Astronomy for Astrologers
Summary: All that ‘is” circles, and, in fact, everything
that ‘is’ repeats or returns on itself, again and again—
cycles—and these cycles are spirals. Examples of
common cycles are: the cycle of the earth around the
Sun in a year, the cycle of the Moon around Earth in a
Month, the cycle of the revolution of the earth in a day,
the cycle of our breath—breathing, the cycle of our
heart beating, and so on, downward to cycles so small
that they are invisible to us—such as the cycle of
electrons orbiting an atom.
On the other hand, cycles on the longer side—beyond
our imagination—include the cycle of our Sun orbiting
the center of the galaxy, a cycle taking some 230 million
years to complete, and so on. In other words, we are
bound on one hand by endless cycles too small for us to
measure, and on the other by cycles too vast for us to
grasp. In astrology, we study the cycles that fall within
our life's awareness—the ones within our ability to
measure and understand. Astrology primarily, in many
ways, involves the study of cycles such as these.