{"id":1248,"date":"2014-06-27T00:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T00:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2014-06-27T00:53:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T00:53:03","slug":"standing-in-borrowed-light-why-i-love-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/2014\/06\/standing-in-borrowed-light-why-i-love-astrology.html","title":{"rendered":"Standing In Borrowed Light: Why I Love Astrology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why do I love astrology? There’s more than one reason for that, but two in particular come to mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

First of all: it works<\/strong>. Yes, I know how crazy that sounds to a lot of people. Speaking as someone who is familiar with science and technology, the scientific method, and astronomy, I know just how nutty that sounds to a lot of people. Hey, I myself have a Ninth House Saturn, and am prone to skepticism about a lot of things. But having seen astrology work over and over and over again for decades now, it would be crazier to not<\/em> believe the evidence I’ve seen.<\/p>\n

Now, most people don’t go around saying things like “I love my microwave oven!” \u00a0just because it works.<\/strong> But if your microwave oven could help you understand yourself, the other people in your life and how you relate to them, and could correctly predict the forces you’d face in your future and could suggest ways to deal with them, and could let you know when bad times would end and when better times would come and when the optimum time to open a business or start looking for a relationship or change your investments around would be, you’ve love your microwave oven too.<\/p>\n

The other reason I love astrology? It’s all about the Connectedness Of Things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My life was changing. I could feel it in my bones and I could read it in my transits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to a perfect confluence of both cosmic events and the vagaries of finding affordable living space, last year I found myself standing on the sidewalk in San Francisco, a block from my home at the time, watching a lunar eclipse in the early evening. Due to that fortunate coincidence of geography and city planning, I had the perfect spot to see the Moon turn blood red in the gap between two buildings.<\/p>\n

I stood there and watched the eclipse progress, fully aware of all the science and the astrology involved, yet my experience was greater than both, and contained both.<\/p>\n

I played this song on my phone while the eclipse was reaching its peak:<\/p>\n