I've noticed for years - as I receive articles and also in personaldiscussions with astrologers, and among those I'm in relationships withfor years, even among friends - that they generally incline to theopinion (doxa) that astrology only works for astrologers and theirclients, that it ought to be reduced to what the astrologers arepracticing, that with different methods and astrological techniques youcan satisfy the same need, that astrology or divination is just acultural and imaginative projection of practices on the world reality,and so on. Finally the message of the mainstream oldish pseudo-modern discourse.
It appears to me that those astrologers do notbelieve in astrology, that they just believe in their right to castcharts and interpret them, TO CHART BIRTHS OR MOMENTS, to practice whatthey call astrology. They believe in the influence of their imaginationon students, in the "sympathy" between their practice and theaspirations of their clients.
This is very different from the notion of Sympathy for Renaissance minds !And today,finally, the astrologers are claiming exactly what antiastrologers have been stating for centuries.
Yesterday, astrology was discounted because it was not considered as areal knowledge, but rather as a placebo form of knowledge. Today, thereis a place for these so-called "astrologers" if they agree toparticipate in "the Show" as representatives of this placebo kind ofknowledge : neo-Hellenistic, neo-Arabic, neo-Lillian or Morinian, horary, divinatory, predictive, horoscopic, etc
I would never have opened Cura nor would have had any interest in astrology if I had ever embraced these ideas.
In all cultures and in all areas of a specific culture, there is a timefor faith, but then comes the time when faith declines : that is indeedthe true moment ... of bigotry and tartufery.
Patrice Guinard
Philosophe, Seiziémiste, Astrophile
PhD, Mensa, CURA
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