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IT was a juxtaposition that brought thesituation to my attention. Juxtapositionsprovide contrast, contrast illuminates

detail, detail leads to fresh conclusions.A week ago I had an unexpected round

of heart palpitations. Keen detective workby my wife last February revealed that pal-pitations, in my case, were due to calcium.I immediately flushed the calcium-magne-sium-zinc pills down the sink and ceased alldairy. Palpitations, which had plagued mefor the last ten years and which had occurreddaily the week I spent in hospital, vanished.

On my wife’s birthday in April we had acelebratory breakfast at a local restaurant. Ihad pancakes. I used a couple of small patsof butter that restaurants serve. Not very

much, I thought. Whamo! I got palpita-tions. This is serious.

In an effort to expand my diet, I remem-bered tofu. I made myself a couple of tofudinners and then, five days later, a week ago,whamo again. Palpitations. It took a day tomentally trace it back to the coagulant in thetofu. Which was laced with calcium. Re-ally serious.

Calcium is an essential nutrient. A no-calcium diet? You might as well try to getby without oxygen or water. Made no sense.

So I dubbed it “calcium shock” and wenton-line to see what I could find. I can’t bethe only person and though I feel better thanI have in years, omission of a major nutrientis not a good idea.

I chanced upon the website of Ray Peat,an unorthodox doctor. He has an endlessnumber of articles that say conventionalmedicine has it exactly backwards. Read-ing the articles on the heart, I was remindedof the sheer medical guesswork of the pasthalf-century. Heart disease was because oflipids, or cholesterol, or saturated fats ormaybe the wrong kinds of sugars and couldbe treated with this drug or that. Salt, whichcardiac doctors prohibit, was actually nec-essary (which I have found to be true). With

Ability (continued from last week) Marsand Saturn strong show success by hardwork and sterling merit. Mercury isclever, adaptable, and, as a rule, well ableto look after itself. The Moon is oftenshrewd and careful, but the Cancerianvaries greatly with the general nature ofthe horoscope and some are particularlyshiftless and weak. Uranus bestows ver-satility, and is often capable in the bestsense, but under affliction he is perverse,willful, and eccentric. Neptune is oftenutopian and unpractical, and would sel-dom be called able in a general sense. Itis to be recollected that any strong planetwill confer the particular abilities withwhich it is essentially connected.Abruptness of manner nearly always sig-nifies a prominent and afflicted Uranus. Thefixed-sign influence is also inclined to terseand downright expression. When Mars as-pects Uranus there is often great nervous ten-sion and explosive anger, especially if fixedsigns are involved. Venus-Libra actiontends to neutralize this, and a strong Sat-urn to restrain it.

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Alice Bailey

ALICE BAILEY was born on June16, 1880, at 7:32 in Manchester, En-gland. This was the time she gave

to her friend, Dane Rudhyar, one of themost famous astrologers of the 20th century.You will note that I have omitted “am” or“pm,” but more about that in a minute.

Alice Bailey is famous as the anamnesis(secretary) of a mysterious Tibetan, namedDjwhal Khul. From 1919 to her death in1949, DK (Bailey/AAB and he go by ini-tials) projected ideas into Bailey’s head,which she translated into English and wrotedown. Bailey lived in the US from 1907.To the best of my knowledge, Djwhal Khulhas never been found. He was alleged tolive in a monastery in Shigatse, Tibet.

That Alice Bailey was not the author ofmost of nearly 30 books that appeared un-der her name is obvious upon inspection.They deal with topics that not only she, butno living person, had any training or experi-ence with. They are difficult to understand,but have a coherence and logic to them. Asan example, I believe the first edition of ATreatise on White Magic (which has to dowith pregnancy, by the way), had fifty du-plicate pages. These were not discovered untilthe index was made for the posthumous sec-ond edition. Which implies that Bailey her-self did not understand what she was writing.

Bailey was the successor to H.P. Blav-atsky and her group. HPB had founded theTheosophical Society in 1875, which alsomarks the start of the New Age, which ulti-mately failed. When its final living propo-nent passes on (he is presently 91 years old) Iwill write its obituary. It is otherwise too muchof a distraction for these introductory remarks.

Though she wrote the ultimate book onEsoteric Astrology, Bailey herself said sheknew nothing about any kind of astrology.When asked, she presumably gave Rudhyara birth time of “7:32” without being awarehow he would use it.

