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All Truths Pass Through Three Stages:
1st: It is ridiculed
2nd: It is violently opposed
3rd: It is accepted as self-evident
Schopenhauer
If you are familiar with Astrology, you are probably aware of the
tremendous insight about yourself and others this complex subject
affords once mastered. A horoscope properly prepared for the time,
date, and place of one's birth, can be the most useful tool of
understanding when applied and understood properly. A properly
constructed horoscope cannot be delineated through a newspaper Sunsign
column or a 1-900 phone number!
We create our experiential reality based on the beliefs and world view
we hold---both conscious and unconscious.
Astrology is the study of the synchronistic interaction of the psyche
and its reflection in the physical world. Inner reality and outer
reality are one. The horoscope allows us to see the factors in both
realms to understand how we are creating what we are creating. We
cannot change that which we do not own.
When blended with other paradigms of the helping professions astrology
becomes a powerful tool of insight and a guide to the remediation--
psychologically--of belief conflicts. Astrology allows us to move
towards the redefinition and reframing of psychic material on all
levels through awareness of our conscious and unconscious beliefs.
Astrology combined with psychology assists us in taking responsibility
for the creation of our reality through the recognition and
understanding of how these projected versions of our psyche and
experience have been created through our choices in belief and
definition of the self.
The horoscope can be likened to a photograph of the solar system
(geocentric perspective of the heavens) at the time of your birth from
the place of your birth of the positions of the planets against the
backdrop of Constellation configurations, or division of the equinox
(areas of space). It reflects a web or matrix of vibrational frequency
(explained as wave-forms in holographic terms or the EM spectrum in
physics terms), which is then interpreted by the astrologer or
psychologist.
The Horoscope is a map of the mathematical relationship of the planets
to the earth and each other at the time of our birth. It reflects
individuality and identity, it does not cause it. The planets reflect
the archetypal references (existing as ideas) that are inherent in the
Multiverse (many layered universe) holographically. These archetypes
were refined in delineation by the noted psychologist, Carl Jung.
These "ideas" are reflected in all that we see around us because we
are one with the universe and are that reality. Physical reality is a
projection-a version of consciousness in material form. The silly
"advice that applies to anyone" astrology promoted in newspapers and
magazines based only on Sunsigns is not true astrology.
Perhaps this is where superstitious and uninformed beliefs about
astrology being a mechanistic cause rather than a synchronistic
reflection comes from.
Here are a few of the unsubstantiated assumptions about astrology;
1) Astrology is a subject that one either "believes" in or not.
Astrology is not a religion or cult. Therefore faith is not required
for it to function. It is a subject that can be known and is
operationally obvious once it is learned. Hence the concept of
believing in it is an effect of the mis-perception of what it is. We
cannot believe or not believe in something that we know nothing about
anyway. The sciences themselves are belief systems and constructs to
explain reality (See Thomas Kuhn and "The Nature of Scientific
Revolutions", University Chicago Press, 1962).
2) Astrology must be an Art or a Science.
Astrology is an Art/Science. The scientific aspect is in the
horoscope's construction, calculation, and mathematical
interrelationship measurements between astronomical bodies against
galactic backdrop (geometries). The art aspect is in the intuited
blending of astrological significators into psychodynamic awareness
and the communication of this awareness and remediation to client.
This part, like all crafts, must be mastered before application can
ensue. Astrology does not discount free will, evolution, nor the
existence of an infinite creator. Physics is now demonstrating that
the consciousness of the observer is intimately connected with the
creation of the observed (Please review "The Self-Aware Universe" by
Amit Goswami, 1993). Astrology contains science, but science cannot
contain astrology.
3) Astrology must be proven scientifically before we can accept it as
valid.
Astrology and science are two different ways of investigating the
universe. The horoscope, like art, requires sensibilities not found in
science. However, astrology does contain science found in science. But
astrology is more than science as described above and cannot limit its
application to such a focused and exclusive subject as science.
Astrology reflects life, and living is not a science.
Science is an element of astrology. Since astrology is an Art/Science
only the scientific aspects can stand empiricism. The Art of
interpretation may be open to debate as to style or application, but
validity is always based on service to client or public-as is
psychology, stock market forecasting, weather forecasting or
earthquake prediction, and none of these are totally empirically
working models. Service is the client's or the served's decision and
evaluation as to life quality enhancement.
4) Astrology influences human behavior.
This myth is the most difficult for everyone. We create our
experiential reality utterly and only as the end product of what we
believe or have been taught to believe is true. Science examines the
momentum of these creations as they manifest physically. However, it
must be stated emphatically that most of these definitions are held in
an unconscious state and must be acknowledged or brought to awareness.
The horoscope "causes" nothing. It is a synchronistic reflection of
other aspects of the self and the self's created definitions of
reality at any given moment. It does not "cause" behavior or
personality, any more than a mirror causes our appearance. Like a
mirror, astrology helps us to see ourselves. The Horoscope allows us
to understand a vibrational frequency determination based on the
self's definitions, reflected in physicality. The illusion of external
reality is just that, real while you are focused and oriented to it--
but an illusion none-the-less. "All That Is" or God is all that is,
and we are all the different ways that "All That Is" has of expressing
itself within the creation that it is-eternally. All differing colors
within the one white light. Philosophers and Religions have long known
that the "kingdom of heaven is within". This is NOT a new idea. Only
one that the belief system of science has discounted.
The value of astrology is in the ability through this reflection, to
understand these beliefs and definitions that we may possess
unconsciously, so that we can acknowledge and own them. Once we own
them we can redefine them. We cannot change something we do not own!
Life is a configuration of choices. No-thing in the universe has built
in meaning, we give it meaning by the definitions we hold at any given
moment. We then attach this meaning to things, and extract that
meaning from the neutral props known as physical reality. Astrology
helps us understand WHAT meanings we may be attaching to "things" and
hence why we extract what we do.
If we place a positive meaning in; we extract a positive effect out,
negative effect in; negative effect out. This is a simple mechanistic
psychological understanding. Psychological mechanics- which the
observer then observes, creates, establishes theories of, propagates
ideas of, collects data from, makes hypothesis about, and otherwise
chooses to make so!
Yes, we create en mass an agreed upon collectively established reality
that appears to be fixed. This is necessary, or we would all have no
common ground on which to relate and share the experience we call
physicality. But that in no sense means that we are bound 100% to it.
Each of us created the "hallway" of experiential choice at incarnation
reflected through the horoscope.
Our actions - unless consciously acknowledged as unconscious belief
and momentum - are just REactions to the prescription the free will of
the oversoul (ourselves) made as a choice of general thematic
"hallway" experiences. The free will of the physical self (the
oversoul in its physical version) then chooses how it will go down
this "hallway" but go down this "hallway" we have already willed.
(please refer to Darryl Anka as Bashar and "The Hallway analogy",
1987).
Our creations through history have shown this; that even collective
limitations are mass imposed. We have gone to the moon and back. So we
can redefine this collective reality at any given moment as well. It
is a preferential choice based on awareness of our own belief
limitations.
Astrology's best use is for the enhancement of awareness, alleviation
of self imposed limitation, and the promotion of self actualization
and empowerment through self-discovery and positive individuation.
This is outlined in greater detail in my text "The Integrated
Astrological Guide to Self-Empowerment" which is available at any
bookstore.
For an individual or a business, the value of astrology is obviously
in providing the understanding of how we project our beliefs and
definitions of reality into reality. Nothing in the universe has built
in meaning. We give it meaning through our definition choices. Many
opportunities are lost for successful relationship, career and
financial preference simply because we know little about ourselves and
how we may be unconsciously limiting ourselves. Clear understanding of
our own and others psychological needs are the primary benefits of
astrological consultation.
We can also project these definition issues by their momentum into the
future. Most of us lack nothing more than the willingness and boldness
to be anything we believe we can define ourselves to be, and to look
inwardly with trust for these beliefs.
Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A.
Astrological Consultant
"Astrology, bar sinister in the escutcheon of astronomy, maintains a
unique and lonely position in human thought. It is "believed in" by a
lot of people who know practically nothing about it; and it is
"disbelieved in" by even more who know ABSOLUTELY nothing about it. Of
no other art or science can this be said." Grant Lewi, "Why I believe
in Astrology"
Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A.
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