Houses and also astrology's origin

[Mark M]

Machine translation from the German-language "lost sessions":

 
SESSION 808, AUGUST 6, 1977

 
Although you decorate houses physically, you also paint them with emotional auras or patterns.

Animals react to smells that are beyond your perception. An animal's dwelling or cave is indelibly marked by its occupant -- not just by smell, the invisible legacy of body chemicals, but also by emotional ones

Traces and shadows, tones and colors that together form their own psychic atmosphere....

 

When people have lived in a house for many years, such emotional atmospheres are very strong. When a new family moves in, they are toned down or changed to some degree, and it often takes several such new tenants for a house to become somewhat "neutral." Of course, a lot has to do with the new residents -- their goals, strengths, drives -- and how well the house suits them from the start....

 

In short, astrology as you know it is a remnant of several ancient religions that also combined mysticism with intensive observation of the natural world, including the stars and planets.

The planets were viewed as gods—each of them, in some way, giving rise to people who had their own specific characteristics.

had relationships. And all of these gods represented, to a greater or lesser extent, the entire spectrum of human characteristics. Each god cared about his respective category. The soldier had a God, the family man, the farmer and so on.

The religions were very practical, so people studied the sky to determine the best time to sow seeds. Weather forecasts were important. The stars or planets were viewed as the source of human characteristics, not the guides of human destiny, although each person prayed to his personal planetary god.

Originally this was a natural religion. According to Sparer[?], the combination of mystical knowledge and mathematical knowledge meant that the priests could calculate the seasons, the length of days, the circumference of the earth, and so on quite accurately, and then they quickly added their dogmatic ideas and ran away of the population for, for example, determining the best time to sow grain or other useful information.

Parents tried to have their children at a certain time so that they would be born under the god who would endow the child with the desired qualities.

There are natural relationships that exist in all elements of physical life, and by focusing on a certain number of such relationships within certain limits, a number of such systems have been formed. Cause and effect would then appear to actually exist because other, external elements were not taken into account.

This is the case with astrology and every other school of thought that limits experiences to fit neatly within their conceptual boundaries.

Physically speaking, there are obviously connections between the movements of the planets and your planet, and between your planet and the cosmos. They are patterns of interwoven activities.

If you want, I will in our next meeting on Monday

say a little more about it. Until then, I wish you a nice evening, unless you still had questions.

("No, I think we'll leave it at that for now.")

 

SESSION 809

MONDAY

8. AUGUST 1977

 

There are reasons why certain topics are highlighted in our work and others are barely mentioned.

It is much more important that we produce new material than that we spend time explaining why other systems are weak or do not work. This also applies to astrology. To some extent it will of course work for those who believe in it, and there are enough natural connections between the planets and the Earth that various mathematical correlations and relationships can be formulated.

A particular type of seed planted in a particular place and time is, of course, largely dependent on its environment and its very nature. A seed cannot be planted in the middle of the snow in winter hoping that it will thrive. But people can very well be born in December. It is in their nature that they venture out from their place of birth to other areas with curiosity and a little courage. In the sense of astrology, they are not indelibly marked by the time or place of their birth or by the position of the planets.

The astrological influences form -- together with countless other

ren factors -- the framework for an existence in which man is free to use his will and is no more bound to the position of the planets at his birth than to his cradle.

You may have blue eyes. Color is a characteristic that in no way affects your ability to see or not see. So there are certain colors that appear in astrology, but they are no more important than any other factor that defines a particular personality.

The fundamental meaning of astrology was originally in agriculture, but these principles are no more important to your species than the type of culture into which you were born, the influence of your parents on you, and so on.

In the past, when people did not travel so much, there were deeper, more intimate connections between people and their immediate physical surroundings, for example, they ate from the plants of their region and experienced the weather conditions and natural rhythms of animals and animals Plants in its area of origin.

Originally, astrology was based on such a relationship.