Dangerous Love, Sacred Love - 4 day sale

Aloha...just a brief update to announce that Dangerous Love, Sacred Love is on sale through August 22, 2012. Get a great deal, gain new never-seen-before insight into Saturn and Neptune and help me fund my rapidly upcoming trip to Singapore. This trip marks the beginning of a new (top-secret, lol) astrology project as well as a new life for me.

Visit the Dangerous Love, Sacred Love website to learn more or to place an order. Valid on the 24 hour email delivery option only (that means that I personally send you the PDF version of the book via email).

The book's latest review:

I got to learn about Dena's work when I was looking for some information on Saturn, that led me to her website, and I got very interested in her presentation of the various aspects of Astrology.
Her knowledge is impressive, and she is very gifted at communicating it in a very inspiring way.
I knew Dena was working on a book about Saturn-Neptune contacts, and I could not wait to read about it.

Well, I love LOVE her book !!!

I have never read such a deep and caring analysis of Saturn-Neptune in synastry.Dena brings you to a new level at understanding the challenging and complex dynamic of those 2 planets.
Her wisdom combined with her insightful awareness of the subtle energies of the human soul makes her book even more valuable than if it was just another study on Saturn-Neptune.

A real feast for those interested in learning more about themselves and their relationships, or for those looking to deepen their knowledge on Astrology.

It certainly did give me both !
Thank you Dena :)

From Marie De France

http://www.dangerouslove-sacredlove.com/

Personalized Readings and Consultations by an Astrologer vs. Computerized Readings

I am sharing an article I wrote a number of years ago that I recently found buried in the maze of Through Night's Fire...my virtual mansion with many hidden rooms, LOL.

So you are looking for advice and let’s face it, there are many astrology sites out there offering services. How do you know which service or reading is right for you? Many of the computerized sites are run by people who don’t even know astrology themselves! Since I’ve recently began offering computerized readings myself, I thought I would take a moment to explain to you the difference between a personal reading by an astrologer and a computerized reading. What are the benefits of each? What are the drawbacks of each?

A computerized reading can offer good general insight. Say you want to know what is coming up over the next few months, just so you can have some idea of what could happen. The type of computerized reading that could help would be a forecast (otherwise known as a planetary transit reading)--be it a Love Forecast, a Business Forecast, or just an overall view, a computerized reading is the best way to go. For an astrologer to personally calculate and interpret your transits, she (or he) would have to spend many long and possibly torturous hours working with your charts. If you want a personal forecast by an astrologer, you are going to have to pay good money to receive one. Sure, some astrologers will tell you they are personally doing your transits…but guess what, they aren’t! Unless you are paying about 100+ for a 3 month forecast, they are selling you a computer reading they are trying to pass off as one they ‘personally’ worked for you. Any time you see these types of readings (example follows), you are probably receiving a computer reading:

Venus trine Moon

(with a paragraph or so of text)

Pluto square Ascendant

(with a paragraph or so of text)


And so on and so forth. This is NOT a personal, handwritten reading, even if the ‘astrologer’ managed to take a few moments to input a few paragraphs of their own advice (in fact, most professional astrologers won‘t write their readings out anyway. Many simply talk to you via the phone or send you a tape. It is more difficult and time consuming to write out an astrology reading, which is why many won‘t even bother). If you just need a general overview, spending a lot of money just doesn’t make sense. However, if you have an important date coming up--your wedding, a major move--you may want to spend the money and hire a professional astrologer to get deeper insight and advice into what may happen.

My personal thoughts on computerized astrology readings is that they are best used to gain basic insight. If you want to know more about your compatibility in general with someone, get a computerized compatibility reading. If you really NEED to know the potential of a relationship and receive advice on how to navigate the relationship for the best possible positive relationship (particularly if you are in a difficult situation and need help), hire a professional astrologer to work your compatibility or even perhaps enter into a consulting relationship with your astrologer for ongoing advice and support. A computer reading can just look at your aspects and spit out various aspects (sometimes conflicting ones!) that can help you understand each other better. It obviously can’t give an opinion or offer support. But overall, a computerized compatibility can give you good insight into your relationship in general.

Here is a basic checklist of the benefits and drawbacks of each type of reading:

Computerized Readings

Plus

~ Excellent for Future Forecasts
~Great for General Information
~General Insight into your personality, relationships, and life
~Very inexpensive
~Tons of info (although you will have to take all of the conflicting information into consideration yourself)

Minus

~Very limited in it’s ability to answer SPECIFIC questions
~Conflicting information that may make some aspects of the reading feel that it isn’t describing you or your relationship accurately. You will have to determine what is right and discard the rest yourself.
~You can’t ask the computerized reading what it meant about something said in the reading
~Can’t Offer an Opinion or advice
~Can’t Offer Support

An Astrology reading with a Professional astrologer
(Written, Taped, Phone, In-person, Chat room)

Plus

~ Excellent for Specific advice and answers to your questions
~Great for deeper insight and advice into your personality, relationships, and life
~Your Astrologer will take all conflicting information into consideration while working your reading and will provide you with a much more concise and fluid, integrated reading. No astrological understanding should be needed to understand what your astrologer is saying. (Of course, there are some who do work readings in astro-lingo. I am not one of them!)
~You can ask your Astrologer what he or she meant by something in your reading
~Ongoing support if needed
~Many Astrologers offer a retainer service or ongoing consulting
~Some Karmic Astrologers can offer you specific past life details (in conjunction with channeling. This is one service I provide for my clients. A computerized karmic reading will be very general and simply be full of possibilities, not specific information).


