Q. I was brought up a fairly strict Christian and yet am attracted to astrology because I feel some important truths are found in it despite its apparent polytheistic worldview. How can I reconcile the differences between these two belief systems?
A. This is a great question on so many levels, as astrology as a field and its practitioners have suffered much from various forms of ignorance and misunderstanding. Mention the words astrology and Christianity together and the word “inquisition” just seems to be the next one to pop into one’s mind.
You are right in mentioning its apparent polytheism because even though the planets and asteroids are named after the old gods and goddesses, inherent in the system is the same unifying principle of oneness. The map, the birthchart is a circle, the universal symbol of wholeness, in which all signs, planets etc are all aspects of the whole, of the one. The symbol of the Sun has a dot in the centre of another circle representing the individual ego at the centre of something far greater, of which its is in the slow process of becoming, of realizing its divinity, that the spark of our individuality is also the spark of the divine, that we are all forms of god. The chart just tells us which particular ingredients of god/goddess we are made up of this time around...click 'Read More' to continue...
A. This is a great question on so many levels, as astrology as a field and its practitioners have suffered much from various forms of ignorance and misunderstanding. Mention the words astrology and Christianity together and the word “inquisition” just seems to be the next one to pop into one’s mind.
You are right in mentioning its apparent polytheism because even though the planets and asteroids are named after the old gods and goddesses, inherent in the system is the same unifying principle of oneness. The map, the birthchart is a circle, the universal symbol of wholeness, in which all signs, planets etc are all aspects of the whole, of the one. The symbol of the Sun has a dot in the centre of another circle representing the individual ego at the centre of something far greater, of which its is in the slow process of becoming, of realizing its divinity, that the spark of our individuality is also the spark of the divine, that we are all forms of god. The chart just tells us which particular ingredients of god/goddess we are made up of this time around...click 'Read More' to continue...
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