Times have changed! How do astrologers think today? Not a lot differently than they have always thought. But they might be much better understood. Find out more ....
Russians believe of their country as Aquarius ruled, according to Johnson's "Russia List". Johnson's List is really a daily e-mail newsletter with facts and analysis about modern Russia from a wide range of sources. Maybe this is why they are so open to astrology. Aquarius is also the ruling sign for astrologers.
I was reading about some predictions Russian astrologers have been creating to your year 2002 in an article written at that time by Kevin O'Flynn for Johnson's "Russia List" entitled "Stars Are not Smiling Down on 2002".
O'Flynn, who quotes Russian astrologers like Yury Longo, Sergei Bezborodny and Alexander Zarayev, doesn't appear to put significantly store in astrological predictions himself but he notes that "even many modern and former Russian and U.S. leaders and their wives have shown an interest in astrological predictions". I don't know what Russian leaders he's referring to but it's concept that President and Mrs. Reagan consulted astrologers like Sydney Omar, Jeanne Dixon and Joan Quigley.
The comment that caught my attention inside the article, however, was this:
"Perhaps one of the most pessimistic with the astrologers creating the rounds from the Russian media was Alexander Zarayev. He predicted in "Argumenty i Fakty" that Russia would see a bumpy ride among February 28 and March 12 and an even worse time after July 27, with issues inside the Middle East and other hot spots. It will be similar towards [ruble] default in 1998," said Zarayev, who, like numerous astrologers, was short on information [emphasis mine].
Many writers who cover astrology interviews and predictions do not understand or like astrology and cover it with thinly veiled ridicule.
There is a reason astrologers are "short on details" and that's what I want to explain in this article. It has to try and do in the way our predictions are created and also the way we think.
Astrologers do not associate events by result in and effect. They associate them by analogy, much as poets do.
There are two reasons they use analogy. First, we are trying to explain things which are difficult to put into words, like poets. The poet says,"my love is being a red, red rose" because it is hard to put into words what an intangible thing, feeling or experience like love is without having comparing it to some thing tangible, of rare beauty and ecstatic fragrance, like, for example, a rose.
Secondly, we are arriving at our conclusions by connecting dots which are invisible for the untrained eye but which exist in our formulas and calculations and lead us to our conclusions without having physical evidence. This really is why backing up some of our statements is difficult. We know a couple of items are associated via time and space but we ourselves aren't exactly specific what they will glimpse like on a manifest earth plane. That is why the Russian astrologer said, "It will probably be similar to the [ruble] default in 1998."
If I may possibly qualify Zarayev's statement, which he himself was not allowed to do in this once-removed report of his prediction, I would suggest that the events he describes are "similar" in gravity and scope, but also maybe in "tone" and "texture" towards the ruble default.
Here's an illustration from something you are able to be much more familiar with. I could say that 911 was similar for the Very good Fire of London in 1666 and towards Galveston Flood in 1900 (the deadliest natural disaster how the United States has ever experienced) or the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 in scope because they are all catastrophic events of virtually unimaginable proportions. But 911 is a lot more similar in tone on the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and also the Viking raid on the Lindisfarne Monastery in Good Britain in 793 simply because while these events had been catastrophic disasters they were also surprise attacks by foreign enemies on home soil.
Here's an instance of how this kind of reasoning is carried out in event forecasting. Suppose I see that Saturn is going to pass over your Moon inside your fourth house. Astrology is really a language. It is a way of describing energy. Now we try to come up with some events which are probable, given what we know about this energy. In some cases, we consume the nature in the individual we're reading for into account -- he could possibly be an 80 year old man or she might be a 26 year old girl -- and also what we know of their character and life events from info we request just before time.
Here are some of the images which are suggested by this combination of energy, Saturn + Moon + 4th house:
-- somebody goes on an archaeology dig
-- someone's parent becomes incredibly ill
-- an individual breaks their leg and is laid up in the house for awhile, on the ground floor for convenience
-- someone gets some extended lost data about their ancestors for their genealogy project
-- somebody gets locked down during the basement by mistake or on purpose
-- somebody becomes a grandparent for your first time
-- an individual contacts the cemetery to learn about burial plots
-- someone is digging in their backyard (in Chicago!) and finds a dinosaur bone
-- a really old tree falls on someone's house
As a matter of fact, should you can "connect the dots" and have a think for what it's these products and solutions could have in common, you will be in line being a excellent astrologer.
