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• The Fated Sky: Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick
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Just so, the Sun remains for three days in transit at the equinoctial point before it begins its ascent into the northern hemisphere. This is not to say that the story of the Passover, or the life of Christ, is a mere allegory of a celestial event. God forbid! Astrologically speaking, in the divine scheme of things, it is rather the other way around.

Mercury is not mentioned by Homer, but Iris, the rainbow goddess, is his female form. As a messenger, she acts with strict neutrality, but every scene on earth is a reflex, outcome, or willed event of some previous celestial scene. What do you think Homer and Vergil had in mind, wrote one Renaissance astrologer, Girolamo Cardano, when they continually made the gods quarrel or fight, the Homeric ones for the Greeks or Trojans, the Vergilian for Turnus or Aeneas?

Clearly that some of the stars favored one party, others the other. That is the explanation of those numerous meetings and counsels of the gods…Therefore when they said that Venus favored Aeneas because he was very handsome, or that Juno, that is, fortune, and the Moon favored Turnus, or that Apollo, or the Sun, favored Hector because he was strong and just, they had in mind, concealed under the veil of fable, the genius or star that ruled each one at birth.

If the pagan myths are astrological allegories of a sort, so too may be some of the biblical tales—for example, that of Samson, whose name in Hebrew means belonging to the Sun. Delilah is his opposite in every sense. If he is Leo-like, the root of her name in Hebrew is the word for Aquarius—the opposite sign. This is a story in which astrological opposites meet, mate, and clash. Ludwig Wittgenstein once touchingly glanced at this idea in one of his mournful moods when he wrote, We feel that when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched.

Religion occupies the sacred heart of all those questions to which the problems of life give rise, and astrology is the most venerable branch of that inner knowledge from which religion springs. This is not a book for or against astrology, but a book about its impact on history and on the history of ideas. That impact has been large, and without a competent knowledge of the subject it is almost impossible to accurately trace or construe much of history itself or the ideas that have governed its course.

For it runs, and has run, like an underground river through human affairs. Indeed, until the middle of the 17th century at least, astrology entered into the councils of princes, guided the policy of nations, and ruled the daily actions of individuals, great and small. Astrological predictions often affected the course of events, while those in power based their actions on astrological advice. It is said that the Incas submitted to the Spanish almost without a fight because the arrival of the conquistadors happened to coincide with an astrological prophecy that their civilization was coming to an end.

The Fated Sky: Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick

Depending on how one cares to interpret this, the prophecy fulfilled itself or, by acquiescence, was fulfilled. Either way, astrology had power. The very idea of a period of history to which the Incas belonged is astrological, and based on the conjunction theory Columbus embraced. That theory brought the otherwise indistinguishable flow of time into an ordered sequence, and made history intelligible by identifying its hectic course with celestial events. It also helped to explain why history often seemed to repeat itself, as imaged in the repetitions in the sky.

Modern science, like modern history, tends to disregard it, but this is a senseless bias or neglect. The history of science itself is so beholden to astrology that it owes it a debt of respectful attention if not abundant gratitude. Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great, Friedrich Nietzsche once remarked, if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers, and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

Astrology, of course, possesses its own kind of knowledge, which has nothing to do with what modern science reveres. But in some sense, it is also true that magic and science originally advanced side by side. The mystical conviction that number contained the key to all mysteries fostered the development of mathematics—and subsequently revived it in the wake of the Dark Ages when knowledge of the subject had waned.

The irreverent scorn in which astrology is sometimes held is ultimately based on a superstition, one all the more dangerous, as Theodore Roosevelt once remarked in an essay entitled, The Search for Truth in a Reverent Spirit , because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from superstition itself.

No medieval superstition…could be more intolerant…than that…which not merely calls itself scientific but arrogates to itself the sole right to use the term. Surely a degree of humility is not unbecoming in any attempt to assess the value of a doctrine—or teaching —that has survived for thousands of years. If astrology is dead and buried, as some would have it, its grave is as unquiet as that of Columbus, and as indeterminate as his tomb.

