Astro Science

Astrology as Science

It is true that Astrological Science, in all of its ramifications, reaches deep and far into metaphysical and philosophical realms, but what does Science not? Einstein’s, Eddinton’s, and others’ mathematical conceptions have already passed the threshold from the domains of fixed form and materialistic limitation into so-called fourth-dimensional territory. As a result, why should scientists dismiss the implications of Astrology?

They appear to have forgotten or chosen to disregard the fact that most of the so-called precise knowledge they presently possess, which concerns the real movements of the stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies, is a legacy passed down to them by ancient star scientists, the Astrologers. They’ve arbitrarily accepted some of this knowledge and, equally arbitrarily, opted to dismiss the rest without any study.

For Astrology, while embracing all the other Sciences was divided by the ancient Scientists into two main sections:

1. The science of observing and recording the relative locations and motions of celestial bodies across time.
2. That which dealt with the observation and recording of the correspondences between these positions and:
   1. Natural phenomena occurring on the earth, such as weather, tides, earth-quakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, growth and evolution of plant and animal life.
   2. Human physical Phenomena, such as childbirth, death, menstruation of the female, illness, disease, accident.
   3. Human psychological phenomena, such as love, envy, hate, jealousy, the sex urge, greed, avarice and the physical actions resulting from these emotional states, such as mating, robbery, murder, plunder, rape, combats and wars.

The part of Astrological scientific investigation dealing with the simple observation of the relative motions of the celestial bodies (Astronomy) was regarded as accidental. It was the first step toward acquiring true knowledge—the only knowledge that really mattered—knowledge of Man, his origins, and his fate.

This first division-Astronomy-is now regarded as a science since current scientists have continued and extended the observations of ancient star scientists using modern mechanical devices. Because of profound prejudice and scepticism, the second division is not widely accepted. It has been almost entirely overlooked by modern scientists, who have made no attempt to examine or rationalise it. Despite the fact that there is no logical justification for this. There are certainly a few well-known occurrences occurring in nature and failing to fall within the scope of the second division of Astrological knowledge, which would appear to indicate that additional research along this path would validate the ancient scientists’ other conclusions.

Of these natural facts there are three which are outstanding:

1. There does exist a correspondence between the phases of the Moon and the Tides. (Natural phenomenon).
2. There does exist a correspondence between the phases of the Moon and the Menstrual periods of the Female. (Human physical phenomenon).
3. There does exist a correspondence between the periods of the Full Moon and New Moon and the intensity of emotional disturbance among the Insane. (Human psychological phenomenon).

One of these facts happens to fall within the scope of each of the three subdivisions of the second section of Astrology specified above. If these correspondence are true of the Moon is it not rather presumptious to discard as old wives’ tales, the rules set down by the ancient Astrologers concerning the corres pondences, which after many years of observation, they found to exist between the relative positions of the other planets and stars and the thoughts and actions of normal men and women? After all, these observations and records were made by the same Astrologers, who firstcatalogued all the Fixed Stars, who tabulated the distances and relative positions of the planets, their orbits, and their periods of revolution, and who calculated with astonishing precision, the cycle of the equinoxes. Surely these men were intellectual giants, and their deductions at least merit investigation.

Astrology, in reality, is the knowledge obtained from the observation and study of celestial bodies, of which our earth is one, in order to discover all potential correlations or correspondences between them and the earth on which we live. Such observation should not be limited to simple quantitative measurements and computations of time, space, volume, and mass, but should also consider all other possible relationships. To simply dismiss any notion of correspondence between these time-space measures and events occurring on this Earth or another as implausible is to lock the door on an intriguing and thrilling scientific adventure.