Quantum Leap of Faith

The Great Chasm

What will it really take for just the slightest possibility of a plausible theory of celestial correspondence to even be considered worthy of research by the worldly academic scientific community? What conceptual leap will be required of the upcoming generation of astrologers to help root astrology’s practices and understandings, once again, into the mainstream discussion, discipline and doctrines of global culture? What new mix of languages, lexicons and symbols will be required to integrate the complex conversations evolving now in this pandemic transformative conscious discourse?

‘A Revolution of the Way of Thinking’

In 1787, in the preface of the second edition of his Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant used the phrase ‘a revolution of the way of thinking’ to describe what we refer to now as a ‘paradigm shift’. Kant was describing the shifts in collective thinking brought about by the Hellenistic mathematician-philosophers and the radical changes introduced into physics and industry by the then new Newtonian laws. The drastic disturbance in the direction of science represented by quantum mechanics as it has completely redirected and downsized the dominion of Newtonian physics is nothing short of a trans-natural revelation of an evolutionary metamorphic coalescence of intelligence & insight, the obvious & the abstruse, and of reason & faith.

For a moment, I would like to take you on a thought exercise to help shift some generic perceptions of how you may think about astrology and science, and to expand the boundaries of what you already innately sense about the structures functioning at the core of the unconscious mind. In the brief moment we have in this article, I would like to tap into the essence of the elemental consciousness of nature and bring it into our complex consciousness of human awareness. Let’s take one eye’s view inward for a closer look at astrology’s fundamental expression and the other eye’s view outward to perceive how it connects to the external reality, in order to grasp an integrated third eye’s view of the scalarized meta-cosmos at work.

I Am THAT I Am

Forget about any preconceived notions of astrology, of science, or of spirituality… As you read each of these words, try to forget that words exist and focus only at the potentials of what each word could mean - for words also separate one thing from another. Feel for the unified truth resonating behind the possibilities of these words. Clear the ideas of any and all separations or distinctions from your mind and thoughts. Find that place outside of time where there is only union, only one everything. At this level of awareness there is no pattern, for there is nothing other than a primordial “that”, the Vedic elemental dha(t), the Kabbalist da’ath, which knows no opposite. This is the ‘place’, the state of being, the unifying principle spoken of and referenced in all religions & spiritual precepts, through all cultures and even at the heart of all science. This is the condition past the limitlessness of the heavens and beyond any confines of the hells; an uncommitted and unbiased condition that some might call nirvana.

“The reason the pattern in the stars is repeated in the pattern of your life is because there is only one pattern to begin with.”

- Terence McKenna on Astrology

Quantum Leap of Faith:

The Divine Pattern

Then, there is a dividing of the original that; how, when or why this division is or came into being is irrelevant - just that it is. We can call this idea the ‘primary binary’, the supreme opposites. You can visualize this as black and white, that which is both everything & no-thing; the sound and the silence, which must coexist in order to fully experience the other. This primary pair of opposites composes the core language of the Universe. Because this essential separation of ultimate reality requires a new spatial quality, something akin to what we think of as time and space also emanates forth for the acknowledgment of this differential. You might think of this as dimensionality, the ‘place’ where the infinite and the finite emerge together entangled, appear to dichotomize, and eternally reflect this collaborative state of existence embracing nonexistence. This quality is simultaneously contraction and expansion, the eternal cosmic breath. The breath of the hamsa mantra; hamsa meaning, ham - "I Am" and sa - "That"....

Within the space of this eternal breath exists - existence. Bifurcation of never-ending opposites interfacing at all angles constitutes the holographic actuality of a reality of this existence, one that is expressed by the infinite bound within finite space, and that which is finite forever-attempting to fill the infinite within. Natural order sets a pattern of interacting repetitions within this space… some patterns oscillate as light, some oscillate as sound, and some oscillate as matter and all phases in between, depending on each pattern’s vibratory field. Within this field, composing & decomposing through infinite complexity of the vibrations of sonoluminescent energy, relative frequency and duration of these interactions become amplitude and spin, which support the illusion of time & space. Raw creation dances with each new found experience of itself. It perpetually bursts forth from a single basic pattern and resolves itself into every imaginable intrinsic structure contemplatively passing through all levels and evolutions of omniparient light. This is a ‘place’ where God eternally explores the divine coupling through every conscious particle in the Universe - collectively, archetypally and individually, experiencing infinity.

The Immeasurable Else

From the two supreme opposite states or forces, everything else arises. Even before there is spacetime, the proto-pattern for what is to come already exists. The fundamental scheme of all natural shape and form which underlies everything expands and evolves into the space created for creation. This fundamental pattern is what I refer to as the “cosmological simplex”, the blueprint, imprint, fingerprint and voiceprint of God. As astrologers we call this root archetypal pattern around us the Zodiac.

From this simple order of duality, nature divines subtle reflective polarities of condition and behavior. This ecumenical template is expressed through countless qualities. The template morphs into and out of every conceivable and inconceivable configuration. Consisting of yin curves intersected through yang lines, of one dimension hyper-expanding into the next, which manifests all degrees of ‘male and female’ union within energy and form. This primary zodiacal pattern functions at every phase, scale and relative magnitude, creating the energetic framework of reality. Upon this limitless frame, every manner of energetic form and function is devised, shaped and cast into this substantive holographic phenomenon we call subjective existence. We are woven into every divine quantum fiber of this vast inter-connected immeasurable else.

What State Are We In

The fundamental co-generating principle of complementary opposites flows through all the central axes of creation, threading through the nuclei of microcosms to the spinal cords of macrocosms. The ‘zodiacal field’ emanates from every planet, person and particle, from every blackhole, star and galaxy, and through the very center of the Universe itself. It brings forth all life on Earth and organizes the flow of energy between individualized units of the internal components of the phases of light. The subatomic realm supports the atomic; the atomic creates the material. Atoms form elements and in turn support the molecular and chemical phases of the cosmos. Chemistry brings forth biology, and biology reveals the subtlety of psychology, which is the study of behaviors of the mind. This union of cosmic mind and essential matter is a deep professing of the complex behaviors of light energy. Within every photon of light, all information and knowledge exists, and we are here to express our quanta of this infinite knowing. A simple truth, that light is within everything.

Feel what it is to be a cell for a moment, to know what a sunflower knows for an hour or what Earth experiences in an epoch. Each is involved in the creative template at work, as well as the transitory uses of its components within this cosmic master plan; each has its inner knowing, this gnosis, of thedivine pattern. This connective pattern is merely the primary recognizable structure underlying nature itself; it was not invented, it was discovered. It is the fundamental principle upon which “astrology” is established. Biology lives within astrology and astrology lives within biology. Organic matter,any matter, for that matter, exists within these forces and matrices, and are subject to the entangled correspondences of these energies and geometries. We are all of thisone thinginteracting through all states of being. Currently, the fields of our energetic and material systems are all aligned and yoked with the state of being human.

In God’s Image

In the 1980’s, the advent of modern computers led to many profound insights into nature by viewing patterns of simple yet complexifying mathematical equations calculated and pixelated into images. The mathematical images, derived from fractal patterning, gave us a new vantage into the component diagrams of the mega-cosmos. One of the fractal pattern images that emerged is known as the Mandelbrot Set, a set of infinite self-similar continuous patterns of coordinates, exhibiting an increasingly elaborate boundary of recursive fractalization. This mathematical patterned set represents the concept of a newly recognized natural law, that declares that nature is self-similar across all scales. If nature resonates an archetypal construct on one level, it will reuse that construct on another level. You can see this in how particles orbit around within the shell of an atom, similarly to planets as they orbit around within the heliosphere of a star. So the atoms too must be in an intricate corresponding relationship with the planets, with or without the existence of a human level reality.