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Sir Elias Ashmole for whom the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford is named once remarked: There are in Astrologie I confess shallow Brooks, through which young Tyroes may wade; but withal there are deep Fords, over which the Giants themselves must swim. There is far more to the subject than tends to meet the modern eye.

Its story, at the very least, is enlarged with remarkable lives, including some of the most illustrious and infamous in human history, and draws its line through the whole chronology and range of human culture, from the back alleys of imperial Rome, where fortune-tellers plied their trade, to the inner circles of secular and religious power. Four thousand years before Christ, the Babylonians and Assyrians scanned the heavens for omens of their fate, and from atop their ziggurats, or multitiered towers, mapped the course of the planets and from their observations began to make predictions about the weather, the harvest, drought, famine, war, peace, and the fates of kings.

Some of the earliest known towers were at Uruk and Ur. The biblical prophet Abraham, father of the Jewish people, was born in the city of Ur of the Kasdim a phrase meaning light of the astrologers when the rulers of Mesopotamia were said to be astrologer-kings. Astrology flourished in the reign of Assurbanipal called Sardanapalus by the Greeks , who reigned at Nineveh in the middle of the 7th centuryB.

Assurbanipal was the son of Esarhaddon, who had succeeded Sennacherib, the ruler of Assyria mentioned in Isaiah and 2 Kings. In the time of the biblical prophet Daniel, it was still customary under the Assyrian monarchs for the general in the field to be accompanied by his asipu, or prophet, on whose interpretation of the signs of heaven the movements of the army relied. Whether or not these Assyrians worshipped the planets themselves as gods—or regarded their patterned flight as the agents of some higher power—they began to trust in their import and recorded their observations on calcite and green-stone cylinder seals.

The Sun was depicted as a rayed disk, the Moon as a crescent, and Venus as an eight-pointed star. Most took the form of celestial omens, which accurately noted the rising and setting of Venus with predictions based on its appearance and location in the sky. One typical omen read: When Venus appears in Dilgan Virgo , rains in heaven, floods on [earth], the crops of Aharru will prosper; and men will reinhabit ruined homes. Or: If Venus appears in the east in the month of Airu and the Great and Small Twins surround her, all four of them, and she is dark, then the King of Elam will sicken and die.

Again: When the fiery light of Venus illuminates the breast of Scorpio, then rain and floods will ravage the land. Other planets were also assessed. For example, If a halo encircle the Moon, and Jupiter is found within it, animals will perish and the king of Akkad will be besieged. Or: When Jupiter stands in front of Mars, there will be corn in the fields and men will be slain…When Mars approaches Jupiter, there will be great devastation…In that year the king of Akkad will die.

Before the ancient twelve-month calendar emerged, the different seasons were identified with particular stars that rose as the seasons turned. At the time the constellations were established about B. By B. That enabled them to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon and to accurately fix the duration of the lunar month at a little more than twenty-nine and one half days.

The earliest star maps, in fact, were lists of stars charted in their relation to the Moon. Early tablets therefore referred to the stars in the path of the Moon, and the earliest calendars were lunar, a month lasting either from first crescent to first crescent or from full Moon to full Moon. This subsequently evolved into a lunar zodiac of twenty-eight mansions or divisions, which roughly traced the distance traveled by the Moon each day.

These mansions were sometimes thought of as the temporary resting places of the Sun, Moon, and planets in their journey across the sky. Thus the full Moons divided the whole circle into twelve parts. The twelve constellations were eventually mapped and formed into a zodiac round about the 6th centuryB. Such are the ascertainable beginnings of Chaldean lore. The word Chaldean was originally a geographical term from the Assyrian Kaldu and referred to Chaldea, or lower Mesopotamia, near the Persian Gulf. It eventually came to refer to members of the Babylonian priesthood, then to Greek astrologers directly or indirectly affiliated with Babylonian schools, and ultimately to all those who professed to foretell the future according to the stars.

