--- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The idea that planets can go "retrograde" is all due to the > ludicrous maths involved in making the earth appear to be > the centre of the solar system, it really isn't.
It sounds a lot like the math involved in saying that one's spiritual teacher is "the best," or that one's spiritual path is "the best." Those beliefs are based on the person who thinks that appearing to be at the center of the universe, too. :-) Personally I think that astrology is hogwash, *except* as tricksterism. That is, some people whose intuition and "seeing" skills are present but latent can *trick* themselves into utilizing their latent ability to "see" by gazing a chart of the position of the planets. For other people, it's tarot cards. For still others, reading tea leaves. None of the trickster mechanisms do anything or mean anything; they're all equally bogus. *But*, if they allow someone to get past their own disbelief and trick them- selves into utilizing previously-unused abilities, they work like gangbusters. Basically, I see astrology and all other "predic- tive technologies" as the Dumbo's feathers of the universe. Remember Dumbo, from the Disney cartoon? When he held the feather in his trunk, he could fly. The feather didn't do diddleysquat; Dumbo's belief that it did was all that mattered. IMO, that's the only reason that astrology appears to "work." For that matter, that might be the same reason why *any* technique of Self realization appears to "work." Self has always been present; all that the techniques do is trick the seeker into real- izing what has always been present.
