BTW, if anyone is really interested in this topic-- I started a comparable thread at Astrodienst, which has had a lot more posts, now at 14 pages:
https://forum.astro.com/cgi/forum.cgi?num=1495746510/0
Monk, your credentials look pretty solid to me. I wouldn't be one of your critics, that's for sure. In a previous thread you shared a lot of information on what I might call cosmic mathematics. To me, astrology has to take place in the mind of the astrologer, so being highly intuitive or psychic seems to me to be advantageous-- because a horoscope has thousands of data bytes.
So anything more you'd care to say about your gifts would seem really relevant to my inquiry.
Sadge-- I personally live my life in relation to time as you outline it. On the other hand, there is a Hindu belief that time is simultaneous, and only our limited, uni-directional perceptions prevent us from grasping simultaneous time.
I'm not up to understand the physics of space and astronomy, but articles like this one:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/space-and-time-warps.html suggest that ordinary reality-as-given does not necessarily give us an accurate depiction of space and time.
Similarly, most of us are not clairvoyant-- we cannot see into the future. But I think that some people can. Some ethnic groups (like northern Scotland) have a tradition of clairvoyance, and it seems to "run in families" although not all descendants will inherit the trait-- which to me almost sounds like a genetics explanation, like the recessive gene for blue eyes.
My real hypothesis is that the horoscope is a graphic language, and that learning a new language with any fluency requires us to think differently, because languages never translate perfectly on a word-for-word basis. Sometimes the grammars or concepts underlying certain words are very different. (For example, in both Hebrew and German their words for "heaven" as the metaphysical abode of God and the literal sky are the same.) Because the graphic language of the horoscope focuses on prediction at-a-distance and into the future, experienced astrologers can develop new competencies in spatial and temporal thinking.
For sure, the human brain has a lot of latent capacity. Maybe prediction is one of them. And in very ordinary ways, talented people can develop more skillful predictive capacities.
One of my favourite examples is air traffic controllers. Yes, there's science, engineering, and math to safely landing a jumbo jet during an electrical storm at LAX. But you can find on-line the kinds of tests given to prospective air traffic controllers, and these tests require a lot of ability to think rapidly through time in 3 dimensions. Air traffic controllers apparently start out at small low-traffic airports, then work their way up to bigger more complicated airports.
I personally hadn't thought of Saturn as time. (Although Greek=Kronos, our root for "chronological.") Saturn is a planet. Saturn rules time-- sort of. Saturn specifically rules ageing. Apollo was the ancient Greco-Roman god of prophecy, and he wasn't always conflated with the sun. Traditionally, however, the sun "joys" in the 9th house which rules prophecy and prescient dreams. Mercury rules youth, thought, and astrology (traditionally.) Mercury/Hermes was the one god who did have the ability to traverse the different realms: the subterranean, the earth's surface, and Olympus.
The idea of Saturn "linking" inner and outer planets is a modern concept. Which is fine, but unnecessary. Traditional and Vedic astrology don't use the modern outers. Yet all 3 schools have predictive ability.
I think it's really cool that you have strong physical reactions in interpreting certain types of people or in sensing emotions that they do not show on the surface. "Feeling" as well as "seeing" the extraordinary via a horoscope reading both seem equally inexplicable through ordinary methods of spatial and temporal prediction.
I don't find your last comment to be facetious. I've gotten a few comments from people on other astrology forums to the effect of, "Don't worry your pretty little head about it." Others think such knowledge might be feasible in the future. Others think we know the answer, and it's electromagnetism. But they can't explain most things astrologers do through electromagnetism. I'm not looking for The Grand Theory of Everything.
I am fortunate to live in a very beautiful place (western Canada) with breathtaking scenery. That doesn't mean that I don't ask the "why" or "how" questions about features of natural beauty when something piques my interest.
Thanks for your feedback-- it's all good.
BTW. my husband's and my nodal axes are conjunct and reverse: he is 9.5 years older than me. I'd have to check on Chiron.