What a chart can reveal
A birth chart, called a horoscope, is merely a figurative map of the solar system as seen from a specific place on Earth and at a specific time.
From a psychological perspective, a birth chart reveals your perception of your reality, and the patterns and scripts that you encounter at all levels of your life – within any relationship (platonic or sexual); within your experience of work or vocation; within your family (biological and self-created); within your friendships, peerage, community etc. A horoscope does not define what your ideology, career or relationships will be, but what you bring to those personal choices; nor does it reveal whether you are a man or woman; asexual, gay, bi or straight; your genetics or your cultural environment.
A birth chart can reveal what you bring to your relationships – the patterns, scripts and themes concerning union; your perception of your family/ your vocation/ your locations/ your education; the way in which you express yourself in the world; how you are within your soul; the way in which you perceive the world; the values you hold dear; the way in which you assert yourself; your attitudes within platonic or sexual relationships; your ability to gain freedom; to deal with restrictions; to seek to heal; to maintain your autonomy; to escape from this plane of reality; to transform your soul; and to connect with those in your soul group.
Your chart can shed light on the timing wherein your soul is ready to address certain scripts; when particular areas of your life will be invoked – for example, when issues that arise within a relationship; when you are faced with choices concerning having a family/ relocating/ change careers or what career best suits your soul’s path; and where your soul can experience the inner workings of very specific themes in your life.
Whether you choose to live a fulfilled life or not or whether you live in accord to the energetic pathways grooved into your soul or the level of conscious awareness you currently have is something that arises in an active dialogue that an astrologer has with you.
Since your chart does NOT control or define your reality, I believe that it is impossible to truly have a session with an astrologer without a two way interaction between astrologer and client. I believe it is my role to facilitate a deeper understanding of those scripts and patterns with you, as I do not believe that it is possible to truly interpret your chart without your active participation, as your dialogue will help me assess the level that each pattern in your chart is expressing itself through you.
In the same way that any decision you make has a number of different levels to them (pragmatic/ financial/ ideal/ emotional/ spiritual), your psychology emerges at differing levels simultaneously. The beauty of astrology is that it symbolism is polysemic, meaning that there are infinite ways that the same theme speaks through you. What I bring to you is my ability to hear the level to which your chart is currently manifesting and to objectively and sensitively reflect it back to you, whilst at the same time helping you find an increasingly more conscious way of co-creating with your fate, raising your level of awareness and therefore expression of your potentiality, so that you bring into greater clarity the various purposes of your multi-dimensional soul. Yes, there is not just one purpose for your life (there are at least sixteen!!!).
So, if you engage an astrologer who will draw up and interpret your chart without your participation, you are engaging in and trusting their psychic abilities and also participating in a belief that you are truly fated and your chart will define your reality, as opposed to you defining your own reality, within the metaphysical framework of your chart.
Consultation astrology, in my experience, does not work without the active participation of the astrologer and the person seeking astrological guidance. Working blindly, without context, can only give you a general outline of the basic patterns of the birth chart and the timing of when those patterns will emerge. The complex nuances of your life, your prior choices and the level to which you are living your life are not factors that any astrologer is privy to from a chart alone.