Astrology: Your Sun Sign is NOT your ONLY Zodiac Sign

"Huh? My Sun sign isn't my only zodiac sign?"  Is most people's response when they hear this news.  Ever wonder why you never seem to not be able to relate to what your known zodiac sign is (your Sun sign)?  Well it is likely because you didn't realize that you have other zodiac signs that you are probably more like than your known sun sign.  lol  I used to wonder why I didn't seem much like a Scorpio at times.  These days people treat astrology like just another insignificant fun part of pop culture.  Sure most people know what their sun sign is and may make some comparisons of their sun sign attributes compared to the sun sign of their friends, family, co-workers, fellow class mates, and potential people of interest when dating, and may even read their horoscope daily, weekly, or monthly from one of their favorite columns in a magazine, newspaper, or web site....but that's where it ends for most. 

Astrology really is a science ( India recognizes this, and have their own structure of astrology called "Vedic Astrology" ), though the modern science community refuses to take the challenge to really examine astrology...so they discredit horoscope predictions and zodiac sign attributes as being nothing more than coincidence.  Therefore the modern science community refers to astrology as a pseudo science ( a science that lacks supporting evidence, and reliable methods of validity...blah blah blah lol Pretty much they're calling it a baseless fake science...whatever! ). 

Astrology could be proven as a real science, with supporting evidence and such if they actually were interested in conducting research with "real" depth.  Part of the real depth would come from knowing and acknowledging that does not reduce individuals and their personalities down to only one little zodiac sign with common attributes.  Astrology goes into much depth in presenting an entire structure of an individual's personality through multiple zodiac signs placed in ALL the planets in our galaxy and not just one very important star in our galaxy, the Sun.  There are about 9 others planets with your very own uniquely placed zodiac signs matched to account for when looking at an individual's personality.  About 5 or 6 of those planets with your zodiac signs are considered your personal planets. 

We all have a 

• Sun Sign (Your Structure)
• Moon Sign (Your Inner Self & Emotions)
• Venus Sign (How you Relate to Others- friendships, relationships/love, social aspect)
• Mars Sign ( Your Desires/Passions and Physical Energy)
• Pluto Sign (Your Transformation)
• Rising Sign (How you Project Yourself to Others/How Others See You)

Those are your personal planets, and can be used to figure out a good part of your personality as a person.  According to Cafe Astrology http://astro.cafeastrology.com  our other planets:

• Saturn ( represents contraction and effort ) 
• Neptune ( represents transcendental liberty, non-egoistic liberty )
• Uranus ( represents individual liberty, egoistic liberty )
• Jupiter ( represents expansion and grace ) 

These planets makes up the rest of our personality.  All of these planets can be found in what is called our "Natal Chart/Birth Chart". 

Interesting thing to throw in real quick, is that if a particular zodiac sign seems to dominate your natal chart ( the zodiac sign is found to be matched with more than one planet ) , than you may feel and act more like that particular zodiac sign than your more popular sun sign.  For example,  my sun sign is Scorpio.  However, Virgo is found to be matched with my personal planets Moon sign, Venus Sign, and my Mars in comparison with my other personal planets Sun - Scorpio, Mercury- Scorpio and other planet Saturn- Scorpio.  Virgo is competing with Scorpio and it feels dominate in my chart, making me feel not so much like a Scorpio half of the time or even most of the time.  The internal conflict is nerve wrecking at times! lol   

Every single person has a unique Natal Chart/Birth Chart, which includes your planets with their zodiac signs, your rising sign, ascendant sign (on your natal chart is opposite of your rising sign in position), and your Houses with their given zodiac signs to match.  We have 12 houses in our Natal Chart/Birth Chart.  I will do a post later about Houses in our Natal Chart/Birth Charts.  The houses go into another aspect of our lives, our potential.  In astrology, you can figure out how well you may or may not match with another person in dating and romance when comparing your moon signs, venus signs, and mars signs.  In Vedic astrology your moon sign is most significant, as compared to in western astrology the sun sign appears to be the most focused on as significant. 

If you're curious about what your other zodiac signs are for your other planets, take a look at your natal chart/birth chart on Cafe Astrology for free.  Though there are other sites where you can obtain a free Natal Chart/Birth Chart, I actually recommend and like Cafe Astrology's site most because it is easy to use, and their natal chart reports are designed to be easy to read, understand, and go into great depth with the information presented.   

To find out what zodiac signs are placed in your planets and houses, you'll need to know: your date of birth, place of birth (city, state, country), and your time of birth.  Don't know your time of birth?  It's okay, most people don't know without looking at their birth certificate or asking a parent.  If you have no immediate way of finding out what your time of birth, don't worry.  You can still find out what zodiac signs are placed in your planets, you just won't be able to find out what zodiac signs are placed in your houses.  Right now most of you may not even know what significance the houses play in your natal chart, and I will be blogging about it in a later blog.  Which will give you time to find out what time you were born so that you may know what zodiac signs are in the houses of your natal chart/birth chart. 

