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This is astramapping done properly. I am Cindy McKeon, faculty at Kepler College and program director of the Astramapping Certificate. Oh, there's quite a few, but I think one of the top misunderstandings is that you don't actually have to travel to a line to glean the benefits of being on that line. There is something in astro-cartography in particular called remote activation. And if you get items from a specific location, you grab the energy of that location and you can introduce it into your life that way. I want to explain that just a little bit better. Say that your Venus ascendant line is going over Italy. And you want to get some of that Venus ascendant energy into your life, but you can't make it to Italy right now. So what you should do is find little trinkets and souvenirs from Italy.
One of the misconceptions with remote activation is that, oh, just get a vile of water or vile of sand and call it a day with that souvenir. However, we're looking at Venus. And if you pick up a vile of water or a rock or say maybe old warlet relics, what you're actually doing is you're going to be activating Neptune with water, Saturn with the stone, or Mars with the warlet relics. We really have to stay within the Venetian themes. So maybe you could get some chocolates, some music, some of the delicious Italian foods and wines, all the newtion themes, and make sure that they're straight from Italy and not imported from another country.
For if you decide to get yourself a silk scarf, which is also rather a Venetian, but that silk happens to come from China where your Saturn ascendant line is, well, you have just activated your Saturn ascendant instead. So that is one of the top misconceptions when it comes to remote activation and astro cartography. Those parrots are actually active as our earth spins underneath them. And that would be a total of about 12 minutes. So four minutes ahead, four minutes after, but that's a little bit too technical and I don't want to turn people off.
And I have this little thing where I show the earth is rotating. I know everybody lapsed this way. This is the best I could do. You know, because everybody thinks that the lines move under us, but actually it's the world that's rotating because our natal charts are fixed. Therefore our astro cartography map is fixed. And it's us that are rotating under it. So the best way I explain it is that when we want to go sunbathing, we don't go sunbathing at midnight. We know to go sunbathing when the sun is out in the sky, essentially. So and that's the same thing with parrots. If you're hoping to get under this parrots, we have to wait and tell your under it, essentially.
We have to deliver things in really micro sized, bite sized tidbits. And as we know, according to the research, if you don't have people's attention in less than seven seconds, and as a matter of fact, it's the first couple of seconds that grabs people's attention to watch through that seven seconds, then of course you're going to lose the audience. So I think it has been made into smaller bite sized pieces just because of algorithms and trying to match the current attention span. It's just a reality of the world we live in today.
You know what? That's a misnomer. There's no real good or bad lines out there. You know, I'll give you a very good example like Uranus gets quite the reputation for being a bad line. Well, what's so bad about it? People don't like change, but we're changing every day. We're getting older, things get more evolved, things grow, things fall apart, things die, things live. I mean, that's all part of change. I think it's the abruptness of it that people don't really enjoy. However, sometimes that is the best medicine. And maybe what's not good for you is good for someone else. So there's no universal bad lines there. And that's what I want to kind of over-emphasize rather with the exaggeration of good or bad lines.
However, having said that, there are some other, again, there are lines there that universally would generally be considered tough. And the ones that fall into that category would be Pluto, Mars, Uranus, and Saturn. All lines which I've been to and all lines that have their own beauty. I'll tell you how this really works. Sometimes it really does work like magic. So I'm not going to discount that. I've experienced that firsthand. And I'm sure any of you that have traveled a significant amount of space have absolutely experienced that with the energies around you.
I mean, just take a cold winter day in New York City and transport yourself down to somewhere in the Baja, for instance. And yeah, for sure, you're going to have a change of the energy around you. I mean, just the temperature alone and how high the sun gets up in the sky, for example. But really what we have to do in order to make this really, really work to its maximum full potential is that we have to be in alignment because a lot of how this works is also with the law of attraction. And the law of attraction is not just thinking it and hoping it becomes true. Manifestation is also hands on.
Let's imagine that one of your goals is that you're going to move to somewhere you're going to move for higher education. You want to get your college degree and you want to have the best success as a student. So one of the things we could think of is Jupiter because Jupiter is higher education. And that really works because it is in line with your goal. You have defined what you wanted to do. You wanted to be the best you can be at higher education. We go to that Jupiter line and you have the most success that you can as a student within those four years that you graduate, but then what?
