What Astrology Is
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From here, there is motion and sequence and separation. This is what it is like to be a part. This is a partial perspective.
From far enough away, the motion and sequence and separation here are invisible. The information is lost in a minute point of light, just one color in a dark sea. This is a partial perspective.
To the whole, nothing is relative. There is no motion, no sequence, no separation. All is One. This is not a perspective.
From a perspective, there are separate bodies in motion. They move in aspect to one another. Even if they move so far away from one another that they appear to each other to be still, the aspect between them is always changing. This is a relationship.
The whole consists of all relationships. They are all present and fulfilled. Their destinies are instantaneous. With no sequence, there is no causality. There is no logic. It is an absurdity.
From a partial perspective, relationships have duration. They change and interact. They experience motion, sequence, and separation. Conjunction and opposition. Harmony and dissonance. Rhythm.
One representation of these principles is the perspective of the human being observing the skies of Earth.
That Human body is itself connected to an Earth body connected to a Solar body connected to a Galactic body and so on, each with its own scale and perspective.
But from that human perspective, the celestial bodies wheel overhead from east to west, and the Solar body moves across that sky each day at a particular declination, shifting north and south over the course of the year.
At night, some bright, strange points break from the fixed course of the stars around that wheel, traveling along that path blazed by the Sun in the daytime — sometimes retracing their steps — and gradually proceeding west to east against the backdrop of the stars, some fairly quickly, some over very long periods.
And weaving above and below that path, with its own orientation, Earth’s luminous Moon charts its own course, rising later and later each day.
From any point on the Earth at any time of year, these events take place in a unique configuration. There is no whole without each unique perspective. They cannot be overridden. They contain information. One who assumes such a perspective in order to know the information is known as an astrologer.
Astrology is description of a perspective.
Its practice is that of observing the vastest possible scope of conditions within a perspective, merging that observation with the life of all beings within that perspective, and then delineating what is observed.
Gaining perspective on human life in this way can be of benefit for releasing harmful conditions and creating helpful conditions.
The merging of perspectives into relationships creates new conditions, from which further new conditions arise.