Minus

~Can be quite expensive, depending on the quality of the service, the experience level of the astrologer, and whether the astrologer is in demand (how many clients the astrologer works with has a direct bearing on the cost. Obviously an astrologer who is sought after for their skill and knowledge will have a heavy client load and must limit how many people she or he works with. One way to limit the client load is to raise the cost of service).
~There may be a significant waiting period for your reading or consultation. Please see above about demand.
~Your reading will be shorter, but should offer much more specific and concise information

Stop in to my Readings Page and see what I offer!

I am now offering both Computerized Readings AND Personal Consultations!

Love and Saturn Retrograde ~ Understanding the anxiety and getting past the fear of intimacy

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.” CG Jung

We all have our share of intimacy fears that develop during our childhood and difficult early relationship experiences, but for most of us, our desire to be with another - to open our Self and share our inner being with someone - is much stronger than our fears. Because our inherent drive to be with someone is so powerful, we put ourselves out there and hope for the best. Through connecting with and interacting with others romantically, we get to know ourselves and learn about our own needs and desires when it comes to relating.

For a person with Saturn retrograde in the natal chart, intimacy fears are enormous. They may have an easy time connecting with others (depending on other factors in their chart) and could be very friendly and seemingly outgoing, but if you take a closer look you will soon realize that the Saturn retrograde person gets along fabulously with strangers or ‘new’ friends but tends to shut off - castrate - those who grow to love him or her or anyone who gets close enough to notice the fine cracks in the façade the native presents to others. There is a very tender and vulnerable emotional infant lurking within the Saturn retrograde native…this may be a very small aspect of the soul, or it could be a huge part of the personality, but beneath the strongly contained ego that appears to have it all together, there is a child wanting to be loved for who he or she is… an infant wanting to be nurtured and cherished and most of all, understood and appreciated. The fear of not being good enough, not being what is expected, of being weak and vulnerable to others or worse, superseded or totally unneeded by anyone, drives the Soul with Saturn retrograde deeper and deeper into a cocoon of their own making…an isolated and lonely place to be, a stranger in the shadows watching others and wondering why he (or she) feels so horribly alone.

The Saturn retrograde individual is like a sponge that absorbs all of the energy around him (her) and intuitively knows what is going on and how to protect the self within that atmosphere…he may also take on the beliefs or thought patterns of others, especially in youth, without even being aware that these beliefs aren’t really his own but were absorbed from the family or society/culture he was raised in. There is a (karmic) distortion in the personality that allows the external world to permeate the Soul, rendering the Saturn retrograde native’s early attempts at constructing boundaries ineffective. As the ego develops, it learns to construct higher and thicker emotional walls, extremely defensive barriers, and a reserve with others that says, “Do NOT approach.” Of course those superficially involved with the native may not sense or feel any of this because the fears aren’t activated until the Saturn retro individual grows closer or more involved with a person. Let him (or her) fall in Love and Bam…the fear floods in and the walls come up. The worries that the loved one will not love the ‘true’ self can be so strong that they distance themselves or sever the relationship in order to protect the loved one…and the Self.

Ironically, if they would move toward the lover, open to the lover, and find a way to let down the barriers...

Read the rest of my article, Love and Saturn Retrograde

Currently reading: Women Who Run With the Wolves ~ Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph. D. Highly recommend...I already AM a Wild Woman, LOL

Karma, Karma, Karma...

It's a sunny day here today in St. Pete but windy...a subtropical storm formed off the coast of GA a day or two ago and we've been feeling the breeze here! Tuesday morning was terrible with smoke so thick you could barely breathe if you opened the door, the result of fires in N Florida and Georgia and the storm blowing it down toward us...so, yeah, I'm very happy with today's weather :)

I've been thinking a lot about karma and how it builds and grows, changes, releases and how we can be our own best friend or worst enemy when it comes to our personal evolution. Sometimes it is difficult to see beyond our every day life and what is happening in the now and while living in the 'now' works for some, it doesn't work for all of us (myself included). Focusing on the past often helps me to not only understand what is happening now, but also understand how I can create my own future based on my past experiences. Our life path - our SOUL path - is circular, but not in the sense that it is a flat ongoing circle. Rather it is a spiral, we can circle up the path or circle downward. Consider Dante's Journey...or the DNA double helix...and as I am writing this, the symbolic world and spiral pattern becomes more than words in my mind. Saturn awakens from slumber...he is such a strong, spiritual planet so often treated with fear and loathing. His 28 year 'return' cycle marks major turning points in our lives and while these changes may not be easy, what would we do without this energy? Saturn may be personified as a cold, distant, father time figure but how do you envision God (the universe, Spirit)? Is your vision of Spiritual energy the all-knowing, forgiving, loving father? My vision of Spirit is of an objective, powerful energy source...sure, many of us long to return to that source, but it is so far beyond what we, as humans, know....I work with Metatron energy and this energy is not a loving, happy, let-me-take-care-of-you energy. It is a very powerful, objective source with little emotion - ok, no emotion - and a source of great insight and knowledge, but not in any sort of humanly comfort way. I feel he (that is what I consider this energy though in truth it is really sexless) feels that we can help ourselves, that we are responsible for ourselves and our actions, and that he is there to help us see how we are helping or harming ourself with our actions, behaviors, thought patterns, and beliefs.

I am currently writing an article for the website about Karmic Moon Signs and am also in the process of developing a new karmic scope - I would say more about it but as it stands, I will be the first and only to offer this type of scope on the web (to my knowledge, I looked and scoured google links for some time!) and I don't need the copycats to jump ahead of me and steal my ideas. I was the first on the web to offer an entire astrology site devoted to Love...there are so many others copying me now, it makes my head spin! That may be great for you, my customers and clients, as you have options and other's opininions on things but....

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Love, Light, and blessings,

Dena