Splungeman
I will start by saying that my inentions here are not evil. I have had a lot of questions about Astrology that have nagged me over the years, which I confess has led me really to not really pay much attention to it. The more I encounter it though, the more I want to ask questions about it. I am a skeptic, I confess. I hope that as this thread progresses (if it progresses at all) you will bear with me and not be troubled.
I will start things off with the content of another thread and end with my latest response:
Surely we won't be here forever. Our continued survival as a species may depend on our figuring out how to live elsewhere.
Question: How much is our human-ness bound up in Astrology?
I will start things off with the content of another thread and end with my latest response:
Splungeman said:I suppose I can understand where you're coming from here. Classically humans have attributed the stars, moon, etc to the art of divination.
I wonder though...
What if you were to pull out your Tarot cards and start a reading...on a spaceship orbiting a star system light years away...or even on the surface of Pluto? If the mechanism of divination has to do with astrology, and Astrology is built entirely from the perspective of observing planets, stars, etc from the viewing perspective of Earth, what happens then once you leave Earth? Do you lose the ability to divine?.
sravana said:I have no idea, nor do I think that it matters much. We live here.
Perhaps our children's children will find out - I imagine that shuffling on the space shuttle in zero gravity would be challenging, to say the least! And it isn't likely that humans will be living on Mars or the Moon to any great extent. Not to mention, if one was born on another planet, what would one's birthchart look like? Would the earth in your chart now signify what the planet you were born on (say, Mars) usually indicates in a chart? What about Mars' two moons: Phobos and Deimos? Would you have an excess of fear about you, and no sense of feelings, mother, warmth and all the other things that our moon usually indicates? Not to mention, how would you progress the chart - and what would happen if you moved to earth? Rather than calling astrology/divination into question, I think that it rather begs the question - how much of our human-ness is bound up in living on the Earth?
Again, I don't think that it really matters much. We are here, after all.
Surely we won't be here forever. Our continued survival as a species may depend on our figuring out how to live elsewhere.
Question: How much is our human-ness bound up in Astrology?