WHAT
IS AND WHAT IS NOT ASTROLOGY
In
the Western world at present time few people have an approached idea about what
Astrology has been throughout History, as much within the astrological ambiences
as outside of it. Here we are the reason of its irregular social situation, that
comes from the wasting scientist of centuries XVII and XVIII.
This ignorance, as much internal as external, comes from the following
facts:
1) The ancient classic
astrological works have had until the present little or null diffusion, although
the tendency is to update them and to extend the circle of readers.
2) The limited development,
precariousness of means and little objectivity whereupon the History of Science
have grown until well advanced century XX;
the presence of schools and sides between the historians, as well as the
delayed access to certain documentary sources (cuneiform tablets, paleolithic
history, etc.).
3) The ostracism that
Astrology has been maintained in the university scientific world, although
nobody has provided any demonstration about the absence of planetary influences.
4) An astrological
Literature based on the esoteric or magical appearance has proliferated. The
personal image of its authors and marketing, is its only value, and is
characterized by a little or null rigor nor contrasts of the hypotheses with the
facts, without the smaller approach to present science. Works and authors of
initial flash and not much more, than have only dazzled to inclined people to
believe and to take hold themselves to something at moments of personal crisis.
All this sort of literature is led to be swept by the time, when lacking
real support and being outside the reality.
What
is not Astrology
We
define first what is what nothing has to do with the science of the influence of
the stars on the Earth and the beings who populate it:
1) Horoscopes of magazines,
banal pages Web, mobile telephony, etc.
2) Personal astrology made
by people lacking in suitable knowledge and preparation, usually with an erratic
vital trajectory. Those people hardly can advise to other. First they would
apply the rules themselves.
Nevertheless,
Astrology is popular and its present subsistence is due to this type of
appearances in means and to some opportunistic consultative bureaus.
A
past illustrious, a present with future
And,
nevertheless, science as we know it was born in the
It
constituted the great central column axis of other sciences until century XVII,
when scientists began to work apart from philosophers and broke with any
religious connection. The
astrologer was during many centuries a respected and prestigious social figure.
In
order to support what we say, the reader may read some articles of our own. He
will find a exhibition within The History of
Astrology, the differences and connections between Old
and modern science, as
well as our personal points of view on what types of Astrology we can make and
what areas of life we can apply them.
A
tool there is no doubt is going to equip with cohesion and structure a lot of
astrologers in Spain will be the Sociedad Española de Astrología (Spanish
Society of Astrology), founded in 2004. From
now the regulation of the exercise of Astrology, training programs and system of
degrees and diplomas, the proclamation and acceptance of an Ethical Code, the
official declaration of the Sociedad Española de Astrología as institution of
public interest, the formalization of research programs, preparation of an
Astrological Encyclopaedia, etc., has an open door in Spain, and also in other
countries.