love your way of more conceptually understanding the workings of the sky. I always find it so interesting and have said that something that felt missing for me in astrology was that very real, rooted experience of watching and understanding the planets moving in the sky. Otherwise it feels too shallow, too arbitrary. I have a night sky app on my phone but even that sometimes doesn't totally feel enough for me to fully grasp the grand complexity for all that is alive and moving up there. This is a helpful introduction to begin to grasp such intricate ideas.
Thanks Marija! I'm glad someone found this exploration helpful. For me it has been a game-changer to be able to visualize orbits and rotations in three dimensions - to not just know - based on math and charts - that I am a part of this great dance of worlds but to have an intuitive sense of the motions.
And yes, astrology will feel more real to me when astrologers spend less time consulting charts and books and more time gazing skyward and perceiving. "Intuitive astrology" seems to be moving in this direction.
"For the past few months I have felt a special connection to the Moon - and to some extent to the other planets as well. I don’t know what this means on a deeper level, but practically it has meant that I always know where the Moon is at in her cycle and that I spend at least a few moments each day gazing moonward."
This has been me too, and it has certainly become more pronounced in the past maybe 12 months. It feels there is a yearning for the skies, and especially the moon. She came to me in a dream one night, interrupting another dream. I woke and went outside to witness her slowly setting over the horizon. Since then I've known where the moon is in the sky and in her cycle.
love your way of more conceptually understanding the workings of the sky. I always find it so interesting and have said that something that felt missing for me in astrology was that very real, rooted experience of watching and understanding the planets moving in the sky. Otherwise it feels too shallow, too arbitrary. I have a night sky app on my phone but even that sometimes doesn't totally feel enough for me to fully grasp the grand complexity for all that is alive and moving up there. This is a helpful introduction to begin to grasp such intricate ideas.
Thanks Marija! I'm glad someone found this exploration helpful. For me it has been a game-changer to be able to visualize orbits and rotations in three dimensions - to not just know - based on math and charts - that I am a part of this great dance of worlds but to have an intuitive sense of the motions.
And yes, astrology will feel more real to me when astrologers spend less time consulting charts and books and more time gazing skyward and perceiving. "Intuitive astrology" seems to be moving in this direction.
"For the past few months I have felt a special connection to the Moon - and to some extent to the other planets as well. I don’t know what this means on a deeper level, but practically it has meant that I always know where the Moon is at in her cycle and that I spend at least a few moments each day gazing moonward."
This has been me too, and it has certainly become more pronounced in the past maybe 12 months. It feels there is a yearning for the skies, and especially the moon. She came to me in a dream one night, interrupting another dream. I woke and went outside to witness her slowly setting over the horizon. Since then I've known where the moon is in the sky and in her cycle.