It's been awhile since I felt I had anything to say.
What follows are several ideas that
I wish to share with readers. Please do not suppose that I am claiming that
they are actually the truth of things. My position is simply one among many models
for understanding what it is to be human and astrology’s relation to it. Various
models for understanding acquire their value not from their truth qualities but
from their usefulness in helping people get along in their world. After all, we
all believe what we need to believe in order to make it through the Night.
Astrology is a discipline that
provides a framework for imagining a profound intimacy between a person and
their world. This relationship can be discerned by examining the architecture
of the birth moment as mirrored by the pattern occurring in the sky.
The astrological natal chart is
polysemous in nature. Not only is it a two-dimensional graphic representation
of the planets in the sky as seen from a particular time and location on earth,
a frozen instance in the processual nature of reality as it were, that
demarcates a relatively enduring, pattern of intra and inter-relationships that
we call an organism.
The chart is also regarded by some
astrologers as a set of cosmic instructions, a roadmap, an image of the seed
potential of the person whose birth it reflects, and can also be imagined as a
reflection of a coherent and fluid sense of self with multiple organizing
centers (planets) in relation to one another (aspects) that have a host of perspectives
(signs) contained in various life contexts (houses) and situated within the
parameters of moment and place. It is an image of psyche reflecting the
interiority and exteriority of the person.
The idea of a single organizing Self
is deemphasized in favor of a polycentric self or community of selves. There is
no grand solitary overarching control center. The person as a quantum of unique
experience, whose chart is a mirror for every existential situation, is seen as
a focused expression of the local environment. Furthermore, in contrast to
Sartre, existence and essence arise mutually. Another way of saying this is,
body and soul, two sides of the same coin, begin in the same moment. There is
no preexisting essence incarnating nor is there a disembodied essence surviving
death. As the newborn emerges out of this world into this life the first breath
that sets the organism apart from its previous environment immediately sets up
unique circulatory, respiratory, cardiac, gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, and
immunological changes that shift the organism from a state of dependency to a state
of greater independence.
As it turns out then, astrology
is a discipline that is not so much to help us improve ourselves or to allow us
to catch a glimpse of what may be around the bend but rather astrology provokes
us to ask, “How are we relating to this present moment, how are we engaged with
this one and only life?”
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