Rudhyar was born as DanielChennevière in Paris in 1895. Age 12 hesuffered a life-threatening illness that re-sulted in surgery which presumably disquali-fied him from conscription in World War I,which would have otherwise killed him, asit killed virtually every French male of hisgeneration. In 1916, aged 21, he escapedFrance for America, where he lived the re-mainder of his life. An early interest in mu-

THE chart for conception asdetermined herein on the oppositepage is the basis for delineating the

native’s Future because it takes himFORWARD from a beginning that, like allbeginnings, must therefore come to an end:what happens meantime is the FUTURE.

The Epoch reveals the design and patternof what that Future shall be, and to thetrained eye it can be an open book, readablefrom start to finish; for what is promisedfavorably or unfavorably will surely cometo pass whether we like it or not: to quoteOmar Khayyam, “Why then, who put itthere?” Which is to say in modern parlance“You asked for it” and that we did, whenin spirit from we had free will. We are notrequired to succeed: only to do our best.

“Because of certain forthcomingeventualities in the life of Former PresidentHarry S. Truman we present his EpochChart on the opposite page, in which weshall proceed to account for thoseeventualities after first delineating theFuture shown for him at the moment ofconception that laid down the design.

Simple delineationThis is the epoch chart of a man whose

life will be marked by great fixity of purpose(all angles in Fixed signs, a planet angular &Fixed and, of great significance, a good closesquare to the ascendant, the most powerfulindication we have of accomplishing: a squarewill not be turned aside....

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sic led to a commission to write for the Theo-sophical Society in 1920, which eventuallyled him to Bailey. A friend of his first wife,Marla Contento, led Rudhyar to Marc Ed-mund Jones, from whom he learned astrology.

I cite the roundabout way that Rudhyarcame to astrology as the chart Rudhyar pre-pared for Alice Bailey is clearly wrong. Baileygave Rudhyar a time based on a noon-start tothe day, which Rudhyar, trained by an Ameri-can in America, mistook as a morning birth.He took the resulting chart back to Bailey, whowas too ignorant of astrology to realize thechart was wrong, while both Rudhyar andJones could not read charts well-enough tospot the problem. With their collective sealsof approval, no one since has questionedBailey’s chart. It’s not that we must questioneverything as that would be skepticism for itsown sake, which is harsh. But we should beopen to the details of life.

7:32 am was the time that Rudhyar put onBailey’s chart, but the chart he computed wasfor a birth at 7:42 am, ten minutes later. Thiswas most likely due to a calculation mistake.Rudhyar was not a rectifier, he would haveused whatever time that Bailey had given him.

At 7:32 am, Leo rises. Mars, in Leo, isexactly on the ascendant. Mars rules the 10thhouse, which is Aries. In it, we find Saturn.Leo rising is pride and isolation as a singular-ity. Mars is militancy. With Saturn in Ariesin the 10th, a petty dictator. With a strong10th-11th house chart, this is a woman whoworks well with the public, but, with Mer-cury in Cancer in the 12th, has faulty hearingand keeps her intellect to herself.

A morning chart being wrong, I setthe chart for 7:32 pm. At that time,Sagittarius rises. Jupiter, the ruler, is

found in Aries. Presuming the time is moreor less right, Jupiter will be in the 3rd, not the4th, as angles function as walls. Note that Ju-piter also rules the 3rd, with Pisces on the cusp.

Sagittarius rising makes for an eager andcheerful native. Jupiter ruling from Aries,there will be a great initiative. In the third, anactive, busy life. Intellectually, Jupiter is outof place in the 3rd. Ideas are bigger than whatis practical. Before she was a fanatic The-osophist (she was dismissed from her posi-tion in the Society) she had been a fanaticevangelizing Christian. This was reinforcedby Jupiter’s ruler, Mars in Leo in the 8th,which can be ruthless in dealing with others.

