I believe in Astrology, but not just anything astrological. Since some of it just cheap fortune telling. However more serious astrology: natal charts, transits may be even progressions are surprisingly accurate. I think it should be considered scientific.
Astrology works not because of starts and planets, they are just used to measure time. It works the same way generations works.
Nowadays we say that boomers have these traits and Millennials others, and Gen Z yet others. Or say decades, such as 20s or 60s have one characteristic and say 90s another.
Ancient people of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Rome had similar problem to explain. The only thing they could use to explain changes between generations were movements of planets on the sky. They associated them with gods and thought that gods influence people in some way.
Gods may be do not influence people, but records they created of how people change as planets move from one sign to another are actually very valuable and should be used nowadays as well.
Movement of planets between signs of Zodiac were the only time periods (similar to decades or centuries nowadays), they could record such information against.
Astronomy was a science in the ancient times since. it was needed to keep calendar and such.
Back in the days, civil calendar and astrological were pretty much identical. Ancient Mesopotamian calendar's matches Zodiac very close. Month begin where Zodiac signs begin nowadays. New Year was around Gregorian 20 of March. When Sun enters Aries astrologically. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. Half of the month were named the same as Zodiac signs.
Because of it all astrology is truly a gigantic source of untapped knowledge about human psychology.
No comments:
Post a Comment