Thursday, 19 January 2012

Astrology and Astronomy, Are They So Incredibly Different?

By Gilbert Karlis


There are many persons within the globe that don't believe that astrology is really a valid art - they will discount it as superstition and mumbo jumbo without the need of really obtaining that beneficial an understanding of what astrology really is.



Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most famous and accomplished scientists in the history on the current globe was a firm believer from the properties and strengths of astrology, in fact when arguing about the validity of astrology he famously stated to the noted astronomer and mathematician Sir Edmond Halley who had ridiculed his beliefs, "Sir, I have studied astrology, you've not."

And herein lies a point - most on the people who dismiss astrology do so over a strength from the peripheral aspects of the science, without having ever truly studying and trying to understand what astrology really is.

Ironically, for significantly of mankind's history, astrology and astronomy had been classed as the exact same science, actually it's only fairly recently that they had been split into various disciplines. During the formation of astrology as an art, it was impossible to be able to produce astrological charts with out also having a fair degree of knowledge of astronomy. Without having charts with the heavens, astrology would not have advanced much beyond the type that was practiced by ancient man.

In the period that can likely be witnessed as the birth of modern astrology as we know it, the ancient Greeks had already begun to note the fundamental differences between the disciplines. The words 'Astrologia' and 'Astronomia' have been largely interchangeable towards majority of individuals and often would be utilized indiscriminately in conversation, nevertheless they were not the exact same concept. Plato, the famous philosopher taught astronomia and he classed that this was a geometrical design of planetary phenomenon. However, knowledge of the differences in between the 2 did not make any assumptions as to regardless of whether one was appropriate and the other not, they have been both fully accepted in society.

However, each disciplines began to be observed as more than just different during the 'Age of Reason' (around 1700AD) a time which Immanuel Kant, the famous German philosopher described as "Mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation on the human consciousness from an immature nation of ignorance and error." This was the beginning of astronomy being noticed as the physical behaviour in the cosmos on the purely mathematical and logical basis - a science that exists only in quantifiable measures including physics, chemistry, mathematics and so on. Astrology is a smaller amount quantifiable in how the influences that the celestial bodies have on a influence on a interaction on life can't be mentioned or proven via mathematical formulae.

As astronomy has moved on, it has diverged extra and additional away from astrology and as science advances and astronomers can study to see additional and further to the heavens, this divergence is set to continue.

There are fundamental differences between astrology and astronomy and that essentially methods that although they each glimpse towards the heavens they are different and have come to be increasingly incompatible in numerous ways.

Astronomers glimpse to realize the physics in the Universe, whereas astrologers use calculations for the position from the celestial bodies at specific times to drawn lines between astronomical events and corresponding earthly events. Whereas astronomers use accepted and clearly delineated scientific principles in their work, astrologers use an amassed knowledge and instinctive intuition in theirs.

Astrologers know how the Universe is essentially harmonious and unchanging, astronomers know that the one from the characteristics of the Universe is that it's ever-expanding.

Astrologers know how the celestial bodies and their positioning during the heavens at any point in time determines an individual's personality and future, astronomers know in which the planets and stars are from the heavens and how they scientifically relate to every other and Earth, but have observed no quantifiable evidence to aid astrological theory.

The only real point that astronomers will agree with astrologers with is that Earth is connected, an integral component in the fabric on the Universe and that our entire world is part of a cohesive cosmos and the 2 aren't separate entities.

Astrology cannot supply empirically proven explanations because what astrologers do just isn't in accordance with the 'Known laws of nature', whereas whatever is identified in astronomy can also be proven. By the same token, presently a smaller amount is identified about the Universe than is being discovered. Hence, with our offer level of understanding we perhaps cannot dismiss everything else that has not yet been proven.

It is perhaps a shame that astronomy and astrology glimpse being so incompatible, as they are each fundamental truths and have existed for as long as every other and will both continue to exist as long as you will find stars in the skies. Astrologers do not disbelieve astronomers or mock their science, another way about is less forgiving and many astronomers cannot see any worth in astrology. However, on a day-to-day basis, more individuals do have more use for astrology than they do for astronomy. In case you ask the majority of the general population to name all of the signs in the zodiac, additional are going to be able to answer, than would be in a position to name all of the moons of Jupiter.

Astrology is really a extended existing art and individuals consult astrological charts on the daily basis, astrologers are individuals who can tell fortunes inside the signs in the zodiac as well as the positioning in the stars and planets and to be honest, it needs to be a respected art, because as I have mentioned, it has existed a really long time and will continue to flourish and survive for millennia to come.




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