Is There Any Validity to Astrology as a Science?
If so, how can it be incorporated in scientific research towards solving present dilemmas?
When I came into the world, I came to a home where astrology was a natural thing. Astrology books were a significant part of the home library. And yet, throughout my youth I rejected outright what I saw as a joke.
Today, in hindsight, I realized that my rejection was due to the fact that no one provided me with proof for astrology. No one explained to me in a simple way the mechanics behind it.
The reality is that after all these years, by the nature of my scientific work, I use tools based on astrological information both to predict scientistic phenomena as well as understand human behavior and large societal movements.
Some context
Not many are aware that astrology was a science in itself. It was even merged with the science of medicine until about the 17th century. Only when the world moved to a science based on rational thought, - a science that divides every observed phenomenon into separate parts without being able to see the interdependency between them - eventually led to a complete abandonment and separation from it as a science.
Nevertheless it is important to remember that astrology has been around for over 4,000 years; that modern medical practice, based on allopathy, originated less than 200 years ago; and the science of nutrition is barely 70 years old.
On the other hand, we live in the midst of the information age. An era in which we have access to superficial information from all traditions and collective history of the human species that gives one the illusion of knowledge. This is how the "culture of knowledge" about both modern and ancient systems has given everyone access to, however, in a very limited and superficial way that distorts their essence. Nowadays one can become an astrologer by watching YouTube or downloading an "astrological" app.
Inadvertently, this is also what has led to a contemptuous culture as a counterpoint in which the words 'horoscope' or 'astrology' are quickly shoved down the memory hole, dismissed as a pseudoscience. But the reality is that astrology is not the weekly column in The New Yorker magazine.
Regardless of how it is viewed, it is important to remember that astrology is still the progenitor of astronomy. It has been developed and perfected over thousands of years, and it is still amazing how accurate it can be when applied.
So what I want to do here is to lift the veil that modern society has placed on astrology and restore the seriousness it deserves as a valid science, and to supply the reader with what was never supplied to me: a proof of astrology. I'm going to provide context through a brief historical overview and then provide scientific evidence for its validity.
Finally, I will end with a very important conclusion that says that it’s precisely in these times, in which humanity loses its connection to the interrelatedness of things in exchange for theoretical formulas displayed on a retina screen, the past and the future; the esoteric and esoteric; the visible and the invisible must be re-connected.
Only then will it be possible to solve current dilemmas and mysteries in a simple and direct way that our modern mechanistic science is still grappling with.
Part I: Astrology in Ancient Times
Astrology goes back several thousand years to the rich alluvial plains of Chaldea, which lied between the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers. A swampy area in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day southern Iraq) when the main city was Babylon.
According to today's research, the ancient people who lived there were the Chaldeans: a Semitic people who lived in tribes that arrived in the area in the 10th century BC and were mainly shepherds.
It was a wild country. The land, originally covered by the sea, was a vast plain. With no mountains and few clouds to obstruct their view of the sky, it was natural for the Chaldeans to turn their attention to the sky and study the movements of the heavenly objects. They watched the movement of the stars with tireless patience with the firm intention of understanding their movement.
Under such ideal viewing conditions, the sky must have been a fascinating and awe-inspiring sight. The nocturnal movement of the stars, which changed as the year progressed, helped the Chaldeans to time, and thus predict, the seasonal changes that occurred on Earth.
It was natural, therefore, to assume some kind of correspondence between heavenly phenomena and earthly events. The stars formed a kind of background against which certain lights, especially the moon, seemed to move in a predictable path.
The motion of the Moon, of course, was their first source of concentration, but other wandering stars—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—later attracted their attention.
When the wandering celestial bodies entered certain constellations, the Chaldeans noticed adjustments to the natural phenomena on Earth. They started by collecting a large collection of evidence. They assumed that the course of the stars and natural events were constant and therefore predictable. Although they had no optical instruments, they succeeded surprisingly and accurately, so much so that the word "Chaldean" became synonymous with "astronomer" and "fortune teller".
As a side note, the belt asteroid ‘313 Chaldea’ is named after the Chaldeans, as a sign of their contribution to astrologynomy.