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LEO, continued from last week: Teeth large,strong and yellowish white. Complexionflorid or ruddy. Peculiarities: often like alion; very erect and dignified walk but buoy-ant step; good dancers; sometimes purr whenpleased; large appetite; fond of brown clothesand boots; strong and powerful voice.VIRGO. Body. Medium height, slender, usu-ally spare, and neat, compact and refined inappearance; shoulders often wide. Head welldeveloped but not large. Face round; highforehead; often serene and pure expressionwith delicate and finely formed features, butsometimes with sharp and pointed features;lips usually thin but sometimes full, and oc-casionally the lower lip slightly projects. Hairdark to light brown, generally swept back andfalling over the ears; inclined to baldness onthe top. Eyes dark, hazel, or grey, large, sharpand bright; sometimes set too closely togetherin lower types, giving a foxy and cunninglook. Nose straight, with very thin and mo-bile nostrils. Complexion pale or dark, skinusually more olive than white. Peculiarities:often like a fox; active walk, often lame; quietvoice, but sometimes shrill when excited;dress neatly and quietly; handwriting veryneat, careful and small.LIBRA. Body. Tall; slender and slight in buildbut tending to become stout in later life; of-ten very beautiful; hands and feet small butbroad and plump; fingers short with goodnails. Head small, round and shapely, usu-ally held on one side. Face oval or round,lips well curved and delicately marked; chinwell shaped, small and round; expressionoften plaintive or dissatisfied.

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Encyclopediaof Astrologyby Nicholas deVore

Advantage, Line of: A term sometimesused with reference to the position of theMoon's Ascending Node in a Geocentric Fig-ure. The line of advantage runs between thecusps of the third decanates of the Third andNinth Houses. A position of the Node Eastof this line is judged to be favorable. Re-lated to it are the Arcs of Increased andDwarfed Stature. From the middle of the FirstHouse, clockwise to the middle of the EighthHouse, is the arc of Increased Stature, withits peak at cusp of the Twelfth House; andfrom the middle of the Seventh House, clock-wise to the middle of the Second House, isthe Arc of Dwarfed Stature, with its peak atthe cusp of the Sixth House. See Nodes,Moon’s.

Affinity: A binding by mutual attraction.The Sun is said to have an affinity with allthe planets; Mars with Venus, in a magneticor physical sense; Venus with Jupiter, in aphilanthropic sense as one who loves his fel-lowman; Venus with Mercury, in an artisticsense.

Afflicted: (Afflicted by/in affliction with):Unfavorably aspected. Loosely applied to:(a) any inharmonious aspect to a planet, or(b) to any aspect, particularly the conjunc-tion, parallel, square or opposition, to a ma-lefic planet. Also by some authorities appliedto a mundane or zodiacal parallel with, orwhen, besieged by both Infortunes (q.v.).Some authorities consider that the sensitivedegree on any House cusp can be afflicted,though any such consideration must be con-fined to instances where the birth-moment isknown to a certainty.— Encyclopedia of Astrology, by Nicholasde Vore, $29.95. Buy.

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The Sabian Symbols,A Screen of Prophecyby Diana Roche

HAVING been a member of MarcJones’ Sabian Assembly for 25 yearsI have been, as he would say, satu-

rated or grooved in his philosophy of dy-namic idealism that is at the core of all ofhis books and the 3,002 lessons he wrote.As I worked with the Sabian symbolsthrough the years, I gradually came to real-ize that nearly the entirety of his philosophywas summarized in the commentaries thataccompany the descriptive images in hisbook. Unfortunately, the cabalistic and aca-demic structure of his writing is difficult formany readers to understand.

My goal here is to simplify the Sabiansymbols for those who are not familiar withMarc Jones’ style of writing. This volumeis not meant to replace The Sabian Sym-bols in Astrology. Rather it is presented asa bridge to his unparalleled contribution tothe field of astrological symbolism. If youenjoy this book, and would like to go deeper,I highly recommend that you read or revisitthat classic and memorable work.

I have added a few extra features heresuch as a theme word or phrase that capturesthe meaning of each symbol. There is also asection called “The Daily Guide” for the as-trologer who wishes to work with the Sa-bian symbol for the sun at sunrise. At theend of each symbol there is another sectioncalled “Stepping Stones” that contains a listof keywords to help the reader more easilycomprehend the meaning of each symbol.

The original index cards, on which MarcJones made his hand-pencilled notes, havebeen reproduced to scale and inserted aftereach degree title and keyword in the chapteron the symbols. It is my hope that repro-ductions of these notes will end the contro-versy that has existed over the years. . .The Sabian Symbols, A Screen of Proph-ecy, by Diana Roche. Buy

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Alice Bailey, per RudhyarJune 16, 18807:32 amManchester, UKPlacidus housesMean Node

Alice Bailey, per DaveJune 16, 18807:32 pmManchester, UKPlacidus housesMean Node

Saturn in the 4th might be why she waseager to leave England and live elsewhere,which she did. Jupiter not in the 9th, but inthe 3rd, meant she would end up someplacerather like where she started out (Americaand England having many similarities), thethird being local while the 9th is exotic.Bailey was briefly in India in 1907. TheTheosophical Society was based in India atthe time (Adyar, down the road fromChennai), and though Bailey was a life-longTheosophist and though the man she chan-neled was in Tibet, she herself did not attemptto visit.

