What the Future Once Held

After many years (okay, decades) and two floods, not much has survived from childhood.  One of the few things that has is pictured above.  It is my astrological birth chart that I drew up when I was in seventh or eighth grade.  I am not sure how it was fortunate enough to last.  One day, I checked out a new looking book on astrology from the public library.  It was one of the first books I had that had illustrations of naked people in it.  One of the benefits/drawbacks of being an advanced reader was being able to get books that weren't always appropriate to my age level.  I was slightly embarrassed and I tried to make sure my mother never saw those pages.  At least there weren't actual photographs.  (Parents of pre-teen/early teenage boys might want to double check their reading material at this point, especially if they say they are interested in medicine.  "But Mom, I didn't know there would be pictures of naked women in this book, honest."  This never happened to me, but be careful anyway.)  My love for astrology, and divination in general, led me to create my own birth chart, seen here.  Some of the topics didn't really interest me, but I tried to include them.  Also, some of the pre-calculus level math was almost beyond me.  Trust me, some of the calculations were very tricky.  It actually seems to be quite accurate, as I made a second one when I was in college (since destroyed, unfortunately) that almost perfectly matched this one.  Only one planet seemed to be in a different place, probably one of the outer ones -- Uranus, Neptune or Pluto.  Strangely enough, astrologers still consider Pluto a full planet even as astronomers have downgraded it.  Some astrologers even want to upgrade another minor planet to help clarify certain issues that have plagued them for millennia.  It is hard to tell, but certain things stand out on my chart.  Most of my planets hang together at one end while two more are at the top (Saturn and the Moon) in what is sometimes referred to as a "bucket."  Furthermore, all of my planets are in aspect to at least two others.  My Saturn and Moon are in conjunction with on another, while both are in opposition to my Jupiter.  I can't remember what this means, or the significance of the colors of the lines beyond that they represent relative importance of my aspects.  I also had found some other minor papers relating to astrology, but I didn't have the time to really go over them.  I am not sure if I actually believe anything about what a made, but it was and technically still is one of my favorite pastimes.