Their great prestige was also based on predicting meteorological changes, the appearance of comets, eclipses of the sun and the moon. They classified the star formations into constellations, twelve of which made up what they called the 'Zodiac'.
Later, the Babylonians began to free certain people from the earthly task of shepherding to devote all their time to the study of the heavens and the stars. They were called priests. The Chaldeans and Babylonians connected the meanings of astrology with the fate of nations, tribes and their leaders.1
The Coming of the Greeks
Later it was the Greek observers who personalized astrology to the individual. It may have been the Greek astronomer Anaximander, around 600 BC, who first thought of the Earth as a sphere, not flat.
Almost a hundred years later, Pythagoras expanded on this idea and established a new system of mathematics as a necessary tool for understanding celestial motions. He also founded the science of numerology, which some scholars see as the forerunner of modern astrology.
The Greek philosopher Plato, along with Aristarchus of Samos and Eudoxus of Cnidus, recognized that the planets change in their distance and speed as they move around the sun. Eratosthenes, who followed them, was the first to estimate the circumference of the earth.
Hipparchus was the first to recognize the cyclical nature of the heavenly bodies in relation to earthly events, and based on his observations the monumental work of the astronomer Ptolemy was based, who in fact formulated much of the modern astrological theory today. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos records the structure of Greek astrology as well as ancient medical practice.
Using Ptolemy's correspondence system, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, built his philosophical system. Today, every new doctor must swear to uphold the code of medical ethics known as the 'Hippocratic Oath'. And it was the great Hippocrates who reminded all practitioners of the medical arts that no one can do an adequate job of healing the sick without a basic knowledge of astrological principles.
As a side note we will see later on why this statement is especially true nowadays in relation to Covid.
Hippocrates discovered what most modern practitioners have forgotten or ignored, that astrology can make an important contribution to the healing process as well as to maintaining good physical health.
But, before we get too carried away about the importance of astrology to the medical profession, let us try to keep it in proper perspective. The ancient sages never considered astrology as a substitute for medical procedures.
At best, astrology was only a diagnostic tool, to be used by the doctor in the diagnosis and prognosis of disease states. However, the importance of astrology as a diagnostic tool in the doctor's "tool bag" has been unfortunately underestimated, and should be given much more emphasis by doctors today.
Astrology did not begin to lose its scientific prestige until the second half of the 17th century. This may have been due to a number of scientific developments such as the invention of the telescope and the Sun-centered universe that became the standard model. After the 18th century, medical authorities paid less and less attention to these occult matters.
“There is no doubt that the development of Newtonian astronomy led most educated men to reject astrology altogether. “ 2 Richard Shryock
Unfortunately for Schryock and his ilk, this argument very conveniently, and somewhat embarrassingly, ignores the fact that Newton himself was an avid student of the occult, including astrology!
When once asked by a fellow of the Royal Society why he believed in astrology and "other such far-fetched nonsense", he replied:
Well, sir, I have studied the matter, and of course you don't!
Part II: The Science Behind Astrology
Determining points of reference
The zodiac is actually a backdrop of fixed positions in space. Those fixed positions in space represent the star field beyond our solar system.
A basic physical law says that everything moves in space without exception. Therefore, how can we make any kind of measurement accurately?!
To do this, first of all, a reference point must be established as an anchoring center from which measurements can be made. There is nothing better than the Earth, since we live on it.
This leads to a big difference in the way we calculate movement. In other words, the ancients calculated everything in relation to the Earth as the center while modern science uses the Sun as the center from which the movement of the celestial bodies around it are calculated.
These are actually the geocentric and heliocentric models respectively.
It must be remembered that the ancients did not have sophisticated systems, infrared telescopes and computerized mapping systems. Through prolonged observation the Chaldeans realized that in order to accurately measure the movement of the heavenly bodies; the movement of the moon, the sun and the other planets in relation to the earth, they first needed to be "anchored" in front of a backdrop that "didn’t move".
The star field outside our solar system is parallel to fixed points in space. Because they are so far away, hundreds to millions of light years away, their motion from the perspective of Earth and our solar system is so minuscule that they can be considered constant in space. In other words, when measured from Earth's perspective, those constellations are fixed anchor points in space.
