Reply With QuoteI love that you brought this up Klasien! Thank you for expressing this point of view!!Originally Posted by Klasien
People ask me about this sometimes. I am glad I can discuss it here.
On the one hand, I know that there are lots of different aspects happening in the sky at any moment, and different astrologers are going to give importance to different things based on the system they are practicing and their own methods. Personally, I think astrology is not a science at all, and you will never get the same answer from two different astrologers. Sometimes there are huge signposts that many astrologers will discuss, but because what we do is divination, and so dependent on interpretation and communication, there will always be so much to discuss and different angles to consider. Astrology is so deeply symbolic and the symbols, when you really start considering them deeply, can reveal so so much! I am constantly speaking with and reading different astrologers to get another point of view as yet another way to understand my spiritual practice. On some levels, I think that astrologers are always students. I have had the good fortune to speak with and learn from some of the most renowned astrologers in the world, and I have observed them learning right a long with me as well.
It's interesting, just earlier today I was remembering a lecture I heard in graduate school by the first gay Anglican bishop, Gene Robinson, I remember him talking about how deeply he resonates with Christian scripture, and that he believes that the scripture is constantly revealing itself through more greatly inspired interpretation. I think that for me, astrology is a deeply spiritual practice, and I see the planets and stars revealing their symbols to me more fully the more I am willing to learn about them and cultivate that relationship. It cannot be completed in one lifetime. I share that in the few sentences I get with my audience, and the brief time I get in a consultation, to the best of my ability in that moment. That is what I can give and gain today, which will change and evolve.
I think also that people like myself who write horoscopes have our own way of communicating what we see, and that will resonate with our own audience. Different people like different things, some love poetic and psychological interpretations, while other people want to read someone with a more literal interpretive and communication style.
The most important thing for me is not so much what astrologers do as what we represent. Astrology is really the only ancient practice that is a widespread part of popular, mass culture today. It has survived because on some level it affirms our connection with our immediate and larger environment. We are no longer just alienated, random creatures existing in the "iron cage of post modernism" (max weber) but part of a larger rhythm and cycle that has meaning and purpose to it. With astrology, even when only considered entertainment, the understanding of ecology, as the belief that the world is alive, is further reinforced. That little horoscope, those 2 sentences that seem mindless, read in the back of a magazine, have that deep a philosophical root that is reaffirmed in a very quiet, unassuming way.
For me, that is important. I love being a part of that.
I love this stuff so much and am passionate about not only what I do, but also why I do what I do!
And thank you so much for inspiring this from me Klasien! I am grateful for that and this community! I think it may end up in a future article
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