Saturn’s meaning was also present that nigh t we were on our way back from the wake for an old uncle who had just died. My brother, a Merchant Navy captain, was able to point out Saturn to me – the first time I had ever seen that venerable planet with the naked eye. I can still recall the exhilaration I felt on a freezing cold, clear night in January 1986 on a visit to the Outer Hebrides. I love being able to look out at the night sky, seeing the beauty of the lunar cycle and the visible planets in their ever changing, ever repeating patterns, knowing that being an astrologer offers one the privilege of perceiving not only astronomy but also symbolic meaning out there. Being a tiny thread in that weave gives me a deep sense of pride, connectedness and rootedness. But we represent an unbroken line to a time which in many ways was wiser than ours is now. Astrologers operate on the margins of our fragmenting, reductionist culture. Our increasing contemporary awareness of the interconnectedness of all things was well known in antiquity: the ancient maxim “As above, so below” still applies. I love knowing that the rational, mythical, symbolic and empirical art of astrology has been around for at least six thousand years.
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