Since the dawn of time, the humanity had a deep relationship with animals - mainly with the mammalian kingdom - as the root of husbandry. The ability to control the supply of animals, to be able to raise them to make sure there was enough to eat, and at the same time to ritualize their deaths, resulted in a deep connection so that over the years we filled the sky with them.
As a child, perhaps you had books in which you connected a series of numbered dots to make a picture. That is what the Chaldeans did mentally with the stars, making pictures of their gods and of familiar animals in their environment: the ram, Aries; the bull, Taurus; the bear, Ursa; the dog, Canis; the lion, Leo; and so on. They decided that there were twelve heavenly lords, the advisers of the gods, each of whom presided over the same zodiac for a month.
Many of us have heard the expression: 'The human body cannot exist without food for 40 days, without water 4 days and without breath for 4 minutes.
Rarely is it known, however, that there is another element without which the human body cannot exist even for one second: impressions.
We perceive impressions all the time at any given moment. In these impressions there’s a huge amount of information. The majority of that information is not accessible or perceived by our conscious mind. The total majority of the spectrum of impressions comes in the form of radiation from space. Specifically, it is about the neutrino field that originates in stars.
Neutrinos
Neutrinos are an extraordinary thing.
They are very tiny particles (sub-atomic) that are "produced" only by stars. They are the byproduct of stars, the "breath" of stars.
Our sun is a star and our sun emits about 70% of the neutrinos we absorb. Neutrinos travel at very close to the speed of light (~300,000 km/s or ~187,500 miles/s). They never stop and they penetrate through everything. Meaning, if you were to build a steel wall 400,000 miles wide, it would pass through as if it were passing through an "empty" space.
The reality is that every second we receive about 3 trillion neutrinos per one square inch. That's 3 million million neutrinos going through everything all the time. But what is really unusual about them, which sets them apart from photons of light, is that they carry an infinitesimal amount of mass. This means that the neutrino is not pure energy, but information.
Once the neutrino field passes through any living entity it leaves off some 'information' and picks up other 'information' as it continues out. After it passes through, this information continues to move on at almost the speed of light to the entire universe.
The reality is that all around the Earth there’s an enormous star field everywhere. And all that star-field is doing is streaming information - neutrino information, - traveling nearly the speed of light at a density that is far beyond our ability to understand. All of that information streaming through, and when its streaming through – imagine what happens when the planet Mars gets in the way?! If we have a red car and a white car and they bang into each other, we’re going to have a little white paint on the red car and a little red paint on the white car. That’s called ‘communication’.
And so when we have this stream of information going through Mars, its going to have an interaction with Mars, its going to be changed by Mars and its going to come through us and its going to leave off that information.
This information penetrates us all the time and is what actually "programming" us. We all receive the same information but each of us filters that information uniquely. Neutrinos are truly the field of consciousness in our universe.
Part III: Scientific Experiments:
The Takata experiments
In 1938, Dr. Maki Takata at Toho University in Japan began a biochemical study of the ovarian cycle in the human female. The presence of chemical messengers, called "hormones," in the body had only recently been recognized, and their monumental influence on personality and physical development was not yet understood.
To carry out his program of research, Takata needed to develop a method of removing the protein albumin from the blood, because this substance interfered with his work. Takata's method, now called the Takata reaction, consists of adding certain compounds to a blood sample, causing the albumin to flocculate or precipitate out of the liquid portion of the blood so that it can then be removed by centrifuging.
Up until this time, scientists had believed it to be an ironclad law that if a series of identical chemical reactions was performed under the same set of conditions (heat, light, purity, humidity, etc.) each reaction would proceed at the same rate in any geographical location.
Takata discovered that this law did not seem to apply to his albumin flocculation reaction. At certain times it went faster, at other times slower. He set out to discover why this was so, after carefully verifying that other scientists using his test around the world were observing a similar phenomenon.
Takata assumed that this variation in rate for the precipitation of albumin in the blood did not occur in males. But in January, 1938, he observed this phenomenon in the blood of males as well!
