April Elliott Kent > Quotes

“Caroline Casey says, the universe wants to help, but spiritual etiquette requires that we ask.”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“Saturn, the planet of commitment and maturity, is at its strongest in Libra, so this is one of the signs that is naturally made for marriage or other committed, long-term relationships.”
― April Elliott Kent, The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology: Everything from zodiac signs to prediction, made easy and entertaining

“Suffering through hardships doesn’t feel good. It hurts—and it is supposed to hurt! There is a reason for it, just as there is a reason the physical body feels pain: to alert you that something is endangering your well-being, that something isn’t right, so that you can avoid or fix it. So it is with your heart and your spirit: If you hurt, it’s because you are supposed to hurt when your life is moving in the wrong direction.”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“In modern America, unlike in other cultures that revere elders as keepers of wisdom, this role is not well defined and is even less respected.”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“The word astrology comes from the Greek astrologia, meaning “telling of the stars.” Astrology is essentially a language—the fine art of speaking in stars. An astrologer is someone who practices astrology.”
― April Elliott Kent, The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology: Everything from zodiac signs to prediction, made easy and entertaining

“The Sun is about who you are or are learning to be; Mercury, on the other hand, is about who you tell yourself that you are, how you frame the epic saga of your personal development.”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“Ages 7, 35, 63, 91 These are the ages of reason, when awareness of responsibility, maturity, and mortality comes into clearer focus, catalyzed by some external event. Life pushes you, and you have to push back, hard, to open the door to the next chapter. Achieving something in particular is not the point; simply making a serious effort to move forward is enough to satisfy Saturn.”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“the Sun, however important, is not the only celestial figure in the sky”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“Life is one long process of unmolding yourself from these earliest forms.”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“Popularized astrology based on the signs of the zodiac, such as newspaper and magazine horoscopes and sun sign personality lore, provide a valuable service: they introduce people to astrology in a way that’s practical and easy to use. The problem is that most people stop there, and base their opinions about people, situations, and astrology based on fairly shallow information.”
― April Elliott Kent, The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology: Everything from zodiac signs to prediction, made easy and entertaining

“Astrology is based on the belief that there is a relationship between what happens in the sky and what happens on earth. A favorite maxim of astrologers, “As above, so below,” implies that a set of universal laws governs both earth and sky. But to be completely honest, no one seems to be sure exactly why or how this works.”
― April Elliott Kent, The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology: Everything from zodiac signs to prediction, made easy and entertaining

“What good are achievements if you have no one to share them with you?”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“Whereas astrologers who use the sidereal zodiac (including the majority of astrologers in the East) refer to the current position of the stars, tropical astrology is based on the seasonal association of the signs with the season in which the sun rises in them. To tropical astrologers, who favor a symbolic or metaphorical approach to the zodiac, the fact that the solstice points have shifted to another constellation is beside the point. Tropical astrology is based on our relationship to the Sun, not to the stars.”
― April Elliott Kent, The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology: Everything from zodiac signs to prediction, made easy and entertaining

“Through these transits, you’ll develop strength and character that lasts because it has been truly earned. So show up, put your behind in the seat, keep your head down, and do your work.”
― April Elliott Kent, Astrological Transits: The Beginner's Guide to Using Planetary Cycles to Plan and Predict Your Day, Week, Year

“Most Western astrologers use a system known as the tropical zodiac, which aligns the vernal equinox with the first degree of the first sign, Aries. However, because of the precession of the equinoxes, the vernal equinox is now in early Pisces. This precession is ongoing, with the difference between tropical and sidereal positions widening about 1 degree every 72 years.”
― April Elliott Kent, The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology: Everything from zodiac signs to prediction, made easy and entertaining