The Elegant Patterning of the Universe
We all have a notion of what astrology means to us, and what it represents in our lives. This is usually based on how we were exposed to it culturally. Most of the time, if I mention the word "astrology" to people, they immediately say something about reading their horoscope, and whether or not they believe in it.
Rarely do I hear anyone comment on their sign, or accord it any sort of importance or consideration. Their "sign" (which astrologers refer to as the Sun Sign - which sign the Sun was in at the time of their birth) tends to be seen more as a piece of data which is used to reference when looking up the horoscope section.
When I read books on astrology, they are either too simple or too complex. Most of the time what they lack in my eyes is a certain sensitivity to the beauty and uniqueness of the human spirit. Astrology has become an extreme form of categorization,where labels from the "outside" (planets and signs) are pinned on to us to explain our "inside" (our personality, feelings and motives).
I wish to approach astrology with a third way, a tangential approach if you will. To explore the dynamic between the Above and the Below, the Cosmic and the Human, and to find somewhere in between a certain poetry, something new and unique which arises afresh with every moment.
This is the purpose of this blog, which I have named Astro Sophia, in honor of the Goddess of Divine Wisdom. Sophia comes from the Greek for wisdom, which I have substituted from -logy which comes from the Greek for study.
To see ourselves as reflections of the starry sky is to see ourselves as reflections of the Gods. There is something so archetypally beautiful about that - to think that in some way we are all pieces of the puzzles of the universe, or as Rumi so beautifully put it all those centuries ago "the elegant patterning of the universe".
Rarely do I hear anyone comment on their sign, or accord it any sort of importance or consideration. Their "sign" (which astrologers refer to as the Sun Sign - which sign the Sun was in at the time of their birth) tends to be seen more as a piece of data which is used to reference when looking up the horoscope section.
When I read books on astrology, they are either too simple or too complex. Most of the time what they lack in my eyes is a certain sensitivity to the beauty and uniqueness of the human spirit. Astrology has become an extreme form of categorization,where labels from the "outside" (planets and signs) are pinned on to us to explain our "inside" (our personality, feelings and motives).
I wish to approach astrology with a third way, a tangential approach if you will. To explore the dynamic between the Above and the Below, the Cosmic and the Human, and to find somewhere in between a certain poetry, something new and unique which arises afresh with every moment.
This is the purpose of this blog, which I have named Astro Sophia, in honor of the Goddess of Divine Wisdom. Sophia comes from the Greek for wisdom, which I have substituted from -logy which comes from the Greek for study.
To see ourselves as reflections of the starry sky is to see ourselves as reflections of the Gods. There is something so archetypally beautiful about that - to think that in some way we are all pieces of the puzzles of the universe, or as Rumi so beautifully put it all those centuries ago "the elegant patterning of the universe".
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