First, consulting astrologers have codes of ethics that forbid publishing charts for their clients or revealing any information shared by their clients, UNLESS the client expressly gives them permission to publish. However, even if given permission, most astrologers will avoid using client charts as illustrations for some of the following reasons and because it may make future clients hesitate to consult that astrologer. Even if it is operating on an unconscious level, future clients may hesitate to consult with an astrologer whose client charts keep being published.
However, this distinction does not directly apply when a person is a public celebrity. True, if he or she is a client, their information is confidential, and I would keep their chart confidential as well. But if this person is not my client, and is a public person, then I see no problem with looking at their chart or commenting on it. My only knowledge of the person is through mass media and the birth chart. I am not revealing anything that is not public already. However, some saucier aspects of a chart I may refrain from commenting on for people who are alive, out of respect for them and their families. Or I may make my comments very general in ways I might approach a similar configuration in a client’s chart.
Celebrity charts tend to be more extreme, in good and bad ways, than actual clients most of us encounter. We see more celebrity charts with clear themes and obvious career indicators. While actual clients tend to have more muddled charts, part of why they are consulting us in the first place. So celebrity charts are usually better examples of specific aspects or chart configurations, as they may not have opposite factors that confuse the interpretation.
Because celebrities are public figures, if you see their chart and wonder about something you see in the chart, you can easily consult public news media or encyclopedias or other information sources to find out exactly how the aspect has worked in that person’s life. This is not true for private charts. The astrologer posting the chart may tell you what happened, but there is no independent way for you to confirm the information.
A drawback to celebrity charts is that usually they are of older people. This is for several reasons. One is that a person needs a certain track record, period of fame, before his or her chart attracts the news media and the biographer and the astrologer. Also, the older a person is, the more likely some astrologer has discovered the correct birth data and posted it where other astrologers can retrieve it. (Thanks to those who do!)
So if you are wondering about how that Sun-Mars conjunction in the first house actually works in a chart, you won’t learn much from private files, even if you can find them. It is celebrity charts that will show that aspect and others splashed over the news!
It’s much easier to see that Sun-Mars in the chart of Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr., than in the chart of someone who lives on your block. Earnhardt is a third generation stock car racer. How apt a way to express a Sun-Mars conjunction!
Lalia Wilson sees astrology as a way to understand one’s own life, one’s relationships and current patterns. Astrology is not deterministic, but rather has patterns of symbolic meaning which will be expressed in some fashion as the pattern unfolds. Contact Lalia at Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. Astrology consultations require a person’s name, birth date, time and place. All astrology consultations and Kofutu Healings are pre-paid. Consultations are by telephone to US clients, or by e-mail anywhere.
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