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What is Astrology?and Why Should Any One Care?

Astrology’s influence is not from planets which exist “out there” and physically influence our destiny. The planets influence us because of their affinity with, as well as expression of, the same laws as those used in creating (and continuing to create) our universe. We are a part, not apart from those universal laws. Their essence is mathematical, not physical.

I do not know about now, but I understand computing started out based on a two-digit algorithm. The way the instructions were written made those two digits--used again and again--so productive.

The genetic code created by DNA is comprised of four bases used again and again. Heredity does much of what it does using just those four bases. Their position and sequence--their environment relative to each other--determine how, and apparently even if--they manifest.

An astrological nativity is comprised of ten planets, twelve houses, and twelve signs. For the sake of argument, we could say planets are astrology’s equivalent to DNA’s bases. So, astrology has ten “bases”--six more than DNA.

This method creates a whole chart from each of the original 12 houses of the nativity. Each of those charts contains the original 10 planets of birth, their ten counterparts from time of conception, and their appropriate harmonic derivatives. The resultant "nativity" comprises twelve charts, each containing four sets of the original ten planets of our solar system. Each "base," then, is used 240 times per individual.

240 does not come close to matching the number of times the bases of DNA are used in the human genetic code. However, continuing with the analogy, astrological houses are to planets what position is to DNA’s bases. Planets express differently in each house just as bases express diversely in different positions. Signs have always been correlated with specific houses--Aries with the 1st house, Cancer with the 4th, Libra with the 7th, and so on. Therefore, signs also have something to do with position.

Ultimately, degree (there are 360 in each chart) is also related to position. That is, in any specific chart, a planet in one degree might be relatively inactive. In a different degree, the same planet could be crucial in defining the individual’s life.

Furthermore, all 240 astrological bases progress. They change degree, therefore position, throughout each individual's life. That means they (may) change sign. They (may) change house. Since all of them progress, they change in relationship to each other, which also alters the way they express.

Finally, planets in houses and signs often have timing, therefore position, implications. For instance, a planet in the 1st house usually first manifests its qualities in childhood. One in the 4th house often does not experience its full expression until the last years in life. Similarly, mercury, sponsoring mentation and representing youth, is usually experienced earlier than saturn, which has implications of decay, desiccation, and old age.

I have defined all the above qualities of astrology not about planets (i.e., "bases") as ones that are about position. This astrology has more than twice the number of bases than DNA. And because its positions per individual, as well as over generations, are in continual flux while those of DNA are primarily fixed, it has many more positions than does DNA. Position in astrology is not just linear--it is multidimensional.

A code comprised of so many fundamentals with so much possible variation promises tremendous diversity. It suggests dimensions unimaginable even with DNA. It delivers the “unimaginable”: the specifications for a human life--consisting of mind, feelings, and body--an individual among an extremely wide variety of individuals existing through time and space.

Sound absurd? That may be, but how can it be more absurd than the already established reality that is genetics?

If, then, it is true astrology constitutes a code, that is, a set of specifications for making people in all their diversity, astrology’s code is rich enough to pull it off.

If, then, it is true astrology constitutes a code for making people consciousness with its accompanying material manifestations, astrology belongs not on the periphery, but in the hub of the human sciences.

Because if astrology constitutes a true code, then it behaves lawfully. If it behaves lawfully, then it is subject to the scrutiny, methods, formulations, and re-formulation of science.

There are indications in ancient literature that astrology was once far more in ascendance than it is now. Understandably, many people today think its present debased status apt outcome for an out-dated superstition. Astrology, they believe, died because it was based on the barbaric belief that the stars and planets influence human destiny.

On the other hand, perhaps astrology had to be suppressed, speaking teleologically, because it answered too many questions. It helped people see what could happen but not what they could do about it. By doing that, it sponsored too many vices--especially the vice of fatality. More importantly, by answering too many questions, it impeded development of Western rationality and the sciences it fostered.

Before it was suppressed (or died, depending on your point of view), astrology answered questions relevant to the world view that existed then. It has better answers--and different questions!--for the world view that exists now.

Astrology can still sponsor many vices. A chart is, after all, a map of the individual’s consciousness, deep and superficial--even his potential for higher consciousness. Man’s two levels of consciousness, waking and sub-, sponsor so much of his life. Consciousness looking at itself is often tricky. Consciousness looking at its potential trajectory can get down-right scary. So, astrology is not for every one. It is not even for most people. It does have a unique quality that could benefit everybody.

The useful part of astrology is it can answer questions that only modern science can raise. It can take us deeper into mind/body and environment/heredity questions than any other science. It can identify current and even potential physical, mental, and behavioral problems. It identifies excesses of consciousness which lead to disastrous behaviors and illnesses. All of these yield consistent and quantifiable information. In doing so they place astrology firmly in the category of a diagnostic aid. Astrology also has unprecedented potential as a learning aid: I can better understand another’s experience if ever in my life I have approached that form of consciousness. If it is a painful experience, and in all my life I only experienced something half that bad (indicated by its astrology), then I have some idea how bad it is for the other fellow. The same is true of being conned. Gambling. Asocial behavior. Being blindly in love. And so on. These are all astrologically sponsored experiences.

Unlike most other sciences, astrology is unique in that it can also give us information about timing and duration of many conditions. It can help us better see whether any particular treatment, diet, or practice helped the patient, or did he “heal himself?” Can any one get the help he needs, or are certain astrological conditions necessary? Astrology can illuminate the question of whether or not persistent, concerted effort to change our mind set (or our level of consciousness) changed our condition. Finally, in order to grasp what we actually accomplish with consciousness, we need an accurate map of each individual's skew on it. If we don't know where he started from, how can we tell how far he has come? What has he created--willed--and what has he simply fulfilled? More than any other science, astrology gives us that map. Without it, the other sciences--which have made tremendous gains in the study of consciousness in the past fifty years--are still working out of the black box of “primordial substance” called consciousness. By the time consciousness expresses through us as living beings on this planet it is not primordial. It is highly defined.

Papers listed below show some of the areas astrological information separates the wheat from the chaff diagnostically. As stated above, the method used here is not the traditional Western (or even Eastern, for that matter) one. For the best explanation of it, read the paper titled "About This Method" with a link at the bottom of this page. This method appears more complex than others. Actually, because of its consistency, in ways it is simpler.

Early emphasis has been on the medical and psychological. I hope to add papers on all kinds of subjects, including some less serious ones. Some possibilities: what makes some one want to become a writer? Was Freud’s focus on sex and the death wish subjective or objective? That is, did he just pluck such an interest out of the air or was he predisposed to it? If the latter is true, then did that affect the objectivity of his observations? And, a comparison of the charts of Hitler and Stalin. I can show not only should they have been taken seriously, but why Stalin’s tyranny outlasted Hitler’s by so many years.

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Information necessary to cast a chart is: (1) date of birth, (2) time of birth (from birth certificate), (3) location of birth (town, county if the state contains two towns of the same name, state, country). In addition, (4) date of diagnosis is helpful but not the diagnosis itself in confirming conditions. I usually ask for two or three incidents--like auto accidents, surgery, marriage, birth of children--to confirm that the time given on the birth certificate is correct and not approximate.

For more information, e-mail the author at sleeweidner@yahoo.com

PAPERS
In Various Stages of Completion:
The Composite Physician--Highlights of 30 Physicians
Playing the Harmonics--What Do They Measure?
A Glossary of Terms and Symbols
Alan Turing: Genius, Homosexual, Enigma, Suicide.
The Astrology of Male Homosexuality--Fifty Individuals, Part I