A
New Moon, Monday June 6, with Jupiter Direct (from May
5 at 07.09 am GMT onwards). Jupiter retrograde gives
me somewhat of a reflective mood this weekahead for a
change (which in view of the last weekahead may be the
best to focus on and wait with further predictions
until Jupiter goes D:-)
Astrologers
are inclined to stress the enormous history of their
art, a history as old as mankind itself. But that does
not alter the fact, that there are developments in
astrology. Science and thus also astrology for a long
time was only practiced in the convents or in esoteric
circles (through which a lot has been saved
fortunately) and almost solely by men, not women. So
the world has changed enormously already, and thus has
astrology. Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) reformulated its
principles and gave astrology a much more holistic
basis. Rudhyar was a great thinker, a philosopher (Jupiter),
and his influence affected astrology in America primarily in the
20th century. Because in Europe we stuck to our
segmented black-and-white thinking in astrology for a
long time still, for each astrology is a reflection of
the culture it is practiced in. But our culture is
changing drastically, astrology lies on the streets to
call it that, with the possibilities the internet
provided us with.
Since
the early days astrology was incredibly popular on the
internet, as was porn. The two oldest professions on
the planet both conquered the internet. We are
creating a world full of people whose literary
capacities amount to one liners on their cellphones,
who were brought up zapping between 50 television
channels, and who demand information with a push on a
button. A world full of fast consumers, and a vast
amount of nonsensical spam in one's email, costing
time and money for all, created by a world governed by
money and the greed for it. An upside down world. A
world with many profiteers of those who without or
only minor commercial interest provide information for all. And
those same profiteers don't even realize that by their
demanding behavior without giving something themselves,
they keep a world full of greed and stupidity going.
But, that is their world. For in between all the
madness there are developments which are a blessing to
the practice of astrology.
Between
al the superficiality, the law of resonance works as
it always did, only on a much larger scale now. For
kindred souls meet, and also this in a fast and
immediate manner! And the possibilities of these
connections are almost limitless. next to a curse, the
internet also proves to be a blessing. Not only do we
have quicker access to data, but together in groups we
can give meaning to those data, and a group can always
do more than an individual by itself. There is a
restriction here, for the group needs to be a group of
friends, because science develops through friendship
and sharing in a spirit of openness for each other's
ideas. Not by polarization, or trying to be first, or
trying to convert others to one's own opinion on the
contrary, knowledge becomes meaningless in that way,
and lowers itself.
The
fact that we can share information freely, respecting
each other's copyrights, and truly share, not just
consume, indeed is an enormous step forward in the
development of astrology. Imagine a life as an
astrologer in the 19th century-- in the first place you
may have practiced in secret and in the second place
it would have cost you days to get the accurate
calculations alone, without even starting its
interpretation. And more than once publicized
horoscope in older works are full of calculation
mistakes... In this manner it would have taken you
simply ages and maybe lifetimes-) to gain enough
experience for truly having insight in the way a
horoscope works. Personally I thus don't understand at
all why there is such a tendency for Classical
Astrology, although it is explainable in the light of
the fact that it started in America, a culture
collectively seeking its roots. (For each astrology is
a reflection of the culture it is practiced in). Dane
Rudhyar was French, and emigrated consciously and on
purpose to America to help form a new world. And for
astrology this is exactly what he has done. He pulled
astrology out of the middle ages, and gave it a new
foundation, a new level, a level which was the
foundation for the post war generation of astrologers,
who called forth modern astrology. Modern astrology
only just got born! And is in full development.
Admittedly, it takes years to grasp it fully, but
based on the method of old, studying on your own, it
creates a lot of confusion and costs a lot of extra years.
Rudhyar did not have as much information at his
disposal as we do today. And it is certainly not a
law that access to a lot of information means deep
understanding, sometimes on the contrary so. For you
have to know how to look. But if you can, then having
the access to a lot of information is a blessing for
gaining knowledge. And communication with friends a
blessing for objectivity. If people help one another
we can see where we go wrong by being too subjective
and by basing our work on too few in depth horoscope
examples.
And
thus this weekahead is a kind of an ode to a world
full of cooperation, a world with an astrological
language, which by the way transcends politics, and
only serves mankind and consciousness itself.
Have
a great New Mo(o)n(th)!