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By Axel Harvey, Section Foundations of Astrology

Posted on Mon Apr 22nd, 2002 at 00:14:23 EDT

This section is about the foundations of our discipline - a forum for meta-astrological questions. Someone has written something profound about astrology: does it make sense or is it hot air? What can we say about the art that makes sense? How do popular concepts like synchronicity and "As above, so below" help us understand or refine what we do? Are the models for acquiring theories about the natural world, from the rigidly Popperian to the anarchistically Feyerabendian, at all relevant? Is astrology basically a social science as Campion suggests or a framework for exploiting magical moments as Cornelius seems to believe? Are mechanism and symbolism really opposites? What is the best way to analyze the language of asrological interpretation? Who's right about astrology? Plato? Aristotle? Oresme? Pico? Dee? Kepler? Jung? Are quantum physics and neuropsychology helpful, and if so precisely how?

The above questions are merely suggestive, of course. We expect that most articles will be verbal, although it's not impossible that some mathematics or mathematical logic will creep in. It's okay to bring up a specific astrological hypothesis to illustrate a point, so long as the emphasis is to say something about astrology rather than to prove something within it.

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How astrology works ( none / 0 ) (#1)
by Ray Murphy (ray@urania_post.office) on Wed Apr 24th, 2002 at 08:00:57 EDT
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My best theory to date about how astrology works is that humans, and possibly all species are actually "in tune" or syncronized with Nature or the Cosmos and that this correspondence is more easily observed through the movement of major celestial bodies - probably because it hapens to be one of the simpler of Natures formulae.
This idea of mine came as a result of doing basic astrology and looking at thousands of "event dates" for rectification purposes. It seemed to me that people are actually speeding-up or slowing-down in their daily activities in order to be "just on time" for certain transits -- as if they subconsciously know Natures rules, just like migrating birds and fish etc.
I think that we can also "sense" others' horoscopes and we make decisions accordingly.
If this sensing was actually happening it would easily account for the ability of astrologers to get correct answers from the various systems including the most screwball (in my opinion) methods.
When I say "getting correct answers" I don't mean those answers which we get right by chance - but those answers which we (and colleagues) KNOW are more than that.

Ray




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