The proof the afternoon chart is correctis in the 7th house: Venus, Sun, south nodeand Mercury, though it should be placed inthe 8th. A strong seventh house is a life spentwith partners.

Starting at age 15, when she was visitedby a mysterious man wearing a turban.Raised in the Anglican Church, she presumedthe man was Jesus. Later she concluded hewas Koot Hoomi, one of the Tibetan mas-ters, a colleague of Djwhal Khul. He toldher she should prepare herself for the workwhich he had in mind.

THIS story has never been fleshedout and I will do so now. That Baileycould easily switch from being a

Christian to being a de facto Tibetan hintsthat she was in fact a reincarnate Tibetan. Ifthis is true, we already know the Tibetansare good at hunting down their former dis-ciples, as they do exactly this in finding theirreincarnate Dali Lamas. I once heard therewas not a single Dali Lama who quicklyreincarnates, but two or three men who sharethe role, in rotation.

While one can do anything clairvoyantlythat one wants, such as tracking down formerassociates in their new lives, clairvoyanttheory must be squared with physical facts.Which is why the newly found Dali Lama isgiven a choice of objects from which tochoose. One of them being something hehad with him in his previous life. In pickingthe right item, he reveals himself. (I havedone something similar myself.) It is verylikely the young Alice LaTrobe Bateman (hermaiden name) was casually offered a similarchoice and unwittingly picked the right one,thus confirming her identity. I do not thinkthe Tibetans would have placed such greathopes in her without such a test.

So you are thinking of the poor DaliLama, condemned for all eternity to the samejob, life after life.

Well, not really. When an individual hashad enough of a job, he has two choices.

One, he can simply decline to reincarnate.No birth, no life, no job.

Second, if he has come for another lifebut has had enough of the job, he can pickthe proffered item and, in his frustration andrage, smash it to pieces. The very sight ofthe object will bring back the emotionalmemory, if not literal ones.

If the appropriate Dali Lama refuses thejob, will the Tibetans be stranded? Hardly.Every Head Lama has associates with whomhe works. They take rebirth as well. Thesein fact include those who go in search of thereborn lama. The Tibetans are a most inter-esting culture.

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succeeding another is that a newly deceasedDali Lama must wake up his slumbering suc-cessor so he can take immediate rebirth, asthe candidates that are sought and found areinvariably children. They are never very old.It will not do to find a 35 year old man andname him as the next Dali Lama. It wouldalso expose the fact that more than one indi-vidual has this role. Which I believe the Ti-betans themselves are aware of.

IN BAILEY’S chart, note the Sun-Ve-nus conjunction in Gemini in the 7th.The writings that Bailey received would

be harmonious and flow well. This is in con-trast to the writings of Blavatsky, which arenot so gracious. It makes study of Bailey’sbooks easier, as the concepts in them are amongthe most difficult.

So far as a direct link from Blavatsky’swritings to Bailey’s, I read both some 30years ago and did not sense a lot of similari-ties. In Isis Unveiled, HPB tells stories. TheSecret Doctrine, by comparison, is nearlyincomprehensible.

To me, Bailey started off nearly incom-prehensible, but as the years passed I beganto figure her out, at least in outline. A Trea-tise on White Magic is, as I mentioned, aboutpregnancy. When you think of conceptionand birth as being inherently magical, youwill understand a great many things aboutsex and magic. Esoteric Healing is essen-tially pranic healing.

In Esoteric Astrology I might point outthat the triangles of constellation-sign-planetmay be similar to the “triangle” of sign-planet-house, a dynamic blending of ener-gies coming to a focal point. I might alsopoint out that academic translators habitu-ally mistranslate triplicity as triangle. Theclassically trained DK and the untrained AABmight have made a similar mistake.

Of the various commentators on thisbook, Alan Oken’s Soul Centered Astrol-ogy is far and away the best. Oken is betterstill in person. As he presently makes hisliving by giving classes and hosting groups,and as he is currently 69 years old, devoteesof Bailey and the ageless wisdom shouldmake an effort to study with him while he isstill among us.

