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HOW AND WHY ASTROLOGY WORKS
By Helmut Licht
I look at my watch and when the hour hand points at 8 and it is morning, many, many people are going to work. 4 hours later, when the hour hand points at 12, most of those people take a break from work and have lunch. 4 hours later, when the hour hand points at 4, most of those people are getting ready to go home.
I could say: `Gee, that hour hand on my watch has tremendous power, to make all those people do all those things'. Or I can realize that the hour hand is merely part of an instrument, which is synchronized to the apparent daily motion of our Sun*, and all those people are neither being controlled by the hour hand nor by the Sun, but are synchronizing their behavior with the position of the Sun.
It follows that, since human behavior and the watch are both synchronized to the same phenomena (the Sun's apparent motion), they are also in sync with each other. I feel that it is erroneous to say that the Sun 'controls' human behavior. After all, I played professional music in night clubs for decades. Thus I worked at night and slept part of the day. The Sun is as it is and appears to move as it does, thereby creating day and night. Life on earth, including humans, simply do or choose not to adjust to this cycle.
What is interesting here is that we have three things:
1. Reactive (adjusted) life form behavior. We get up in the morning, etc.
2. The Sun, which, because of its apparent motion, generates day and night.
3. The watch, which is synchronized to the Sun's motion and therefore also synchronized to Sun-motion generated life form behavior. We take a lunch break when the hour hand points at noon, etc.
1 (getting up in the morning) and 2 (the Sun rising) are the actively interacting factors. 3 (the clock showing 6 A.M.) is merely a synchronized tool.
The Sun is the most obvious factor influencing living behavior. Its most noticeable gifts are light and heat. When he rises, darkness vanishes and we can see and it also gets warmer. The flowers open up their petals, the birds start chirping, nature comes to life. When he sinks below the horizon, the light decreases, darkness reappears, the temperature lowers and nature goes to sleep. We humans had most probably also attuned ourselves to this cycle until the appearance of the candle and other gadgets, which gave us, in initially small amounts, what the sun gives in great abundance: Light and heat.
As these smaller sources of light and heat developed into more sophisticated instruments, light bulbs and heaters, we were able to more and more disassociate from the sun's cycle. Many of us work at night in well lit and comfortably heated places. Within the gambling palaces of Las Vegas, the concept of night has totally disappeared until you retreat into your room.
But all the other planets have cycles too. Less obvious, but nevertheless real. They rise and set and, by doing so, give us (whatever they give) after they rise, and stop their giving after they disappear below the horizon. Since we are not aware of the planets' rising and setting cycles (unless we are astronomers or star gazers), we are not attuned to them and thus have never noticed what they `give', i.e. there are no obvious phenomena that we associate with them (such as day and night), and there is no obvious cyclical behavior by humans and nature that we can relate to them. (When I say `we', I'm referring to the average human being). We do not have a `watch' which shows the motion and positions of the individual planets at any given moment by means of an hour hand We do, however, have an `instrument', a `clock', which shows their positions and is synchronized to their movements ------ The Horoscope.
Like the watch, it has no power of its own, but merely shows the positions of the planets.
We astrologers have been using this `watch' for quite some time and some of us have discerned what the planets `give', and how nature and, more importantly, human behavior has adjusted to those gifts and their active periods
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It has been a tedious process of recording, double checking, modifying and rerecording. With the advent of modern technology, progress has been quicker and data has been studied and shared in increasingly large quantities. Because of this, the planets' `gifts' are becoming more obvious and better understood.
Once we really understand what each planet has to give and when it can do so, we will probably create planet specific `light bulbs and heaters', which will duplicate a planet's gifts, as the light bulb and heater duplicate the sun's gift of light and heat.. We will know when to turn these on and off, thereby extending the planet's benefic influence into periods when it is in its `night' phase and therefore unable to `give'.
Our present watch is synchronized only with the Sun. I visualize a watch that allows us to switch between the `Sun' dial, i.e. our present dial, and a `Moon' dial, all the way to a Pluto dial. Once this watch is available, we will be able to see the daily planetary movements, which in turn will enable us to detect and pinpoint synchronicity between their movements, their positions in the sky and actual occurrences. We will be able to see where Mars is at 2:45 P.M. and Venus at 8:15 A.M. We can keep the watch set to the Mars dial for a week or two, and then Venus for the next two weeks, etc.
I feel that it is erroneous to say that the planets 'control' human behavior. They are as they are and move as they do, thereby creating more subtle and less obvious fluctuations/cycles (similar to the Sun-created day and night), and life on earth, including humans, simply adjust to these cycles. The clock works fine with the Sun. Most people will get up when the hour hand is between 6 and 8 in the morning, will have lunch around noon and go home between 4 and 6 in the evening.
At present our other clock is the horoscope. We astrologers know when the planets are where. We also know their `gifts'.
Because of that ---- Astrology works!
* which in turn is a result