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Garnet talks to a noted astrologer for his opinions
I then asked him my favorite question: What is it that makes astrology work? Is it gravitational? If so, I believe the grass in my front lawn probably exerts a bigger effect gravitationally on me than Jupiter. I've joked for years about how if this is true, one could dramatically change their life just by mowing their lawn.
We didn't go very far on that, he could see my point. He then said that when we are born, the cycles we go through are set in motion and keyed to certain fundamental timing cycles that are also present in the rest of the universe. Hmmm.... So I asked him, if since Jupiter has a 12 year cycle, and this lets people predict based on their chart when things will happen in that 12 year cycle, what happens if that person emmigrates to mars, and there is nothing in the heavens that has a twelve year cycle? How will the person ever keep in sync? How would a new person ever discover this twelve year relationship? Would all of astrology need to be changed for people living on mars? And what if you were born on Earth, but moved to Mars, which astrology system would you use? And what about Alpha Centari, where you can't see the solar system planets anymore? Should we be broadcasting our ephemeris to the rest of the universe, so that intelligent life elsewhere can finally understand why things have been happening to them on 12 year cycles?
To step back from such problems, perhaps astrology is just a set of coincidences that people noticed and correlated. Soemone noticed certain cycles that seemed to keep happening, so they found something to pin it on. When some prediction didn't work, they found some extra thing to factor in to explain why things didn't work.
For more of Garnet's thoughts on Astrology and Vastu (pronounced Vashtu, or Vashtoo):
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