An astrology student from Kepler asked me a question recently: “Does the natal chart reveal everything that happens to a person? Why or why not?” This was my somewhat impromptu response: My first impression as I think about this question is that even though it seems very specific, there is a way in which it […]
Tag: determinism
I’ve been of the opinion for a while now that astrology is fundamentally deterministic, and that the majority of astrologers approach the subject with a more or less deterministic mindset, whether they consciously acknowledge it or not. In fact, the vast majority of astrologers seldom even realize just how deterministic their unspoken assumptions about astrology […]
My own views on astrology have been drifting towards a more Platonic and Stoic model of astrology since I started attending Kepler College a few years ago. At some point in Nick Campion’s book Astrology, History and Apocalypse he points out that astrologers have historically tended towards either a sort of Aristotelian causal model of […]