I'll assist you.
Saturn = something or someone extremely old, buried, long forgotten
Moon = lengthy ago and far away, infantile, motherish
4th household = ancestors, deeply hidden, emotionally meaningful
We use intuitive considering to interpret info revealed by the numbers in our astrological calculations. You will also compare this towards the way a doctor reads an x-ray. The x-ray shows a picture of anything but it very doesn't mean some thing until an individual who is trained to interpret x-ray pictures looks at it and tells you.
When I try to support my astrology students develop their intuition, we do "drills" like this. I ask, "If you have been a flower, what type would you be?" Then I ask, "If that individual more than there were a flower, what sort would s/he be?" Or a color. Or a piece of music. Or a physique of water. My students get irritated with this sometimes, but it is like practicing scales (etudes) over a piano It is building correct brain or intuitive skills.
As we've shown, when astrologer Zarayev says "similar on the ruble default in 1998", he is creating an analogy - "this" -- one thing identified -- is like "that" -- something as yet unknown -- based on 3 dimensional dot-to-dot, using geometric proportions plus a nonlinear considering similar to physics and even music, which can look vague.
Many persons consider that astrology is like being psychic or prophetic. Like a matter of fact, astrology is additional like physics or music and not at all like intuitive and psychic ability, while astrologers can use each these skills to increase the facts they give you from their calculations. However, astrologers study intensely from 3 to five years to learn their skills and most would be insulted if you described them as being a psychic or intuitive! Quite a few astrologers are between the brightest persons on earth. (Not necessasrily so with psychics or intuitives.)
Astrology is really a branch of meta-physics. Physics explores the creation in the universe using the left brain. Meta-physics explores the creation in the universe while using proper brain.
Physicists use numbers and formulae inside a quantitative language. Astrologers use astrological symbols and formulae in a qualitative language. Musicians use notes and formulae in what's usually considered the most universal of all languages.
While shoppers may possibly believe that astrologers do absolutely nothing but predictions about people's lives, waiting patiently by their phone for the go-ahead on the chart (!), most astrologers are fascinated with the inner workings of the universe, like physicists, and spend hours producing independent research, honing their skills on projects of their personal that interest them. Ask your well-liked astrologer what s/he's researching at the moment and be able for a surprise!.
What am I studying correct now? The effect of Pluto transits through Sagittarius on a Arab world, the history from the Middle Ages, music theory, and advanced horary astrology.
Reading for buyers always permits us for getting the time for these other pursuits -- we do love our clients! -- that are normally not lucrative in and of themselves. Astrologers compare notes between themselves concerning their discoveries and supply findings in professional journals, at meetings and casually in between buddies with shared interests -- for instance other professionals.
Let's explore extra the way astrologers think. As we discussed, astrology is really a branch of metaphysics. Metaphysicians explore the creation from the universe with the appropriate brain and something known as "vertical" thinking. Here's the difference in between horizontal and vertical thinking.
Horizontal thinking uses the thought of lead to and effect and relies over a linear relationship among events in time and space, i.e., very first this happened and then this happened being a result. The ineffective conclusion of World War I caused Globe War II.
Here's a day-to-day example. I'm drinking this diet coke mainly because I am thirsty. (I got thirsty and that caused me to drink the diet coke.) Or I'm drinking this diet coke since my grandmother introduced me to them on hot afternoons in Texas once I was a kid. Therefore, I usually drink cokes after it's hot. You see, hot weather causes me to drink diet coke.
Vertical thinking is different. It associates events by a meaningful relationship that's sometimes subjective (the meaning is from the simple fact on the beholder) and sometimes by a system which describes invisible but not imaginary patterns and relationships such as music or astrology.
For example, it may also be that the reason I'm drinking this diet coke today is due to the fact some thing triggers me subconsciously to achieve for a single every time I run my tongue over the roof of my mouth in a particular way I've been making due to the fact childhood. This subconscious conditioning is own and subjective but rubbing my tongue over the roof of my mouth does not "cause" me to drink diet cokes.