The Roman historian Diodorus Siculus tells us that the Chaldeans called the planets the Interpreters because their course and relative positions revealed to men the will of the gods. Babylonian star lore migrated to Egypt with the Persian conquests in the 6th centuryB.

In the tomb of Ramses II, who lived about —25B. In the tomb of Ramses V, moreover, he found papyri giving tables of constellations and their influences on human beings for every hour of every month of the year. The different hours of different constellations in the ascendant, for example, were believed to rule different parts of the body—the ears, heart, arms, and so on—according to an astrological tradition that persists to this day.

This type of astrology was not only common among the Chaldeans, writes Ellen McCaffery, "but entered the oral tradition of the Hebrews, which seemed to give support to the statement of the Sephir Yetzirah composed in the early Christian centuries that astrological knowledge had been handed down by Abraham, born among the Chaldees. All in all, some individual horoscopes, most of them Greek, have been preserved from ancient times. It is sometimes said that natal astrology was invented by the Greeks, but that can hardly be, for as early as years before Christ we have a Hittite translation of a Babylonian omen text offering personal predictions according to the month in which a child is born.

Herodotus, in his Histories, tells us that long before his own time the 5th centuryB. But the astrological knowledge of the Greeks also seems to go far back. Philostratus, writing in the early Christian era, tells us that astrology was known in Greece as early as B. The first year, the beds were made of 2x4s; the next, an eagle scout rigged some beds using donated concrete blocks. The grant from Slow Food allowed Grace Mary to put in additional raised beds—and to outfit them with soil and plants, as well as the tools needed to tend the plots. The grant also eased the need for charity: In previous years, Carolyn Kenyon of Kenyon Organics donated plants to the project, but this year, the grant allowed the gardeners to give back to the local business by paying in part for the seedlings.

Luther notes that these beds have finally allowed Grace Mary to grant a plot to everyone requesting one. Residents are free to plant whatever they like in the boxes, and motivations for gardening differ, as some people focus on the fresh produce, while others will grow for the meditative benefits, in some cases giving away the nutritious by-products to other residents.

The residents are also free to tend their reserved plot or not, as they please and as they have time for. Some of the beds lie fallow, unmade and rumpled with weeds, matching the unprepossessing demeanor of the unused portions of the lot.

But most of the beds are bursting with the obvious effects of dedicated care: stands of corn enthusiastically waving tasseled heads like patriotic banners, strawberries sprawling languorously across an entire box, another that has an octopus-embrace of squash vines, tomatoes and peppers vying to soak up the heat. Luther points out one overflowing box whose previous owner rigged an elaborate watering system using pipes and two-liter bottles.

Another plot, standing near the gate is especially eye-catching—in addition to rioting plants, it including decorations such as a light house, flags and butterflies.

One might assume that this bed is an example plot tended by the staff of Grace Mary; however, the bed belongs to resident Denise. And if the garden bed showcases her dedication to making something blossom out of the blasted urban desert, this verdancy only palely reflects the changes Denise has undergone within. Less than a year ago, Denise was dying: The effects of life-long alcoholism landed the year-old in the hospital. Would you have one done?

Weiss Kelly sits in her light-filled Florida office surrounded by framed images of her successful clients. Then another asking to do one for a friend as a birthday present. Yet another asking for a chart on the new puppy they just adopted. I just wanted her to enjoy being a dog. Sure enough, it happened. From there, Lulu got an agent and within two weeks, was booked as a Ralph Lauren model for the Kids Fall Polo collection! The next several years, it was nonstop for Lulu. Just as Weiss predicted. Weiss explains that having a chart done for a dog or cat or other animal for that matter can indicate certain emotional or health tendencies, potential behavior problems, and patterns or compatibility issues.

This has a lot to do with temperament of the dog, especially in regards to family members. Puppyscopes can be effective, however, for breeders and handlers, giving them an edge when to plan the litters for their show dogs according to astrological aspects. Weiss is a certified professional astrologer and syndicated columnist, and is secretary and on the board of directors of the American Federation of Astrologers.