What is Astrology? It seems after years now of delving into the subject and talking with others who have been astrologers for many decades, no-one can find a definition for what can only be described for me, as the queen of sciences. It is indefinable, as it is in fact itself attempting to be a definition. But a definition of what? This statement has shades of “A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams where the earth was defined as a calculator that knew the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything to equal the numeric value 42, but its primary goal was to work out the question?
It is a definition of truth, in all its universal glory! It seems to me that there can only be one truth. Each of us have our many different perspectives on what that truth is and are each made up of a complex of energies which when all moulded together take us back to the beginning of the universe where there was one single consciousness composed of all that is. As the universe expands so do its materials and energies some of which we know now to be calculable by our wonderful systems of science and mathematics and some of which are still way beyond our comprehension, working on levels that we would shudder to comprehend, possibly in a place reachable by our intuition, which itself is guided by our innate abilities that we only fathom through our art, poetry, creative endeavours and of course our emotions.
As this process evolves and expands we are left here on this physical plane on our beloved planet earth wondering what’s out there, and that there must be more than this. Of course there is, but how do our tiny minds, in relation to the size of the universal consciousness, rationalise and compartmentalise this enormous paradigm that is everything. We break it down. We calculate. We give parameters where there are no boundaries in order to understand our surroundings. The truth is that we are components of the universe as a single living organism, but we must take this on board in bite size chunks in order to grasp our existence and make sense of it.
So let’s get back to the original question. What is Astrology? In my opinion Astrology successfully provides us with a system that gives meaning to celestial movements and their consequential shifts in universal energy. Astrology as we know it provides us with an understanding of the solar system that we are in and the swirling energies within it. A question I often asked myself whilst empathising with the view of a sceptic was “What would happen if we could physically travel to another solar system?” How would Astrology work then? So I propose that in three dimensional space where time is linear at a single moment in time, anything born at that moment takes on the qualities of the energetic influences placed upon it. This for me works on a universal scale no matter which planets, nebulae, or other universal phenomenon are applying those energies.
You may or may not be able to tell from what I have already written that I have Neptune on my Midheaven and am ruled by Uranus with Aquarius rising, however for