Likewise, our understanding of astrology is based on these polar patterns of elaborate energetic correlations, which function as archetypal frequencies. In the future, instead of practicing natal astrology to track your life path from above (without), one could employ natal atomology (studying paths of systems of particles) utilizing laws of potential averages to determine the path of these correlations from below (within). Theoretically, this practice would be possible, yet the deeper someone peers into the complexities of reality, the more analysis and calculation is required to bring that knowledge to life, and to understanding it. I suggest that with mental calculation alone this would not be possible, yet it is possible with the ‘mathematics of the heart’, which naturally computes the irrational equations posed by innate foreknowledge. Regardless, this step in moving from mere intellectual reliance on how we perceive creation, towards an integration of intellect with intuition in order to better look directly into the heart of God, is part of our quantum leap of faith.

Study of the Heavens

“Astrology is the study of the heavens.” Now think about what we take for granted in that statement. We immediately perceive a point of view of ‘looking up’ observing the celestial lights, pondering their meanings and wisdoms from a human perspective. What about the point of view of the heavens? Could it not also be conceived that the conscious heavens are conducting a study of all the patterns of light? And that also from this heavenly study, planetary bodies materialized in correlation with people, their qualities & habits of behavior? Could the heavens not argue that people, planets & their reflective resemblances are merely spiritual byproducts of this ‘experimentum magnum’, this greater overarching divined experiment?

Any new approach to truly understanding the relationships of the internal celestial mechanism will require a shift towards creating a re-envisioned transdisciplinary holistic modality within astrology. The new astrology will require us to go beyond an interdisciplinary approach and to truly take tools from other fields of study for assimilation into a reimagined branch of meta-scientific knowledge. Astrology is already a dense and rich divergent field, yet it is asking more of us in order to break through this dualistic split paradigm which has evolved between science and spirituality. We are being asked to take on the ever-expanding roles of scientist and sage. This discipline, when better understood, will once again occupy vast portions of the social intellect and common purpose as it once did in the ancient world. Our forbearers knew full well the importance of the subtle yet potent fields of vital life force that operate around us and through us.

“The key to the validation of astrology will be to look outside of ‘astrology’ in order to comprehend it.”

Science, art, & spirituality are virtually separate concepts in our time, but in the ancient world they were considered integral aspects of a single holistic pursuit. A closer look reveals that there was essentially no separation or distinction in these modalities within the lives of those who were a part of most every culture. Johnathan Anthony West, famous Egyptologist (who was also an astrologer), once said of these disciplines, “…they were inextricably entwined … so that there was no art that wasn’t religious (spiritual), no religion that wasn’t philosophical, no philosophy that wasn’t scientific, no science that wasn’t art…” Still, many 'spiritual astrologers' do not consider astrology to be scientific, merely meant to remain a meaningful mystery; while there are 'secular astrologers’ who feel astrology to be only a method of designating space-time within a machine void of spiritual meaning. We are again meeting at the crossroads of the height of a technological advance and the revelations of a truth resonating at the center of the ancient wisdoms.

In a sense, the physicist is a mage and seer, as one investigates the hidden mysteries of reality, learns of the universal interrelatedness, and seeks to see the world from the perspective of source and origin. To this end, a scientist is also a cleric, a priest, a monastic - by one’s actions of refining mental methods, physical operations, and agreed-upon collective rituals of practice allowing one to peer deeper into the constitution of Creation and to bring forth a quanta of truth. Within empiricism, a hypothesis is evidence of faith. A hypothesis is a supposition made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation and rigor. Is not some degree of faith first required to initiate every pursuit of a scientific endeavor? …a faith fueled by a passion to pursue the magnificence within the minute and the minute within the magnificence? Is there not also a desire for a measure of truth beyond reason, only to be found in the meso- & the meta-, the places in-between and beyond?

