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I think it's very important for people to know all about the Astrologer before doing a reading with them. How they got into astrology, how they work with it. What are their beliefs and input into things, how is it reflecting in their own life in such a way that they made a profession out of it. I think an astrologer's approach to astrology will give people insight to what kind of astrologer they can be... towards them and others as well. Especially because as astrologer, you don't just pull a chart and tell them what they are asking for.. when you pull a chart, you are handling a person's life. Even though most astrologers gives a disclaimer that this is for education and entertainment purposes... every analysis and insight they give to the client creates a psychological effect to that person. So... trust is very crucial, too.
The Land of Origin
My name is Kristine and I live in the part of Eastern Asia, Philippines, which has been known for being the Ancient Biblical Land of Ophir and the Garden of Eden mentioned in the Bible, for which King Solomon acquired his resources to build the first temple in Jerusalem where Jesus was born. It is also a big part of the biblical prophecies mentioned in the Bible. Ancients have called as the Ancestral Homeland of the Polynesians which gave a lot of importance and recognition to the planets and the fixed stars. It has a great significance in spirituality and astrology as a whole.
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(1 Corinthians 1:26-29) “For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.”
The Path that led to Spirituality and Astrology
I grew up in in a very religious country, not only as part of history and culture but due to the religious practices engraved to us while growing up. When I was in my early years at school, I would always buy small booklets for children regarding spiritual stories in the Bible. While most children, especially girls, would often buy fairy tales or pocket books... I always found myself buying short stories and scriptures about the Bible. I was very astonished and amazed by everything. I was a curious and innocent child - I must admit.
I could even remember the time, I went with my family out of town for the nature and scenery as we stumbled upon a very secluded but sacred church. I was so young and didn't even know how a prayer should exactly be done... but I've prayed anyway. I've prayed for the safety, protection and blessings of my loved one and I've prayed a whole lot about world peace and goodness of every human on earth. Remembering this is funny and embarrassing at the same time, because I remember that due to the fact there that the place was secluded and the church was almost empty, every word I've uttered echoed through the entire space making everyone who is inside of it hearing every word I've spoken and prayed for. It may be not so embarrassing now that I've grown up, but as a child... it has given a deep impression on me.
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Fortunately or unfortunately, I've always been sensitive and compassionate. I couldn't help but feel bad when I see unfortunate people. It always makes me want to do something for them... and every time I am unable to do so, I will be emotionally disturbed for quite a long time. During that time, I have no idea what being an empath is or what empathy is even all about and I got to be honest, while it's a good thing to be able to be a sensitive person, it has also brought a lot of detrimental things that doesn't really serve me any good. I had a lot of experiences in my childhood years that can't be explained... in a very logical sense. It also became really hard to express and share the information to people because, it didn't feel normal at all. I would often make a lot of research and work my way around with things... by myself.
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That is how I got into studying about angels and all that. I find prayer a very powerful thing but often underestimated by so much people... yet it has saved me one too many times, so I really take things seriously when it comes to anything spiritual. I'm not really the type to believe in everything I see or hear but it has to somehow convinced me in a way that, I have experiment on things and experience it as a whole. I first met my guru during my college years... I got exposed to a fortune teller in an event in school, which I managed and that really was a big start for me.
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I slowly got into fortune telling, working on my intuition, protecting myself in a very spiritual way. The attacks I used to have that I can't explain nor share to anyone has stopped... and I really felt very free. I used to be very afraid to sleeping, because those were the times I would experience a lot of mishaps, though I still have weird experiences here and there, it has now became what people call.. precognitive dreams. As a person who has an actual experience with it, I would say... at times it is helpful and at times, really scary but it has occurred for me all my life, it's just something I am very used to, right now.
