Quotations
You may like to browse through some of the quotations here to explore the different approaches and opinions as well as to learn what the experts say about both the science and the Spirit of Astrology.
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The great Sir Isaac Newton, who combined excellence of intellect with a becoming humility, was brought to the study of astronomy by his early interest in astrology. On one occasion, when complimented upon the profundity of his erudition, Newton replied with a gentle smile, “If I appear to see farther than other men, it is because I am standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
From The Story of Astrology by Manly Palmer Hall
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“There is no fatal necessity in the stars and this, the more prudent astrologers have constantly allowed.”
Lord Bacon
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The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today…. Linda Goodman
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As usual – Shakespeare says much .…
The Heavens themselves, the Planets, and this Centre,
Observe degree, priority, and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, forme,
Office, and custome, in all line of Order:
And therefore is the glorious Planet Sol
In noble eminence enthron’d and sphere’d
Amid’st the other; whose med’cinable eye
Corrects the ill Aspects of Planets evill,
And posts like the Commandment of a King,
Sans check to good and bad. But when the Planets
In evill mixture to disorder wander,
What Plagues, and what portents, what mutiny!
What raging of the Sea! Shaking of Earth!
Commotion in the winds! Frights, changes, horrors,
Diver and crack, rend and deracinate
The unity and married calme of States
Quite from their fixure!
Shakespeare’s Troylus and Cressida
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“A skillful person, acquinted with the nature of the stars, is enabled to avert many of their effects and to prepare himself for those effects before they arrive.”
Claudius Ptolemy – Astrologer/Astronomer/Mathematician 2nd century A.D.
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And this is the true message of the lunation cycle: that, though man and nature are buffetted by the storms raging through this world of duality and pain, of passion and sorrow, yet, there is in every individual the power to meet these storms with understanding, with courage and with faith; and, meeting them, to rise from the darkness of unconscious instinct to the light of conscious intelligence, from the possessiveness of sex to the bestowal of love, from the blindness of pride and war to the lucidity of cooperation and of peace.
Dane Rudhyar, Astrologer
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It has been observed that no notion or race has reached the flowering of culture without the civilizing influence of astrology. The study of the stars and the effects of their motions upon the lives of mundane creatures has intrigued the minds of men since the beginning of recorded history. It appears that men developed an astrological tradition long before the invention of writing: at least the earliest written records of the race indicate that the astrological tradition was already well established.
Manly Palmer Hall
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The Universe, compact of all things, is One. Through all things runs one divinity.
Marcus Aurelius
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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars,
The forget-me-nots of the angels.
Longfellow
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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens.
Ecclesiastes
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The Hindu astrologer Professor B. Suryanarain Row records the chart of Mohammed to include the following -
Birth time Monday, April 20th 571 A.D. at 1.25 a.m. appprox. at Mecca.
At that time, Capricorn was rising; Venus and Mercury in Pisces; Sun and Mars in Aries; Dagon’s Head in Gemini; Dragon’s Tail in Sagittarius; Moon in Libra in opposition to the Sun; Jupiter and Saturn in Scorpio; Saturn and Jupiter favourably aspected.
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Muslims call astrology “The Science of the Decrees of the Stars.”
In earlier times the name for astrologer/astronomer is Ah-Kami or Munadjdjim. It was only in the 19C that precise distinction was made between the two.
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The contents of the Circle of zodiacal wisdom are inexhaustible.
C.E.O Carter
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The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Shakespeare
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Any astrology which does not bring to man a message of integration is an adulteration and a perversion of true astrology.
Dane Rudhyar
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The Mysteries of the Incarnation, from the Conception on to the Ascension into heaven, are shown us on the face of the sky, and are signified by the stars. Albertus Magnus
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
C.G. Jung
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The superstition of astrology has its origin in our dim sense of some vast cosmic unity. Experience tells us that the heavenly bodies which are nearest us have a decisive influence on weather and plant life. We need only move higher, stage by stage, and who can say where this influences ceases? The astronomer observes that the heavenly bodies are subject to mutual disturbances; the philosopher is inclined, nay rather forced, to assume that action can take place even at the greatest distances; thus man, in his presentiment, needs only to go a stage further, and he will extend such influences to the moral life to happiness and misfortune. Such fanciful ideas, and other of the same kind, I cannot even call superstition; they come naturally to us and are as tolerable and as questionable as any other faith.
Goethe
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I believe that the cosmic religious sense is one of the strongest and noblest motives behind scientific research.
Albert Einstein
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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.
Thomas Aquinas
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Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual…. Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self.
Edgar Cayce
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At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don’t worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.
Carl Jung
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
Johannes Kepler
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The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
D.H. Lawrence
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“Understand, Therefore, Concerning Astrology That It Knows the Whole Nature, Wisdom, and Science of the Stars, According as They Perfect Their Own Operation in Conception and Constitute an Animal Man… But if Astrology Be Fundamentally and Properly Known, and the Nativities of Infants Be Erected Rightly According to the Mode of the Influence, Many Evils Will Be Avoided Which Would Otherwise Be Occasioned by the Unpropitious Constellations.”
Paracelsus
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“Abraham, the Chaldean, bore upon his breast a large astrological tablet on which the fate of every man might be read; for which reason – according to the Haggadist – all the kings of the East and of the West congregated every morning before his door in order to seek advice.”
The Jewish Encyclopaedia
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