Visit this link to get your free natal chart at Cafe Astrology:  http://astro.cafeastrology.com/cgi-bin/astro/natal

Feel free to comment about this post and your experience with discovering your natal chart/birth chart. :-)

Autumn Bleu

Below is a sample of what a natal chart looks like (on cafe astrology they give you a full written break down of what's on your chart and what it means, so don't worry if you have no clue how to read a natal chart! lol  They do it for your for free:

Hair Product Review: Aubrey Honeysuckle Rose Moisturizing Conditioner

Today I have a hair product review to share with you all.  Yesterday I was shopping for a good moisturizing conditioner for my hair.  I had been using a lot of hair gel this past week (the brown protein gel by Ampro) and my hair has been feeling unusually dry.  Normally the gel doesn't do this to my hair.  I'm guessing some other changes are going on with my hair chemistry that I haven't figure out exactly yet.  There were so many conditioners to choose from!  It was hard.

I asked one of the girls who worked there at the Whole Foods market what she used on her hair being that her hair looked similar in texture to mines.  She recommended "Aubrey Honeysuckle Rose Moisturizing Conditioner".   It's an thick creamy herbal conditioner with a few rich oils included.  I took a look and read the ingredients.  I always read the ingredients, as I am particular about not wanting to use products with too much artificial "crap" in it (although I'm not above it and occasionally will when curious or desperately seeking results lol ), and prefer more natural ingredients to be used on my hair and skin. 

I'M IMPRESSED WITH THE INGREDIENTS :  Coconut Fatty Acid Cream Base, Aloe Vera, Wheat Germ, Organic Shea Butter, Organic Rosa Mosqueta, Organic Jojoba Oil, Rose Hip Seed Oil, Extracts of Fennel Hops, Balm Mint, Mistletoe (interesting eh?), Camomile, Yarrow, Chrysanthemum, Angelica, Forsythia and Magnolia, Honeysuckle Oil, Carrot Oil, Aubrey's Preservative (citrus seed extract), and finally Vitamins A,C, and E!  So I just knew this was going to be a great conditioner. :-) Well....read on for my results!

This 1st photo to the left is a pic of my hair before washing it today.  It has gel products in it and is very dry and a mess from sleeping not so well last night.

The following photos below this one were taken after I used "Yes to Carrots" Shampoo and "Aubrey Honeysuckle Rose Moisturizing" Conditioner.  You won't notice any difference in my hair texture, only that in the 1st photo my hair is dry and in the following photos my hair is wet.  This is unusual for me.  A really good moisturizing conditioner usually "shows" a difference in my hair texture regardless of the shampoo.  Leaving my hair to be more defined ( more crinkly/curly and less frizzy/fluffy ).  A good shampoo that moisturizes along with a good moisturizing conditioner, can also "show" a noticeable difference even more so than just a good moisturizing conditioner with "any" shampoo.  Seeing a more defined texture in my hair with less fluff and frizz is in my opinion the number one indicator that my hair has been adequately moisturized and conditioned. 

However, you can see there is truly no difference in the way my hair texture looks in the before wash photo and the after wash with conditioner photos.  My hair looks clean, that's it.  The second indicator that a good moisturizing conditioner really works for my hair is that I will "feel" soft.  

If the hair does not feel soft than the moisturizing conditioner did not do its job for my hair.  On the bottle it says for "DRY Brittle" hair.  My hair still feels dry, but not brittle.  My hair has an herbal scent like the ingredients, as there isn't a fragrance added to this conditioner.  I will give some credit to this conditioner as a slight hair "detangler" as the bottled mentioned.  But I am not really sure if it would do as well to detangle hair that is thick and coarse as it did an ok job detangling my hair and my hair is not thick or coarse (wet or dry). 

In this case, unfortunately the "Aubrey Honeysuckle Rose Moisturizing Conditioner"  failed to make my hair feel soft and show more texture.  I paid $10.29 + tax for this conditioner! It should have worked for the money I paid right?? Wrong!  Price doesn't always equal quality, while at the same time price doesn't always mean it will work for EVERYONE who buys it! lol  There are products that work for different hair types.  I assumed that because this conditioner seemed to sell really well ( I literally got the last bottle of it off the shelf, while no one seemed to care too much for their shampoos!) that "oh this must be good!". lol Well it must be good for the other folks that bought it.  

Perhaps their hair type is more naturally oily ( less frizzy and more sleek in texture ) and therefore needs less moisturizing than my naturally dry, frizzy, majorly moisture needing hair.  

So I won't say that this is a bad product, because like I said this conditioner was truly sold out at the Whole Foods store and I happened to get the last bottle. So obviously a lot of people are happy with this conditioner. I just didn't get much out of it in my first use. The good thing about buying products from Whole Foods markets is their return policy on products if you are completely unsatisfied.  

