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from far far away
hi tao eq
its frustrating when you find info along the way then just when you wish to use it, it has gone - i am always doing that
. good luck with your search!
i would agree that it appears one culture would have spread astrology, i would also think that it crossed cultures too, just as certain elements of the books of the dead have done so without the cultures even meeting. yes, nomads probably had a lot to do with it as you say.
you know science makes all these claims about astrology being incorrect, yet the egyptians knew about the procession of the equinoxes but still continued regardless. secondly it is a matter of perspective, the sun may not go around the earth but to us it does - think of this as like a circle of people with you at the centre, it doesn’t matter how they move only how they relate to you. thirdly and most importantly, all of the arguments against astrology can be resolved if we imagine it as a measure and understanding of time,so that it is the periods of elapsed time that count rather than the movement of the stars. we may then say that astrology is universal and hence the stars and planets will tend towards the workings of these time cycles - this is connected with the synchronicity by which the earth sun and moon correlate. i think you could go anywhere in the universe and see these connections albeit in different translations of the language.
yes i am sure that much info has been destroyed and transformed by successive cultures and religions. i think the hebrews even had a form of astrology at one time, i don’t understand why it was removed - perhaps because of its references to many gods, but one may see it as the workings of a single god if we wish.
thanks
Z
its frustrating when you find info along the way then just when you wish to use it, it has gone - i am always doing that
i would agree that it appears one culture would have spread astrology, i would also think that it crossed cultures too, just as certain elements of the books of the dead have done so without the cultures even meeting. yes, nomads probably had a lot to do with it as you say.
you know science makes all these claims about astrology being incorrect, yet the egyptians knew about the procession of the equinoxes but still continued regardless. secondly it is a matter of perspective, the sun may not go around the earth but to us it does - think of this as like a circle of people with you at the centre, it doesn’t matter how they move only how they relate to you. thirdly and most importantly, all of the arguments against astrology can be resolved if we imagine it as a measure and understanding of time,so that it is the periods of elapsed time that count rather than the movement of the stars. we may then say that astrology is universal and hence the stars and planets will tend towards the workings of these time cycles - this is connected with the synchronicity by which the earth sun and moon correlate. i think you could go anywhere in the universe and see these connections albeit in different translations of the language.
yes i am sure that much info has been destroyed and transformed by successive cultures and religions. i think the hebrews even had a form of astrology at one time, i don’t understand why it was removed - perhaps because of its references to many gods, but one may see it as the workings of a single god if we wish.
thanks
Z