Takata was determined to discover the cause of this cyclical variation in the precipitation mechanism. After examining all plausible explanations, none of which corresponded to his findings, he was driven to examine the implausible causes; it turned out that the rate of the reaction varied with the time of day, the date of the year, the eleven-year sunspot cycle, eclipses and magnetic storms in the earth's ionosphere.
Heresy!
Clearly, celestial influences were exerting a powerful influence upon the protein in the blood. Takata knew that proteins are the only chemical substances capable of "life" as we know it on earth, and here he had demonstrated in his test tubes that celestial influences were affecting the chemical behavior of this protein. Could they be affecting the other proteins in the body as well?
In 1954, Caroli and Pichotka in Germany took the work of Takata and Piccardi and demonstrated again that the rate of reaction varied with time and celestial conditions. There seemed little doubt that something out there in the heavens was definitely affecting events on the earth.
They could see it with their own eyes and time it with their stopwatches. Piccardi also made another fascinating discovery when a boiler technician at the university complained to him that twice each year the rust in his boilers peeled off and contaminated the water. And he could do nothing to control it. Piccardi theorized that the surface tension of the boiler water must have been reduced for some unexplained reason.
But why? He noted that this phenomenon always occurred in September and March (to the astrologer, when the Sun is transiting through Virgo and Pisces). When the surface tension of water is reduced, it becomes "wetter."
Softening agents added to wash water reduce the surface tension, thus increasing the water's ability to dissolve dirt. In Piccardi's case, the softened water even dissolved the rust. (Theodore) Schwenk's experiments seem to support the idea of moving rapidly under favorable cosmic influences and more slowly when the influences are adverse, for by remaining relatively quiet we are far less susceptible to outside influences.3
Biological Clocks
At Northwestern University Dr. Frank Brown has done some fascinating work on a mechanism that seems to be built into all living things, which Brown calls biological clocks.
This refers to the ability of a living organism to sense changes in the Earth's magnetic field, which is only one ten-millionth as strong as the emanations given off in the immediate area of home electrical appliances. These changes in the Earth's magnetic field follow a predictable schedule related to the positions of the Sun, Moon and planets.
For example, Brown discovered that oysters kept their cycle of opening and closing according to the Moon-timed tidal phase of their original home even when transported a thousand miles inland.
These changes in the Earth's magnetic field follow a predictable schedule related to the positions of the Sun, Moon and planets.
Note: since the very beginning of Covid, I attested time and time again that cyclical fluctuations in transmission and contagion in the population have nothing to do with social distancing or wearing of masks but are determined by the cycles of the moon and the nodes of moon. I have also attested that pandemics are caused by fluctuations of earth magnetic field, radiation from solar coronary mass storms.
This biological clock mechanism can easily be tested in your own home. In the fall, place some flower bulbs in the darkest part of your cellar, away from all light, and leave them there until the following spring.
Check them periodically, and you will find that they do not sprout during the winter months. But when their normal growing time arrives in spring, they will sprout even in storage. When bulbs are stored, the tissues do not die, they "breathe."
Dr. Brown carefully measured the rate of respiration (utilization of oxygen) by bulbs in the stored condition. His experiments showed that as spring approaches, the rate of respiration increases; they require and use more oxygen. The only possible signal these bulbs could receive is from the magnetic-cosmic field surrounding the Earth.
Radio Broadcast
Perhaps some of the strongest supporting evidence for astrology, particularly the influence of aspects, came from John H. Nelson from RCA (Radio Corporation of America).
In the earlier days of long-distance (short-wave) radio, it was observed that ionospheric conditions had a marked effect upon the quality of short-wave broadcasting.
It was important to RCA to be able to predict in advance when transmitting conditions would be adverse so that arrangements could be made to bypass the interference. They awarded grants totaling several million dollars to some astronomers, who spent the money but produced little of value.
RCA then turned to their own engineering staff, headed by John Nelson, who discovered that he could predict the conditions of transmission quite accurately by looking at the angular relationship between the planets on a given day: in other words, planetary aspects.
