“Heavens Above!
Can Astrology Really
Predict Our Weather?”
Enquiring
readers and sceptics have asked how the stars, or
indeed any system other than meteorology, can
predict our future weather. To be clear,
forecasting by astrology is totally unrelated to
predicting by clairvoyance. Astrologers are not
psychics. Astrologers deduce a result from a
perceived cause based on astronomical geometric
angles measured through time. Astronomy, the study
of the mechanics of the physical universe, and
astrology, the philosophical interpretation of the
effects of those celestial mechanics as applied to
mankind and the earth, are combined by the astro-meteorologist
who needs to be familiar with both disciplines in
order to predict the weather.
Astrology
is a body of knowledge obtained and tested through
scientific method by observation and experimentation
from which laws are formed. It is a language of
symbols and as such, always contains something
impossible to express in speech, but the basic
premise of astrology is the unity of all things.
There is unity existing between the earth and the
heavens because both essentially share a common
nature springing as they do from the same source.
Astrologers contend that there is a correlation
between events in the heavens and events on earth,
and a correspondence between the planets places and
the human condition. This being accepted, it is not
unreasonable to acknowledge the great Hermetic law
of analogy: “As above: so below” as did Carl Jung
who in essence repeats this law in his theory of
synchronicity and causality: “Whatever is born or
done in this moment of time has the qualities of
this moment in time.”
Hermetic
law stipulates that the movement of everything in
the universe is correlated. Every cycle in the
universe is a component of a larger cycle which
stands in relationship to each other as macrocosm
and microcosm. There is a correspondence between the
universe around us with its billions of galaxies
containing trillions of stars all revolving around
the galactic centre, with our own personal universe
within us, where each living cell in our bodies is
as complex as a galaxy. Just one molecule of DNA
contains about 100 billion atoms, coincidentally as
many as the number of stars in a typical galaxy.
They both obey the same laws.
The Earth
experiences ‘weather’ as a condition of its seasonal
cycle in the microcosm. Weather is the state of the
atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature,
clouds, moisture and pressure at any given time,
and therefore in common with other cyclical
conditions we experience, there is a correspondence,
in that the weather on earth behaves synchronously
with the behaviour of the macrocosm above us.
Observation for over five thousand years has noted
this coincidence between astronomic and atmospheric
phenomena. Great minds such as Pythagoras, Thales,
Anaximander, Hippocrates, Galen, Galileo, Tycho
Brahe, Copernicus, Goad and Isaac Newton were all
convinced of the fact of planetary action upon our
weather. Johannes Kepler found from pure
observation that astrology was an empirical science
when he wrote in 'De Fundamentis Astrologiae
Certerioribus': “The belief in the effect of the
constellations derives in the first place from
experience, which is so convincing, that it can be
denied only by those who have not examined it.” Kepler
meticulously and systematically recorded
weather observations for 35 years. It was his
conclusions based on those observations that brought
him fame when he
forecast
the bitterly cold winter of 1595. All of his
calendars between 1617 and 1624 included weather
predictions.
Kepler’s
observations confirmed what earlier astrologers had
discovered: that certain planets in our solar system
are consistently to be found in certain relative
positions when specific weather patterns prevail,
such as excessive heat or cold, drought or
inundation by flood. Since the periods at which
such planetary positions recur can be accurately
calculated, they deduced it is also possible to
foretell the concurrent periods at which those same
atmospheric phenomena of excessive heat, cold,
drought or flood will recur.
It has
been observed for millennia that Mercury is
associated with the wind, Venus humidity and rain.
Jupiter can herald fair warm and temperate weather
with pleasant breezes or much needed farmer’s rain.
The Sun warms and dries. Mars energises or burns.
Saturn brings storms and frosts. More recently
Uranus has been noted as unstable electric and
erratic, Neptune to signal fog and floods, whilst
Pluto intensifies or destroys.
Most
people accept that the Moon rules the cyclical
distribution of moisture in nature, and just as the
female menstrual cycle and the ocean tides are
controlled by the Moon, so too the Moon will
orchestrate most of our weather because of her
gravitational pull on the air. The air rises and
falls in daily tides just like the ocean, and just
as any ocean tide is measurable and predictable way
in advance, so too is this atmospheric air tide
which ebbs and flows according to the angular
position of the Moon with respect to the Earth and
the planets.
It is
because the effects of these planetary
characteristics upon the weather are so well
documented, and their positions in the heavens
calculable and able to be pinpointed with accuracy
at any given time, that the laws of astro-meteorology
can, if interpreted correctly, predict the weather
as far into eternity as the very existence of our
solar system permits!
Oh, and
by the way - remember that ‘Barbeque-Summer’ we were
promised in the U.K. by the Met Office this year?
It should put in a belated appearance in 2015 when a
sizzling hot combination of the Sun and Mars solder
themselves to the solstice point on midsummer’s day.
Not long to wait, so hang on to those charcoal
shares! ;-)
Caroline
Allen
05.16
GMT, 22nd August 2009, 50* 38'
North 003* 20' West, Asc: 29* 04' Leo
