Astrology has nothing to do with the stars
Interestingly enough, David Roell in his foreword to George McCormack's book on long range weather forecasting(A Text-Book of Long Range Weather Forecasting: Astro-Meteorology) makes the case that its only coincidence that the stars and the planets and the asteroids, etc, appear to impact things on the planet earth.
He asks where the BASIC energies and elements come from? Do they come form outside the planet earth? No. They are here. The earth contains all four elements: fire, earth, air, water. The sun and the universe only has fire. The earth has all three states of energy: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. The sun and the universe only had cardinal. And the sky itself, the universe that we view has none of any of them, as its almost completely empty.
The tropical Zodiac is not involved in the sky: it never was, and it won’t be in the future. At some point in history, people simply looked up and said, “Wait a minute, when the Sun gets to this point in the sky the elements and the energies seem to work a certain way. And then they noticed other stuff in the sky.
People never really considered that a cause and effect circumstance because people only recently had anything other than a geocentric view, after all everything revolved around the earth. And really for the purposes of astrology, everything still does.
While Mr. Roell then sees a cause and effect relationship between the Planets and the earth. I don’t. I see that as simply coincidence, or perhaps grand design.
I see all of this as simply a set of intricate signs for the impact of literally infinite myriad of energies and matter and dark energies and dark matter which influences everything else.
Astrology is simply a reading of these sign posts. And we don’t know all of the signs to read yet. For example, we read the sign posts, just like on the highways, but we tend to ignore the trash along the road. However, we all know that the trash can have a pattern, and if we see what looks like big pieces of tractor trailer tire in the center of the road, or suddenly the temp drops in the raid and the road gets icy, it may be a sign for a major accident up ahead. This could be an event that happened in the past on the road, or one that is about to happen in the future.
In my mind, this is what astrology is. I'm not saying that there is not a causal effect; I'm not an atheist about it; I'm more of an agnostic. But with no mechanism known, or even postulated except vaguely via such divergences into mathematical fairyland such as string theory, I can see only that astrology exists as a very very complicated reading of sign posts of the past, present, and future.
It’s a way of reading the sign posts for what happened in the past, is happening now, and could happen in the future , just like reading these other signs on the highways is a way of reading what happened in the past on the roadway, what might be happening right now, and what kinds of problem we are likely to experience in the future. The more details we can see in the highways, or in astrology, the more details we can see all around us in whatever circumstance we are trying to observe.
