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Samuel James's avatar

Wow. Thanks. Will be chewing on this for the rest of my life.

Ioannis Goldmouth's avatar

Reading this made my brain feel like spacetime: warped and distorted.

Jokes aside, this actually clicks with a lot of my ponderings on how we can reconcile the "scientific" reality of astrophysics with the "magical" reality of astrology. I have been thinking about the symbolic nature of gravity and how it perfectly accords with the Hermetic axiom of "like attracts like." Simply put, gravity is the force which condenses matter and binds together atoms which have a similar mass to each other. Hence why, for example, we have an atmosphere that is consistently comprised of gasses of similar mass while solids like carbon are consistently gathered beneath us -- the mass of the atoms are the criteria by which gravity organizes matter.

The word "symbol" itself literally means "to throw together." This means that mass can symbolically be thought of as meaning/purpose and gravity can be thought of as the force which "throws mass together" into a unified whole; the higher the mass of the object, the higher the condensation of meaning surrounding that object.

Time is the medium through which things happen, it is the 'place' where meaning itself unfolds and spreads itself out. Without time, there can be no meaning because nothing meaningful would be able to happen. If we are to believe that higher mass = higher condensation of meaning, this means that time slows down near celestial objects of higher mass because the medium through which meaning unfolds needs to be 'stretched out' in order to compensate for the increased bandwidth of meaning passing through it. Just as a higher volume of liquid needs a wider pipe to flow through, time needs to expand in order for a higher volume of meaning to flow through it.

We see this kind of thinking in our everyday language: if a situation is highly meaningful, we speak of the 'gravity' of the situation. In those high gravity situations, there is so much meaning to process that our personal perception of time seems to slow down.

This explains why in both natal and mundane astrology, a planet's influence on the individual is not only relevant to its mass, but also how significantly that mass influences the planet. The Sun and Moon are vastly different in mass, but because the Moon is so much closer and from our perspective they are the same size in the sky, the astrological impact they have on us is the greatest amongst the planets.

Perhaps my midwit mind is misunderstanding how gravity actually works, but I hope this made sense.

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