Is that still going to be your goal to be the best student you possibly could be when really now you are ready to shift your goals in life and be maybe the best entrepreneur or the best worker or have the most success with your money and career? Well, then we have to maybe shift the lines or shift location. And with Jupiter, we actually happen to be lucky because if you're east of the line, that's more of it being, you know, coming, you know, we're ready in the cadence phase, so to speak. But if you move west of the line, it's going to be more in the angular, more energetic phase and more of a career phase, career area of your life.
But then you're having this great career and you decide, you know what, I really want to meet a partner in my life. And Jupiter could help you with that, but really what about you're defining your new goals as finding love and harmony and partnership there? So we could think about Venus, for example, and you could move to a Venus line for that. And it doesn't really matter what angle. I always say that the primary energy is the planets and the angle is the doorway that that energy comes through.
If we listen to what Jim Lewis says, he describes the angles as the sockets and the planets as the plugs. And when you put those two together, that's when the spark happens. And you move to your Venus line and it helps you find somebody, but you have to work in line with it. You have to do Venetian things. You can't give in to the shadow of Venus and just become lazy and sit on the couch and eat bombons and indulge yourself. You still have to brush your teeth and comb your hair and priddle yourself up all in line with Venus.
And that helps to bring and enhance that Venetian energy towards you. It creates almost like a vortex to help you manifest those goals. You have to kind of meet it halfway. Then you decide, you know what? I really, I found the partner. I'm in love. We're ready to get married. You get married and you want to have a baby. So maybe a place with better fertility and more maternal instincts are going to help. And you move to a moon line, for example. And you have your baby and you're raising your kids and you have your nest all within, you know, the themes of the moon.
And your kids grow up. Well, do you want to have another baby when, you know, you're, you're, you're 50? Probably not. You're probably ready to move on to the next phase of your life. And you're thinking about, man, I'm looking at future health and I got to start from now. Future health might start with like, I got to eat well. I got to be nimble. I have to be more aware. I got to be more social. Oh, let's move to your mercury line then. Do you see how this works so on and so forth? It's a work in progress. And I know that's probably the biggest fear for most people. Like what? I have to move again. Well, in many ways, you're not, I mean, I don't know a lot of people that stay in their child and home essentially. This is just a matter of getting 30 miles away from it and you have less of that intensity.
And then we could use yet another method of astramapping called local space astrology. And essentially what that is doing is if you change the immediate environment around you, according to your local space chart, well, that is going to help you have your own world away from the world. It's kind of like if we move to Siberia, we understand. That it's going to be cold out there. It doesn't mean that you're going to have to live under freezing circumstances. In your home, it's going to be isolated or sorry, it's going to be insulated and it's going to likely have some kind of furnace or some kind of heating area. You're going to be wearing layers. So in that way, you're kind of remediating from the cold. And it doesn't change the fact that you are immersed in a cold environment, but it will change the fact that you're not going to have to suffer through it because you've changed the your immediate summer roundings, your local space around you.
And this is what you'll learn and you'll start to live it yourself. You start to share that with your clients and then you start to see the magic and the happiness. It really is a beautiful blossoming. The top three, most popular, astramapping approaches. So astramapping being the umbrella term, astro-cartography, which is planets on angles. Local space astrology, which is looking at a different coordinate system, the horizontal coordinate system using the azimuth and the altitude. In other words, what can you see from your vantage point, from your geographic location on Earth? And then the last one is geodesics, which is 100% mundane. And I think it is something worthy to study because what happens with the world around us, it does affect us.
这就是你将要学习的内容,并将开始亲身体验。随后,你会与客户分享这些知识,然后你会看到其中的神奇和快乐。这真的是一种美丽的绽放。最受欢迎的三个星相地图方法如下:
1. 星图地理法(astro-cartography):通过行星角度进行分析。
2. 当地空间占星(Local space astrology):使用不同的坐标系统,即水平坐标系,通过方位角和高度角进行观察。换句话说,从你的地理位置出发,你能看见什么?