Or I may well do this simply because it's 3:20 pm and that may be after I employed to wake up from my polio-prevention nap as being a kid and be handed a cold diet coke by my grandmother on a method to the swimming pool.
Something "reminds me" close to 3:20 every afternoon that it is time to "reach for your diet coke". That is certainly very own and subjective and an association how the subconscious mind is producing but childhood naps did not "cause" me to drink this diet coke.
Naturally after trying to find vertical connections, we roam backwards and forwards in time. Genuinely in astrology, the childhood diet cokes and also the adult diet cokes would be siblings. The parent is a thing else totally and that a thing is the mother lode.
There is a third element in vertical considering and that is certainly an invisible but discernible quality to a certain time that attracts events to it by appropriateness.
Before I go too significantly further with this, here's a day-to-day instance on the "quality" of a time. Each morning upon first awakening, I go for a five mile walk. It is typically a fun and peaceful way to begin the day. 2 days ago, a dog harassed me for numerous minutes once I checked my mailbox on the way home. A car virtually ran me over. Then the bottom fell out of the bag of garbage I took towards the trash.
At that point, I replanned my day, figuring it was going to become the sort of energy exactly where I must do as smaller as possible outside the house. The "quality" on the time was not good. I didn't must verify my ephemeris to know this (!) but maybe there have been some damaging aspects towards the Moon for many hours that day.
Had I looked ahead, I may perhaps have recognized this but I don't rely a lot on astrology for day to day matters, whilst that can surprise you. This can be mainly because I consider that we have to develop ourselves on the issue that we can roll on the motion on the inner planets so that you can be powerful adults. Inner planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars dictate day-to-day matters and changes that come on a period of say, several weeks.) Simple maturity dictates that we turn into in a position in handling our daily affairs. We now have had every inner planet circle our charts several times if we are over thirty and must be employed to their energy by now.
In times of crisis and transformation, or confusion and discouragement, I discover my own chart intensely and usually seek support from other astrologers and healers as well. These times are ruled by the outer planets Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Some of these planets will only visit a few houses of our charts during our entire lives and we are unfamiliar with them to a degree which could wreak havoc with our well planned lives. All of us have parts of ourselves we do not know.
Important to note, however, returning to my morning that got off to a negative begin ... the dog did not bring about the "cause" the car to virtually hit me. The careless driver didn't "cause" the garbage bag to break. They were all issues of the specific nature that clustered together at one time and place. They were siblings, the parent of which might be of interest to an astrologer.
The Greeks had two words for time: chronos and kairos. Chronos refers to chronological time, the kind employed for lead to and effect reasoning. Kairos refers to a high quality of time becoming this kind of that all events that come at that time are similar in some way.
When I give my classes, which are commonly little mainly because they're geared toward gifted infp healers who represent only 1% in the population, I like to ask us to contemplate the quality on the time that would draw exactly these 5 or 10 people together out in the billions of people over a earth.
This is happening randomly throughout your day as well. Why did you wind up at the grocery store in line with those people specific people? Why did your name occur up for an IRS audit at this time? Why did you cross the intersection just in time to have hit by that car?
These are rhetorical queries but they're definitely incredibly exciting to an astrologer who will understand this kind of points intently. For example, it may surprise you to know that after we look at the charts of a policeman including a criminal, they're really similar -- definitely far more alike than the charts of policeman including a pianist. The exact same applies to victims and perpetrators of accidents, rapes, surgeries, etc. Slowly a pattern reveals itself.
It could be the kairos time within your astrology chart that may be analyzed for data about your character which will determine your fate or what amounts to fate. "Character is fate." An very good book on this topic is "The Challenge of Fate" by Thorwald Dethlefsen, an quite influential German metaphysician whose books aren't usually accessible in English translation.
Another phrase we use is this. "Your life is your birth writ large." The moment of one's birth contains the energy that you will smear, so to speak, or spread across 60 to 90 years of time on the planet. Its flavor will trickle down over and through everything you do, doing ribbons of texture and pattern, producing everything you do similar or familiar in some secret, subtle way. If only you had eyes to see. It is easier to discern this in somebody besides yourself.
