Astrology Explored

April 11, 2008
When Antony van Leeuwenhoek looked into his microscope and discovered living organisms too small for the eye to see, all of mankind was forced to conclude the world is made up of more than we can perceive the naked eye. What a concept! The objects in the physical world were not made up of literally fire, air, earth and water mixed in different combinations. The world was made of vastly more complex stuff, atoms, electrons, protons, quarks and so on. And we’ve not yet sure we’ve completed the inventory of building blocks of physical matter.

Skeptics who decry astrology as pseudoscience, a fantasy, a sham forget that nearly all scientific concepts were birthed as ideas that were shrouded in disbelief by the scientific and religious peer groups of the day. Copernicus was so afraid of an adverse reaction by the Catholic church, taking an object lesson from Galileo, his heliocentric theory of the solar system was not published publicly until after his death.

The idea that scientific concepts should only be explored and pontificated upon by scientists would surely have set us back if Van Leeuwenhoek took that to heart. His trade: fabric merchant.

On the face of it, the idea that the planets, somehow influence our lives on earth, or even just appear to synchronistically to correspond to the events of our lives, does seem like a preposterous idea. But that’s only on the face of it. When you start taking into account the various theories of how the Universe is put together, a different picture emerges.

One such idea is String Theory. In String Theory all matter is united by strings that cross and inter-cross ten to eleven different dimensions, including ours. These strings are highly vibrational, running energies throughout the string, accounting for the theoretical phenomenon of movement of one particle resulting in movement of another particle at a distance from it, say the other end of the Universe. Or perhaps that particle exists in multiple locations in the Universe. That’s theory in Quantum Physics. In any case, in the face of current science, it is illogical to say to it is not possible the event in one location of the Universe does not affect the event in another.

Taking the esoteric into a metaphor to which we can relate, the Universe is most likely analogous to a rubber band ball, highly kinetic, and reactive. In such a Universe, astrology as a working system, is not only possible, it would be improbable it does not exist.

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