3. 大地测量学(geodesics):完全专注于世俗事务。我认为这值得研究,因为周围世界的变化确实会影响到我们。
But if you're looking at personal astrology, so we could do astramapping and the subcategory of personal versus mundane, and under personal, we would get astro-cartography and local space. And under mundane, you get geodesics. So that's a term that Jim Lewis had coined for a technique that he created, which is simply a mix of transits and progressions of planets. So he would transit the outer planets because as they progress, they move very slowly. Some planets might only move 100 miles over your lifetime. If they're progressed, but if they are transited, then you could see that those lines are happening over your location, essentially.
In other words, we look at a snapshot of the sky today, and we look at those planets through the celestial equatorial coordinate system, and we project those planets onto the Earth. And that's how it reflects the true placement of planets according to our geographic location. In other words, we're not using only the ecliptic. And we could therefore have a better perspective and a 3D dimension of what transits were actually going through. Sometimes you might think that your Mars transit is still far away from your ascendant, but then you look at your cycle of cartography, or actually a transited Mars line, and you'll see that Mars is actually a lot closer to you than you think.
How simplified it is because you could simplify it only after you know the knowledge. We could simplify it down, say yes, in simple terms, for example, astro-cartography is planets conjunct angles. Okay, but what does that mean? I think one of the biggest mistakes out there is that if you really want to know how to do an easy, quick way of astro-cartography, it's not looking at the maps, but looking at the relocated chart and reading the relocated as a new nail of a natal. You'd never watch family feud when they go, that's what I want to do. Put that big red X on the screen, and that corn because they have to be aware, that's not the way to do it.
We are geotag at the time and location that we are born, and that's who we are. So for example, I was born and raised in America, and I recently went to China, however, that did not make me Chinese. I still am who I am. Your natal chart is your natal chart, and when you relocate it, that does not become your new natal. It's just a different layer of perspective of how to interpret the natal chart, but it's absolutely not the core. As a matter of fact, I would say it's one of the last things that you would look at. You would really have to be more aware of your coordinate systems and what's visible. That is the real magic, the astramapping in general, both local space and with astro-cartography.
And not to discount anything that's below the horizon, we use that in a different way, but I think my biggest thing would be that relocation chart being the new natal. It's like the biggest fallacy of quick interpretation that's out there. At Kepler College, we pride ourselves in being thorough. We break it down. We don't tell you that you could learn everything there is to know about the whole universe, and your view of the sky in just a few weeks. It's unlimited. The universe is infinite. And we go as far as we can. Of course, we take you the way I like to describe. We take you to the edge of the universe as far as we can.
And the rest is according to what you want to explore. But with Kepler College, you're going to learn the basics. You definitely learn an overview. You get to learn what you really like or don't like as much anymore. Maybe you have more of a leaning towards local space, or maybe you prefer doing the geodetics over astro-cartography. And then we also talk about how to approach your clients, how to do a counseling session, the psychology of planets.
And we also get into the business of how to approach readings, because you don't want to be an astrologer hanging up a shingle saying that you offer astramapping services and get people that are very unhappy with their locations and think that it's just a matter of moving that would change everything. When really, you have to change internally and everything else around you would also change. And we talk about the key, in my opinion, is looking at the astronomy behind it. That's like the easiest thing. Once you know the astronomy, the rest becomes inherent.
And it's not to deal with a lot of math at all, because I'm allergic to math as much as every other astrologer is. It's more of a tool of our navigation and our insight. We just keep, hey, if you like rabbit holes, welcome to Kepler College. Ariel Gutman learned directly from Jim Lewis, and not third-hand. And having that direct lineage, I think, is very important. Those who have known Jim Lewis, those who have known Michael Erlewein, you'll study with instructors who have decades in professional practice. The same voices advancing our field today.
One of our missions at Kepler is to get geodetics done right, because a lot of people are teaching it like it's personal, and they're doing it the wrong way, essentially. But because there's a gap in the market, you know how it works on social media. You might feel more astro-cartography than the pop astrologers out there, but if they have the algorithms, you're not going to be heard. So what happens is that they'll know astramething and the low geodetics, or they think they know geodetics, so they'll teach it according to, oh, I'm getting more of a reception that way, I'll just roll with this.
In other words, that algorithm reaction is corroding the actual truth of what the subject area is. And that's part of our mission at Kepler is to actually get it right.