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I've always knew about astrology since then, but I never really tried to dig deep into learning the craft of astrology. It was not until few years after I've been doing my professional readings to people that I had this urge of wanting to learn something more. I want to get better, I want to upgrade my skill set but at the same time, I would tell myself that doing readings for people are just the work I do on the side, not really something I should devote myself into. That moment in time, I rejected the thought of expanding my knowledge into the metaphysics and spirituality... I've experienced a huge amount of experiences that was very scary. I suddenly lost things that supports my income in earning money, unexpectedly. My dad had a car accident, and many more, it really was very scary and devastating. It was that time, I suddenly had an attachment to astrology... and I took a long period of break just to put all my time into studying astrology, still not thinking of making it as a profession... but I just wanted to study it for the sake of knowledge and awareness.
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"Heaven in Earth" Astrology System that I've developed and created
One of my major struggle with astrology is the fact that somehow defeats the purpose with how I've done my readings, which is why I was first hesitant to make it as a profession. I'm all about intuition and I've never really follow books... a lot of my clients and repeat clients know this. Even when I was being taught how to read cards. I would learn the basic meaning but how I do the reading was never really relied on the actual meaning of the cards. Maybe I was just born as a complete rebel on what people traditionally believed... (Uranus & Saturn in Sagittarius)
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It took me some time before, I've come across this system. I had to study various astrology methods and system to work my way around with it. It took me a long time just to experiment what really works for me. I invested a lot of time into Astro-Theology, which made me believe that tropical system is really the basis of things, but at the same time... I could never neglect the Vedic Astrology teachings. I eventually was led into the teachings of Ernst Wilhelm, which gave a huge confidence in myself... because he uses the Tropical Zodiac Signs with Sidereal Nakshatra, which has been my concern for such a long time. Yet, this alone didn't really satisfy me. I feel that the whole system is very pragmatic, logical and scientific. I spent a lot of time researching various old books all about divinations and everything about the ancient past. This had led me to also learn all about divinations with playing cards. I had to translate old books, since some were not available in English language at all... I didn't really have a major purpose to why I was studying and reading a lot of books. For the most part, I even forgot what was my goal to why I was researching about the past and ancient methods of divination and astrology. I enjoyed the puzzle work and the unfolding the mysteries of many things that modern people nowadays believed, to what actually transpired in the past. It was interesting, debating and argumentative... then, I suddenly remembered one crucial factor that was in my mind all these time but I never really explored into it. Not just me, but anyone for that matter. It was the fact that astrology is a divination method. That alone is like a light bulb for me, giving me hope and confidence that maybe, I can make use of astrology to the work that I want to do for a living.
Divination is the art of seeking knowledge to the future or the unknown, by spiritual or supernatural means.
It is always related to predictions, fortune telling, divining and forecasting the future... yet so many people persisted that astrology is logical, pragmatic and all about science. Then, I told myself... if that were the case, wouldn't it be the same to everything else?
Cartomancy is an art of divination using a set of playing cards and there's a whole bunch of scientific factors with how divination using playing cards work. They would often relate this to the calendar, a similar way in which people link astrology to the calendar as well. Yet, cartomancy... can never be accurate with just a random set of cards. There is a method in a pragmatic way with a twist of mysticism to it before a cartomancy reading becomes really accurate. It's something you can do with math and science, yet at the same time... it isn't enough.
This reminds me of astrology and I thought, are the scientific calculations really enough to astrology or is there an additional twist to it that other people know or don't know about? While there were still a lot of questions in my mind, I didn't really want to bother myself with it any longer. I've experimented on things that worked for me, with the application of using intuition combining of Tropical, Vedic and Ancient Babylonian teachings... I've come into a conclusion that this is working for me. I don't know about the other astrologers, but it's something that works for me and I believe in this method. I'm not proposing this as an entirely different kind of astrology system or method but I made this system for my own use, for myself... to separate it from the system and teachings of other people because "Heaven in Earth" literally means, that my way of doing astrology is not with logic and science alone, but has a twist of using the psychic intuition when casting and pulling out a chart to read for people. I really believe that astrology is part of divination because, it can't be just math and logic alone.
Another reason, why I've proposed to make this as a system for myself is to let others know the difference of my own set of astrology and why I am analyzing or predicting things the way that I do.