Retrograde Mercury! Pluto transit! Saturn is coming...
Is it that astrology arouses fears in us that, in the end, do not let us leave the house?
The other day I was watching chapter 3 “The Harmony of the Worlds” of Cosmos, in the Carl Sagan version. Actually, I searched Youtube for some episodes of this series… to get inspired. And "by chance" I chose chapter 3.
Carl Sagan has always been one of my childhood heroes, along with Superman and Indiana Jones.
But chapter 3… (I leave it here for context).
That chapter is pretty much designed to discredit astrology - in the most ruthless way possible. At one point he begins to talk about how absurd it is to believe that Saturn has come to eat the head of his children... Did he really investigate before doing this chapter? - I asked myself. What I heard sounded very incomplete.
What is it that I did? I went to look at Carl Sagan's birth chart, knowing that wherever he was, he would be upset.
I found what I supposed... Saturn in Aquarius.1
But I also understood something… Sagan makes it clear that science only accepts what can be proven. And if it can't be proven, it's not serious.
That made me see two things:
From Carl Sagan's reasoning about what science is, yes, he has a point.
From the very reasoning of Carl Sagan about what science is, he had just said a fallacy.
All fallacies are reasoning that violates some logical rule. So, can scientists prove that astrology is not real? No.
If it can't be proven to be real, but it can't be proven not to be real either, then at least Carl should have treated it as a hypothesis.2
And believe me, I love the poetic mind of Carl Sagan... It's not easy to know that if he knew what I did, he would see me as a spreader of superstition. However, I still have a lot of respect for him.
But as with everything, astrology can also be misused.
And of course... knowing in advance the energies that move in our earthly experience can arouse anxiety, and even fear!
Personally, I believe that astrology is not made to predict events, and if it happens, it is because of the visionary capacity of the human being who uses astrology as a proxy to unravel a talent that goes beyond astrology.
Perhaps, in the past it was easier to make predictions, since in other times, historical cycles covered large stretches of time without undergoing major changes... especially in everyday life, making predictions… predictable.
Of course, that can still happen today for some!
And speaking of the past... secret societies and esotericism, in general, were born out of necessity. It is not that the information was only for initiates, but that they had to hide it to prevent religious institutions from burning their books... and them! That later secret societies were created where only the "chosen" could enter, is something else.
For me, astrology helps us to read the energy currents that activate certain individual and/or collective processes. And the possible repercussions of, for example, planetary transits, can manifest a myriad of situations. That depends on the personal, cultural, temporal, geographical situation, (etc…) of each one.
Actually, we can intuit transits without the need for astrology. In fact, the transpersonal planets -Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto- mark in their transits very human evolutionary stages that we can easily recognize from psychology.