01-03-2022, 04:14 PM
Astrology does not get academic respect. Obviously the trashy predictions in mass-circulation media are garbage unworthy of attention. "This might be a good day to plan that long-needed, life-expanding
If astrology has any validity it is as a timing mechanism. We all know about the daily cycle related to the Earth spinning on its axis with comparatively-cold nights and warm days and the annual cycle of the seasons. Where I live in a Dfa climate summers are tropical and winters are polar., and the plant growth and agriculture fit it well. Winter blizzards shield the soil moisture that seedlings will need in the spring, with snowmelt giving copious water to thirsty plants as temperatures rise. The revolution of the moon around the Earth creates the tides which may have created the tidal zones in which the widest variety of life evolved. Tides may have made evolution possible, and large tides are impossible without the moon. I have no idea of what cycles I would associate with Mercury, Venus, or Mars orbits, but Jupiter spends roughly one year per zodiac constellation (well, technically the "right leg" of Ophiuchus does wade into the zodiac, the ecliptic passes close enough to corners of Cetus and Orion that the southern part of the sun can be in Cetus or Orion. The Chinese zodiac fits one year of Jupiter to each constellation of the Chinese zodiac.
The Jupiter orbit corresponds with the numeric grades of K-12 education in the USA. Three orbits of Saturn (29.46 X 3 = 88.38 years) or one of Uranus (roughly 84 years), or half the 164.8-year orbit of Neptune is roughly a long human life. One orbit of Saturn is enough for starting a fully-professional career as a physician or attorney after birth, and it is safe to say that most physicians and attorneys had very carefully-guided childhoods. It's all coincidence, it would seem.
Cycles are important in business. I remember seeing a graph that recognized 19-year cycles of prosperity, crashes, depressions, and recoveries from 1969 that had nadirs in 1932, 1951, and 1969 (fairly accurate) with forthcoming nadirs in 1987 and 2008. One of the biggest one-day falls in the valuation of stocks was experienced in 1987 for reasons that nobody fully understands. The market crashes of 1930 (the real crash was in 1930) and 2008 are 78 years apart in two different starts of a Crisis Era.
If astrology has any validity it is as a timing mechanism. We all know about the daily cycle related to the Earth spinning on its axis with comparatively-cold nights and warm days and the annual cycle of the seasons. Where I live in a Dfa climate summers are tropical and winters are polar., and the plant growth and agriculture fit it well. Winter blizzards shield the soil moisture that seedlings will need in the spring, with snowmelt giving copious water to thirsty plants as temperatures rise. The revolution of the moon around the Earth creates the tides which may have created the tidal zones in which the widest variety of life evolved. Tides may have made evolution possible, and large tides are impossible without the moon. I have no idea of what cycles I would associate with Mercury, Venus, or Mars orbits, but Jupiter spends roughly one year per zodiac constellation (well, technically the "right leg" of Ophiuchus does wade into the zodiac, the ecliptic passes close enough to corners of Cetus and Orion that the southern part of the sun can be in Cetus or Orion. The Chinese zodiac fits one year of Jupiter to each constellation of the Chinese zodiac.
The Jupiter orbit corresponds with the numeric grades of K-12 education in the USA. Three orbits of Saturn (29.46 X 3 = 88.38 years) or one of Uranus (roughly 84 years), or half the 164.8-year orbit of Neptune is roughly a long human life. One orbit of Saturn is enough for starting a fully-professional career as a physician or attorney after birth, and it is safe to say that most physicians and attorneys had very carefully-guided childhoods. It's all coincidence, it would seem.
Cycles are important in business. I remember seeing a graph that recognized 19-year cycles of prosperity, crashes, depressions, and recoveries from 1969 that had nadirs in 1932, 1951, and 1969 (fairly accurate) with forthcoming nadirs in 1987 and 2008. One of the biggest one-day falls in the valuation of stocks was experienced in 1987 for reasons that nobody fully understands. The market crashes of 1930 (the real crash was in 1930) and 2008 are 78 years apart in two different starts of a Crisis Era.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.