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"  Why is it that the most ancient of arts, discarded by the &amp;quot;new science&amp;quot; five hundred years ago, should return with even greater insistence to flourish in the space age when our universe is known to be only one of many, thousand upon thousand light years apart? It is because astrology holds the promise, points beyond itself to a greater and, as yet, unutterable order which can again reunite man with the cosmos. Each day astrology demonstrates that its significance is far greater than simply reading the stars. For it was astrology, even before philosophy, that sought to see the cosmos as a whole, governed by laws discernible to man. Beyond astrology lies a totally integrated science that includes human destiny as part of the glorious framework of the universe. Once astrology provided the basis for astronomy. Now astronomy is proving that the universe is as profound and complex in its effects as the ancient astrologer anticipated. The study of astrology was in much its present form as early as the fifteenth century and the Babylonians, three thousand years before Christ, made governmental decisions on the basis of the stars. Galileo used it in his research and even Freud and Jung have pointed to it as a basis for modern psychology. But how narrow are the limits of these words: astrology\u2014&amp;quot;study of the stars&amp;quot; and psychology\u2014&amp;quot;study of the soul.&amp;quot; Perhaps both words should be relegated to a word museum, curios of a past which have outlived their effectiveness. The valid signs and symbols of astrology are just beginning to unfold their truth in the sciences of astrophysics, spectrobiology, biophysics, biochemistry and spectrophysiology. Astrology is vastly limited by its insistence on a man-centered universe. In fact, the very practice of astrology declined markedly after the Copernican heliocentric plan of the universe was adopted. The earth was no longer at the center of the cosmos with sun, moon and stars dancing to the music of the spheres about it. Man could no longer see himself as the favored center of a system that revolved about himself alone. But today, again, each chart is conceived as if that individual were the first cause of the universe. This is the chief objection all serious astrologers bring to the use of the Sun sign only in describing the personality. A thoroughgoing horoscope will contain the influences of all the planets. Using only the Sun sign makes it very difficult, indeed, to make a horoscope complete for every reader. However there is always an emphasis in esoteric astrology on the spiritual nature of things, the correspondences in cosmic events that emphasize the significant paths for each sign and each character, which will point toward greatest spiritual awareness. This emphasis ignores the trivial and relates to the profound symbolic nature of the old astrology. However, esoteric astrology itself has moved beyond the use of symbolism. Astrology can be profaned, wrongly exploited, vastly misunderstood even by those who are associated with it, but in spite of distortions it still contains truths, however underdeveloped they may be. As we are all aware, our knowledge of the cosmos is in a constant state of involution and evolution. The forces the Assyrian and Hindu astrologers ascribed to the planets are much too overdrawn and primitive to suit our increased consciousness. And even more important, our knowledge of the workings of the universe is vastly expanded. It is not so much the discovery of new planets that has altered our views (Pluto, for example, takes two-hundred-eighty-four years to pass through the house of the Zodiac with mysterious influence) but rather that we have a heightened understanding of the effect the celestial bodies have on our own planet. Related: Get Your Free Leo Horoscope Today Because of the pervasive effect of the lunar phases, in Indian astrology the moon is accorded the central role, which we accord the sun. For a long while the study of the stars has been pointing toward a comprehensive principle which will subsume all human knowledge with reference to the vast and comprehensive structure of the universe. At the moment the most simple and yet significant point of view would seem to be spectrobiology, which studies the universe in the elementary terms of color, light and vibration. Spectrobiology, in its ongoing attempt to grasp how light generates life, has indicated the extraordinary importance of the length of light rays (that is, the colors of the spectrum) which strike and invade &amp;quot;inert&amp;quot; matter. We breathe in an ocean of electromagnetic waves; our physical bodies are electromagnetic bodies. In a simpleminded way this is what we&amp;#039;re getting at when we speak of solar energy, the very energy that activates the chlorophyll in plant leaves. And because the planets and our atmosphere refract the solar energy (both the sun&amp;#039;s rays and its magnetic field) we might well