AquarianRising
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In my typical fashion, I'm taking forever to get around to it, but I've planned on making a video series utilizing "nudge theory" to help the resistant majority of Westerners to accept and comprehend the fundamentals of astrological theory and practice. But among the things I planned on tackling were the misconceptions that not only non-astrologers but also the vast majority of astrologers, themselves, have regarding our own topic of interest.
One such subject of miscomprehension is the "how" of the topic's mechanisms. We've got a metric butt-load of ideas swirling around, many of them inherently untestable (since that's how Piscean-minded communists avoid direct destruction of their fanciful imaginings) and some of them at least based on practical science, even though they're often torn to shreds by leading astronomers within months of said ideas going mass-media.
Fact is, the mechanisms are at least indirectly observable in the very multi-millennia-long generation of the practice itself, and directly observable with a bit of applied mathematics which I couldn't do to save my life. But to understand what these proposed mechanisms are, we first have to look at how astrology was created. Thankfully, we've got oodles of records on that subject, so we know that the earliest astrologers would take notes about the location of certain immediately observable celestial bodies (Venus as the "Dawn Star," for example) and then they would try to attach a correlation between the body's position and terrestrial events.
As time goes on, we develop more powerful telescopes, we use those telescopes to observe more distant bodies, thus adding to our set of available variables, and the more variables we located, the more terrestrial events we were able to attach correlations to celestial bodies. Of course, then we began to predict the movements of these bodies, and sh!t got real crazy real fast. Suddenly, we were able to determine the locations and orbits of bodies even when we couldn't see them, and that opened up whole new avenues for correlation and interpretation.
Contemporary scientists like to deride modern astrology as being an invention of modern astrologers, playing at being rational beings and mimicking scientific models. (Clearly, they've never attended a symposium on sociology and astrology being used to comprehend and positively affect modern trends. Nor would they entertain the notion that such a thing exists, I suspect.) Unfortunately, astrological theories that emphasize the fact that most astrologers have no concept of how these things work only serve to malign our entire practice even further. They see astrologers explaining the subject's mechanisms using religious or spiritual concepts and it only makes us all look like idiots. That needs to stop.
Anyway, I'm digressing quite a bit, here. I'll simply jump to the conclusion and backpedal to tie it to the earlier observations. Astrology is a statistical model of prognostication, little different from anything used on Wall Street. (Except for... y'know, astrology actually works.) It was created as a statistical model from its very inception, that is to say, those early astrologers were trying to match the likelihood of events recurring at points in time consistent with certain celestial variables. That. Is. Statistics. End of discussion, albeit I'm obviously going to explain more points to underscore the validity of my hypothesis.
A statistical model of understanding astrological mechanisms has a few major advantages, including it's aversion to reliance on physical models of science (keeping it entirely abstract unshackles the subject from a need to assert scientific claims that have thus far borne no weight), it's historically context-appropriate foundation, and the fact that numbers don't f*ckin' lie. Except when tyrants mess with them.
So, look, I realize there are a lot of spiritualists that take part in these forums. Even religious types. With all due respect, your ideologies are on the way out. If you believe astrology is practical and capable of teaching us deep truths about ourselves (and you probably wouldn't be here if you didn't) then you have to accept that your listless, unfocused, undercooked and quite possibly "baked" ideologies are on the way out the door. This isn't a time for irrationality, for make-believe or for sentimentality and "schools" of fishy thinking. The Piscean Age needs to die before the Aquarian Age can begin in earnest, and that requires that "we" as humans begin to approach our individual comprehensions of reality in a way consistent with... reality.
Continue to immerse astrological discussion is spiritual anachronisms and this universally beneficial practice will die when the Water-Bearer officially enters the scene. There's no room in the coming Age for B.S. It will demand truth, facts, and integrity of observation, not the sort of fluffy-minded bull patties we've been collectively stuffing our heads with for the past two thousand-plus years. It's time for humanity to grow up. Again... Some more. And since humanity is, inherently, a collective effort, that means that astrologers and those who represent the metaphysical community to what you might term the "outside world" need to begin admitting when they don't know what the eff they're talking about and stop making up explanations based on whatever cockamamie, possibly alcohol- and psychotropics-fueled fantasy they've dreamed up.
It's incredibly damaging to our mutual efforts to bring this sort of benefit to a larger audience when we can't keep our story consistent and rational. The world needs a deeper look at itself right now, people. It needs facts and insight, not more imaginary polarization and victimhood. These are things astrology could easily provide it, but not if we're too busy debating whether or not feng shui could be used to help people relive their past lives so they can erase karmic debts so they can move on to Heaven when the comet Wormwood launches them into the sky to meet Jesus-Buddha-Muhammed-Vishnu-Easter Bunny.
If you "believe" in astrology (as though the alternative were even an option once you take an honest look at the subject and yourself) then you know the Aquarian Age is on its way in, and you know what it represents. Break your mold, step up, make a change and set reality as your central focus. There's no resisting Change. Embrace the sh!t and benefit from it.
