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14 Apr 2011, 11:30 am

b9 wrote:

astrology is an interesting thing to learn while eating spicy biscuits.

i have learned some ways to perceive the universe that my inspection of "astrology" helped me to learn.

astrological philosophy is to me a way of framing an idea of how things happen in the universe.

there is earth, air, fire and water in the astrological concept.

"earth" is the substance that is stable and manifest, and comprises all that we see and touch.

"air" is the potential for possibilities of evolution to occur. "air" is the space that must exist to accommodate any manifestation.

"fire" is the energy that is required to create matter, but it is very raw and unbound without some supernatural law that guides it into a manifestation. "fire" is "energy"

"water" is a fluid semblance of inevitability that all flotsam in the river of life must obey.
water is the flow that is time that allows for continuity and an avenue for permutation and change.

on top of those notions can be superimposed a grid of affectivity that is described as cardinal and fixed and mutable. cardinal means inspirational, and fixed means preservative and mutable means destructive.

so if you superimpose the "cardinal and fixed and mutable" idea on top of the "earth air fire and water " idea, you get something you can think about for a long time without hitting any brick walls.

but to predict what will happen in the microcosms of peoples lives using any methodology is insane.
astrology is an interesting exercise but is is only an exercise in how to break down the reality of what you see if you are weak of native understanding.

I like your perspective b9, it's very interesting.

Even if Astrology doesn't 'work' as such it certainly does provide the student of astrology a useful education in many fields and principles; Mythology, psychology, relationships, harmony and dissonance, the archetypal elements of existence and their behaviours - among other things.

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14 Apr 2011, 11:34 am

Oh yeah, forgot what I came in for. This came up in my twitter feed today.

Retro science programs ftw

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yidb8wtszmY&NR=1[/youtube]

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20 Jul 2011, 12:26 am

Sun in Virgo, Taurean Ascendant, Moon in Leo...

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20 Jul 2011, 12:56 am

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This thread is now about the Geek zodiac
[img][800:771]http://www.geeksaresexy.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/geekzodiak.jpg[/img]
It was foolish of them to base it on the Chinese horoscope. Which is actualyl pretty dumb and much dumber than the month-based one, I mean really. Who really wants to think that he has the same personality as everybody that was born the same year as him? That's dumb.

Plus I got a wizard instead of a robot, that alone proves the whole thing wrong.

Hehe I'm a treasure hunter. I suppose in a non-literal sense it fits.

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20 Jul 2011, 9:18 pm

Vigilans wrote:

The most credit I'll give astrology is that at one point, it was really the best tool of understanding the cosmos available, and most of the early astronomers were astrologers by trade- but that was a long time ago, before the Enlightenment, and before the invention of the telescope,

That's not quite true, is it?

For a long while after Galileo looked upwards, saw things no other human had seen before, and made odd little drawings in his notebooks, astrology and astronomy were still very much interlinked/interchangeable. Even Newton, as key a figure in the Enlightenment as you can get, studied astrology (though I don't think he thought much of it). And, for most of written history, astrology was (apart from the simplistic explanations provided by religious tracts) the only tool for understanding the cosmos.

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20 Jul 2011, 9:28 pm

When I was around junior high school age or younger (late 1970s), I got an Astrology computer. It was dark red and circular shaped with an LED screen in the middle. You had to plug in information in the form of codes and then it calculated your results. You had to write all these codes out it gave you and check the meanings of the results by using this book filled with what the codes meant. It seemed quite complex. I loved it. I need to dig that thing out of my parents' basement. But I remember that the dates it was good through have long passed---so I don't know how it would be used today. But it was fun. I'm just wondering if any of you that are older remember the Astrology Computer?

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20 Jul 2011, 9:44 pm

glider18 wrote:

That does sound like groovy retro fun.

Any modern computer can do astrological charts now though.

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20 Jul 2011, 9:55 pm

True with today's computers computing Astrology. But I think what was so fun about this old one was all the stuff we had to write down on charts and then calculate stuff. It was quite challenging to get the data and interpret it. It was cool retro fun. Here is a picture of it I found on the internet.

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21 Jul 2011, 4:52 am

PLJ
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Looks interesting.

When I started in astrology I was doing charts by hand. My math is very poor and I got more wrong than right Also it took freaking ages.

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14 Sep 2011, 6:24 am

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14 Sep 2011, 6:35 am

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You didn't even post a link you silly, spammy sangam.

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