say the planets affect us through their color. an easy example is the planet Mars, which we see as red. Red is a color that stirs us. The planet has come to represent the many degrees of aggressiveness in man&amp;#039;s nature and has thus been accorded, through the ages, this influence. That formulation, however, is much too simple to gain any scientific credence. And, one might add, too vague to form the basis for scientific experiment. However, shortly, the basis for astrology in the larger sense we have been speaking of it will be proven in a laboratory. Instruments will be able to detect, analyze and determine what month a person was born, and more complexly, what combination and quality of cosmic forces gives that person and his body its individual composition, its compaction and equilibrium, its tensile force and vitality. Just as carbon is now dated in archeological research, there will be many types of laboratory proof of the effect of cosmic forces on animal, vegetable and mineral matter. In the molecular structure the atoms themselves will be found to have different patterns of electromagnetic vibration, different rates of vibration or intensity. All material being, even in its smallest component the atom, may be seen to possess consciousness. The very fact that the universe is expanding indicates that the atom has consciousness. These manifestations of energy, the light and radio waves that reach us from outerspace, were until recently the only means by which we learned of the existence of other celestial bodies. Now that we have begun to launch more and more space probes we will learn with greater and greater certainty what for thousands of years has only been conjecture. The complexity of causes and effects in human situations are too great to be explained in terms of any primitive behaviorisms. However certain paradoxes in the nature of the influences that set man in motion are constantly apparent. A pink wisp of cloud hangs over Central Park. It is of such a small size that it is only visible to the man seated on the bench beneath it and one man who happens to be looking from his apartment window. Suddenly, a strong ray of sunlight strikes it. The man on the bench is moved to go home where he commits a murder. The man far above the park is moved to make a conciliatory call to his fianc\u00E9e with whom he had broken off the night before. What influences have these men shared in common? How can we begin to measure the influences that determine human behavior? Why is it that pink shower curtains in Macy&amp;#039;s basement will be the choice of the day when only a month later the blue ones are the public&amp;#039;s over-riding choice? It is too easy to shrug off these events as coincidence, as quirks of human nature. Is the universe orderly or chaotic? If there are no comprehensive laws in the universe, why is man so drawn to see things as orderly? And yet the order that seems to exist in the universe is so awesome that it is nearly indescribable\u2014certainly indescribable in terms of any currently accepted finite systems. With Heisenberg&amp;#039;s Uncertainty Principle of the early 1920&amp;#039;s, even the scientist began to realize any system he might propose was a product of the human imagination and must be accepted with a belief closely resembling the faith he had abandoned. As a result, much scientific knowledge remains hypothetical, operative only to fill the gaps of our knowledge: chemists postulating elements that would seem logical in their scheme of the elements and astronomers peering beyond Pluto for the extra planets that must surely exist. Related: Your Daily Aquarius Horoscope byJennifer Angel We are constantly being told that our chief motive is to return to the security of our mother&amp;#039;s womb. But the direction of the universe is constantly outward. As Whitman said, &amp;quot;Nothing collapses. Everything is upward but out.&amp;quot; Who has proven that we felt such ineffable security in the womb? Is it not perhaps more true that the real direction of life is to reach ever outward, just as the universe itself is constantly expanding? Our fear of what is beyond is what causes us to cower in our intellectual &amp;quot;wombs,&amp;quot; struggling to be born into the greater universe of which we now glimpse only the smallest part. The chief obstacle to our gaining this greater knowledge of the universe is our faulty conception of man&amp;#039;s place in it. Since Darwin, man has been minimized as one of the apes, differing in degree rather than kind from the other animals. Paleontography, particularly in excavations at the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa, has begun to piece together an entirely different past for man than the nineteenth century indicated. Man&amp;#039;s ancestors have been the excuse for the most extreme inhumanity in this century. Until science asserts that man is indeed unlike the apes, we cannot hope to move ahead materially or politically. However, in the great explosion of knowledge that has characterized the twentieth century, the scientists must be very careful not to make the same mistake the astrologers made five hundred years ago\u2014closing their minds to new information. We must not avoid asking all the questions. Nothing is so sacrosanct that we cannot push astrophysics and biochemistry, our respective telescopes and microscopes on the universe, to seek for their ultimate meanings.  