In parallel, the astrologer is a spiritual geometrist, and has conviction & trust in what has been handed down as our mathematical metaphysical tradition and study of the paths & patterns of light. To this, an astrologer is also an academician, a professor and a physician by ones’s study, teachings and practices, in order to help better exchange knowledge of the evolution of conscious light within matter. Within meta-science, insight is evidence of faith. Insight is a sudden deciphering of an unexplainable knowing, in which we personally hold trust for pursuing additional action and refining new qualities which come to define us. Is not some faith required to first exchange one’s beliefs and then to transform those new beliefs into foundational understandings, which we then come to exemplify? Is this faith not also fueled by passion to join in the mating of the higher and the lower, to empower the within to go without, and to harbor the without within? Is this not also a desire beyond reason for some perspective of truth of the absolute by way of the exo- and the eso-, that which is surrounding the world and that which is central to it?

The Reason for Faith

I would like to be able to say that every person on the planet has some degree of conscious faith but that would not be an accurate statement. Many who are very bound in secular society are vehemently opposed to the concept of faith. In fact the ‘philosophy of faith’, referred to as fideism, derived from the latin fides is viewed as negative by most of the scientific and secular world. Faith is considered to be the enemy of reason. Yet, in religion, faith is a requirement. Just as there are those ‘extremists’ who only recognize a material reality devoid of purpose or meaning, there is the polar opposition of those who operate solely with ‘blind faith’ and choose to exclude all practicality and rational thought from daily life.

Both of these schools of thought would have you believe that faith and rational thought are incompatible. This would appear to be the essence of the deceptive nature of the Age of Pisces, which we have passed through the last 2,000 years or so. When one looks at the broader view of the sign of Pisces during an age, the image itself gives us clues of this separation of matter & spirit, this division of reason & faith, the segregation of mind & heart. The image of the two fish headed in opposite directions bound by a thin golden cord symbolizes opposite extremes connected always by symmetric reflection; they represent limitless concepts taken as far as they can go into the realm of limited human consciousness. The traditional ruler of Jupiter expands all to its furthest possible ends; and the modern ruler (co-ruler) Neptune deludes boundaries, taking us to the borders of madness.

To look on the face of god is to know madness. We have come to the boundaries of our individuated and collective conscious minds and we find ourselves face to face with our delusions. The recognition of one delusion staring into the face of another staring back at itself sparks our insight, that it is into the chaos we must take the keys of heaven to go inside and unlock the origins of all our current afflictions. We must go into this chaos to collapse the existing order which is already crumbling through misguided faith. Out of this madness will arise a new mind and a new order of nature - ordo ab chaos - and the seeds of a new science and a new spirituality will be cultivated..

“Science, for the pre-modern mind, cannot be divorced from the study of ultimate metaphysical truths, and thus can only be preparatory to mystical union.”

- Angela Voss

Sine Qua Non

Without which… nothing, is a classical Aristotelian expression. The sentiment of this ancient Latin phrasing can be translated as “…without a specific condition, element or essential action, there is/I am nothing”. What we are finding out is that ultimately spirituality and the study of science are inseparable; the truth of the universe cannot be known if one is devoid of the other. The quintessential paradox is that without a measure of faith, one cannot stand on reason and also leap beyond it. One shall not know God through reason alone; it requires faith as one’s conviction to seek ultimate truth.

As astrologers, we are members of the scientific priestly class. At source, the sacred and the scientific cannot be separated; therefore, empirical scientists are unwittingly our allies. Matter and spirit now turn again to align and enfold with each other; as we in-the-know, prepare for the impact of their full embrace. Matter is nothing without spirit, as spirit is no-thing without matter. The patterns within one are the same patterns in the other. As students and devotees of the heavens, we take it upon ourselves to uphold the truth of the fundamental principle of divine pattern. Without which nothing - exists...

The transformation from a more materially reasoning knowledge into an intangible energetic gnosis requires confidence in one’s internal awareness; hence the axiom know thyself. As the Aquarian Age begins to take hold of us, the technical and intuitive mind states will gradually find integration in the realigning collective perception. The Piscean mantra is - I believe; the Aquarian mantra is - I know. We are at the crossroad canyon of these two epochs of time and quality, standing at the edge of belief, preparing for the running leap of faith to cross over the chasm of quantum chaos; closing our eyes and finding ourselves already landed and beyond the other side of the illusion, heading ever forward on the healing path of the actual knowledge of source.