Russians believe of their country as Aquarius ruled, according to Johnson's "Russia List". Johnson's List is really a daily e-mail newsletter with facts and analysis about modern Russia from a wide range of sources. Maybe this is why they are so open to astrology. Aquarius is also the ruling sign for astrologers.
I was reading about some predictions Russian astrologers have been creating to your year 2002 in an article written at that time by Kevin O'Flynn for Johnson's "Russia List" entitled "Stars Are not Smiling Down on 2002".
O'Flynn, who quotes Russian astrologers like Yury Longo, Sergei Bezborodny and Alexander Zarayev, doesn't appear to put significantly store in astrological predictions himself but he notes that "even many modern and former Russian and U.S. leaders and their wives have shown an interest in astrological predictions". I don't know what Russian leaders he's referring to but it's concept that President and Mrs. Reagan consulted astrologers like Sydney Omar, Jeanne Dixon and Joan Quigley.
The comment that caught my attention inside the article, however, was this:
"Perhaps one of the most pessimistic with the astrologers creating the rounds from the Russian media was Alexander Zarayev. He predicted in "Argumenty i Fakty" that Russia would see a bumpy ride among February 28 and March 12 and an even worse time after July 27, with issues inside the Middle East and other hot spots. It will be similar towards [ruble] default in 1998," said Zarayev, who, like numerous astrologers, was short on information [emphasis mine].
Many writers who cover astrology interviews and predictions do not understand or like astrology and cover it with thinly veiled ridicule.
There is a reason astrologers are "short on details" and that's what I want to explain in this article. It has to try and do in the way our predictions are created and also the way we think.
Astrologers do not associate events by result in and effect. They associate them by analogy, much as poets do.
There are two reasons they use analogy. First, we are trying to explain things which are difficult to put into words, like poets. The poet says,"my love is being a red, red rose" because it is hard to put into words what an intangible thing, feeling or experience like love is without having comparing it to some thing tangible, of rare beauty and ecstatic fragrance, like, for example, a rose.
Secondly, we are arriving at our conclusions by connecting dots which are invisible for the untrained eye but which exist in our formulas and calculations and lead us to our conclusions without having physical evidence. This really is why backing up some of our statements is difficult. We know a couple of items are associated via time and space but we ourselves aren't exactly specific what they will glimpse like on a manifest earth plane. That is why the Russian astrologer said, "It will probably be similar to the [ruble] default in 1998."
If I may possibly qualify Zarayev's statement, which he himself was not allowed to do in this once-removed report of his prediction, I would suggest that the events he describes are "similar" in gravity and scope, but also maybe in "tone" and "texture" towards the ruble default.
Here's an illustration from something you are able to be much more familiar with. I could say that 911 was similar for the Very good Fire of London in 1666 and towards Galveston Flood in 1900 (the deadliest natural disaster how the United States has ever experienced) or the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 in scope because they are all catastrophic events of virtually unimaginable proportions. But 911 is a lot more similar in tone on the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and also the Viking raid on the Lindisfarne Monastery in Good Britain in 793 simply because while these events had been catastrophic disasters they were also surprise attacks by foreign enemies on home soil.
Here's an instance of how this kind of reasoning is carried out in event forecasting. Suppose I see that Saturn is going to pass over your Moon inside your fourth house. Astrology is really a language. It is a way of describing energy. Now we try to come up with some events which are probable, given what we know about this energy. In some cases, we consume the nature in the individual we're reading for into account -- he could possibly be an 80 year old man or she might be a 26 year old girl -- and also what we know of their character and life events from info we request just before time.
Here are some of the images which are suggested by this combination of energy, Saturn + Moon + 4th house:
-- somebody goes on an archaeology dig
-- someone's parent becomes incredibly ill
-- an individual breaks their leg and is laid up in the house for awhile, on the ground floor for convenience
-- someone gets some extended lost data about their ancestors for their genealogy project
-- somebody gets locked down during the basement by mistake or on purpose
-- somebody becomes a grandparent for your first time
-- an individual contacts the cemetery to learn about burial plots
-- someone is digging in their backyard (in Chicago!) and finds a dinosaur bone
-- a really old tree falls on someone's house
As a matter of fact, should you can "connect the dots" and have a think for what it's these products and solutions could have in common, you will be in line being a excellent astrologer.
