Astrology in The 21 Century

Astrology – in the last century we had a great innovation in the form of humanistic astrology which was the integration of Carl Jung’s archetypal concepts with astrology, the signs of the zodiac, the houses of the zodiac and that occurred through the work of Dane Rudhyar, 1900 – 2000 – one century – he was born in 1895 and passed away about 95 years later. And he brought into the world the astrology of personality, meaning the archetypes. Now previous to that, of course, it was astrology – the day you’re born, the signs, what is your fate? What’s going to happen to you? Everybody wants to future. But not Dane Rudhyar – he wanted to know what is going on now and specifically, how can you fulfill yourself given the time you were born – the seed of your personality? The concept of cycles became very important to astrology – The Cycles of Becoming by Alexander Ruperti – how to sync your understanding of what’s going on in your life with the cyclic motion of with planets in your horoscope. Now we are in the 21st century. What is the innovation of the 21st century? It is the mystical element, the mystery of the universe; dark matter is being discovered. Kabbalah has become a mass movement. Millions upon millions of people, Jews and non-Jews alike, are speaking kabbalistic terms in their lives: reincarnation, cosmology, Sefer Zohar; Hebrew letters, letters of the Hebrew alphabet, mystical concepts. What do we need more than we have already? Why do we need a mystical element to astrology? The universe as seen from the eyes of the telescope is a bunch of stars and planets. Astronomers always finding new planets which they surmise are there by the mathematical calculations of orbits that are being nudged one way or another -- must be a planet out there 500 light years away? It seems like the farther we go out in space, there must be a corresponding inner dimension; we have to get further and further within inner space until we find the ultimate truth -- so-called ultimate truth – “ET” – “eternal truth”, the alien within, “ET”, eternal truth. Atheism has become a big movement -- humanistic atheism -- because people are looking inside and what do they see? They see only themselves. “I don’t see any god. I see my personality, my parents, my grandparents’ influences, what I learned, what I remember – and even if there is a god, he’s very quiet. Who needs him? He’s just an observer -- the observer within, the witness, the eternal witness. Someone is looking – big deal. So – back to astrology – so you look now at some of the Kabbalistic websites on astrology – they’re integrating the Sefer Yetzira, which is, you might say, the primer on Hebrew astrology and Kabbalistic astrology into personality. There is a kind of a similar thing that Rudhyar did with Jungian psychology and astrology, astrology and personality, the archetypes in the personality. And here you have the Sefer Yetzira. The letters that form the universe are related to signs of the zodiac. Your sign that your born-- the sun, the main personality planet and the moon, and the ascendant, but primarily the sun shining -- the way you need to shine -- has a cosmological element called Hebrew letter with which that sign was created. Now there is a – in Hebrew, it’s ‘Hee’***’ , there’s a novelty; there’s something new. The sign of the zodiac was created with a Hebrew letter; that sounds kind of ethnocentric. But it’s no more ethnocentric than the archetypes -- the architects are for everybody-- the Hebrew letters are for everybody also. Everybody can read English. There is no property claim on the English alphabet and there’s no property claim on the Hebrew alphabet – it’s just a different alphabet but which has a cosmological basis, you might say. And that’s the myth and we all live by myths. And astrology is a myth in the sense that there’s truth in it. It can’t be spoken in the words of the English language as well as in symbols – in any language actually -- it’s symbols. And Hebrew actually has an advantage over English in that each letter is also a symbol. And that’s the point, isn’t it? The Hebrew letter of the signs -- each letter is associated with a sign of the zodiac – it’s a symbol which has a unique meaning and that’s the 21st century Kabbalah – I see I’m starting to shake – I must in a prayerful mood or something – alright – whatever.