Comments on Mike Brown's Planets: I ♥ Astrologers

Actually the planets and their movement change our...

2008-05-25T12:09:00.000-07:00

Actually the planets and their movement change our body's chemism. Those of us who study medical astrology observe how the planets trigger the onset of disease.
The places of the planets in the personal horoscope show not only our psychological traits but our physical appearance too. How is this done? In the moment of birth the baby "inhales" cosmic influences from the pineal gland, and this infusion marks the baby's personal astrological birthchart. These cosmic/astrological influences also construct our whole physiology. Its a matter of subtle chemism that actually creates external appearances and psychology. And then we come to the "character creates fate" thing. Of course character can and should evolve, and so our fate can change.

We observe the influence of planets on our biology everyday. For example, when transiting Venus is close to our Sun, our hormones change (especially in women) and we appear more beautiful and attractive, with fresher skin. Our chemism changes.

Scientists have a lot to discover...

It is interesting to see how Mike Brown feels pres...

2008-02-25T08:53:00.000-08:00

It is interesting to see how Mike Brown feels pressured to reassure everyone that he actually does not believe in astrology, while deep down it does seem he has some appreciation for this perspective. Sadly, many astronomers (and scientist in general) are more concerned about their reputation and intellectual image. Reading the extremely derisive comments about astrology, it seems the issue really pushes a sensitive button! Too bad astronomers do not really take the time to conduct a scientific research on astrology. (Im not talking about reading horospocpe columns)... It would humble their spirit to realize their prejudice kept them from something so important and fascinating!

Mike,Don't tell any of my fellow astrologers, but ...

2008-02-05T22:36:00.000-08:00

Mike,

Don't tell any of my fellow astrologers, but I look at astrology much the way you do. I know of no reason to believe that the positions of planets or anything else in the sky actually cause (or even influence) most of the human phenomena astrology studies.

But that's not the point. The point is that human beings have an ancient and maybe even intrinsic emotional and spiritual relationship with the sky. That relationship, with all its power to inspire, is in danger of being lost to things as mundane as light pollution.

Astrology helps keep the wonder of the universe alive in humanity and it does that by relating the sky to vital human concerns. Now don't get me wrong. I see too many correlations between astronomical relationships and human events to tihnk that there's not something fundamentally real underneath the human compulsion to relate the movements of the stars to movements in human affairs. I just know that correlation by itself does not tell us what the cause of a relationship is.

And I also know that no matter what the apparent or real cause of astrology's power to fascinate may be, astrology does, as you suggest, produce its own kind of poetry.

Astrology is a beautiful, mysterious thing. Not a science, but, as you say, a sibling enterprise in that science, for all its seeming rationality, is at its heart a beautiful but inescapably mysterious thing.

For the love of Jupiter! Galileo's charting of Med...

2008-01-31T21:02:00.000-08:00

For the love of Jupiter! Galileo's charting of Medici ... Sidereus Nuncius 1610 doesn't intrigue you? (she sighs)

Which branch of astrology are you not believing in Natal, Psychological, Mundane, Horary, Financial, Electional, Medical, Meterological, Political? Or you only know horoscope predictions from magazines?

Astrology is full of and, and, and, and, and times infinite combinations of placements and aspects. Until you keep an open mind and put in the time to look at more than where your sun sits...you're not even experiencing astrology.

There's movement above...you have to look at how the chart moves. And astrology isn't done...done well...without studying the movement and relationships of those planets and stars you love so much.

Modern science has come and we've lost introspection and rites of passage -- based on our timing within the movement of the planets -- and we no longer know who we are or what our purpose is.

Astrology is a system of adjectives used as a tool for that introspection and use as a time piece for marking passages we make in our lifetimes. I am 18, I am... I am 30, I am..., I am 40, I am ... Uranus is opposite my natal Uranus, Neptune is square my natal Neptune...it's mid-life crisis time. It helps to know these things! and to know it happens the same time for just about everyone.

I may just be a suburban SAHM of four, but I know enough astrology now to not dismiss it. I also know Wolfgang Pauli said all great achievements in science will be found with intuition...found in dreams.

Breathe, open your mind, let those lovely constellation flavored- neutrinos flow right through you...and be inspired to think outside that box your teachers had told you is there.

The Greeks weren't using mega telescopes. They were sitting in the dark on a hillside together looking up for entertainment.

Sit outside, breathe, and feel the sky. Chart it for lack of anything else to do at night except rest and stand guard. Tell your buddy what you learned. He'll tell you. Do it for a couple thousand years and write down the coincidences. hmmm

There used to be a lot of open-minded folks in this world. We could use another.

Kaden

Good evening, Mr. BrownAstronomy and astrology are...

2008-01-30T19:24:00.000-08:00

Good evening, Mr. Brown

Astronomy and astrology are brothers … well this word, brother, is a reflection of your sun sign … Gemini.

I’m happely surprise to read your article. And I appreciate the way you demonstrate respect for the astrologer.

Thank you.

Do you know that when i read your article (january 31)... your asteroïd 11714
was conjunct with the sun in Aquarius. And in my chart, your asteroïd is conjunct with my sun in Taurus. Coïncidence?

Well, i've wrote a book, in french ( september 2006), it's title translated in english: The astrology new boundary. And the first chapter's title is well summarize by your comment ... the brothers: Astronomy and astrology, a whole.

Richard Doyle
http://www.lalyreduquebec.com/

Elmar wrote:>>the silly idea of the new astrology ...

2008-01-27T20:28:00.000-08:00

Elmar wrote:

>>the silly idea of the new astrology to produce personal horoscopes is even younger than scientific astronomy and was probably born out of needs for money-making by poor astronomists<<

If conning clients were all there were to it, it wouldn't be so bad. At least, the con-artists would be acting rationally. But in fact my experience is that the delusion (actually a form of projective paranoia) infects the astrologers just as much as their clients. In parts of the world (for instance in India) the casting of individual horoscopes is a very deeply rooted and very ancient practice. It is a socially and psychologically embedded meme that even infects otherwise rational scientists. The only good I can see in it is the cover it sometimes provides to people who want to get out of appointments or break off engagements.

Peter Hook

Instead of looking at the two as brothers, I prefe...

2008-01-27T18:47:00.000-08:00

Instead of looking at the two as brothers, I prefer to see astrology as the very old mother that gave birth to scientific astronomy only two or three hundred years ago.

Since thousands of years looking at the stars made people feel the unlimited greatness of the universe. In old times astrologists tried to recognize the fate of the world in the paths of the celestial objects - the silly idea of the new astrology to produce personal horoscopes is even younger than scientific astronomy and was probably born out of needs for money-making by poor astronomists ;-)

Reading horoscopes is painful! Thinking about ast...

2008-01-27T14:02:00.000-08:00

Reading horoscopes is painful! Thinking about astrologers, how they spend their time, their delusions and false hopes... That's even more painful!

Peter Hook

So what can astrology offer that can even come clo...

2008-01-26T20:27:00.000-08:00

So what can astrology offer that can even come close to matching? It can’t tell me anything, I don’t think, about my history or my future or my personality or my pitfalls. Or about anyone else’s.

Have you actually tried having your chart read by a competent astrologer before you drew this conclusion?

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2008-01-26T17:47:00.000-08:00

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:-)