An Opinion - And a couple of questions!  

     Do the forces of gravity cause our lives to go one way or another? Can the tug of Saturn cause you to marry a certain person who was perhaps influenced by the gravitational field of Jupiter to hunt you down so you would ask that person to marry you?

     Is Astrology for real?  If so, by what means did the ancients figure out this influence on us?  It wasn't that long ago that we were struggling to keep the fires going around the cave and yet those few thousands of years ago these folks found ways to compute star and planet movement to such a precise measurement that they felt it influenced peoples lives. What a leap of intellect! 

     It is my understanding that the different houses are dominant for a period of almost 2,200 years before giving way to the next and it takes about 26,000 years for this total cycle to take place.  (There is an excellent discussion of this math in the book "The Coming Global Superstorm", by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber.)  I may be somewhat wrong on the number of years but not too far off.  If you were worrying about catching the next meal or not becoming the next meal, when would you have the time to figure out the math, make the observations, and pass it down to the next generation?  And yet, according to the experts, we couldn't even write back then.  We don't want to make disparaging remarks about our ancestors but that's a little heavy.  Outside help or older civilizations that are yet to be uncovered? You think about it.

     But that's outside the original question of whether the pull of gravity can cause events to occur in our lives.  My opinion has for years been that Astrology for the masses is nothing but hocus-pocus.

     Beyond that premise is the fact that gravity is a very powerful but as yet untamed force in the universe.  The moon exerts enough force on the earth to move the oceans.  The sun exerts enough force on the planets and other bodies in the solar system to keep things in orbit and not fly off into never-never land. 

     The stars in our galaxy are kept in their eternal dance with the force of gravity and the billions of galaxies are connected by a force that can reach across distances that we can't even imagine.

     Does all this affect us?  Yes it does.  Can we hunker down with a pencil and paper and calculate our next career move by computing where Venus was on the day of our birth?  No.

What do you think?
Pete Jefferson

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