Your headline worried me for a moment, but the article itself was really interesting, thankyou! I love a bit of stargazing where I live and there's not too much light pollution, thankfully. You mentioned ancient scholars, I find it fascinating that in history astrologers and astronomers were often the same people. Just as cosmologists were often also priests. Science and art or "magic" (for want of a better word) can and do coexist in the natural world and human history. It's just our modern world has seperated them, labelled one credible and the other frivolous.
Phew—I almost wrote you a whole email on this (of course). I’m so grateful for the way you explained and grounded it; for the reassurance to keep doing what I do best~getting lost in the sky..
I attended an event at my local Stonehenge (not THE Stonehenge) last year & was told that when newspapers began to publish a horoscope section in recent centuries, they were well aware of this shift, yet had already began publishing sun signs as we know them alongside the corresponding dates, thus a retraction would look bad for their credibility! Unsure if entirely truthful, yet would make a lot of sense in our weird world, lol
Your headline worried me for a moment, but the article itself was really interesting, thankyou! I love a bit of stargazing where I live and there's not too much light pollution, thankfully. You mentioned ancient scholars, I find it fascinating that in history astrologers and astronomers were often the same people. Just as cosmologists were often also priests. Science and art or "magic" (for want of a better word) can and do coexist in the natural world and human history. It's just our modern world has seperated them, labelled one credible and the other frivolous.
Phew—I almost wrote you a whole email on this (of course). I’m so grateful for the way you explained and grounded it; for the reassurance to keep doing what I do best~getting lost in the sky..
This is what the astrological community needs more of. Love this! 💯
This was such a great read, Vivi
Beautiful words!
I attended an event at my local Stonehenge (not THE Stonehenge) last year & was told that when newspapers began to publish a horoscope section in recent centuries, they were well aware of this shift, yet had already began publishing sun signs as we know them alongside the corresponding dates, thus a retraction would look bad for their credibility! Unsure if entirely truthful, yet would make a lot of sense in our weird world, lol