I'll assist you.
Saturn = something or someone extremely old, buried, long forgotten
Moon = lengthy ago and far away, infantile, motherish
4th household = ancestors, deeply hidden, emotionally meaningful
We use intuitive considering to interpret info revealed by the numbers in our astrological calculations. You will also compare this towards the way a doctor reads an x-ray. The x-ray shows a picture of anything but it very doesn't mean some thing until an individual who is trained to interpret x-ray pictures looks at it and tells you.
When I try to support my astrology students develop their intuition, we do "drills" like this. I ask, "If you have been a flower, what type would you be?" Then I ask, "If that individual more than there were a flower, what sort would s/he be?" Or a color. Or a piece of music. Or a physique of water. My students get irritated with this sometimes, but it is like practicing scales (etudes) over a piano It is building correct brain or intuitive skills.
As we've shown, when astrologer Zarayev says "similar on the ruble default in 1998", he is creating an analogy - "this" -- one thing identified -- is like "that" -- something as yet unknown -- based on 3 dimensional dot-to-dot, using geometric proportions plus a nonlinear considering similar to physics and even music, which can look vague.
Many persons consider that astrology is like being psychic or prophetic. Like a matter of fact, astrology is additional like physics or music and not at all like intuitive and psychic ability, while astrologers can use each these skills to increase the facts they give you from their calculations. However, astrologers study intensely from 3 to five years to learn their skills and most would be insulted if you described them as being a psychic or intuitive! Quite a few astrologers are between the brightest persons on earth. (Not necessasrily so with psychics or intuitives.)
Astrology is really a branch of meta-physics. Physics explores the creation in the universe using the left brain. Meta-physics explores the creation in the universe while using proper brain.
Physicists use numbers and formulae inside a quantitative language. Astrologers use astrological symbols and formulae in a qualitative language. Musicians use notes and formulae in what's usually considered the most universal of all languages.
While shoppers may possibly believe that astrologers do absolutely nothing but predictions about people's lives, waiting patiently by their phone for the go-ahead on the chart (!), most astrologers are fascinated with the inner workings of the universe, like physicists, and spend hours producing independent research, honing their skills on projects of their personal that interest them. Ask your well-liked astrologer what s/he's researching at the moment and be able for a surprise!.
What am I studying correct now? The effect of Pluto transits through Sagittarius on a Arab world, the history from the Middle Ages, music theory, and advanced horary astrology.
Reading for buyers always permits us for getting the time for these other pursuits -- we do love our clients! -- that are normally not lucrative in and of themselves. Astrologers compare notes between themselves concerning their discoveries and supply findings in professional journals, at meetings and casually in between buddies with shared interests -- for instance other professionals.
Let's explore extra the way astrologers think. As we discussed, astrology is really a branch of metaphysics. Metaphysicians explore the creation from the universe with the appropriate brain and something known as "vertical" thinking. Here's the difference in between horizontal and vertical thinking.
Horizontal thinking uses the thought of lead to and effect and relies over a linear relationship among events in time and space, i.e., very first this happened and then this happened being a result. The ineffective conclusion of World War I caused Globe War II.
Here's a day-to-day example. I'm drinking this diet coke mainly because I am thirsty. (I got thirsty and that caused me to drink the diet coke.) Or I'm drinking this diet coke since my grandmother introduced me to them on hot afternoons in Texas once I was a kid. Therefore, I usually drink cokes after it's hot. You see, hot weather causes me to drink diet coke.
Vertical thinking is different. It associates events by a meaningful relationship that's sometimes subjective (the meaning is from the simple fact on the beholder) and sometimes by a system which describes invisible but not imaginary patterns and relationships such as music or astrology.
For example, it may also be that the reason I'm drinking this diet coke today is due to the fact some thing triggers me subconsciously to achieve for a single every time I run my tongue over the roof of my mouth in a particular way I've been making due to the fact childhood. This subconscious conditioning is own and subjective but rubbing my tongue over the roof of my mouth does not "cause" me to drink diet cokes.