Perhaps man is afraid to discover the full range of the laws of the universe, for then he will have to admit once and for all that there is Intelligence superior to his own. If our minds are not a principle, an ultimate cause, our minds and intellects must be a result. Science in its generalizations has failed to answer many pertinent, if all too obvious questions for which astrology already possesses the answers: -Why are no two people alike and have never been alike? -It is impossible to create the same combination of forces and conditions a second time. Why? -All conditions in life are temporary. Why? -In spite of our ideas of progress, life goes through a process of involution as well as evolution. Entropy and inertia are as important as motion. Why? -Time heals. Why? We are in the midst of a tremendous crisis of values. As the old values are Discarded, we come closer and closer to the questions of absolute meaning. There has been a tendency since Copernicus to see God as having withdrawn, the hidden God of the seventeenth century giving way to the cry in our time that God is dead. Nothing could be further from the truth, which is shortly to be revealed to us by science itself. Instantaneous communication will rapidly undermine the older institutions. Money as power, currency as means of communication, could not be of less importance. If every atom, every particle of the universe, is conscious our object-ridden civilization is very much on the wrong track. Only ideas can change men&amp;#039;s lives. Astrology in its faltering way, has served to remind us of a larger consciousness in which every cause has its effect, in which every occurrence is concurrent. Man has foolishly been seeking an &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; that doesn&amp;#039;t exist. Any individuality we develop is no more than a new circuit in the cosmic pattern\u2014a better channel of communication, in much the same way a new groove is created in our brain when we undertake a new learning or memory task. this is why it is so difficult for truly gifted people, who are able to set up many new circuits in society, for all those with a sense of this larger consciousness, to &amp;quot;fit in.&amp;quot; society (the organization of these circuits, the larger &amp;quot;brain&amp;quot;) can only wait for them to discover and develop their unique genius, to slowly wend and deepen a groove in the awareness of society, benefiting or harming according to the readiness of society to accept these new circuits. Related: Plan Ahead With Your Virgo Horoscope Thus there is the attending &amp;quot;agony&amp;quot; while the new circuit is being set up, a process including the frustration and sense of impenetrability gifted people always suffer in being themselves. We live in a social system that, against all the tenets of the universe, does not allow for change. There is no institution that now exists which sees the establishment of new circuits as an end in itself. Change is only allowed if it is brought about by war, violence, disaster. Astrology has ever viewed the course of each man&amp;#039;s life as a series of rich permutations, of imitations, of solitariness and reintegration. Against this pattern, contemporary man may want to surround himself with the symbols of this ancient science because in its luminous immediacy, in its comprehension of the concurrence of all cosmic events, he will get a better look at the awesome mechanism of the universe, of himself, and his awakening purpose and expanding consciousness. The now generation is not as smug as its predecessors and is willing to employ the insights of the ancient scientists into cosmic morphology. This generation has perceived intuitively that the cosmos has a &amp;quot;metabolism&amp;quot; effecting all that is alive, or yet to be born, and that the astrological symbols of the ancients are so curios as to be possibly profound, so simple as to be possibly eternal; in truth, so veiled as to have possibly been ignored. These symbols are the keys that will unlock doors beyond astrology, doors to man&amp;#039;s knowledge and understanding of the mechanism of the universe and himself; of cosmic cause and effect; of cosmic involution-evolution. Perhaps even the word astrology will be absorbed in a larger knowledge and love of man and the universe, charged with energy already surging through the new circuits of spectrobiology, biochemistry, biophysics and spectrophysiology. Related: Exclusive Capricorn Horoscope Updated Every Day "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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