Natal astrology is the astrology of your birth, the factors and forces with which you will resist and therefore either crumble toward or be strong against. It shows your natural tendancies, and in a way is the foundation for all astrology.
Natal astrology can be useful for many reasons. If you have a problem that you cannot solve, this form of astrology will show you the situations of the problem, your strong areas, and your weak areas. It won't fix the problem - only you can do that. However, once you have an understanding of your situation, you can work from a more objective point of view, rather than being the rat in the maze of confusion.
Natal astrology will also show you your strong areas. If it is in an area with which you are already familiar, it may give you more guidance on how to accentuate those strengths. If it is in an area which you have not explored, it can guide and aid you in the way which you can best utilize your special strengths, so that you will be better able to exert your energies.
Mostly, Natal astrology promotes an understanding of ourselves. How often have you wondered who you were, and what you were born for? With a completed natal chart, you will be more fully able to discover yourself, and to move your life in the direction that is designed specifically to make you feel fulfilled with yourself.
Synastric astrology is the science of comparing the astrological factors in one chart with those in another. With this tool, we can compare ourselves to our spouses, jobs, locations, friends, groups, and any number of things which can be located in a place/time position.
If you wish to become closer to your spouse or mate, this is the ticket. This science will tell you what you need to know as far as what areas are weak, problematic, and not likely to fulfill under pressure. With this information, you will be able to see what you can do to lessen the tension inherent in those areas. Also, you can be more aware of what situations will cause problems. If you have an understanding of an individual's personality and how it fits in with yours, you will be less likely to stumble and create barriers between yourselves, as well as understand why the barriers that are currently in place are there.
If you choose to move to a new area, the timing of your move takes into effect the forces at work behind all the situations you can't see at that location and time. It will give you a glimpse of your "first impression" before you go there. With this information, you can decide to move at a different time and thus better your chances of success and happiness.
With our jobs, you can compare it in the same way as above - your personality against your occupation, usually when you started work or the time the business was formulated. In this way, you can tell if your goals and ideals at this time, what is motivating and exciting to you, mesh well with the influences surrounding that company or location. There is another type of astrology that can inform you as to your job, and that is called occupational astrology, listed below.
There are many different levels of synastric interaction available. You can have a chart done for how well you will relate to an entity, how a long term interaction will be in general, how an interaction will be at a specific point in time, how you specifically will deal with another or how another will see you. Each is a different process and the number of pages will vary, depending on how involved you get.
Once again, everything changes with time. If you are able to time the changes and decisions you make against more profitable and benificial situations, you would.
With astrology, this is something you can do.
