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What is Astrology?

Brief History of Astrology

Relationship between life and the Sun, Moon and planets

Although some might now think that establishing meaningful relationships between earthly life and the movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets is implausible, we can notice "synchronistic" correspondences between them. This was validated by the founder of depth psychology, Carl Jung, and many others in modern times. An open quest for knowledge does not dismiss any evidence, no matter what preconceptions may be thought to apply, for scientific method cannot measure everything!

Astrology as a Basic Way of Knowledge

The major tenets of Western Astrology, as practiced by modern Humanistic astrologers, in the tradition of Allen Leo, Mark Edmund Jones, Dane Rudhyar and others, began with the codification of existing astrological knowledge by Ptolemy, near the end of the Greek era. During the period preceding the rise of Christianity, Astrology was widely recognized as a basic way of knowledge. With the middle ages and the supremacy of the Church in Europe and the beginning of the scientific world view, Astrology fell into some disrepute, from which it is still struggling to re-emerge today. Even so, famous scientists such as Brahe, Kepler and Galileo were astrologers as well as practitioners of so-called "hard" sciences. In recent times, there has been a division into camps, with most astronomers and other scientists disregarding or ridiculing astrology, while popular revivals of shamanic traditions and perennial philosophy have been reviving a serious interest in Astrology as a tool for understanding the mysteries of one's existence.

Still today, innovation goes on, with more modern developments such as Cosmobiology, Uranian Astrology, and further explorations of the Humanistic Astrology that has shown so much promise in this latter half century.