Patrice Guinard, in his paper on domification, asks, “Why should the existence of siblings, an aleatory event of biological nature, show up in the chart of a native whose birth, in certain cases, was previous to that event?” If the future already exists, as I am sure it does, then the question is answered. A future event, apparently aleatory, which affects the native whether the sibling is senior or junior to him, is shown in the chart because it preexists the birth of the native. The future event is a feature of the region of spacetime through which the native will be traveling and appears on the map just as a mountain pass does on an ordinary topographic map. In point of fact the two – the birth of the native and the birth of the sibling – exist in simultaneity, are synchronous, but our viewpoint is limited by the linear perception of time that billions of years of evolution has bequeathed us, eloquently adapted to surviving and prospering in our earthly milieu but not adequate in its normal operation to see across the vast distances of spacetime, and our normal consciousness perceives events as consecutive rather than concurrent.
Noel Tyl tells us that “Mind-twisting hypotheses using the theory of relativity can logically prove a changing of subjective time sense when we are taken out of our normal objective world. Precognition in dreams constantly defies a time barrier and assimilates a future condition.” My own certainty that the future is already out there, waiting to be met by us as we move through our sense of linear time, rests on a pair of prophetic dreams I had some 40 years ago. Quite independently of anything I ever read or discussed, I came to this startling conclusion: the future already exists. It was, and still is, the only logical and plausible explanation I could find for those dreams.
Astrology is built on spacetime. The birth data required to construct an accurately prophetic map are the time and place of birth, which specify a unique locus in spacetime. Earth’s orbital path is not really a circle (more properly an ellipse) but can be conceived of as a spiral, a helical coil something like a Slinky loosely extended along the path of the Sun moving along its own orbit within the galaxy, across the fabric of spacetime. This conception of Earth’s orbital path (other forms are possible, even probable, but this one serves for our discussion) means that we (the Earth and the creatures upon it) never occupy the same moment of spacetime twice, but are constantly and eternally moving through and into new moments. We move at a snail’s pace when compared to light, and our awareness of events must await our motion through spacetime along our helical path until we arrive at what already exists. Occasionally our mind, usually through dreams and by a process unknown to us, sometimes bridges spacetime and presents us with a vision of the preexisting future “ahead of time.” Astrology, through its mapping of the cosmos, creates another type of bridge, one that allows the rational intellect to see forward along our path through spacetime without assistance from the dream-mind.
If the future already exists, and only awaits our arrival to enter our consciousness, then free will is dealt a heavy blow, for our own life-path necessarily follows the helical path of Earth. But the blow is not a mortal one, because it is possible that through the exercise of our free will, constrained though it may be to follow the path of the Earth of which we are an integral part, the vibrations of our little acts of free will travel along the preexisting path to the awaiting future event and modify it somewhat. The event will hold to its inherent form, but may change in respect to its details.
A sort of sideways clarification of this idea comes from Robert Hand. He says, “If anyone who is open-minded looks at predictions that have failed, or even at statements about the natal chart that seem to be wrong, he or she will see that these errors are due to astrological polymorphism. Polymorphic simply means that something has many shapes or forms. Astrological symbolism has that quality.” And herein lies the wiggle-room that allows for free will. The vibratory patterns created by our actions in the present travel along the conduit of our predestined orbital path - life path, and change the shape or form of the preexisting future event – within the limits allowed by astrological polymorphism – according to the nature of the vibrations. It is to that extent, and that extent only, that we can change the future.
But we should be aware that small actions can have momentous consequences. For want of the nail the shoe was lost.... applies to the positive and constructive as well as the negative and destructive. If we attend to the nail in the here and now, the vibrations of our self-responsible and constructive conscious act will travel forward so that when we arrive at our future fate, awaiting us since the beginning, we will find a future consonant with our acts in the present. This is the law of karma: “...for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
Noel Tyl tells us that “Mind-twisting hypotheses using the theory of relativity can logically prove a changing of subjective time sense when we are taken out of our normal objective world. Precognition in dreams constantly defies a time barrier and assimilates a future condition.” My own certainty that the future is already out there, waiting to be met by us as we move through our sense of linear time, rests on a pair of prophetic dreams I had some 40 years ago. Quite independently of anything I ever read or discussed, I came to this startling conclusion: the future already exists. It was, and still is, the only logical and plausible explanation I could find for those dreams.
Astrology is built on spacetime. The birth data required to construct an accurately prophetic map are the time and place of birth, which specify a unique locus in spacetime. Earth’s orbital path is not really a circle (more properly an ellipse) but can be conceived of as a spiral, a helical coil something like a Slinky loosely extended along the path of the Sun moving along its own orbit within the galaxy, across the fabric of spacetime. This conception of Earth’s orbital path (other forms are possible, even probable, but this one serves for our discussion) means that we (the Earth and the creatures upon it) never occupy the same moment of spacetime twice, but are constantly and eternally moving through and into new moments. We move at a snail’s pace when compared to light, and our awareness of events must await our motion through spacetime along our helical path until we arrive at what already exists. Occasionally our mind, usually through dreams and by a process unknown to us, sometimes bridges spacetime and presents us with a vision of the preexisting future “ahead of time.” Astrology, through its mapping of the cosmos, creates another type of bridge, one that allows the rational intellect to see forward along our path through spacetime without assistance from the dream-mind.
If the future already exists, and only awaits our arrival to enter our consciousness, then free will is dealt a heavy blow, for our own life-path necessarily follows the helical path of Earth. But the blow is not a mortal one, because it is possible that through the exercise of our free will, constrained though it may be to follow the path of the Earth of which we are an integral part, the vibrations of our little acts of free will travel along the preexisting path to the awaiting future event and modify it somewhat. The event will hold to its inherent form, but may change in respect to its details.
A sort of sideways clarification of this idea comes from Robert Hand. He says, “If anyone who is open-minded looks at predictions that have failed, or even at statements about the natal chart that seem to be wrong, he or she will see that these errors are due to astrological polymorphism. Polymorphic simply means that something has many shapes or forms. Astrological symbolism has that quality.” And herein lies the wiggle-room that allows for free will. The vibratory patterns created by our actions in the present travel along the conduit of our predestined orbital path - life path, and change the shape or form of the preexisting future event – within the limits allowed by astrological polymorphism – according to the nature of the vibrations. It is to that extent, and that extent only, that we can change the future.
But we should be aware that small actions can have momentous consequences. For want of the nail the shoe was lost.... applies to the positive and constructive as well as the negative and destructive. If we attend to the nail in the here and now, the vibrations of our self-responsible and constructive conscious act will travel forward so that when we arrive at our future fate, awaiting us since the beginning, we will find a future consonant with our acts in the present. This is the law of karma: “...for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
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