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Why one system never gives the full picture, and why the Convergence Map compares four independent traditions to find where they agree.
Very often, things in the world exist separately. Each one works on its own, each one is useful on its own. But when you bring them together, they give a far more complete picture and a far more powerful, practical tool.
Take health science. What goes into it?
None of these, taken alone, is health. Anatomy doesn't heal. A diet doesn't replace movement. A medicine doesn't cancel out nutrition. Yet in the end you get health science. It comes from the combination, not from choosing one item.
Look at any other area of life. Take education. It's made up of preschool, school, university, extra classes and a huge number of different subjects.
Even if you count only school, think about how many subjects a person studies on average. Where I went to school it took 11 years, and over that time you'd go through roughly 20 to 25 different subjects, with about 15 at once in the senior years. Then university. Over a 5-year degree, you'd take roughly 40 to 60 courses. The exact number depends on the field, but that's the scale.
Then comes professional development. And that isn't a single class either. It's a whole set.
Whatever you look at in life, anything that really matters involves many systems and many variables. That's the rule, not the exception.
Astrology was born the same way, as a synthesis of systems. I was drawn to each system separately, and I saw that none of them gave me the full picture or complete answers. One answers one question and stays silent on another. A second answers that other question and stays silent on the first.
Only after I had studied a second system, then a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh and an eighth, did I understand that together they gave me that complete picture.
And I was glad to build this synthesis of systems for you, bringing them together into one body of work. So that you have all the skills you need for it. To understand yourself. To understand your family. To understand your relationships and your partner. To improve the relationships you have now. To make up your mind about something. To start something new, carry on with something old, or know in advance when it's time to finish the old and start the new.
That's what we teach you here, on this site.
So don't be surprised that several systems are brought in at once.
If you look only at the 22 Major Arcana, they'll give you one thing. Look at Chinese metaphysics, at BaZi, and you'll find something else. Look at Jyotish, Vedic astrology, and there's a third thing. At first you won't understand a word, because even the terminology will throw you.
Look at the I Ching, the Chinese hexagrams. Their meanings will slip from your mind by the second page.
Here, all these complex systems are brought together for you in one place. The calculation is done for you. The answer to your question is built from several systems at once, not from one.
And here's what matters about this approach.
The value isn't in how many systems there are. It's in how often they agree.
One system can be wrong. It can show only one side. A particular practitioner can interpret it wrongly. But when several independent traditions, born at different times and in different cultures, with no historical link between them, say the same thing about you, it stops being a guess.
That's why I say openly, from the start, that there are several systems. It isn't a weakness. It's the main argument.
The logic is borrowed from science. When several independent experiments give the same result, trust in that result grows many times over. When one experiment gives a result and the others don't confirm it, that conclusion doesn't become the main one.
And I show the divergences too. If one system says something and the others don't confirm it, that's exactly what will be written. It's the willingness to show where they differ that gives the matches their value.
Just as you once learned to read, write, count, analyse and prove things, here too you can learn something completely new to you. It's a skill, not a belief. And a skill can be learned.
That's the simple example I wanted to use to explain why a synthesis of systems makes sense.