Let's discuss Astrology and Astronomy

Can we eventually come together and form a new understanding of the cosmos?

Astrology and Astronomy have long been divided and therefore "astronomy" conquers Astrology as the dominant "study" of the cosmos that is deemed worthy of academic grant funding for scientific research. The mainstream attack on Astrology is to simply dismiss it by calling it "pseudoscience." It is my experience that this is an on-going war between mysticism and science.

So, a few months ago, I decided to start reading some books on Astronomy so I could wrap my head around this war on cosmic knowledge and why it continues to this day.

One of these books is called "Sun, Moon, Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets" by Tyler Nordgren. After researching him a bit, he seems like a really neat guy. He draws and paints posters of cosmic events on top of being a professor of astronomy and physics. According to his website, he is attending NASA's Europa Clipper launch to Jupiter during the month of October!

I am personally not at odds wtih embracing both studies and eventually calling this discipline Cosmology to encompass both fields. Yet, to this day, the mainstream scientific population would not allow this. Astronomy as a scientific field of study cannot to this day accept the fact that we are in relationship with the cosmos as much as we are observers of its phenomena. Astrology measures the immersive experience of our intergalactic passage through a map of interlaced evolutionary phenomena and attempts to express an on-going story of your life as a work in progress. Astrology is decentralized (experienced knowledge that tends to play out in archetypal patterns) while Astronomy is centralized (authoritarian scripting of facts). They are at odds because we continue to dismiss real-lived complex experiences as scientific data.

In this book, I found a very important passage that I want to unpack.

"Astrology, like astronomy, makes predictions. Astrologers claim that the position of the Sun, Moon, and planets at the time of your birth influences your personality and fate. It tries to identify auspicious dates, opportune investments, and compatible mates. The one thing it does not do, however, is reevaluate its assumptions when it's wrong. Only science does that. Yet in a 2014 National Science Foundation survey, nearly half of Americans (45%) responded that they believed there was some scientific basis to astrology." -Tyler Nordgren

He is correct that Astrology does not promote going back to re-assess the predictions made and see where they were correct, partially correct, or just plain out wrong. This is a huge flaw in Astrology that has gotten on my nerves because we cannot learn without reflection. Yet, we are living through these complex patterns as cycles so what needs to come back up, will come back up eventually. But, I think it is dangerous and out of integrity to make predictions and not go back and evaluate and measure the results of one's predictions. It is kinda lazy to be honest. So, I 100% agree with him here. Astrology does not provide a strong enough paper trail of proof of work so it's hard for people to take the discipline seriously.

Yet, tracking patterns associated with the cycles of the moon is science. We are building a method based on what we experience and making the unconscious, conscious. Every single calendar is based on some sort of Astrological knowledge and our relationship with the cosmos. NASA still uses the constellation names in their work and never credits Astrology for this...newsflash Astronomy did not develop the concept of the 12 zodiac signs, ASTROLOGY did. So, my first question that I would ask Dr. Nordgren if I ever got to sit down with him would be, what knowledge from Astrology does Astronomy still use that is not deemed pseudoscientific from their community? And who in Astronomy gets to decide what to cherry-pick from Astrology as appropriate citation and use for their studies?

I think those questions would stump him for a bit and take time for him to answer with integrity and curiosity, which are supposed to be the pillars of any good scientist.

In addition, there is a rift in the Astrology community that complicates this feud. Most mainstream astrologists are tracking data from software computing the complexities of the 12 houses and transits of the planets, moons, asteroids, and stars. They are making predictions with analytical evidence, but missing the point of animism, which embraces the phenomenon that frequency precedes form. This means that the baseline fabric of the entire physical world is energy. We humans can feel these subtle energy fields (spheres of consciousness) being emitted like radio frequencies from the planets, stars, asteroids, and moons through our chakra system. And, additionally we can feel at the subliminal, subtle level of our consciousness these tugs and pulls that are happening on an on-going basis as we travel through the cosmos. We are traveling through a passage into light at all times. And, right now the Milky Way Galaxy is headed closer and closer to a collision with the Andromedan Galaxy.

Most people deny that we can feel these movements because they believe humans do not have these abilities. At this time, I do not have scholarly proof of work for my intuitive, channelled feelings of these transits that emerge from my own subconscious from time to time. I would say that anyone experiencing vertigo is actually feeling a cosmic shift at the quantum level. I would also predict that we can feel these subtle energies from a certain amount of natural DMT in our brains and hearts. AND, I would also like to draw a parallel to the thinning of the veil from paganism referring to this phenomenon of being able to bend the physical reality with our consciousness. This bending is a perception of course of an animate living system imbued with life force.

Again, this is my personal opinion, experience, and observation. But, that's just the thing with consciousness, it is a knowing, a real-lived experience. And, this is also DATA that deserves to be measured and not dismissed constantly as pseudoscientific. We USED to measure this data through oral tradition, ceremony, ritual, music, and storytelling. From where I stand, it sure seems we are at the mercy of authoritarians dictating to us what is real data and what is not real data.

So, what do you think? Do you think Astrology and Astronomy will one day merge together to form a new discipline of scientific research?

About Kate: I hold two bachelors of arts degrees from The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in Linguistics and Italian Studies. The professional path I have walked so far is one of me evolving into my complexities as an artist, a philomath (scholar), and a businesswoman. I have 14+ years of business development, analytics, and entrepreneurial experience across an array of industries. My career has been and continues to be an unfolding in contrast to a standard, linear career path. My artistic platform is called Priestess House: where cosmology meets our reality. I live in Kalamazoo, Michigan with my two sons, George and Peter. You can find my music on Soundcloud @katearcangeli