There's alot more going on beneath the surface of the world we experience through our five senses.
It's well-known the commonly-accepted senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell interpret only a minute fraction of the vibrational activity in which we're swimming. Yet, mankind continually blinds himself to what lays beyond the range in which we're equipped to perceive through disregard.
Granted, some have sought out to explore the realms most humans have been denied access to through the limited scope of their senses. On one side of these adventurers are the scientists, probing nature with the scientific method in attempts to deduce the principles by which it operates. On the other side, are those who've methods of discovery have been less-formalized and unconventional, operating outside the domains of society's mainstream institutions - often known as the occult or esoteric.
Astrology is such a domain.
Sure, it has obtained a notable degree of interest and acceptance amongst many a common man. However, the understanding most have of this timeless body of wisdom is indeed quite limited.
Some have written off astrology as psuedoscience or quackery, laughing at the suggestion the planets influence life here on earth. Granted, some of it may be quackery - just as there are branches of knowledge which get misunderstood and communicated inaccurately - common sun sign horoscopes in tabloid papers being one example. Yet, astrology is both a science and art with incredibly complex depth. That it is often misunderstood is no surprise, as it is a field of knowledge requiring intense immersive study in to really begin grasping the wealth of wisdom within.
So why astrology?
First off, it might not be for everyone. Not everyone has the desire to delve deep into learning about the nature of psychology and life's hidden mysteries. So I'm not about to suggest that it is something everyone would be wise to pursue.
Though for those interested in uncovering the dynamics at root of the human mind & soul, astrology provides an unparalleled map to navigating an entirely different domain of forces beyond the five senses which exert extraordinary influence in the state and evolution of our consciousness and paths through life.
Astrology is a form of alchemy.
The foundational science at its root: mathematics.
Planets, exerting distinct forces, vibrationally distinct.
Transits & aspects, the culmination of the vibrational waves colliding at precise angles.
How exactly we come to be at the effect of these dynamics of planetary physics, those are entirely other questions that'd taken quite some years to probe the answers. But regardless of the how or why, the matter of the fact is there are mechanics in motion at the universal level, from which we cannot separate ourselves.
Somehow, the moment in the dimension of time these physical bodies enter this realm imprints our genetic code with a program - of which the precise positioning of planetary forces exerting their combined effects form a framework reflecting the interplay of conditions set into motion for that soul to experience during their life, as initiated with the first in-breath.
Think that's far fetched? Consider epigenetics.
Science is now finding that genetics are (re)programmed by environmental vibrational input.
Consider how the moon influences the ocean's tides. If the force its field exerts is strong enough to impact the movement of a body of water as huge and weavy as earth's entire oceans, it might not seem so far fetched that the same force might have some impact upon the human being - genetics, body, mind, soul.
Though, this piece isn't to delve into the scientific details. Thus, we carry on...
I don't remember exactly when or where my interest in astrology began. Perhaps it was reading those corny horoscopes in the newspaper. Though, it was an ex-girlfriend that led my awareness deeper into the subject. And, my wife who continued to expand my mind with her stunningly potent insight into the language of the stars.
Recently, I've been going deeper. And the deeper one goes, the more there is to discover and fascinate.
Prior to my curiosity getting sparked for astrology, I had ventured into numerology. A pivotal moment that led me to changing my name, a friend's numerological reading left me in awe with how accurately he was able to put into words aspects of myself I had always felt, but never been able to articulate.
Astrology is much the same.
Human beings are complex creatures. Sometimes, it doesn't seem to make much sense why we do the things we do, how the conflicts of opposing forces within us drive us to think and feel the ways we do, and why the world is the way it is, seemingly chaotic, irrational, and illogical. We tend to be pushed and pulled in erratic directions, subject to motivations, inclinations, and behaviors unexplainable and unidentifiable - often struggling for control of life, while continually being humbled as our delusions give way to an increasing realization there are universal forces in motion we'll never be able to overpower with our desire or will.
And yet, once beginning to venture into the domain of astrology, things start making sense.
Nature operates on law.
Within the systems driving this universe's unfoldment, are orderly principles.
Some of these laws and principles, man has observed and translated into the languages of physics, mathematics, chemistry, etc. Others have yet to be formally translated to fit the context of institutional science's current models - some falling into the "metaphysical" category. Nonetheless, man's incomplete understanding of subjects does not negate the validity of their Truths. Law is law - timeless - always in effect, governing the transmutation of energies through their various forms.
And within these sets of laws, can be found cycles and patterns.
Life only seems chaotic and confusing when one is unaware of the cycles, blind to the patterns playing out. Things may appear random or intimidating. Yet it is only because one does not recognize the factors at play - where in the development of a situation a limited number of defined elements are expressing themselves in relationship to others in a limited set of predictably, orderly conditions.
Learning the language of astrology - familiarizing oneself with the elements, the structure governing the cycles of their movement, and principles defining the processes of their interactions with one another - is comparable to seeing through the coding of the matrix. There is no longer confusion as to why things are the way they are - only observation of the dynamics playing out precisely as they're programmed to.
We can see why we have experienced certain challenges throughout our lives.
We can see why we've excelled in some areas and struggled in others.
We can see how certain forces have shaped the way we see, think, and feel, for better or for worse.
And with these newfound understandings, there is a growing sense of peace, confidence, and wonder - as awareness expands to shed light on the common threads weaving the patterns forming the canvas of our lives.
We are no longer separate from nature, struggling to find our way within it - but are an expression of it, our lives unfolding in accordance to universal law as it works through us. Perfectly.
The sense of struggle is reveled as an effect of our ignorance of the laws, patterns, and cycles playing themselves out. The chaos, a product of not having understood our blueprint - of trying to be someone we're not, denying who we are, living our lives according to false beliefs incongruent with what the universe imprinted our soul's genetic code to experience this round.
And/or... those struggles were programmed in for us to go through. For reasons that may become clear only once we submerse ourselves into the depths of these system dynamics to unveil the archetypal patterns we've been encoded to play out.
This is just scratching the surface as an overview.
I'm not about to get into teaching much astrology itself. Herein is more just a perspective on it.
And to keep this digestible, this shall be the completion of the first part of this series.