Watch out world, when Tseka gets an idea in her head and then meditates on it while painting, baking bread, or digging up leaky plumbing! Thanks for sharing those valuable observations. Now I’ve got something to mediate on during my four-hour commutes into the city. :-)

Nathifah, I’ve seen that Newton quote. No one is sure whether he really said it (or that he said it about astrology), but it sure makes a good story, and it’s applicable here. I don’t know anyone who has studied real astrology and not come away convinced that there is at least some validity to it. Only those who refuse to investigate maintain their hardline opposition.

Emekah, the brain fog you’re describing sounds more like a Neptune transit. You probably have something going on there…

But heaven help you if you believe in astrology, a “superstitious pseudoscience.”

Actually, I ran into the opposite recently, and it stunned me, being totally unexpected. What this New Age person, a Reiki master (and Buddhist, etc.), told me was that she found astrology ~too~ scientific. She thought it suited me and my scientific mind (her perception, not mine!) well, but the ~science~ of it didn’t work for her.

Your comment makes it clear just how deeply Sun sign astrology is ingrained in people’s minds. As you know, I’ve written a lot on The Pisces Chronicles about how hard it is to change one’s beliefs. This is yet another example.

(I’ved included one of those articles in my “Parlor” library. You can find it here.)

I must say that I’ve struggled with this thing with astrology throughout the last thirty years or so. I would regard myself as a dabbler (despite calculating my chart as a youngster – from a book I still have on my bookshelf somewhere). I’ve gone through all the pop books ( astrology for the year, Linda Goodman etc etc.) Its only over the last few years when I’ve been reading at a deeper level about astrology that I’m gaining an insight into how powerful a tool it is … For many years I dismissed astrology (while still retaining an interest) because I felt I never fitted in with the broad brush, ‘cook book’, descriptions of the pop books. And it is all so much more complicated than that…

Clever, and also very much they way of the times (1930s) which as an era is coming full circle.

Was thinking about this as i was working today Pat. I went to see what the outer planets were up to in 1930. Saturn was in Capricorn, Uranus in Aries and Pluto was in Cancer while Neptune was in Virgo. There are some interesting echoes to our times by those placements…

The 1930s saw a great change in American thinking and lifestyle overall. I was struck by the Neptune in Virgo ] Pluto in Cancer transits. Transformation in the homeland. Regulation became paramount to recover from the depression. Simplifying, our vision by way of science was an outgrowth. The focus was finding the ONE answer.

Consider medicine, before the advent of penicillin in the 40s there was very little pharmacology in allopathic medicine, Sulfa was about it. Homeopathy reined. Similar to Astrology understanding a complete picture unique to an individual was required to be effective. Homeopathy was dumped for the one size fits all new science/drug. Any disease, any person was treated with penicillin.

Here we are today with the planets in opposing signs (neptune will be into Pisces before we know it) and we are seeing a return to those alt sciences or “arts” that describe the totality by interconnections.

Maybe the revolution of Pluto in Capricorn will be finding resolution with the influences from Pluto in Cancer years which have been so defining for the US. Instead of qualifying and quantifying and regulating as a Neptune in Virgo might, we may see transformation with an assist from Neptune in Pisces. Imagine money as utility instead of power, astrology as a healing art etc.

Nice to see new folk among the regulars.

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I agree;You could also say that Astrology, like mathematics and geometry, is a built-in characteristic of the cosmos as we know it. Dane Rhudyard has defined it as “an algebra of life”.

I always tell people that ridicule it,that famous quote attributed to Newton defending religion: ” ‘I have studied these things–you have not’.”