Astronomy or Astrology?

Although Astrology and Astronomy appear very similar by name, they differ very
broadly. Whereas astronomy studies how the universe works, astrology studies deeply its
influence in people’s lives and decisions. Many people still believe they are one only
science, they confuse the names and meanings and mix the astrologer with the astronomer
as if they were a single person. As if the astronomer who studies the behavior of the
universe to make a scientific note would tell the future of somebody, or the influence of the stars at the time of birth.

Throughout history there was not astrologer and astronomer separately, they were often the same person and astrology was not designated as a mere superstition, but as a science were mathematics was used to measure the phenomena that was occurring in the ‘heavens’. They (astrologers) were often called or summoned by kings and nobles to describe the fate of their reigns and their lives; the lives of the astrologers themselves, as well as their fame, was decided by how well their predictions were met or what they predicted. It is said that the Magi themselves were astrologers that had known by the stars the birth of a very important man and king, Jesus Christ. After the renaissance, the occupation of astrologer was separated by the occupation of astronomer. Thus, to know the secrets of the universe and what they depicted, was differentiated from the scientist who studied the physical facts and traits of the planets, stars and galaxies.

As the theosophist H.P Blavatsky would describe, “Astrology is to exact astronomy, what psychology is to exact physiology. In astrology and psychology one has to step beyond the visible world of matter and enter into the domain of transcendent spirit”(1). The astrologer, agreeing with Blavatsky, goes beyond the physical interpretation of the celestial bodies’ phenomena while the astronomer limits himself to mere physical speculation and interpretation. This, however, does not mean that astronomy is less important than astrology because it only concentrates on the physical behavior of the starts. What it means is that the field of study of each discipline, while focusing on the same corps or bodies, is independent of the other, what makes their contrast much more interesting. For example, as we can see that astrology is metaphysical (beyond physical) and astronomy physical, we see the exciting complement they are, while being too different at the same time.

Astrologers today still use mathematics to measure physical features such as time, distance, among others. Nevertheless, they use it to predict or to tell what’s going on with the earth and with us, the human race,. They guide themselves with the popular, hermetic (from the Egyptian hermeticism) maxim. “as above, so below”, meaning that looking at the stars- or “the heavens- it is easy to understand and predict what happens in the world and in people lives. As the XV century astronomer and astrologer Tycho Brahe’s motto Despiciendo Suspicio , in English “by looking down I see upward, as well as the other revealer motto, Suspiciendo Despicio, or “by looking up I see downward” (10). What the astrologer does is to see a meaning behind every event; that meaning is reflected on human lives mirrored by the planets.

Astronomy gives us the false perception that is more scientific than astrology, that astronomy is biased and easy to do. The truth is that astrology is scientifically based for the most part by using mathematics, physics, among others as well as astronomy itself. The difference is brought up by the purpose of them and the way they approach it. I, myself, have had the opportunity to look up at some birth charts, including mine, and discovered a lot of mathematics involved in the making of them. The way degrees are calculated and the exact changes of time from one house to another, as well as the way they use time and space to calculate the behavior of the planets and how they relate to human lives.

The way western astrologers measure the events that are happening, as well as the transit of the planets is very traditionalist and is not very variant. There are books, like the book “Astrology” by numerous authors, that explain with a lot of details how to create a birth chart and how to analyze some degrees between the planets, and so on. For a lot of them, there is an orthodox way of doing astrology, that does not vary except by the interpretation of it, as well as the predictions that are made based on the interpretation. For example, when an astrologer says that a planet is retrograde, it means that seen from the earth, the planets seems to go backwards; however, the way they interpret it may or may not vary (depends on the astrologer). In astronomy, the only way to demonstrate an opinion or a hypothesis is by following the scientific method and not only by a so-called psychic feeling.

As the famous pos-Freudian psychologist Carl Jung said, we are all born in a given time and a given place, and as wines have the qualities of the season, we have those same qualities of the season and the time we are born in. Carl Jung, not only a psychologist but also a very metaphysical man, analyzed the birth charts of different men and women, and analyzing their psyche he could redefine them and discover how similar and accurate this elaborated charts were. Science does not play an important role here but the metaphysical analysis of the astronomical events.

They do differ in lots of things and even astronomers don’t like to be confused with astrologers, because they believe their field is science, and astrology’s is superstition. After all of this, however, we can see that their roots are basically the same and that the way they differ is by their points or purposes and the methodology they use to approach them.

Illusion....

Illusion, Illusion, all is pure illusion
Nothing seems real, nothing seems to exist
Everything lies, all is a vile act
What is truth? What is not?

I walk by the street, I see nothing but lies
Since sunrise to sunset I don’t find any truth
Only nature seems to truth tell
Only the sun meets his promise to shine

Illusion is what I see, all is pure illusion
The skeptic thinks he is right
The believer thinks the skeptic is not
What is truth? For God sake what?!