Perhaps though I will either give it one more try with a different shampoo and see if this makes a difference (as it sometimes does and I'll admit that the "Yes to Carrots" Shampoo does "seem" to remove the moisture from my hair probably by stripping the oils away more than necessary for my hair type) and or just re-condition my hair without a shampoo (as this is a daily conditioner) to see if maybe my hair needs to adjust to the "Aubrey Honeysuckle Rose Moisturizing Conditioner".  I'll be doing a review and pics of the "Yes to Carrots" Shampoo and Conditioner soon, as I have noticed that together they give surprisingly different results than today's product combination. Feel free to comment or make suggestions.

This is only the beginning....

I'm hoping this blog will be not only recreational for me, but also helpful to you (the potential readers).  I intend to share my experiences with products that I like to test and try ( mostly with health, hair and beauty products, and maybe later on with technology ), share my knowledge about health, and include referenced as well personal knowledge/information about metaphysical topics ( astrology, numerology, etc.) and other miscellaneous topics (which could seriously include anything random from a travel review, to a dining/food review, political rant, or topic about sex and relationships, saving the world....you name it. lol ).    :-)

By the way I like to LOL and smiley face :-)  a lot.  If this annoys you...too bad.  lol  I tend to have a lot to say and sometimes may write too much.  If this bothers you, than skim the blog entries.  However, I promise to keep the information relevant and interesting so that you may prefer to read the entire blog entries instead of skimming them.  I may even opt to do some video blogging as well for those of you who would prefer to be visually/audio entertained and informed.  If from time to time I sound like I am  "hating"....too bad. lol   

I'm going to keep this blog as honest and real as possible for the sake of sharing something authentic, informative and unique.  There's enough generic mess out there in the media and public already as it is, and I really don't want to contribute to any of it.  I would like to be that breath of fresh air some of you may be craving from all the suffocation of being overwhelmed with nonsense and too much hidden and not so hidden marketing everywhere on the internet on social networking sites and people's blogs!

Rest assured that no one is paying me right now to do any product reviews, and handing me free goodies to give the good word like a lot of blogs related to product and experience reviews are these days.  If I am ever offered any of these incentives, I will still make sure to give my honest review of both the pros and cons so that you can fairly decide for yourself if you'd like to give something a try or not.  Besides each person's experience may vary anyway depending on who you are and what you're seeking out of a product and experience.  I'm only here to give an opinion and shared experience from my point of view and you may take from it what you like.  The same thing goes for the health knowledge and tips that I may share here.  I am not a medical doctor or practitioner.  I am simply someone who has for all her life was raised, taught, and learned to live a "healthy" life style.

I'm no health freak, I love my junk food as well and I don't have a gym membership.  But I do take pride in only needing to go to the doctor's office on average about 2 or 3 times a year at most (usually for a yearly physical examination, pap smear, and birth control or a random health issue that may come up occasionally ).  But I don't live in the doctor's office and hospital like a lot of people in this country do unfortunately.  For those that do, I pray for your wellness and hope that you may come to learn of health as I and my family had through the generations and may benefit from it. 

I strive to try to maintain my health as much as humanly possible without going overboard or driving myself crazy from deprivation of the things I do like (junk food lol).  My family history of health is not perfect, and therefore this is why I am not biased about health.  If I or someone gets sick, I usually tend to know a remedy for getting well and preventive remedies for maintaining health.  My knowledge doesn't just come from all the health books and articles I like to read, it also comes from experience with family, friends, my own health and education.

However, if you are strangely sick or extremely ill...even if you feel well and healthy, always seek professional medical advice first before trying any alternative health remedies or tips at home.  I may post articles to share with you as well, and the same rule applies that you should always seek professional medical advice first before trying most alternatives to treatment at home.  Be aware that you may be possibly allergic to some health supplements, or that if you are pregnant or breast feeding that some health supplements may not be right for you to take.

I will try to post as responsibly as possible in regards to my health knowledge.  Otherwise you are at your own risk and I am not responsible for any complications you may encounter if you decide to follow any tips, knowledge and advice on this blog.  This is just a safety precaution.  I'm not trying to scare anyone from trying alternative health methods, I just want people to know that alternative medicine and remedies are to be taken as seriously as any modern lab created medicine that a doctor would prescribe or could be bought over the counter at local convenience and drug store.  Overall, most of my health knowledge can be considered generally safe...I just like to always caution people to seek medical help when something is serious and to use alternative health remedies as preventive care ( to hopefully keep you from getting sick and staying healthy ).

Moving on....I hope you (the readers) will enjoy this blog and find it informative and helpful.  If it isn't, make sure to comment here or e-mail me your concerns at autumnbleu@gmail.com .

-Autumn Bleu