In Bailey’s chart, Mercury rules the Sun-Venus conjunction in Gemini. Bearing downon the 8th as Mercury does likely gave hertelepathic abilities. In Cancer the abilitywould have been dependent upon her per-sonal feelings about the man she was chan-neling as well as what he was telling her.Mercury ruled by the Moon in Libra in the9th, this would have been a foreigner. That

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the Moon was in Libra – the sign of equals –hints that she was the equal of DK. Not hisinferior.

WHICH brings up BrihatParasara Hora Shastra. Thetitle, translated, is more or less

Sage Parasara’s Big Book of Time. It was acollaborative effort, a dialogue betweenParasara and his no. 1 student, a man knownas Maitreya. There has only ever been oneMaitreya, who is now said to be the fifth Bo-dhisattva. If he and Parasara were a team, itwas high powered one. The same must havebeen true of Alice Bailey and her Tibetan.

Continuing with the cross-rulerships inBailey’s 7th and 8th, Mars in Leo in the 8this ruled by the Sun in Gemini in the 7th. WithMercury in Cancer wanting to be in the 8th,and Mars in Leo actually in the 8th and thathouse identified with telepathy (in this in-stance), we could speculate that Bailey hadtwo types of telepathy at her disposal. Which,in fact, she did.

When they first started out, DK dictatedthe actual words to Bailey, who then wrotethem down. Such is how she wrote Initia-tion Human and Solar, and A Treatise onCosmic Fire and maybe one other. CosmicFire is their major work. It was among thefirst because it was a high priority.

Subsequently the Tibetan formulated con-cepts, threw them into Bailey’s mind, and lether find the exact words.

If we decide that her first books wereauthoritarian in expression, then we haveMars in Leo, the authority. If the later bookswere more fluent, then we have Mercury inCancer (feeling one’s way), which leads usto both Venus in Gemini (beautiful writing)as well as the Sun in Gemini in the 7th, whichis the essence of the Tibetan himself as wellas Bailey’s life energy. The Mercury routeis clearly the stronger.

If we think of the New Age as the mod-ern version of, say, Jesus of Nazareth, thenwe note that after a rocky start, Christianity

was well-established and flying a century af-ter Christ’s death.

The same cannot be said of the New Age.Its great texts, those by Blavatsky, Bailey, Be-sant, Leadbeater, Jiddu Krishnamurti (etc.)are either no longer in print, or only barely,are studied by few and understood by almostno one. The many similar texts, by manysimilar people and groups (CC Zain, Ous-pensky/Gurdjieff, Steiner, Helena Roerich)have fared even worse. I have read many.

So far as the New Age itself, it creaksalong, a sentimental favorite of those whowant the world to be a nice place and arecomfortable in their snug homes. The forcesthat have been working to end civilizationon this planet have been active since at leastthe mid-1920’s. So far as I can tell, they havenow all but succeeded.

If there are no distractions, I may do DaneRudhyar next week. He was said to be oneof the individuals instructed in Bailey’s twovolume Discipleship in the New Age.

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diabetes – which my wife has – the problemwasn’t sugar consumption at all. Which shehad noted some time ago. Don’t get me startedon the four food groups and the food pyramid.

I found Dr. Peat (who reminded me ofLinus Pauling) to be a refreshing change ofpace.

WHICH implies that a lot ofmedicine is simple guesswork,a succession of fads. Surely

with billions of people on the planet and theheart being our principal organ, we could dobetter than guess?

Which underscored my deduction thatEnlightenment Science of 1650, as codifiedby Diderot’s Encyclopedie of 1750, wasbased on consensus. Whatever a bunch ofpeople thought was right.

But you will say, isn’t science based onhard-won truth? Experiment? Replication?

Surprisingly, no, and medicine is theproof. We would not be constantly throw-ing out last year’s remedies in favor of thisyear’s remedies if there was anything objec-tive about them.

What we have instead is someone getsan idea and sells it to his friends. They try itfor a while to see if it works. If it does, wekeep it. But far too often, we throw it awayand go on to the next guess.

Remember when electro-shock was thetreatment for mental illness? How about lo-botomies? Now it’s drugs. If the mother isin distress during labor, she should have acesarian. And eventually, of course, a hys-terectomy. How many of you had your ton-sils out? Did you know they sometimes re-grow?

It is hard to trace the history of sciencebecause so much of it is simply thrown away.Public libraries commonly discard sciencebooks after 20 years or so, when they haven’tbeen borrowed in 15 years or more, and whenthe press of new science books puts a pre-mium on limited shelf space. Few sciencebooks get more than a single printing. Thebest record of scientific progress are found inold issues of science magazines. Where theylook more dated than pop music.

