It is a fascinating insight that the relationships between heaven and earth are interpretable. This begins with simple observations, such as the changing phases of the moon, and continues with the comprehension of complex cycles between the sun, moon and planets.
Astrology is an instrument for interpreting these observations and insights. The world becomes describable as a connection of time and space, as the two primary origins of being.
This interpretation does not seek to grasp the "how", but rather the "what". Historically, this struggle for knowledge became literarily and philosophically tangible in Greece around 600 BC. The transition from mythical to logical thinking marks a tremendous upheaval, in which Logos, as space and phenomena, dominates and displaces time with its forms, the Mythos.
Astrology is thereby committed to time. It abstracts and characterises a moment with the conditions and structures of our solar system. For this reason, it does not proceed from the entire cosmos or from the individual person as phenomena in space.
The interpretation is independent of a person or their needs, and equally independent of the complexity of the universe. Therein lies its genius, because from the limited viewpoint of the Earth, one can nevertheless draw conclusions about events and developments on Earth with great precision.
The course of time can be interpreted as fate. In the various methods and approaches, we find the great and small discoveries that have been passed down in an unorganised and unsystematic way to this day through the insights of many individual astrologers.
For this reason, astrology has nothing in common with either psychology or esotericism. When the term astrology is nevertheless used in context or in combination, it is always a sign that either this understanding of psychology or the astrologer is subject to an error, or that deficiencies are being concealed.
The history of astrology is predominantly published by art historians or philologists. The sources of scientific investigation are the transmitted texts, images and astronomical instruments. However, there is a lack of sound knowledge of astrological methods and possibilities to grasp the fundamental and underlying connections. Therefore, interpretations remain at the level of transcription and contextual analysis of signs and texts as cultural history. Art-historically and culturally correct, these representations lack access to the effective power of astrology.
Furthermore, it is customary to refer to persons who worked as astronomers, mathematicians, physicists and also as astrologers only by their activity as astronomer, physicist or mathematician. For some, however, astrological activity was central, and other activities were necessary auxiliary sciences for the practice of astrology.
This reveals a fundamental attitude of modern times that excludes a priori any effectiveness and expressiveness of the astrological view. Thus persons are falsely declared and classified. Among them are scientists such as Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler or Georg Tannstetter, as well as cardinals, kings and emperors such as Pierre d'Ailly or King Manuel I.