Or I may well do this simply because it's 3:20 pm and that may be after I employed to wake up from my polio-prevention nap as being a kid and be handed a cold diet coke by my grandmother on a method to the swimming pool.
Something "reminds me" close to 3:20 every afternoon that it is time to "reach for your diet coke". That is certainly very own and subjective and an association how the subconscious mind is producing but childhood naps did not "cause" me to drink this diet coke.
Naturally after trying to find vertical connections, we roam backwards and forwards in time. Genuinely in astrology, the childhood diet cokes and also the adult diet cokes would be siblings. The parent is a thing else totally and that a thing is the mother lode.
There is a third element in vertical considering and that is certainly an invisible but discernible quality to a certain time that attracts events to it by appropriateness.
Before I go too significantly further with this, here's a day-to-day instance on the "quality" of a time. Each morning upon first awakening, I go for a five mile walk. It is typically a fun and peaceful way to begin the day. 2 days ago, a dog harassed me for numerous minutes once I checked my mailbox on the way home. A car virtually ran me over. Then the bottom fell out of the bag of garbage I took towards the trash.
At that point, I replanned my day, figuring it was going to become the sort of energy exactly where I must do as smaller as possible outside the house. The "quality" on the time was not good. I didn't must verify my ephemeris to know this (!) but maybe there have been some damaging aspects towards the Moon for many hours that day.
Had I looked ahead, I may perhaps have recognized this but I don't rely a lot on astrology for day to day matters, whilst that can surprise you. This can be mainly because I consider that we have to develop ourselves on the issue that we can roll on the motion on the inner planets so that you can be powerful adults. Inner planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars dictate day-to-day matters and changes that come on a period of say, several weeks.) Simple maturity dictates that we turn into in a position in handling our daily affairs. We now have had every inner planet circle our charts several times if we are over thirty and must be employed to their energy by now.
In times of crisis and transformation, or confusion and discouragement, I discover my own chart intensely and usually seek support from other astrologers and healers as well. These times are ruled by the outer planets Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Some of these planets will only visit a few houses of our charts during our entire lives and we are unfamiliar with them to a degree which could wreak havoc with our well planned lives. All of us have parts of ourselves we do not know.
Important to note, however, returning to my morning that got off to a negative begin ... the dog did not bring about the "cause" the car to virtually hit me. The careless driver didn't "cause" the garbage bag to break. They were all issues of the specific nature that clustered together at one time and place. They were siblings, the parent of which might be of interest to an astrologer.
The Greeks had two words for time: chronos and kairos. Chronos refers to chronological time, the kind employed for lead to and effect reasoning. Kairos refers to a high quality of time becoming this kind of that all events that come at that time are similar in some way.
When I give my classes, which are commonly little mainly because they're geared toward gifted infp healers who represent only 1% in the population, I like to ask us to contemplate the quality on the time that would draw exactly these 5 or 10 people together out in the billions of people over a earth.
This is happening randomly throughout your day as well. Why did you wind up at the grocery store in line with those people specific people? Why did your name occur up for an IRS audit at this time? Why did you cross the intersection just in time to have hit by that car?
These are rhetorical queries but they're definitely incredibly exciting to an astrologer who will understand this kind of points intently. For example, it may surprise you to know that after we look at the charts of a policeman including a criminal, they're really similar -- definitely far more alike than the charts of policeman including a pianist. The exact same applies to victims and perpetrators of accidents, rapes, surgeries, etc. Slowly a pattern reveals itself.
It could be the kairos time within your astrology chart that may be analyzed for data about your character which will determine your fate or what amounts to fate. "Character is fate." An very good book on this topic is "The Challenge of Fate" by Thorwald Dethlefsen, an quite influential German metaphysician whose books aren't usually accessible in English translation.
Another phrase we use is this. "Your life is your birth writ large." The moment of one's birth contains the energy that you will smear, so to speak, or spread across 60 to 90 years of time on the planet. Its flavor will trickle down over and through everything you do, doing ribbons of texture and pattern, producing everything you do similar or familiar in some secret, subtle way. If only you had eyes to see. It is easier to discern this in somebody besides yourself.
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