I think the lens with which we approach astrology, hyper rational, is what causes it to seem so absurd, when really it is a container of archetypal truths that correspond to forms of intelligence that lie in the intuitive realms of human experience & cyclical consciousness ..
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A helpful analogy I have always found for grounding it into a more accessible understanding is to think of one aspect, the sun sign, in correspondence with seasons. In this case, the astrological makeup of a person really reflects their environmental programming based on the..
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Season into which they were born. Which is a product of the sun’s relation to the earth in that particular moment/place for that person. So for example, Scorpio season corresponds with fall and the nature of a Scorpio connects to the death to make way for rebirth, the darkening..
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Of time and the preparation for winter. You can feel that seasonal moment contained in their archetypal expression. Leo season is the peak of summer where the sun is at its most vibrant and intense, cue Leo’s grandiose nature. Aries is the first bud of spring and so the child..
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Like seed of impulse and fire is so readily expressed in their nature. Capricorn is in the dead of winter and so they are stoic and hard and designed to endure. All of astrology connects to the idea of these deeper expressions of human receptivity in connection to environmental..
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Cycles. The archetypal shapes of it reveal man as a malleable force sensitive to the cosmos and the rhythms of life that seep deeper into existence than our conscious mind may know. How we came to create this system and how it represents, in some cases, stunning accuracy rests
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In a time where we used and applied our minds in much different ways. We have not discovered its ‘truth’ mainly because scientific culture as a whole has not deemed it of any true value to excavate and discover. It is a system of resonance rooted in archetypal
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Realities that correspond with the influence of seasonal cycles on the human psyche and how we are malleable to receiving this as beings embedded in an interwoven ecosystem of relation with all of physical reality.
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The lens I view astrology through is self-skepticism and curiosity - like everything else, I want to understand it thoroughly - so what's the mechanism? How strong are the effects? Are there correlations between birth days and personality?
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This attitude towards experience, of intense curiosity and trying to figure out how things work, is very beautiful to me, almost sacred. I love it. And there seem to be zero good answers for astrology when I try to figure out how it would work.
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Like - why is the system the way it is? Who came up with it? *somebody* came up with it somewhere. And there's different astrological systems depending on the culture, so it's not like it's universal. So why do you trust the one you're adhering to now?
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These aren't attacks, these are like, basic questions for any sort of thought system.
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I think the creation of it is rooted in such a different time that it is truly hard, if not impossible, to fathom with the lens we possess just by virtue of being born into this time. It is an elusive system and yet it holds deep resonance, that resonance is only found in
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