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Astroloy - The Universe is Speaking to You
Rose-Marie Sorokin • Dec 02, 2020
It's about you and your life!
Astrology – the Universe is speaking to You
My mother once asked me if I really believe in astrology, and after more than 30 years of having studied astrology I replied ‘No I don’t believe in Astrology, I know that it works.’
A short history of Astrology
Contrary to its popular but erroneous reputation as a New Age subject, astrology is actually an ancient science that predates both astronomy and psychology. Used throughout the world for thousands of years, astrology is the study of the interactions among the stars and the planets, based on complex mathematical cycles.
The earliest known astrological records date back to Babylon, 1645 BC, and the earliest horoscope to 410 BC. Astrology's origins can also be traced to several other locations and cultures, including Egypt, which developed sophisticated timekeeping and calendar science; Greece, where Ptolemy wrote influential astrological texts; and Rome, where many of the most educated men, including two emperors, were astrologers who wrote laws and counseled citizens based on the stars.
During the Renaissance, when literacy became more widespread, almanacs began publishing astrological information for public consumption. Several notable figures of the era, including Galileo and Copernicus, were both practicing astrologers and founders of the modern scientific movement. However, astrology began to lose popularity when myriad predictions about the great conjunction of 1524 failed to "come true."
As the scientific revolution surged and astronomy gained respect, astrology and various other arts fell by the wayside. Many individuals still practiced the art, however, and astrology enjoyed small revivals in England in the 1700s and 1800s. But it wasn't until the birth of Princess Margaret in 1930 that astrology once again found widespread popularity. That year, the London Sunday Express ran an astrological profile of the princess to celebrate her birth - and so began the modern newspaper ‘horoscope column’.
In the 1950s, French astrologers Michel and Françoise Gauquelin used sophisticated statistical studies to link the positions of the planets to human nature. Others, such as Dane Rudhyar, have expanded the study of Humanistic astrology.
How does it work?
Most people are familiar with the most basic aspect of astrology, their Sun sign, and usually they can name at least one common trait of their sign. Sun signs are popularized through all the horoscopes that appear in daily newspaper columns, magazines and websites. Unfortunately, many people think that their Sun sign is all that there is to astrology. While it is a good place to start, there is a lot more to astrology than just the Sun's position!
Astrology is about the interaction between the planets (including the Sun and Moon) and the signs. The relationships between them and their interactions are mathematically based, and astrology studies these mathematical cycles. Each sign represents a different aspect of the whole human; Aries starts the cycle, representing the self, and Pisces completes it, representing the mass unconscious of all mankind. In between, every other sign carries the energy of a different phase of man's evolution within the universe.
In some ways, the forces between the planets involved in astrology can be simplified into one word: gravity. The Sun has the greatest gravity and the strongest affect in astrology, followed by the Moon. The other planets also have gravity and so affect the Earth. The Sun controls the Earth's motion and the Moon controls its tides, but the other planets have their own effects on the Earth and on the people who live on Earth. Sometimes their influences can be so strong that they outweigh the Sun's energy!
Astrology can be understood as a philosophy that helps to explain life, rather than a type of mysticism that can be used as a predictive tool. Instead of discussing what the planets do to us, we can explain ourselves based on planetary indications. The signs work the same way: Each of the 12 signs is a unique combination of one of the four Elements -- Earth, Air, Fire, Water -- and one of the three Qualities -- Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable. The Elements and Qualities demonstrate that we are all part of the environment. There is a connection between all living things and all matter on this planet. Astrology ties humans together: We are all faced with the same planetary interactions, and we are all part of the same cycles.
Despite all these connections, astrology does not tie you to being a certain way, and it doesn't predict everything about you. Astrology explains the energy in your life and its potential challenges and possibilities. You can evolve from your chart. Astrology is about you. What you can learn from it can help you make a choice between free will and destiny.
In addition, astrology does not need to affect or change people's religious beliefs. In fact, most religions incorporate some idea linking the way you live your life to where you end up in the afterlife. Astrology deals with the same sort of idea through the concept of karma: What you do in this lifetime determines what will happen to you in your next lifetime. The philosophies are the same; they are just expressed in different ways.
So coming back to the question that my mother asked me: ‘Do you believe in Astrology?’, you can see that it is not about ‘believing’ at all, but about the fact that the gravity of the Planets affect us all the time, either we are aware of it or not. It is up to us to be open to the information that Astrology can give us, or close of to it. We have, after all, free will.
The Saturn/Jupiter conjunction takes place at 0.1 degrees Aquarius (both planets having spent a long time in Capricorn). Some people say that this is our proper entrance into the Aquarian Age (you may have heard of this) and this represents a major shift away from the 'heavy' and materialistic earth signs where the Jupiter/Saturn cycle has occurred for the last 200 years. We are now shifting into a 200-year long Jupiter/Saturn cycle in air signs.
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