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Did you ever wonder why famous astrologers like Rebecca Brents aren't invited to the Peace Parties? This article might have some answers for you. ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE PREPARING FOR A CAREER IN ASTROLOGY!
A recent article raised the question, why are the presences and opinions of people like the Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, Nelson Mandela and Deepok Chopra regularly included in important world conferences on peace and global community while Rob Hand, say, and Liz Greene go without invitations year after year. For the uninformed, these are two of the world's greatest living astrologers. Rob Hand practices out of Reston, Virginia and can be visited at Rob Hand Consulting. Liz Greene, also a Jungian analyst, is a founder of Astrodienst in Switzerland.
Or for that matter why isn't Rob Hand being asked to head up a committee to explore peaceful resolutions to the conflict in the Middle East or Deborah Houlding among those advising Tony Blair on national policy? Why isn't Liz Greene addressing the United Nations next week on world hunger? Liz Greene is, in most people's opinion, the world's foremost astrologer. She is experiencing her Saturn Return in the next couple of years. Deborah Houlding is a world-class "classical" astrologer in the UK who can be visited at a phenomenal website called Skyscript. Rebecca Brents is an astrologer and editor of Enchanted Spirit, one of the most successful metaphysical magazines on the internet. Rob Hand's presence is most felt as AstroDienst, along with Liz Greene. This question is worth contemplating. Why aren't astrologers being included? I am not inclined to a powerless, exclusionary or conspiratorial interpretation as if these talented and capable people were sitting at home by the phone waiting for it to ring. On the contrary, I would rephrase the question and reverse it. Why don't the world's leading astrologers "get" themselves asked to high profile conferences on global matters? They could, so I guess the answer must be that they aren't pursuing opportunities. Why, then? I think this has something profound to do with the nature of astrology and astrologers, and perhaps with their tacit understanding that this is "not the way". Before I explain what I mean by this, let me set the stage for you. Astrology and its practitioners are ruled by the planet Uranus and the sign Aquarius. Aquarius is opposite the sign Leo, which among other things represents the ruler or the king. Aquarius also represents "everyman" or "the common man", as in a brotherhood of equals and also represents a revolutionary force opposed to the king or more correctly, opposed to the mythical heroic image of the king. We might understand from this that astrologers find themselves or put themselves at opposite ends of the spectrum from the hierarchy. This polarity worked well through many centuries of history. For example, at some times in our heritage as human beings the astrologer was the natural opposing companion of the king, not unlike the Fool, the king's other stalwart companion. The Fool is ruled by Uranus as well.
We see many fools in Shakespeare's play, for example, the most famous being the one in King Lear. To get a little Shakespearean on you, then does this mean that the astrologer is a Fool? Certainly not! Or, wait a minute, does it? How are the Fool and the astrologer one and the same? The Fool told the king true things that those close to him sometimes wanted to keep him from knowing, out of fear of repercussions or because they were fawning for favors. Here's an example from Barbara Tuchman's book, Distant Mirrors: The Calamitous 14th Century.
The purpose of the Fool is to -- and the power of the Fool is derived from -- standing permanently outside the circle of power so that he is immune both from punishment and from temptation or corruption. This way he is "permitted" to tell the truth. It is "possible" for him to tell the truth. A pure, idealistic Uranian environment has been created. This is Uranus at its very best! The "real truth" about some important things seems to come from a very far away place and is often so simple as to sound like it came from a fool.
Now what about the astrologer? Benjamin Franklin once said, "Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer." The astrologer, who read the horoscope of the king knew that the fate of the king "was" the fate of the nation. They were one and the same. He also stood outside the power circle and was expected to tell the truth, though often it was not with impunity. Some astrologers who gave bad news were dispatched(!) Emperor Tiberius, for example, used to hurl his astrologers off the top of a cliff. In what way is the "truth" of the astrologer pure, like that of the Fool? Information derived from an astrology chart isn't "psychic" or "intuitive". It isn't a personal impression or a counseling skill. It is based on a set of rules and a bunch of numbers and angles. It is mathematical. William Tiller, Stanford professor of physics, is quoted on astrologer Dr. Glenn Perry's website as saying, "Mathematics has been and will continue to be the quantitative language of science, but astrology will become the qualitative language of the human condition." Dr. Perry has a doctorate in clinical psychology as well as being an astrologer. You can visit his website at www.aaperry.com. Thus we see that astrology is a "pure" or abstract experience like mathematics where the truth is being told sometimes from a great emotional distance and in the language of symbols or glyphs. These symbols are not open to interpretation, like dream images or alchemical symbols. They are read like piano notes or ciiphers and formulas in math. The heyday of court astrologers was probably from the 15th to 17th centuries in Europe. Tycho Brahe served the Danish court. Johannes Kepler served the House of Habsburg (Austria) and Galileo Galilei served the de Medici family in Italy. As you know, these men were also pursuing interests in alchemy/chemistry and in astronomy. The subjects were not separated into right and left brain as they are today.
