posted December 18, 2013 12:06 AM            

Recently, I was asked by a friend's boyfriend questions of "what exactly is astrology? what makes the arrangement of planets affect each other? How did ancient astrologers know what these planets represented and what effects they had on each other?"

Could you give some inputs please?

posted December 18, 2013 04:48 AM            

Simply put, the ancients could easily have used empirical data to come to their conclusions. Through observation and without the entertainment we take for granted today, they could have put two and two together. "The shifting skies seem to affect Matthias /this/ way but they affect me another."

As above, so below. As within, so without.

The quickest way to get other people to realise the complexity of our relationship to the universe would be to say something like "How long have we lived on Earth as humans and not for lack of trying, still do not know the mysteries of our own oceans?" As above, space, as below, the sea. Both are largely black spaces we're restricted from exploring freely. We can turn this on ourselves, as within, the subconscious and as without, the conscious.

Everything is a cycle within a cycle.

We are trying to answer the question "Who made this machine?" while only seeing a few moving parts.

Spirals...

Within spirals...

posted December 18, 2013 07:04 PM            

"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"

It's not like it comes with a manual and GPS aboard, it's Theory and...

posted December 18, 2013 07:47 PM            

I am going to take some time to let these answers sink in and do more research

thank you all very much

posted December 18, 2013 08:33 PM            

the signs seem to be centripetal. wherever you are in the universe, you have the 12 signs centring on you. Because if mars appeared to be in taurus from when you were looking at it from earth, then if you were born on mars would that mean that you would be completely surrounded by taurus energy and all the planets would be in taurus? no, probably not.

whats more interesting is that there seems to be 2 sets of the 12 zodiac signs on earth. there is the 12 zodiac signs, and then there is the 12 houses, which *may* possibly be the exact same as the 12 signs. although there may be other factors that make each house correspond to a certain part of life. but anyway there is 12 signs in our galaxy and 12 signs around the earth, which both are always centering around whichever point you are at. which is kind of confusing.

now the planets. i do not believe they are connected to the 12 signs. they just affect you cooperatively with the signs.

each planet's force on our brains and thus minds has a different effect that makes you feel a certain way. this type of feeling is not created by chemicals but by something else. maybe magnetism. or that jung ocean thing that they talked about above which i have no idea about but sounds interesting. so if each planet has a different effect i think that maybe the components of each planet might pull on different components in our brain and create the effect. like if a planet has a lot of iron in it maybe that will pull on different atoms in your brain then a planet that has a lot of magnesium or whatever. so the make up of the planet is potentially what creates it's effect on our mind.

anyway when a planet is in one of 12 signs it takes on the characteristics of that sign. so if saturn was in leo it would have a fixed fire energy to it which would be paired with the feeling that saturn creates which is of responsibility and restriction.