SEEING STARS WITH MONTE FARBER
Q: Your Intro to Tarot workshop this summer was one of our programming favorites! Now you are back with some Astrology goodness! We can’t wait to hear how our Birthday relates to our diet! What inspired that connection for you?
MF: We’ve written ASTROLOGY FOR WELLNESS: Star Sign Guides for Body, Mind & Spirit Vitality to share what works for us along with simple yet effective techniques for developing and increasing one’s inner power supply, reclaiming personal power, to heal and rejuvenate.
In this book we share the eight essential wellness practices for bringing balance to your inner and outer life, customized for each Sun Sign: empowerment, contemplation, relaxation, nourishment, intention, mindfulness, breathing and good sleep.
Down through the ages astrology has helped people to understand their nature, and in doing so, to explore natural remedies to help us heal. In fact, a conveniently forgotten fact, Hippocrates taught that to properly treat a patient the physician should always know the patient’s astrology chart!
Q: So many people come to you for tarot, psychic, and other metaphysical readings. You are offering four private astrology readings to follow the workshop. What can an astrological chart tells you that’s any different than the rest?
MF: An astrology chart done for day, place and time of your birth can give you real, profoundly useful and vital information. Your natal astrology chart, the map of how the planets lined up around your personal nativity, symbolizes the many individual aspects of your personality, skills, fears, and potential for greatness, as you define it.
How do you become great? By facing the totality of your being, all these many aspects, and somehow figuring out how to make it work on a daily basis. I show you your chart and show you how to Make It Work!
Having your chart read helps you put the steering wheel in your wheelhouse so you can direct the action and not just drift with the currents.
Q: Let’s face it, you’re famous. How long have you been giving readings and how did you know you had a calling for this?
MF: Thank you! When I met my wife Amy Zerner in 1975 she was studying astrology and I was studying Amy, so I learned astrology. Astrology is our language of love, a magnifying glass that allows us to look into ourselves, each other and all those we care about.
I'm proud to be an astrologer, to have written Karma Cards, one of the most successful astrology oracles ever invented (hundreds of thousands of copies sold in 14 languages), to be an astrological counselor and teacher.
I have read for and counseled thousands of people over the years, since 1980, and I like to tune into what important messages, traits and gifts their charts express, and how to identify and amplify them. The common denominator in all human-caused suffering is poor decision making and I help people make better decisions.
Q: Your workshop, Astrology for Wellness, is based around your newest book. So many people don’t realize what a prolific writer you are. Give us a sneak peek into what you will discuss in the Saturday workshop and why we need this book.
MF: Take our life experience and our desire to share it, add my ability to write as I speak, keeping the other person and their situation in mind as I do so, and you have our series of self-help books that actually enable a person to help themselves in real and practical ways.
I loved sharing the Tarot at my last Mandala workshop and I look forward to this one about Astrology. I love Astrology. I love teaching it, studying charts, sharing it, doing readings for people, and writing about it.
I will offer some insight, tools, guidance and energy exercises to create awareness, jump start needed changes and outline healing modalities that meet the personal needs of each Sun Sign. Once you determine the vulnerable areas of your body, mind and spirit, you can take measures to protect, nurture and build them up.
Q: We love we are closing the year with your fantastic energy. If you had three words to describe what kind of year you predict 2019 will be, what would they be?
MF: CRYSTALLIZATION - DISCIPLINE - TRANSFORMATION….and if I had one piece of advice it would be “Make your base secure."
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