His forecasts were more than 95 percent accurate, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce in numerous yearly publications. Nelson describes his work in the book Cosmic Patterns -- Their Influence on Man and His Communication, published by the American Federation of Astrologers.4
The Human Aura
For many years certain individuals have claimed the ability to see "auras," that is, colors radiated by certain forms of energy in the body. Science at first gave this little credence, but within the last few years, specialized techniques have made it possible to actually photograph auras.
The leaders in this field have been Russian researchers and scientists of the University of California at Los Angeles, notably Dr. Thelma Moss. Physicists have long known that when current flows through a conducting material, such as an electrical wire, it sets up an electromagnetic field about the conductor.
This current can be measured by an electrical instrument called a galvanometer, which is the principle on which electrical generators are based. The human nervous system is also a conductor of electrical current.
Messages are transmitted over the nerve fibers via tiny electrical impulses that can be measured with such instruments as the electrocardiograph and electroencephalograph. (Alpha and beta brain waves are electrical waves.)
We already know that when current moves through a conductor, it sets up a magnetic field around the conductor, and this magnetic field is probably the "aura" that certain people claim to see.
When the drum or armature of a generator moves within a magnetic field, or cuts magnetic lines of force, it creates a flow of energy. Likewise, as your body moves, cutting the lines of magnetic force flowing from the Earth's magnetic poles, a counter current is set up along the conducting fibers of the nervous system.
Thus, we can clearly see from the preceding experiments that the galactic cosmic field influences the earth's magnetic field, and that changes in the earth's magnetic field influence the electrical character of the transmissions of the nervous system.
Thus, a cause and effect relationship can be established "scientifically" between what is going on "out there" and what is happening here on Earth.
Part IV: How Can Astrology Be Used in Science Today
Form Determines Function / From is More Important Than Data
One of the things we have lost, due to the complete identification with rational thinking, is the connection to the right side of the brain that deals with the symbolic nature of information. As a result, we stopped giving importance to the shape in which molecules are built; that the form itself determines the way things work.
Symbolic information, or right brain hemisphere processing, represents a potential encoded capacity of around forty billion bits of information. Contrast this with the left brain’s paltry calculated sum of seven (plus or minus two) bits of info per second. Some less stingy researchers now put that number a little higher, at forty bits per second.
Today, in the field of molecular chemistry, full preference is given to the amount of information that the molecule carries (usually as an electric charge), and not much importance is attached to its shape and movement.
I always like to remind people that there are no straight lines in the universe. The straight line is a product of the human mind. Symbolically it represents the juxtaposition principle in which one thing is juxtaposed to another from which a conclusion is derived. This is the measurement process of the rational mind. But the juxtaposition itself does not reflect all the possibilities inherent in the observed phenomenon.
Today, all information systems are presented and translated into two-dimensional models in order to adapt to the way the rational mind works. You will notice that all the mediums we work with: a sheet of paper, a computer screen, a tablet, etc. - all represent means that translate three-dimensional phenomena into a two-dimensional medium as X and Y axis of 'length' x 'width'.
For example, in the field of genetics, scientists fall into the trap of assuming that the only way viable to present a genetic code is in a linear fashion. They take trigrams of nucleotides and string them one after the other in a straight line. Then, they run them through a computer that creates a readable expression in two-dimensional form (length x width) - a plane of infinite lines deemed a "genetic code".
But what geneticists/scientists don't know, due to the basic lack of understanding of how the human mind works, is that once they translate the genetic code into a two-dimensional linear string they lose enormous amounts of information.
What this does is it locks the scientists into a certain pattern. This locks them into a specific presentation of information. This sets them up for thinking up a linear type of genetic code as a straight line. And once they are locked into this model, all the associated conclusions and equations are made from within the model itself, but not outside of it.
As soon as everything is translated into a straight line, the natural shape of of the DNA molecule and the inherent information embedded in its form, disappears.
That is, the natural shape of the DNA molecule, as a three-dimensional double-helix spiral, is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, and therefore, more important than the individual parts that make it up (the nucleotides).
Simply put, the shape of the DNA molecule is extremely important.
