“On him does death lie heavily who,
but too well known to all,
dies to himself unknown.”
-Seneca
The purpose of a chart reading is not to confirm a special status or to find out whether specific desires will be met. Rather, it is to enable an individual to get to know themselves. In doing so, they will then be open to the energies and strengths around and within them.
Jyotish has been accused of focusing on the negative. This charge has been made because it is easy to see weaknesses and potential sources of sorrow in a chart, especially for a person who is looking outward for happiness. What isn’t easy to see is what will occur once a person develops confidence in their inner voice and the energies surrounding them. Collectively the energies are called God, a word with as many meanings as there are people. Commonly looking within can be called, turning your face to God. Whatever that word means to you, or however you picture that energy, it is correct and true for you. Once this step toward finding the truth within has been taken, sincerely and consistently, much of the information in a chart becomes null and void.
In each person’s life there are good things and bad things, opportunities and challenges, pleasures and pain. The good events are deemed positive, whereas the alternatives are deemed negative, even though the opposite maybe the truth. For example, when you’re happy, do you take time to look within yourself? Or, is it only in times of emotional distress when you look within to see your role in whatever event occurred?
What will it take for you to turn your face toward God? Serious illness is a common stimulus because of attachment to the physical body and the illusion that life, as we understand it, is everything. It’s not uncommon for a chart to show the possibility of death only to have that indication eliminated once the person opens to the healing and loving energies around them. The healing doesn’t take place simply in order to prolong a life, but rather to give the individual an opportunity to continue to grow and to share their experience.
One chart reading will provide information to be worked with for many years. Looking at the chart over and over will not remove individual responsibilities. Tasks modify, they don’t disappear and a chart will keep a person informed of directions to take. In achieving that goal, the goal of knowing the self, the purpose of Jyotish is achieved.
-Phyllis
COMMENTS:
Michael Strauch
July 30/15
Hi Phyllis,
I just felt the need to respond to your newsletter and tell you how fabulous I think it is what you wrote and shared there!!!
You make with a few but so precise words clear what I always admired about you and how you deal with Jyotish and the reading of the charts. Quite often I was not very pleased with what you told me, knowing very well that this had nothing to do with you, that it had nothing to do with predictions of any sort but supporting me on my way to who I truly am and this is what “it” YOU did for me.
I also admired that in all what you did, you were not only very professional and right on the money, but you also showed compassion and understanding for me and/or situation I was in. I also liked that you opposed to so many other astrologers never created a sense, of dependency the need to come back to you all the time to find out more and such. The opposite is true you encouraged me to do my job and that was enough and I did do that.
You played always a big role in this regards in my life and I’m not sure if you know that or if I have expressed this to you often or clear enough, so here you go.
