RICK BOYD ASTROLOGER
Natal - Karmic - Predictive
Horary - Children's
SERVICES
There are many ways to study the patterns created by the universe’s energy, and astrology is one of them. Astrology studies the positions of the sun, the moon and the planets as they travel across the sky relative to the zodiac: a band of space around the horizon divided into 12 equal signs by ancient Babylonians. These patterns are described in your horoscope, a chart of the planets and stars at the time, date and place you were born.
Natal Astrology
This is what most people understand about astrology. This is drawing a chart showing the positions of the planets in the zodiac at the time you were born. This is essentially your contract of the strengths and weaknesses you agreed to bring into this life as the tools to work with on your karmic journey. Who you are and your place in the world. I include this in every karmic astrology reading.
Karmic Astrology
My speciality is karmic astrology, which looks at the karmic aspects of your natal chart to show what gifts and debts you bring into this life from your past life or lives; how they could hold you back or help you forward in this incarnation; and what goals and aims you need to seek in this life to learn the lessons you agreed to before birth, to progress in this life and grow as a soul. It can help you understand your life purpose and how to move out of repeating, restricting behaviour patterns. Amanda and I run regular Past Lives and Future Paths Workshops to explore participants' past lives, who they were and where they lived, their karmic burdens and gifts brought into this life, and the lessons they agreed to learn in this incarnation
Predictive Astrology
This difficult, complex art compares the planets in their current positions in the heavens (transiting planets), with the planets when you were born (natal planets), and the patterns formed between them. There are a number of different systems of predictive astrology, but they all prepare you for the restrictions and obstacles you will face – fore-warned is fore-armed – and the opportunties available to help you progress. I generally provide a two year forecast of major influences you will face.
Horary
Horary is a type of astrology that answers particular questions that may be weighing on your mind. This is done by casting a chart for the time the question is asked and interpreting the planets, signs and houses in that chart in particular ways to arrive at an answer. This can be anything from 'when will I meet the partner of my dreams' to 'will my favourite team win their crunch game this weekend?'.
Children's Astrology
For children I provide a bright, fun, illustrated colour chart that outlines the major indications of their natal chart in an informal, entertaining way. These can be framed and make attractive, intriguing and unusual gifts for newborns and children.
Rick Boyd Astrologer
I am an astrologer with 35 years' experience studying and practising the ancient wisdom of Western Astrology, and specialising in Karmic Astrology. Karmic Astrology takes a spiritual view of astrology and uses certain features of the birth chart to show the karmic burdens and gifts from previous lives, and the soul's aims and goals to learn lessons in this life.
I offer karmic and other astrology readings online and together with Amanda, have held a series of popular karmic astrology workshops, Past Lives and Future Paths, in recent years.
I am a committee member of the Federation of Australian Astrologers Western Australia and have appeared at Perth's popular Psychic Dinners and the annual Conscious Living Expo.
I live in Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia, with my partner; spiritual medium, healer and clinical hypnotherapist, Amanda.
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Pick your preferred astrolgical reading and send me a message in the contact form below for a full written report. Natal and Karmic Astrology US$75.00 - Horary and Children's Astrology USA$50 - Predictive Astrology 5 Years US$250 - 2 Years US$150. (All readings are my own personal work. I do not use AI in any way.)
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ASTROLOGY BACKGROUND
These are my views on astrology. There are other schools of thought and other interpretations, but these are ones that work for me. I am happy to share with you an overview of the way my astrology works.
My astrology
I have always been fascinated by astrology, from the earliest age. I don't know why, it certainly wasn't part of my upbringing, but it always seemed so natural to me, so ancient, so wise. Perhaps because I am also a keen student of history. I took my first astrology course in the 70s, working with pen and paper and slow, complicated mathematics to manually draw up charts. But it's only in the last twenty years or so that I have really devoted myself to it and while I will always consider myself a student of this ancient discipline.
A spiritual universe
This is my understanding. We are immortal souls from a spirit world filled with light and love, sent by the Infinite Spirit to learn and grow by incarnating many, many times in many physical worlds. We are here to learn lessons that will help us grow and we travel with a group of souls who incarnate together through many lifetimes, learning together and supporting each other. We are all one Universal energy and expressions of that energy can be found in patterns in the physical world to be interpreted by the enlightened. This is all as the Universe intends. We study our past life with our guides and seek guidance from the Ascended Masters, and we choose our next life to advance our set of lessons. We choose from the available circumstances in the world we wish to incarnate in, but this is not random, but part of the infinitely variable web of destiny the Infinite Spirit lays before us. We choose our parents and our place on earth, we choose the moment of birth.
A heavenly discipline
Beginning some 4000 years ago, Babylonian priest/scholars – the scientists of their day – observed the heavens at night and mapped out two sets of bodies. The first were fixed stars, the myriad points of light that remained in set positions relative to each other. The second were wandering stars – planetes in Greek – which followed variable paths. And of course they saw the paths of the Sun and Moon.
These ancient scientists observed and recorded the movements of the wandering stars on their regular journeys across the band of space around the horizon. This band of space they divided into 12 sections based on their calendar of 12 months of the year (roughly 12 lunar orbits) and 360 degrees (roughly 360 days a year). The 12 signs of this band of space were named from imagined groups of stars in the vicinity at that time, and we know them collectively as the zodiac; from the ancient Greek zōidiakòs kýklos, circle of little animals. Over centuries, these ancient scientists observed the relationships between these heavenly movements and human behaviours on earth. Perhaps they had guidance from even earlier wise people, shamans or druids from the countless thousands of years preceding, but as those people had no written records that is speculation only. In Western Tropical astrology, the zodiac is fixed to the seasonal calendar as the ancient Babylonians first ordered it; with 0 degrees Aries aligning to the March solstice.