Hi, everyone! 🙂
There are a lot of stereotypes and misleading ideas regarding Western astrology that irritate me personally and are very far from what it actually is. The last straw was the book His Master’s Voice by Stanisław Lem, if I’m not mistaken about the title, since some time has passed since I found that statement. In it, I found a passage where the author represented astrology with completely wrong ideas on the subject. What he described was evidently taken from gossip or newspapers. And, as a person who answers all these questions like “do you believe in weekly horoscopes?” with “no, because I’m into real astrology,” I decided to write some kind of explanation regarding what it is, or rather how I understand it 🙂
Also, I’d like to mention that all this stuff I wrote below concerns Western astrology. I’ve read some pieces of information, but I don’t have any clear knowledge on the topic of Vedic or Chinese astrology.
Let’s begin 😉
Stars, sky, planets, cosmic storms, and comets, clad in flames, don’t care about individuals. Planet Venus doesn’t even suspect that you exist, and it doesn’t want to personally engage in your life. Star Vega probably isn’t aware that the Solar System exists, and it becomes especially outraged when someone suspects that it is involved in the life of some miserable human who was so unfortunate to have one of their personal planets (or ascendant) in the middle of the Capricorn sign. So please just forget this nonsense about planets caring about you, especially if you heard this from your grandmother in her blooming eighties, who recently picked up that idea from some questionable sources. No, they don’t.
But they create a current of energies (Sun and Moon influences are the most vivid and the most obvious examples of such energy) and we are thrown into its current. So, it is not the Zodiac Cancer and its ruler—the Moon—who greets the newborn and whispers, “Oh, now you are one of us” and then helps or betrays each and every Cancer personally because it cares.
No, it looks more like we all fell into the radioactive river of cosmic influences, gaining our own character features and special abilities depending on what kind and how much radiation affected us. And then, as we are all changed and different, we will be carried further while being attacked by the radiation/currents/obstacles that are dangerous to us and, for a change, gaining more power from those that are benevolent. We can use our power for good or resign and create even worse situations for all of us. And this current will affect the whole society that swims in it. Moreover, we, mutants, will also develop and change with time.
Hmm, I imagine a film about the world of mutants where the superheroes Sagittarius and Leo fight the supervillains Scorpio and Capricorn. What could it possibly be? 😛
Another brutal fight between astrologers and everyone else occurs on the point of the planets and what they are. Yes, living in the 21st century, every at least half-educated person knows that from an astronomical point of view: A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and – according to the International Astronomical Union but not all planetary scientists – has cleared its neighboring region of planetesimals (thank you, Wikipedia, I definitely wouldn’t write it better).
But in astrology, we use the ancient Greek or “Classical planet” definition, in which a planet is defined as a traveling celestial body (traveling star). So, astrologically speaking, the Sun is a planet, as well as the Moon. Moreover, Pluto is also still a planet (by the way, a good example of how quickly the definitions are changing and how it affects the way we see life). I understand why astronomers are infuriated.
Nonetheless, everyone should understand and remember that astronomers study the physical objects of the Universe, and astrology studies the human world and how the cosmic “radioactive current” affects it. In other words, astronomy is a natural science, and astrology is a hu… Wait for it 😉
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