Wyrd : Reflections in Astrology Part 1

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Part One - A Wyrd Perspective

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Chickens and eggs

One of the questions that seems difficult to judge is whether our actions result from the stars, or whether they simply reflect what we do: what's the cause? It's just like the question of the chicken and the egg, and many astrologers have tied themselves up in knots as a result of this question while missing the real point that it isn't really relevant. I've known those who would look at all the planetary aspects and make them fit the events, and those who would look at what is happening in their lives and check what is happening in the sky to "cause" those effects. I actually believe that neither is true - the "cause", if one can use this word, is the wyrd. So I'm going to approach this question from a wyrd perspective.

If one imagines a force - call it wyrd, the nature of the universe, God, spirit, whatever... that motivates human beings and allows them to choose their path, then that's what makes things happen in our lives. It's not the planets; it's something invisible, a third party that cannot be measured, but that can be felt. Nobody's ever going to be able to prove it, but the effects of what I call wyrd are more than apparent in everyday life - so that "weird" stuff happens on a daily basis and coincidences - things that co-incide because of the endlessly weaving and repeating nature of the wyrd - are a way of life. The wyrd is our weaving material and human beings manipulate it, knowingly or unknowing, with their choices or non-choices.

As above, so below

The wyrd runs through everything, everywhere and everywhen, from humans to planets. Every human has every thread of possibility running through him or her but only brings certain of those to the surface by his or her choices. This web of wyrd extends to the planets and, so, there is a two-way reflection: the night sky reflects what goes on in the world below and the world belwo reflects what goes on in the night sky. They interact in a kind of parallel: they are interlinked. The chicken and egg analogy becomes irrelevant. The patterns are reflected in many other ways, but astrology is the one which concerns us here.

The phrase "as above, so below" is ages old. There is no logical reason for this weird reflection to be so, but anyone who's read cards or who studies astrology has seen that it is so. And if they want to stay sane, they just accept it and don't try to reason it out logically, simply because it's not quantifiable and they would end up tied in philosophical knots. There is, after all, no rule that says it has to be quantifiable to work... no real need to justify it beyond that simple knowledge: Hey, it works for me and for lots of others... The more one defines something, the more rigid it seems to become; some things it is just better to let be.

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