The Horoscope

The horoscope reveals the shape of time. As the Greek meaning of the word indicates, the horoscope allows us to look into (“skopein”) the hour (“horos”). In every moment the potential of its unfolding is contained, just as the seed already carries the shape of the finished tree. Whenever something comes into the world for the first time, the astrological constellations show the essence and the possibilities of development. The horoscope is universal. It can be drawn not only on the birth of a human being, but on all manifestations of world affairs: events, ideas, the founding of states or organisations, products and patents, movie premieres, first viewings of houses and apartments, job interviews and much more.

Astrology as the oldest System Theory of Mankind

At schools and universities, we learn a wealth of different methods and approaches to deal with these phenomena. Take a plane crash, for example. The technical side of this event is explained with theories from physics and chemistry. In the case of a terrorist attack, psychological, sociological and perhaps even religious theories are added. The economic damage is dealt with by financial experts, the influence of the plane crash on share prices by stock market analysts. If unusual weather phenomena were the cause, the meteorologists come into play. If there are survivors, medical doctors are also interviewed about the event, and so on. The plane crash is examined by all these experts from hundreds of different angles, methods and theories. As a rule, all these theories are hardly compatible with each other. The technical cause is viewed from a completely different logic bubble than the psychological motives or the economic consequences of the event. A hullabaloo of the most diverse paradigm systems pounces on the event to dissect it and explain it under the spell of their own perception glasses. But each expert remains trapped in the logic bubble of his or her discipline.

Modern systems theory tries to build a bridge here and creates a superordinate thought structure that connects all these different logic bubbles. So far, however, this attempt at interdisciplinarity has led mainly to an arsenal of bloodless empty phrases that fit everywhere but are rarely of any concrete use in daily work. They resemble a foreign language that no one speaks or which, with terms like “holistic” or “sustainable”, primarily serves decorative purposes.

The Elements of the Horoscope: 1 Zodiac – 2 Planets – 3 Aspects – 4 Houses

The situation is quite different with astrology. Its language has evolved over thousands of years directly from human experience. It works with archetypes and symbols that have a strong emotional charge. Their meaning can therefore be grasped very intuitively, largely independent of education or cultural conditioning. Its language is universal, which is also reflected in the fact that it is deeply anchored in the most diverse cultures and epochs. Of course, astrology is constantly adapting its form to the Zeitgeist and to new scientific findings (e.g. new planets). Nevertheless, a modern astrologer from New York would easily be able to exchange ideas with an Indian astrologer from the Middle Ages or a Renaissance astrologer from Bologna. Standard works of astrology such as the Tetrabiblos by Ptolemy (100 – 160) or the canon of doctrine by Al Biruni (973 – 1048) or William Lilly (1602 – 1681) have largely retained their validity and applicability to this day. There is no other system of thought in the world that forms such a lasting constant over many centuries and cultural circles.

Not only the language and content of astrology are universal, but also its system. The horoscope can not only be applied to the most diverse phenomena of our world. It also equally contains the perspectives of the most diverse disciplines. To return to the example of the plane crash, the horoscope shows not only the timing but also the technical, psychological, sociological, economic and other implications of the event. The entire morphology of the crash is contained in the horoscope. For this purpose, an extremely sophisticated tool is available, which goes far beyond what is popularly known as the “twelve Star Signs”. The astrological model is a complex archetypal system theory which offers an almost infinite number of possible combinations.