source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 20:20:22 -0800 Subject: Re: Astrology and Sagan From: damien@spirit.com.au (Damien) Don't discredit what you have no personal experience or understanding of... that kind of thinking has caused much unnecessary conflict and suffering for many - who says the world is round, and that it orbits the sun? Just because something does not fit into our limited perspective of the world does not mean it is invalid. Astrology, on a fundamental level is a interpreted symbolic language of spacetime vibrations (MUSIC!!!)... It is a cosmology, a system for understanding the universe and our role in it, and a powerful tool / metaphor for personal / musical development. The planets (instruments) vibrate their influence in the environment, each following their own path, each relating differently to each other depending on the aspects formed... As for viewing things in terms of the 4 elements (physicality / emotions / thoughts / archetypal or spiritual), if you are caught up in materialism or the abstract you are missing out on much of the richness of life. Carl G Jung spoke of syncronicity, "An acausal connecting principle". Through scientific investigation he determined that the more one looks into astrology, the more sense it makes. As modern science states, everything is relative to the observer, and our beliefs in the world tend to shape our perception of it. How can the rising of Mars affect ones life? All things are interconnected in the "multidimentional universal set". A horoscope is a symbolic spacetime map / mandala of the vibrations acting on you at the time of your birth, which tends to influence you into expressing your impressed quality of vibrations. From birth onwards the environment and free will gradually evolve this set into its current form. It is much to simplistic to view astrology as the influence of "gravitational fields". Humanity has worked with astrology for at least 6000 years, so maybe there is something to it? Damien Everett, Manager and Creative Director, Maestro Multimedia Enterprises. Business homepage http://www.maestro.spirit.com.au ACT music page http://www.maestro.spirit.com.au/ACTmusic.html Personal homepage http://www.spirit.com.au/~damien/ ____ \/\/ \/ Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 06:30 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA07572; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 06:30:10 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA07569 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id VAA26458; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:28:45 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:28:45 -0800 Message-Id: <199703210526.VAA07837@sunatg3> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu