The best way to learn astrology is to study current astrological placements of the planets and understand the correlation between the symbolic representations of the planetary patterns and the political, environmental and social occurrences in the world.

Astrology tip number one: Follow current events.

By following current astrological movements and changes you will get a feel for the different positions of the planets and understand the different ways these configurations manifest. For example currently there is a powerful configuration that represents revolutionary ideas and uprisings. When the planets aligned and shifted to these positions the protest in the Middle East began. When you study astrology by following current positions of the planets not only will you be able to predict or understand world events you will be able to interpret how those planetary patterns play out in personal astrology charts.

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I was recently attending a BNI National Conference and there was a lot of effective networking going on. With the culture of “Givers Gain” there were participants offering to help one another and make connections. On several occasions I was also watching some business people walk up to people that barely knew them and asks to be referred to their valued relationship. I felt a sense of awkwardness in the conversation.

I think what I was actually feeling was deja vu. I’ve been on the receiving end of the “referral ambush” before, when someone I may hardly be in the “Visibility” phase with is asking me to expose my reputation by referring them to one of my valued relationships. In some cases, I was even asked to promote them or their company to my entire data base.

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“I know when Joe Harris walks into my office I can trust what he tells me.” These were the words of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a Fortune 100 international corporation. The occasion was the introduction of the Vice President to whom I reported after the sale of a local technology services company to a larger national company. My new VP was assuring the CIO that the transition from one vendor company to another would be smooth. Would it be smooth?

On behalf of the smaller company, I had 25+ IT professionals under contract providing services to the Fortune 100 client company. The CIO interrupted my VP and said, “Please confirm that Joe will still be responsible for my company under the new contract”. When the VP replied in the affirmative, the CIO made the above statement and added with “no further explanation is necessary”.

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