By: Torrey Brooke Our entire human existence has revolved around developing different formulas for measuring, quantifying, and explaining our world. We invented the tangible, linear version of time, a system of mathematics, and a political structure all for the purpose of understanding our world. One of these developments, psychology, is a formula for measuring, quantifying, and explaining the relationship between the mind and human behavior and is defined by Google as, “The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.” Another one of these developments, science, is a formula for measuring, quantifying, and explaining anything which can be perceived as tactical, logical, or practical and is defined by Dictionary.com as, "1. A branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. 2. Systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation." And astrology, like psychology and science, is just another formula for measuring, quantifying and explaining the energy between all that exists and is defined by astrolibrary.com as, “The observation of the interplay between the planets and our Earth.” No matter how you choose to define these three areas of study, psychology, science, and astrology are simply a few of the many formulas we have invented to measure, quantify, and explain our world in an attempt to make sense of everything. Yes, astrology is just a bunch of made up crap, and so is science and psychology and time and math and politics and religion and law and education. If psychology and science (notably astrophysics) truly had all the answers to perfectly explain human behavior and the universe, in theory, all behavioral problems would be predictable thus preventable, we would know about the existence or non-existence of intelligent life elsewhere, and humans would likely inhabit other planets by now. However, as we know, neither psychology, science, nor astrology have all the answers to human behavior, the universe, nor the relationship or lack-thereof between the two.
Whether we believe science (or psychology, or astrology, etc.) is “real” is not the point. Things are what they are no matter what words or formula we come up with to explain them. However, the words and the formulas themselves are just a bunch of made up crap so that we have a way of understanding these “real” experiences.
So, what do we know? We know that there is a whole lot we don’t know. We know that no matter how accurate, factual, or correct something might seem, there is no perfect formula to measure, quantify, or explain all that exists. Nothing and no one is perfect and yet everything and everyone are exactly perfect. Create space for that paradox in your mind. Create space for the fact that something can be just as accurate as inaccurate; that something can be true and not true, that something can be correct without having all the answers. When you create space for all of that in your mind then does it really matter that astrology is just a bunch of made up crap? Does it really matter that everything is just a bunch of made up crap that we so thoughtfully and intelligently created in order to have what we perceive to be a better, more well-rounded understanding of this paradoxical universe? Let’s stop debating the accuracy of astrology for no other reason than – who cares? It is simply another completely fascinating tool we can use to see our existence from a different perspective. No, astrology isn’t completely accurate, but it also isn’t completely inaccurate, just as everything else we’ve created to measure our vastly immeasurable human experience. I guess what I’m trying to say is, so what? We're all driving each other crazy just trying to cope with the phenomenon of being human - the phenomenon of being. Let's just sit in awe of that absurd irony and survive it with whatever inaccurate and impossible explanation suits us at the time without having to debate it or defend it. Let's just be - whatever that means. Comments are closed.
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