(Also, point me to a decent and intellectually honest/curious statistician, so I can get an initial draft of a study on astrological statistics going. I'm only a savant, not a mathematician.)
One such subject of miscomprehension is the "how" of the topic's mechanisms. We've got a metric butt-load of ideas swirling around, many of them inherently untestable (since that's how Piscean-minded communists avoid direct destruction of their fanciful imaginings) and some of them at least based on practical science, even though they're often torn to shreds by leading astronomers within months of said ideas going mass-media.
Fact is, the mechanisms are at least indirectly observable in the very multi-millennia-long generation of the practice itself, and directly observable with a bit of applied mathematics which I couldn't do to save my life. But to understand what these proposed mechanisms are, we first have to look at how astrology was created. Thankfully, we've got oodles of records on that subject, so we know that the earliest astrologers would take notes about the location of certain immediately observable celestial bodies (Venus as the "Dawn Star," for example) and then they would try to attach a correlation between the body's position and terrestrial events.
As time goes on, we develop more powerful telescopes, we use those telescopes to observe more distant bodies, thus adding to our set of available variables, and the more variables we located, the more terrestrial events we were able to attach correlations to celestial bodies. Of course, then we began to predict the movements of these bodies, and sh!t got real crazy real fast. Suddenly, we were able to determine the locations and orbits of bodies even when we couldn't see them, and that opened up whole new avenues for correlation and interpretation.
Contemporary scientists like to deride modern astrology as being an invention of modern astrologers, playing at being rational beings and mimicking scientific models. (Clearly, they've never attended a symposium on sociology and astrology being used to comprehend and positively affect modern trends. Nor would they entertain the notion that such a thing exists, I suspect.) Unfortunately, astrological theories that emphasize the fact that most astrologers have no concept of how these things work only serve to malign our entire practice even further. They see astrologers explaining the subject's mechanisms using religious or spiritual concepts and it only makes us all look like idiots. That needs to stop.
Anyway, I'm digressing quite a bit, here. I'll simply jump to the conclusion and backpedal to tie it to the earlier observations. Astrology is a statistical model of prognostication, little different from anything used on Wall Street. (Except for... y'know, astrology actually works.) It was created as a statistical model from its very inception, that is to say, those early astrologers were trying to match the likelihood of events recurring at points in time consistent with certain celestial variables. That. Is. Statistics. End of discussion, albeit I'm obviously going to explain more points to underscore the validity of my hypothesis.
A statistical model of understanding astrological mechanisms has a few major advantages, including it's aversion to reliance on physical models of science (keeping it entirely abstract unshackles the subject from a need to assert scientific claims that have thus far borne no weight), it's historically context-appropriate foundation, and the fact that numbers don't f*ckin' lie. Except when tyrants mess with them.
So, look, I realize there are a lot of spiritualists that take part in these forums. Even religious types. With all due respect, your ideologies are on the way out. If you believe astrology is practical and capable of teaching us deep truths about ourselves (and you probably wouldn't be here if you didn't) then you have to accept that your listless, unfocused, undercooked and quite possibly "baked" ideologies are on the way out the door. This isn't a time for irrationality, for make-believe or for sentimentality and "schools" of fishy thinking. The Piscean Age needs to die before the Aquarian Age can begin in earnest, and that requires that "we" as humans begin to approach our individual comprehensions of reality in a way consistent with... reality.
Continue to immerse astrological discussion is spiritual anachronisms and this universally beneficial practice will die when the Water-Bearer officially enters the scene. There's no room in the coming Age for B.S. It will demand truth, facts, and integrity of observation, not the sort of fluffy-minded bull patties we've been collectively stuffing our heads with for the past two thousand-plus years. It's time for humanity to grow up. Again... Some more. And since humanity is, inherently, a collective effort, that means that astrologers and those who represent the metaphysical community to what you might term the "outside world" need to begin admitting when they don't know what the eff they're talking about and stop making up explanations based on whatever cockamamie, possibly alcohol- and psychotropics-fueled fantasy they've dreamed up.
It's incredibly damaging to our mutual efforts to bring this sort of benefit to a larger audience when we can't keep our story consistent and rational. The world needs a deeper look at itself right now, people. It needs facts and insight, not more imaginary polarization and victimhood. These are things astrology could easily provide it, but not if we're too busy debating whether or not feng shui could be used to help people relive their past lives so they can erase karmic debts so they can move on to Heaven when the comet Wormwood launches them into the sky to meet Jesus-Buddha-Muhammed-Vishnu-Easter Bunny.
If you "believe" in astrology (as though the alternative were even an option once you take an honest look at the subject and yourself) then you know the Aquarian Age is on its way in, and you know what it represents. Break your mold, step up, make a change and set reality as your central focus. There's no resisting Change. Embrace the sh!t and benefit from it.
(Also, point me to a decent and intellectually honest/curious statistician, so I can get an initial draft of a study on astrological statistics going. I'm only a savant, not a mathematician.)