Slightly later, the skilled English astrologer William Lilley (spelled variously) advised both Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I during the British Civil War, as well as predicting the Great Fire of London in 1666. In more recent times, President Reagan was suspected of consulting astrologer Sydney Omar, Jeanne Dixon and Joan Quigley, through his wife, Nancy. When Dixon refused to predict that Reagan would be elected in an earlier campaign for the presidency, she was replaced with Quigley. You can see that one of the reasons astrologers remain outside the establishment is to render greater service by detachment. They "oppose" the king, president and establishment in the sense that they are not under the direct power or authority of these entities and are expected to give a detached "outside" comment that can be really valuable because of its purity. Now, let's look at the second reason. Conferences, groups, referendums and other activities taking place today that address global issues are operating under Piscean Age protocols. (In the next paragraph, I will review the evolution of the "Ages" briefly.) At some level I think astrologers know these Piscean Age methods are antiquated and ineffective and at the same time they are not yet "called" to the fore as the priests and leaders of their own age, the Aquarian Age. As great as the Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, Nelson Mandela and Deepok Chopra are, they are in some sense relics of the Piscean Age and its feeling-valued spiritual rather than mathematical approach to worldview and they represent waning or cadent powers. Aquarian values are succedent, on the upsurge, very soon to become angular, cardinal, dynamic and directive. If you are reading this that the mathematical opposes the spiritual, you are mistinterpreting the meaning of these words. I refer to a statement made by Stanley Kubrick, a quintessential Aquarian, for an understanding of the expanded meaning of words such as "neutral", "detached" "mathematical" and, in Kubrick's case, "indifferent".
People who are attuned to the coming Aquarian Age will understand the tremendous power and potential for love in this statement, though it is not phrased in terms commonly considered "spiritual". The universe is not devoid of spirituality, it is potent with spirituality. To develop a greater understanding of this metaphysical and mathematical view of neutrality in Universal Mind, please browse the Unity website for books, references and classes. This viewpoint is certainly not unique to Unity but Unity does a great job of teaching it for free! For people
who are religious or Jungian in their approach to the universe, an excellent
book to read on this general topic is Carl Jung's Answer to Job. The "Ages" such as the Age of Aquarius and the Age of Pisces are based on an astronomical phenomenon called the "precession of the equinoxes". Because of this heavenly condition (!), the constellation in which the vernal equinox takes place each spring changes roughly every 2,160 year. It is part of a 25,920 year cycle, sometimes called an "eon". The signs move backward from the perspective of earth and so the Age of Pisces precedes the Age of Aquarius. At the moment we are in a transitional period. By most reckonings the Age of Aquarius will not "really" begin until around 2060 but we are seeing signs of it everywhere. For more information about this, please read "Gawky Nerds, Absent-Minded Professors and Mad Scientists" ... is that the Aquarian Age? In the Aquarian Age, astrologers and physicists may become "king" and the mythical heroic concept of the king, which becomes the complimentary or opposing for, may drop into the heart of each "common man". The subjective, feeling-based spiritual values of the Piscean Age may be replaced by the detached objective mathematical principles of harmony inherent in a paradigm such as astrology or in the known physical and metaphysical laws of music and the universe. Boy! Party,
party, party. Our phones will be ringing off the hook then!
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WHAT NANCY'S READERS HAVE SAID: 10.03.2005 WOW!!!! I have been asking the producers at Oprah to have a show on Astrology.....to no avail. I want to push astrology to the forefront as I believe it too to be an impartial tool with which to help mankind evolve. Your article was DEAD ON! I ABSOLUTELY loved it and would love to read more of the same. Four years ago I became interested in understanding how Astrology works....and I am still working on understanding all of the angles with which to dissect a chart. It is indeed as much a science as Chemistry or Biology yet people closest to me ridicule my interest. What boggles my mind to no end is the way in which people will go OUT of their way to deride Astrology without even reading an article, much less a book, on the subject. I feel very, very alone in my quest for truth and tolerance, yet, at the same moment am now more at peace with myself since I allowed Astrology into my life. I may be a fool but I am a peaceful, happy fool. Thanks for your dedication to your craft and sharing your knowledge with the world. -- Jamie Santos
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