Well, I'm back

[Eric the Green]

Astrology is not a religion, but an older-style science and art, and has little political stance if any, but might be useful for its insight into cycles and human character and psychology, being the most venerable such source. But it does go against conventional mechanistic explanations--- astrology being essentially based on metaphysics more than physics, and it has a bad reputation among many scientifically inclined people, who often can't see beyond mechanical causation and thus assume that astrology claims that planets and stars are causing events to happen, as if they were gods. As events move in cycles, perhaps the planetary tides gell with other cycles that are noticed by observers and scholars, such as the link between Uranus' 84-year cycle of revolution with the saeculum of modern times, especially considering Uranus' link to the USA, by traits and by timing.

Astrology is wonderful at showing the synthesis of historical events crossing diverse fields. And the times when planets have been discovered are very interesting. Apparently when a planet is discovered, it's nature and field of influence comes into human consciousness and society much more fully. That was especially true of the first one, Uranus in 1781. That was the year that the USA won its independence. The French Revolution followed. Many discoveries in electricity were made. Kant published the first "transcendental" philosophy in 1781. Uranium was discovered and named after the new planet. The invisible light spectrum was discovered, at the same time as the first invisible planet was discovered. Astrologers have noticed quite easily that Uranus in its cycles, aspects and horoscopes continues to correspond to revolutionary events and attitudes and to electricity and inventions and eccentric behavior.