Which is a useful analogy. Rock musi-cians, who are never each other’s students,inspire each other. The late 1960’s were anexcellent example. Popular music is faddish,just like science, but unlike science, the great-est hits of the ’50’s, ’60’s, and ’70’s, still havefans. The science of those decades havenone. The science of 1970 said the planet isgetting colder and we should spray arctic icewith ground charcoal to help it melt. Thehard science supporting this was knee-deep.

There was no question about it.

I THEN had excuse to refer to Llewel-lyn George’s 1910 A to Z HoroscopeMaker and Delineator, an 813 page

book. By 1973 it had been through 35 print-ings. More than one set of plates. All inHARDCOVER. Each printing of at least 1000, ifnot 2000 copies. It went through a couplefurther printings before George’s successorschopped off the last 300 pages and ran itthrough another dozen printings as a paper-back. Whereupon, around a dozen years ago,the book, though not its name, was finallyretired. There are at least 100,000 copies inprint. (Debbi’s Secrets book is in the sameleague, a 549 page book, with some 150,000in print.)

Contrast George’s book with science.The difference is stunning. Science can’tagree on anything long enough to look at ittwice. Astrology is founded upon a rock ofreality. Not only is the astrology of a cen-tury ago just as real now as it was then (witha nod to Alan Leo, among others), we havesince discovered that astrology books twothousand years old are just as relevant, justas fresh, just as important as when they werefirst published.

Astrology makes short work of medicine.There is structure, there are rules. Followthem and you can, as H.L. Cornell said, di-agnose a patient without even touching him.The explanation for my calcium sensitivityis in my chart. All I have to do is figure outhow to read it.

The current astrological revival can betraced as far back as the first Raphael of 1825,but the revival that started with Hindsighttwenty years ago and which has spreadthroughout the astrological community, is thegreatest of all.

Consensus science, on the other hand,having no reality upon which to base theiropinions, are being reduced to burning her-etics at the stake. Red lines have been drawn.We must believe in evolution, we must notbelieve in evil creationism, though I cannotsee what difference it makes either way.Belief in one or the other won’t put hair onmy chest or get us jobs, make us high or heala sick child. At the moment global warmingis too touchy a subject, but it is clear the earthis releasing its inner heat for reasons of itsown. Global warming is not the fault of man,though pollution is. Weak sunshine that islargely parallel to the ground will not meltarctic sea ice that is nine-tenths submerged,nor will it melt permafrost two feet belowthe surface.

The embarrassment of science is shortly

to end, and it will be because of astrology.The astrological revival is leading, inexora-bly, to a revival of Aristotle. And Aristotleis a game-changer.

The whole reason for Aristotle, the wholereason for the I-Ching, the whole reason forthe Hindu Doshas, was to replace opinionwith structure. Science must be superior tomere ego.

It is structure that western science lacks.It is lack of structure that has rendered sci-ence a long series of fads, many of them deadends, more than a few of them dangerous.

It was Aristotelian physics that guided theGreeks and Romans. It was lost when Romefell, but kept alive in the Islamic world, whereit was rediscovered in the plunder of the Cru-sades and then laboriously translated (12thCentury Translators), which then touchedoff the Italian Renaissance.

Where it was picked up by the Germans.Who were suffering from an excess ofChurch repression, which led to Luther’s re-volt, which led to the 30 Years War of 1618-48, which destroyed Germany and Germanculture and science.

Whereupon, not two years later, theFrench declared a new “enlightened” system.The French had not studied Aristotle, theywere not interested. The French knew whatthey liked, and they knew they were right.Monarchists at heart (they still are, bless theirCatholic souls), they declared their opinionsto be “science.”

The link between the 30 Years War andthe Enlightenment, the critical link, is thatthe Germans declared a right to the religionof their choice, whereupon the French de-clared a right to the science of theirs. TheGermans discarded the Trinity. The Frenchdiscarded Aristotle.

And both will swear, to their dying day,that God told them so, and that logic andproof are on their side. If either were true,there would not be a thousand post-LutherChristian religions, nor a science so complexand messy and contradictory that no livingperson can understand it.

Unable to publish coherent books, en-gaged in mindless witch hunts, science isdead. In going back to its past, astrology,which had been dying, has rediscovered itsroots and lives again.

ASTROLOGY HAS WON. It won decadesago, but we had not noticed. IT WILL RETURN

ARISTOTLE, THE REAL SCIENCE, TO US.

WI