DNA is a Fractal Antenna
I’ve alluded several times in several comments on scientific Substack, about the importance in including resonance and magnetism in our fields of study, for they represent the “cosmic glue” that holds everything together.
Modern science is extremely handicapped because it doesn’t take into account the realm of frequencies and magnetism, when it comes to understanding observed phenomena.
I’ve also tried to communicate that our understanding about pandemics and the nature of contagious diseases is deeply limited. It’s not suitable for our times and for our development. We still hold onto antiquated and outdated paradigms.
I’ve mentioned before that our DNA molecule is actually a fractal antenna. In motion, its double spiral forms a resonance field that both transmits and receives information from the environment. Anomalies in the magnetic field of the planet, as well as radiation, both natural and man made, communicate with and have an effect on all organisms through their DNA antenna, as well as their bio-scalar magnetic field (i.e. the aura).
Combining both, means that we have ongoing communication between genetics and the environment, mediated by resonance.
For instance, the toroidal shape is the main characteristic of the electromagnetic field of the human aura. This shape is the main factor influencing the nature of the rotating vortex that captures or emits different energies and light.
Conclusion:
To ask someone, "Do you believe in astrology?" is as ridiculous as asking, "Do you believe in medicine or chemistry or biology or weather forecasting?" Like the other systematized bodies of knowledge, astrology is!
It does not require 'belief,’ for it is as much a science as any of the other sciences. And when we apply its teachings to the improvement of life, it becomes an art just like medicine or weather forecasting. The facts remain the facts—it is simply how we interpret them that is the issue. And different people interpret facts differently.
I believe that astrology is used for the greatest good when it is considered as one set of basic symbols (not unlike our alphabet) to better understand and express our relationship to our environment. In the hands of the astrologer-psychologist, it can be a most valuable tool in helping us understand our own behavior and how this behavior manifests from time to time in the symptoms of disease. It can help us understand why we think and act as we do.
Now, with the advent of the Human Design System, which is based on astrological calculations, the process is much more accurate and specific than any other model. In this way astrology opens a window to invisible dimensions of life patterns that can be translated into scientific systems and languages.
The aforementioned genetic matrix - a derivative of the Human Design System - connects the microcosm and the macrocosm in a miraculous way and can provide us with answers we were looking for. To find a connecting thread between dimensions and between all the closed systems we have created over the years. A unified field theory if you will, that can shed light on mysteries.
What's beautiful about it is that she is not closed. It "lives" and "breathes". We can add more and more circles to it and thus find a connecting thread between all the worlds that are currently presented in a separate way in our culture.
There is a spectacular aesthetic. There is an exemplary order in the multitude of patterns presented in it. It's a kind of meditation just to look at it. One can feel the dimensionality of movement - ceased, the moment we roll translate observed phenomenon into a two-dimensional model.
As the above genetic matrix shows us, it is possible to see relationships between genetics and astrology, and to be able to see new relationships that simply disappear in any linear model. For example, there is a connection between 'proline' and 'valine' because they are opposite each other in the wheel.
Proline is related to the sign of Pisces, or more precisely, to the neutrino information field coming from the sign of Pisces. Having understood that during Pisces, the water’s surface tension subsides, can reveal to us why viral influxes in society usually take place in the interim between March and September, whereas these two polarities reflect the mid points of ascension.
The time has come to unite both worlds; to connect the past and the future; the esoteric and the exoteric to a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Thereby, provide added value in every area of life.
As we have seen, it is sustainable, cost effective and rather simple thing to do.
Robert Carl Jansky, Astrology Nutrition & Health, Schiffer Publishing Pennsylvania, USA, 4-5
Richard Shryock, The Development of Modern Medicine, Univ. Press. Pennsylvania, USA pp. 59-60
Robert Carl Jansky, Astrology Nutrition & Health, Schiffer Publishing Pennsylvania, USA, 10-11
Robert Carl Jansky, Astrology Nutrition & Health, Schiffer Publishing Pennsylvania, USA, 12
WOW!!
I’m not a scientist but somehow I totally understand.. as if something within me recognizes another profound truth that was lost and is now found again… Thank you !!
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