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(XII) HISTORY - 21ST CENTURY ASTROLOGY

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« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2007, 05:59:21 pm »








The organic integration of planetary rhythms, at the level of the nervous system or the genetic code, a fundamental hypothesis of astral reality, necessitates as a result a category of realities -- the pre-conscious awarenesses [impressionaux] or astral impressions -- which form the relationship of the astral to consciousness.

All one can say about an astral impression is that it leaves a fugitive trace in consciousness, an evanescent psychic coloration. To these pre-conscious awarenesses -- experienced directly or indirectly by consciousness but unproveable, imponderable, too tenuous to be exploited by the machinery of logical-experimental methodology -- are assigned archetypal forms [2] , symbolic or mythical, which resolve the psycho-mental disequilibrium created by the impossibility of fixing their characteristics.

The symbol has as its function to qualify these diaphanous entities, which escape all attempts at determination, and to supplement reason, which cannot give a full accounting of reality in its integrated totality. We shall not speak of influences -- a term which carries a physical connotation and contains the idea of a type of action exterior in origin -- but rather of incidence, that is to say, of a psychic, interior integration of astral origin.

    The astronomical signal is registered as a pre-conscious awareness and expressed as a symbol. The astral (i.e., the impressionaux) derives from the psychic; the astrological (i.e., symbols and operative structures) derives from the mental. The astral designates that which is felt, lived, "impressed" onto the psyche, perceived fleetingly, or "unperceived": the astrological is structured, conceptualized, modelled. This distinction is at the heart of the debate about the nature and practical implications of astrological knowledge.

    An irrational assumption, imaginary or improbable because it is inaccessible to the instruments of observation and unsusceptible to analysis by the the laws of causality, astrology -- that science of the imponderable, that awareness of the evanescent, that knowledge of the imperceptible -- does not derive from the psychic or the mental, but rather from their common root which lies "behind our eyes" (Paracelsus). Neither does it come from a Great Beyond, but rather from something "on this side of things," something intimate, our own, close to us, which nonetheless seems strange.
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