| Question: The Royal Astronomical Society of London claims the zodiacal signs don't line up
with the constellations and are not what astrologers claim. Response? Answer: The constellations and signs are not the same thing at all. Signs are archetypes that name equal divisions of sky that measure the motion of the planets along the ecliptic. 2000 years ago the ancient Greeks named the signs after the constellations. At that time Aries lined up with the equinoctial node. For convenience the names are still used. The ancients called everything in the heavens a star, even the moon. Astrology refers strictly to the sun, planets and satellites in our solar system, not the stars. Resource: Maritha Pottenger, Astro-Communication Services, San Diego, CA |
Two years ago prominent mathematical physicist Will Keepin PHD went public proclaiming his acceptance of astrology as a valid study. Two books that influenced him are The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot and Undivided Universe by Basil Hiley. Keepin believes other physicists have yet to admit their acceptance and, indeed, in Feb '97 astro-physicist Victor Mansfield PHD publicly spelled out astrology's relationship to modern science.
Who's next?
Keepin claims that astrology, more than any other science, " ties together the whole unfolding evolution of meaning directly with the physical unfolding of cosmic processes in the form of planets." He sees astrology as "bridging the implicate and explicate orders more clearly than any other esoteric science".
Sources: Astrology and the New Physics: Integrating Sacred and Secular Sciences 1995 Lecture at the Isis Institute.
Mountain Astrologer Magazine Feb\ March and Aug\Sept of 1997 issues