Fragment From The Book of Life

I sat on the wooden piano and played the same song I played yesterday while moving my head with the contrapuntal of Bach, trying to get some peace. Trying to stop the black symphony trapped in my head. I stood up, bored of the same old peaceful contrapuntal that reminds me of you . For every song reminds me of your eyes and that bittersweet look you gave me on that patio that afternoon. I stood up and tried to walk nowhere. Ha-I laughed- “not even Bach can make me forget you.” it seems impossible! You hear? it’s the same black symphony playing again in my head, let’s try to play some Bach or Mozart…nah, it’s impossible. But I don’t know if I love you, you are too divine to love, I don’t know if it is even possible for a mortal man… I see you as Michelangelo saw David, maybe…

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

Love is what burns inside of me
And I’m not ashamed of saying it
Is a truth that cannot be hidden
I love you and I’m happy of it.

Blessed by God be the day
When I found your beauty there
In front of me was shown
And suddenly, I fell in love.

First sight could be, my love
But how I know it still lasts!
It is not lie that my heart burns
Since the day I saw your face.

It may be impossible love
But in my dreams it is not
In my mind you’ll always be
I love you, my dear love.

Capitalism? Socialism? Or a new one?-Discussion

We have been witnesses of the terrible consequences of our economical systems throughout the last 50 years. First, the communism that offered a so-called fairness showed us how ruthless the ways to achieve this can be. Secondly, today we start to notice how unfair and useless the capitalism can be (I mean a wild, savage neoliberal communism). All of this is not less than evidence for us to question ourselves if we should create a new system.
When Marxism went out, it was applauded by a lot of intellectuals, writers and dreamers while sleeping in the opium of utopia. At the end of the 1950’s and the beginnings of the 1960’s Marxism(or scientific socialism) was considered the new promise, the savior of the workers, the rebellion against the aristocracy of industries; and ,again, it was applauded by intellectuals, artists ;some politicians, also, chose it as their political slogan. And so, countries were reformed by this supposed hero and people felt that their suffering was to disappear. Nevertheless, when some time passed and the crudeness of the system went out to light in countries such as Cuba, USSR, and China, people began to realize that they were wrong, that they were losing their identity, religion (the so-called opium of the people), and their liberty. They realize that they really made them all equal, but in poverty. After this, we know by history, the system collapsed (mostly) and people began to believe in capitalism again.
This capitalism was the new hero (although it was the villain for some intellectuals), was the new savior: “at least we keep our liberties”- some socialism victims stated . Capitalism was the opportunity to go and achieve goals. This system, however, made a machine of the man as communism did. Some people, again, realized that this system has never been fair with all. Nevertheless, no one listened to them – they didn’t want Marx‘s nor Mao’s! - And so, they were forgotten.
Today, as we draw the line to compare how imperfect and unfair these systems turned to be thanks to how our system is falling and how our economy is suffering, we question ourselves: is this system right?, are we doing the right thing? Or should we create a new system fair for all? I leave the question to you. Nor

Holy Night!

O sweet holy night
O beautiful night
That night there was not war
Nor sadness, nor cry.

O night so cold
So quiet, so silent
That night came to earth
The Messiah to save us all.

Poor he came to earth
But rich in divinity he was
The lord of mercy he was
The Messiah to save us all.

O David star so bright
The guide to find the Lord
O star that helped to find
The lord, the savior and God.

What You Think, What You Become

What you think, what you become.

I remember an anecdote of a woman who said :”when I was young I sweared that I would never marry a man with lastname Smith, nor work washing dishes; nevertheless I did”. So what should we conclude: our minds respond to our comands. It’s clear hat when we attempt not to forget something, we certaintly do, and is not funny when that happens because is the contrary of what we were trying not to do.

All of our thoughts are materialized in our lifes. For example: when a mother says: “William, do not break the expensive vase”, and she does realize that minutes later, the crack sound of the breaking vase is heard. My point is to tell youy, my friends, that is time to leave all of our negative thoughts, because what the mother of the example is doing is giving negative commands. Our minds work as a video taper; in the video you say something and the camera gets everything and, later on, it will show exacly what you say; the same way does work your mind, your unconscient mind or- as I call it- the mind of the back. Imagine your mind as a video taper, it will tape everything you say exacly the way you said it giving commands to you body to do exacly what you said. Because, my friends, it’s its job, isn’t it? The job of your brain is to control your body and your life, whatsoever.

Far from fantasies, we should realize that if we say “ I am Sick” in the moment of sicknesses you will be more, but if you say “ I am cured” even though you are not, your mind will give the command to your body to act, to send antibodies, and you- I assured you- will feel better ( probably not healthly now, but emocionally as first step). And is cientificly proven that your brain releases the Cerotonin and endorphins giving you the sensation of being good.
When a father says : my poor son, he is crying” you are giving him the command of being poor, you are wishing him bad luck with your words and you don’t want that, you want your son to be happy and wealthy and etcetera. Your thoughts are commands. You can change, also, the way you act. For example, we know the story of Demostenes, he could not talk very well, but he tried and studied and practiced with stones in his mouth, and he could, he turned to be a very good orator and speaker.

This really work, my friends, God gave you the power of thought and word, do not waste it.