The new year is coming and I've been thinking a lot about time and cycles and beginnings and endings. Astrology seemed like a good topic numerically for the 12th month of the year, as well. I am going to do a couple of charts and hopefully learn a few things that might be of use to others.I'll be referencing The Only Astrology Book You Will Ever Need by Marion D. March. (I'm hoping that neither book is really the only way to learn and that they will complement each other.) I can tell already that Marion March's book is hard going. Though I don't doubt that a person would learn from it.
I have tried Astro123, and AstroWin. They are, I'm sure, quite accurate and they circumvent the math which is no small thing, but the stored latitude and longitude file is tiny. Astrolabe on the other hand has a online chart calculator with a larger data base. It provided the coordinates, a chart and a very basic report for free. I am going to try, I think, to use a combination of free software and books try to write my own report. The generated reports leave no room for intuition anyway.
I will also be wrapping up Mike Barra's book, The Choice, this month and commenting on that, and trying to get some kind of handle on astronomy but have not decided on a reference.
I read Isaiah today. The Chaldean sky scanners were not well thought of by the prophets. That's a fact but there is probably more to it. than just that fact. There are tons of things I don't know about the Chaldeans (commonly called Babylonians) and the Jews had plenty of reasons to dislike them.
Still the Chaldean's were astronomers and they had a knowledge base, as did the Sumerians, Maya and Egyptians. This makes it interesting to me and I hope to others. I'm going to look into it going forward.
What is the relationship - the real relationship - between the planets and our own personal human experience?
My interest in Astrology began in 1974 with the Linda Goodman classic, Sun Signs, and I have done a number of natal charts over the years for family and friends. First, the old fashioned long math method, then years later a free software called Astro-Lab.
I haven't done much with Astrology recently however and I'm thinking of changing that. A section in the book I'm currently reading (The Choice by Mike Bara) makes some interesting points about our solar system and has reawakened this old and very dear interest.
I haven't done much with Astrology recently however and I'm thinking of changing that. A section in the book I'm currently reading (The Choice by Mike Bara) makes some interesting points about our solar system and has reawakened this old and very dear interest.
The argument is part of Bara's case for hyper-dimensional physics and plugs into the solar fission theory with which he explains the creation of our solar system. In reading his book, I realize that I am at a disadvantage. I don't have the time, inclination or education to go off and check the math. But I like it in an intuitive sense.
I believe in cycles. So when Bara describes a solar system created by the star in the center of every ecliptic it makes sense to me. I know this is how things happen. But Bara makes it seem credible. When he talks about spin energy it makes sense to me. As do his views on harmony and dissonance, missing planets (well I'll go along with one), higher dimensions (26), and the life force and I'm going to blog on those things after I finish the book.
But back to astrology. There is an experiment (RCA Sunspot Study 1950), Bara says that demonstrates that radio waves are effected by the planets in a way not explained by conventional physics. He then compares radio waves to brain waves. and makes credible comparison's between astrology and astronomy. Suddenly astrology seems possible and that interests me - not necessarily in terms of my daily horoscope but in terms of 2012 which is I suspect what Bara is getting at.
Be that as it may, I have decided to get my birth chart done again. I will post highlights when it's complete.
Be that as it may, I have decided to get my birth chart done again. I will post highlights when it's complete.
The word scry (to see) found in reference to divination in several medieval texts including a 1549 narrative calling Thomas Malfrey and an unnamed woman "scryers of the glasse" (Oxford English Dictionary).
But the practice of scrying is much older, going back thousands of years to the land of ancient Egypt as evidenced in the biblical account of Genesis and beyond.
Genesis 44: 1. And he [Joseph] commanded the steward of his house, saying: 'Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 2. And put my goblet, the silver goblet, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money.' And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 3. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. 4. And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward: 'Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them: Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? 5. Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth?.
The use of the cup, while probably part of the "trick" Joseph played upon his brothers, is an obvious reference to scrying. One that Joseph expected his family, who were from far away Canaan, to understand. It seems likely that scrying was known in the ancient middle east and can be found in other sources such as the Persian Legend of the Cup of Jamshyd in which, it was said, the entire universe could be seen.
Divining by direct use of a physical object was undoubtedly performed by the ancient Israelites through the use of a pair of mysterious objects, called the Urim and Thummim. Carried in the breastplate of Aaron (Exodus 28) and subsequent high priests of Israel, these objects were used to answer questions of great importance but are never described.
Unfortunately, scholars are not in full agreement in regard to the linguistics making it difficult to speculate about the way they were used but it's likely that using these items was a variant on the ancient practice of casting lots which is still used today when working with the runes.
Unfortunately, scholars are not in full agreement in regard to the linguistics making it difficult to speculate about the way they were used but it's likely that using these items was a variant on the ancient practice of casting lots which is still used today when working with the runes.
Moving forward into the book of Exodus, a possible, albeit tenuous, association between pooling water and biblical prophecy appears in the story of Miriam, the sister of Aaron and Moses, called Miriam the prophetess (Exodus15:20).
Though no details of Miriam's prophecy in the biblical narrative, Jewish oral tradition (as contained in Sefer Ha-Aggadah) tells several such stories. It also tells of the Well of Miriam. Traditionally described as a literal portable source of water, which followed the Israelites through the desert for the forty years of their wandering. We are not told how transporting this portable well is done or why the well was associated with Miriam.
Did Miriam, or any other biblical figure for that matter, scry? The research is, as I see it, inconclusive. The cup of Joseph was I think, only a cup, and we have no idea how the Urim and Thummim of the high priests of ancient Israel were employed.
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