought together for fun when they were in college. But it was actually quite a thorough introduction to astrology and I still refer to it.”

While continuing to learn about the subject - “I voraciously read everything I came across that mentioned astrology”- she took the “normal” career route, earning a creative writing degree from a liberal arts college, and worked in journalism and public relations for several years.

Still, astrology remained a passion – if a private one. And over the years she found herself creating charts for her friends and interpreting the latest astrological trends in their lives and her own. And she loved it.

“I would find myself,” she remembers, “getting a call from a friend who’d ‘met someone’ and wondered how compatible they would be. Or someone would want me to look in his chart and see why he was having a rough time lately. And then of course anytime my circle of friends added someone new, I got out my ephemeris and did their birth chart. And then that person would read it and start asking me to do charts for their friends and family.”

It became expected that she would do all this, she says, “but the truth is, if they hadn’t asked, I would’ve offered since it was such a pleasure for me to do. Not only was it personally gratifying to me when I was able to help someone understand themselves and their choices in life a little better – each and every chart is fascinating to me. I can’t wait to see how each one turns out – every one is like a book that you can’t put down till it’s finished.”

After all these years offering her services to friends and family, she has now decided to make herself available to do the same for others interested in learning more about astrology and themselves.

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