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Ah, metaphysics. I studied metaphysics in a practical way extensively in the late 90's. I was technically homeless but I lived by magic for about four and a h

Ah, metaphysics. I studied metaphysics in a practical way extensively in the late 90's. I was technically homeless but I lived by magic for about four and a half years. It was pretty intense. Anyway... I speak with authority in this matter: Astrology is a form of divination. All forms of divination work, depending on the operator. All forms of: Astrology, Numerology, Tarot, Dowsing by pendulum or rods, Palmistry, Reading of tea leaves or entrails (yuch!) or cracks in heated turtle shells or thrown reeds or coins, I Ching, omens and signs, etc., all of them, work by the same method. It's the internal potency of the operator that leads to correct knowledge (from "esoteric" sources.) Your own connection to source guides the interpretation. The format of the divination system is a conduit to bring semantics into concrete syntax. If you simply want reliable truthful information the "applied kinesiology" technique of Dr. Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. [1] is the single simplest and purest methodology. It's so mind-blowing that even I can barely credit it. But I have never found it to fail. It's so spooky that I often "forget" to use it, and just bumble along as best i can. YMMV However, if you want to study astrology, you can just make up your own system. It will be more powerful than adopting someone else's system. Unless you feel drawn to a certain school or format, in which case that's important information for your personal path and you should likely study that. Spread all your books out, pick one at random, open it to a random page, and read the first passage your eye alight upon. (Bibliomancy, another form of divination, one of my favorites. I have a shelf with the Gita, Bible, Beezlebub's Tales to His Grandson, and others and still practice bibliomancy with them from time to time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliomancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliomancy ) [1] Although he didn't invent it, his presentation and discussion of it are the only thing I'm talking about here: https://veritaspub.com/ https://veritaspub.com/ If you go look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_kinesiology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_kinesiology there's a lot lot there that could be unpacked, but that's NOT what I'm talking about. I mean specifically the "Levels of Consciousness" interpretation of Hawkins.

jelliclesfarm 7y ago
Thank you. But can we codify it in a mathematical language that can be a visual map? I chose Vedic astrology because to a certain extent the astronomy and math part of it is pretty well documented and authored. How to extract the predictive pattern recognition aspects of it so the ‘intuition’ part of it can be understood?
- carapace 7y ago
  Cheers! > But can we codify it in a mathematical language that can be a visual map? Short answer is yes (but not in the same way as physics.) But there's no "one true" map (somewhat like how there's no "one true" programming language.) > I chose Vedic astrology because to a certain extent the astronomy and math part of it is pretty well documented and authored. Yes, but it's all made up. And all in association with a world that's long gone (or at least changed massively since then.) It's no better or worse than e.g. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Astrology isn't about the actual planets. Have you looked at Sacred Geometry? (It's just geometry, but studied with a sacred mindset.) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sacred+Geometry&t=ffab&atb=v60-1&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sacred+Geometry&t=ffab&atb=v60-1&i... It sounds to me like you might be wanting to "mind map" psychological archetypes onto a sort of Sacred Geometry? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map ) > How to extract the predictive pattern recognition aspects of it so the ‘intuition’ part of it can be understood? There's aren't any "predictive pattern recognition aspects" in the thing itself. As scientists point out, rightly, divination is logically barren. The intuition is something the operator does, the system of astrology (or whatever) is just the markings on the dial. You can't understand intuition (if you could it would just be "thinking") only experience it. Understanding and intuition are like sight and hearing: two different but complimentary ways to sense/model the Universe. Does this help? Really, if you just want to study astrology like an anthropologist would then just read the books you have. If you want to use astrology to model the world you should instead use physics. If you want to use astrology to model the inner world then read e.g. "Golden Bough" and Jung's archetype work and his Liber Novus (aka The Red Book), and maybe "The Varieties of Religious Experience" and "The Perennial Philosophy". And then just make up your own system. It will work just as well for prediction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28Jung%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28Jung%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Exp... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy (It's a shame this got flagged, eh?)
  - jelliclesfarm 7y ago

jelliclesfarm 7y ago

Thank you. But can we codify it in a mathematical language that can be a visual map? I chose Vedic astrology because to a certain extent the astronomy and math part of it is pretty well documented and authored. How to extract the predictive pattern recognition aspects of it so the ‘intuition’ part of it can be understood?

carapace 7y ago
Cheers! > But can we codify it in a mathematical language that can be a visual map? Short answer is yes (but not in the same way as physics.) But there's no "one true" map (somewhat like how there's no "one true" programming language.) > I chose Vedic astrology because to a certain extent the astronomy and math part of it is pretty well documented and authored. Yes, but it's all made up. And all in association with a world that's long gone (or at least changed massively since then.) It's no better or worse than e.g. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Astrology isn't about the actual planets. Have you looked at Sacred Geometry? (It's just geometry, but studied with a sacred mindset.) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sacred+Geometry&t=ffab&atb=v60-1&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sacred+Geometry&t=ffab&atb=v60-1&i... It sounds to me like you might be wanting to "mind map" psychological archetypes onto a sort of Sacred Geometry? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map ) > How to extract the predictive pattern recognition aspects of it so the ‘intuition’ part of it can be understood? There's aren't any "predictive pattern recognition aspects" in the thing itself. As scientists point out, rightly, divination is logically barren. The intuition is something the operator does, the system of astrology (or whatever) is just the markings on the dial. You can't understand intuition (if you could it would just be "thinking") only experience it. Understanding and intuition are like sight and hearing: two different but complimentary ways to sense/model the Universe. Does this help? Really, if you just want to study astrology like an anthropologist would then just read the books you have. If you want to use astrology to model the world you should instead use physics. If you want to use astrology to model the inner world then read e.g. "Golden Bough" and Jung's archetype work and his Liber Novus (aka The Red Book), and maybe "The Varieties of Religious Experience" and "The Perennial Philosophy". And then just make up your own system. It will work just as well for prediction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28Jung%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28Jung%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Exp... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy (It's a shame this got flagged, eh?)
- jelliclesfarm 7y ago