In mundane reality, now is a time to weed the garden and plant new seeds and to clean out the garage and have a sale or giveaway. We are simply following the cycle of the sun, which by the way, is called a planet in astrology. As I considered how to focus a series on astrology, I realized it is like picking a star out of the Milky Way, since astrology is such a vast and complex system of knowledge. Astrology is a system for doing just that. As a Jungian and Archetypal psychotherapist, part of my emphasis each month will be on the archetypes in astrology, for as human beings began to look upward to measure the timing of cycles for agriculture, they also looked inward to understand their own cycles of becoming.
Geophysical evidence reveals the power of the stars and the planets in relation to the terrestrial.
This is why astrology is like a life-giving elixir to mankind. Astrology, however, is best understood not as a scientific system, but as a symbolic one. It is a philosophical doctrine and complex symbol system based on the Universal Law of Oneness. It uses a symbolic language which seeks to interpret people and events in terms of a deeper cosmic pattern. Astrology reveals that there is an intimate and holistic relationship between all things in the universe.