A Word on What Astrology Is (Not)
“In the beginning...”
This Universe + our experience exists in time.
To me, the astrological wheel is just a giant clock.
It, like I, cannot tell you the future, but it can tell you what time it is.
Genesis 1:14 says the sun, moon, and stars are to be used for signs, seasons, days, and years. Ecclesiastes 3 tells us there is a time for everything.
Ancient societies and the agricultural industry to this day have used the zodiac to know when best to plant which crops, the right time to harvest them, optimal days to weed and water, and what is due to wither. You can use it this way, too...that is, for the tending of the proverbial garden of your lived experience.
Your natal (adj. of, relating to, or present at birth) chart is like your personal time piece, a wrist watch set into motion at the exact moment you were born.
And it’s beautiful. I look forward to the opportunity to introduce you to yours.
If you’re seeking clarity for the new year, alignment in your calling, or language for what your life has been trying to teach you… your chart already holds the map.
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Now, on the subject of whether or not astrology counts among the biblically admonished practices of “DIVINATION” … no.
Astrology is no more a tool of divination than a clock on a wall. No more a practice of divination than glancing up at that clock in the morning and planning your day around it.
Zodiacal literacy is as much a fortune-telling, future-predicting witchcraft as knowing that church starts at 11am every Sunday and that Mom will have dinner on the table at 6 o’clock every night after decades of her having done so and training you to be there, hands wash, face clean, phone off. And that Dad will likely walk in at 6:03, ready to eat, so we best not be late.
You know because they have established a pattern all your life. Sure, something could happen where - she could have a PTA meeting or dad might surprise her with a date night. Even if you were to move or one of your parents were to pass, you would probably spend the rest of your life expecting to eat around 6 and feel “off” if you didn’t. And so the pattern continues.
Astrology is the oldest science. FULL STOP. It is the ancient art of noticing patterns and themes from data and letting RESULTS tell you a story.
Astrology is the study of time, the feminine version to the masculine approach of astronomy. Same coin, two side, both required and valid. It was right up to the 1960’s that astrology was an area of study largely dominated by men as most scholarly, academic, and scientific discipline would have been then. It was only during the 17th and 18th centuries that astrology began to separate from mainstream science with the advent of the scientific method, the development of modern astronomy, and funding issues. For millennia before, in cultures like the West Eurasian peoples, astrology was considered a serious tradition, intertwined with the development of astronomy, meteorology, and medicine. Many practitioners and scholars, included figures like Ptolemy, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Isaac Newton, are as famous for their relationship with astrology as their other academic pursuits.
Daily sun sign columns had been invented in the 1930s to sell newspapers as the New Age movements of the 1960s and 1970s heavily incorporated astrology, leading to a boom in its general popularity and embedding it in pop culture. The new, psychologically focused astrology of that era found its primary audience among women, a finding noted in several studies and general observations of participants.
This created a massive change in astrological culture where an ancient, male-dominated pursuit became popularly perceived as a female-oriented interest. Astrology had moved away from a focus on linear prediction and fate toward an emphasis on personality, growth, and transformation, aligning with the rise of humanistic psychology.
And so it transitioned from a respected academic discipline to a pseudoscience in the eyes of the scientific community. However, a significant cultural shift occurred around the 1960s when the practice became largely associated with women and the New Age movement. Diminished to lore by centuries of patriarchal dominion, the egotistical phase of intellectual evolution, and history’s long chapters of religious tyranny, astrology is the oldest knows science that humans have, perfecting the practice of observation and communication.
Astrology is simply a language — a way of reading time, pattern, and purpose with more clarity than guessing and more humility than control.
We use calendars without worshipping them.
We use clocks without fearing them.
We use weather patterns to prepare for a season, not to manipulate it.
Astrology is the same.
It is orientation, not divination.
It is discernment, not superstition.
When you understand your own pattern — your natal clock, your cycle of becoming — life stops feeling random. Your timing makes sense. Your challenges make sense. Your gifts make sense. And the path in front of you becomes less chaotic and more coherent.
If you’ve never been introduced to your chart in a way that feels grounded, intelligent, spiritually aligned, and actually useful…I would love to be that person for you. Talk soon.
Watch this absolutely adorable episode of everyone’s favorite kids science show, The Fab Lab With Crazy Aunt Lindsey, where we explore astrological concepts like the sun, moon, and stars and astrology’s “big sister” relationship to astronomy…or you could read this paper from Harvard University like I did. Have it your way.
“as above, so below.”
