The Lights and Planets
happening down here on earth are both happening in
the same moment and in the same general space. The
same thing is happening everywhere, and there are just
different ways of expressing it. Astrologers learn to read
the language of the planets and the stars so that they
can better understand what is happening here on Earth.
The key players in this are: the Sun, the Moon, and the
planets.
A Working System
Perhaps the most important first concept to note is that
all of those bodies out there are not just isolated entities.
They work and hang together as a system—the solar
system. And, they have all been doing this for a very
long time, so they have found just the right distances to
keep, one from another, as they all orbit around the Sun.
This integrated balanced system is older than any time
we can measure and will probably last longer than any
time we can imagine. At this point in history, this entire