Do As They Do, Not As They Say

Amidst the daily doom loop of post 2020 news cycle, there’s still an obvious stigma with astrology. Nothing conjures teenage angst like the idea of daily horoscopes delivered via TikTok dance. However, powerful people - high financiers, prominent scientists, and world leaders all had astrologers on their advisory teams. 

Finance magnate J.P. Morgan consulted regularly with Evangeline Adams. Kary Mullis, the Nobel prize winning chemist and inventor of the RT-PCR test (the primary COVID test during the pandemic) was a staunch defender of astrology. 

The Reagan’s had Joan Quigley, who gained credence with Nancy Reagan after a discussion where Nancy asked Quigley if she could have warned President Reagan about avoiding assassination. When Joan said yes, the first lady put her on retainer. 
Queen Anne I had John Dee, who was credited with expanding the British Empire to create the colonies (future United States). Even popes like Pope Leo X (Giovanni de Medici) had Luca Gaurico - who also served as a court advisor and “astrological consultant” to Catherine de Medici. 

What did they know that we common plebs don’t? If the world’s most powerful people had astrologers, why shouldn’t we? 

Skeptics try to make astrology into a science and therefore immediately discount any potential value in the discipline. Astrology is better thought of as a cipher, or a secret language to decode probability. A clearer comparison is viewing astrology like a weather report. We check it every morning before leaving the house, but that doesn’t guarantee the rain will come.

Astrology is fundamentally a language of symbolism, with each house, sign, and planet representing a continuum of possibility. Pluto for example (which scientists don’t call a planet anymore), can represent transformation, death, rebirth, and things that are hidden. In a world awash with information (much of which is doctored), you need tools to filter signals from the noise. 

Another curious attribute of astrology is that the planetary positions relative to the sun are highly predictable due to orbital mechanics. Many astrologers of the past were also astronomers because they were obsessed with calculating precise positions of the planets. 

The planets alone therefore can act as a metronome to compare past and present. The further a planet gets from the sun, the longer the orbit. Mercury takes 88 days to move around the sun, whereas Pluto takes 248 years. Think of the planets as a set of extra hour hands on a clock to time history against. This is one of the primary ways the elite used astrology to decipher trends in the world. 

COVID accelerated worldwide during the exact Saturn Pluto conjunction in Capricorn (Jan 12, 2020). The last time this happened was The Protestant Reformation in 1518. The collective dread about our future grappling with AI is reminiscent of the Reformation, when the printing press decoupled the power of the church to gate keep humanity’s connection to god.

The old structures (Saturn in Capricorn) were being destroyed and rebuilt by Pluto (transformation). Remember the calls to defund the police and dismantle capitalism? These are all verbs signifying Saturn and Pluto pairings. 

Speaking of Pluto, the United States is in the middle of its own Pluto return (248 year cycle). This equates to the rebirth of The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and the social contract that underpins our fundamental freedoms. 

If you compile all the major long wave astrological transits happening today, it would be like combining the periods of Constantine, The Protestant Reformation, The Civil War, The Salem Witch Trial, The Revolutionary War, and the height of WW2 - all coalescing into one massive super cycle.

While the elite have made astrology illegal in certain periods of time (Augustus of Rome in 11CE), or funded media operations to slander the use of astrology (like today) - the effect is the same. Keep the public eyes off a potentially powerful tool for self awareness and timing of long wave cycles. There is an old saying that history doesn’t repeat, but it sure does rhyme. What better way to hide the waves of nature’s cycles than to outlaw the timing mechanism.

In the security world, this is called “security through obscurity” which means keeping something hidden or secret is your primary security method. It’s not an effective security technique however - because given enough time, the secrets always come to light.

Astrology isn’t for everyone, but it makes you wonder. If the world’s most powerful people had astrologers, they obviously saw value in it. So why shouldn’t you?