As a healer and an astrologer I use astrologer as a tool. Many people use astrology for blame games, they don't acknowledge the place of the will in daily life. Modern astrology is about parameters of what could happen in a high, low and medium framework. Many of my friends take a victim approach to astrology especially Mercury retrograde. BTW retrograde is not the planet going backwards - that is an optical illusion. All retrograde means is its as close in it's orbit around the Sun to us. The energies are more intense, I love intensity because its presents challenges.