Dan Furst > Quotes

“His longing to be noticed and praised, and his preference for the one-up position in relationships, may help explain why all the Sun lines in our astrocartographs are strong and beneficial by themselves, yet may be less helpful and advantageous when crossed by other lines.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“The Sun on the Descendant line is one I know well. I’m writing this book a few miles from it in a place that favors the building of relationships for intellectual work, project organization, publication and performance.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“The yellow Sun lines in our Astrocartography maps show the places where we are most likely to shine, gain attention and charisma, achieve professional and social position, and spread our influence through publication and performance. The Sun is abundant in his creativity, so that under his lines we may discover new creative avenues, and greater confidence in using our gifts.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“The MC is the spiritual thrust of our chart, our approach to our soul desires, and it embodies our most authentic values and goals, so that as long as we act in accordance with what it represents, we’ll feel our actions are truthful. As the MC is on the cusp of the 10th house of our profession, it is also often connected with our most important career objectives, our way of being seen in the world, and identified with what we do in the larger realm of public action.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“Our best sales territories may be under our Mercury lines. Our publishers are waiting along our Jupiter lines. Saturn lines can help our children choose a university. Venus lines point to love. Moon’s lines show a woman’s best place to give birth and raise her children. Sun lines show where we can succeed, gain recognition and literally shine in the world.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“Sun on the Nadir line, for it favors locations in which we are healthy, financially secure, happily partnered and socially prosperous, blessed by an active and loving circle of friends. As most people seek to enjoy all these advantages in later life, this line is sometimes called, not so surprisingly, the Retirement Line.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“The Sun’s positive traits include optimism, breadth of vision, magnanimity, generosity, spontaneity and a hearty good humor.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“action in our spiritual and professional lives (the Midheaven, or MC), the material plane (Nadir), our individual emergence and personal intentions (Ascendant, or ASC) and our roles and positions in marriage, love relationships and other partnerships (Descendant, or DSC).”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“The Sun on the Ascendant line favors the projecting of one’s personal power and leadership into the outer environments of politics, business and society, especially when the Sun in one’s birth chart is the “rising planet” in the first house, close to the Ascendant line.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“For some astrocartographers, the Sun on the MC line is the best one in our entire map. It is sometimes called the Fame Line because it marks the locations where we achieve professional success, gain recognition for our accomplishments, and advance socially with the help of advantageous contacts. A brilliant career may trump everything else here, and can create a need for social climbing.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“lines are powerful to a distance of 500 kilometers, or 300 miles, to either side. The closer a line is to a point on your map, the stronger its impact.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“the Sun is the most luminous and powerful of the planets, so he also bears the greatest risk of vanity, ego clinging and self-aggrandizement.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life

“The crossing of these lines marks what Jim Lewis called “your unique magical good luck zone.”
― Dan Furst, Finding Your Best Places: Using Astrocartography to Navigate Your Life