Symbols
Astrology as a Symbolic Language
July 2026 · Don Elconin
I like to call astrology the "Language of Life." It is a language made up of symbols, placed upon a mandala — the circle of the chart — where each symbol carries deep, interlocking meanings.
Like any language, it has a vocabulary and a grammar. The planets are the actors, the basic energies. The signs color how those energies express. The houses are the arenas of life where they play out. And the aspects — the lines drawn between planets — are the sentences, describing how the energies speak to one another.
A language made of symbols, placed on a mandala — each one carrying a world of meaning.
To learn astrology is to learn to read that language: to see not isolated symbols, but the way they interweave to describe a unique individual life. Once the alphabet becomes familiar, the chart begins to speak — and what it says is remarkably useful, both on the inner and the worldly level.
Western tropicalist astrologer with Huber overtones and some Rudhyar influence tossed in. Practical, pragmatic and innovative approaches that focus on personal growth and self-development, including the use of triangular and quadrangular figures created by geometric relationships between planets.
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