Astrology and Myth

These things never happened

But always are

- Sallust, on the myths

The word 'myth' nowadays tend to mean something like ”untruth” or even ”lie”, but the original meaning of the word was simply ”story” (from the Greek mythos).

Storytelling is as ancient as man. Tradition and knowledge have always been handed down through stories. Everything has its story. Storytelling is a way of interpreting reality in the form of poetry and drama.

Seasons, days and nights, births and deaths – life is made up of cycles going all the way back to the beginning and tuned to the orbits of the heavenly bodies. The ancients realized all this and related life on Earth to the movements of the Sun, Moon and the planets. They realized that the heavenly pattern penetrates and fills all life and everything that happens on the Earth.

The same pattern therefore also informed the stories, sagas, chants and rituals of man. The stories were attired in various garments during various epochs, in different places and among different peoples. Yet the inner core always remained the same. The very same pattern that fills and penetrates everything also filled the stories – the myths – and gave life to them. The myths of ancient heroes, gods and giants are therefore also the tales of the orbiting heavenly bodies.

Astrology shows an archetypal astral pattern which fills and penetrates all life and all movement. Everything is connected. Every epoch, every moment has its character, forming its specific pattern in the constantly changing kaleidoscope of being.

This follows from necessity since the original archetypal pattern is still here, penetrating everything, taking part in all change and also being mirrored in man and in his society, his psyche and body and in all of his life.

In this way the orbits of the Sun, Moon and planets mirror everything on Earth. Cyclic patterns are repeated and united to each other forming the web of life that is our universe and our world.

The same pattern that gives shape to everything also gives shape to the stories – mythos – of man. Therefore there is a deep and profound content in these stories. They speak in symbolic form about our lives. Therefore there is also a close connection between astrology and myth. Both mirror our life and the universal patterns and archetypes that flow forth from the great source of everything and that penetrate and inform all there is...

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Astrology as Poetry

Like all ancient systems of knowledge, astrology embraces everything and leaves nothing outside. It mirrors life´s wholeness and therefore it has a deeply poetical dimension.

Life and existence cannot be correctly perceived in case the inherent poetry is not allowed to shine through. Even the prosaic things of life have their quiet poetry.

Everything is in the eye of the beholder!

It is part of reality´s nature to have a poetic dimension. And reality – it consists both of the perceived and the perceiver!

You cannot remove poetry from reality without doing violence to life. Poetry – not necessarily written poetry but rather what I would like to refer to as the poetic dimension of existence – speaks softly, touches deep feelings and makes everything belong together and mean something.

Remove poetry - and reality gets dull, hard, cold, insecure and unreal. Things are put up against each other. What belongs together is separated. The whole is broken apart. Meaning gets lost.

It is in the meaningful affinity of eveything that astrology has its place. It brings all things together, shows that all things have their context and meaning. All things are permitted to work together. Life becomes whole (and holy!). Also that which is difficult and painful has its meaning and place, is explained, listened to and integrated as a part of the one reality that we all share...

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