Quantum Astrology

DVD Movie Review: Quantum Astrology: Science, Spirit, and Our Place in the Cycles of History – Presented by Sacred Mysteries with Rick Levine and Jay Weidner (2005)

Quantum Astrology

 

This was an interesting movie but not fantastic. In the beginning the author – astrologer Rick Levine – made some interesting commentary about science and frequency and noted that on a macro level the orbit of a planet relative to the Earth constitutes the frequency of that planet. He compared these planetary frequencies to the frequencies of waves – noting the wave-particle duality conundrum of quantum physics. Another of the more interesting things noted in the movie is that astrology is basically the study of cyclic time –whether in small increments like hours or in big ones like the precession of the equinoxes. Most of the science was elementary and a review to bring on the analysis planetary cycle interpretations that followed. My 16 year old son got pretty bored with the science review – that he seemed to find condescending – da yeah so what. Anyway, most of the DVD focused on historical analyses on based alignments of the outer planets. Both conjunctions – where both planets align on one side of the Earth and oppositions – where both planets align on opposite sides of the Earth were examined. First he went through Saturn/Pluto alignments (full cycle every 33 yrs? and half cycle – from conjunction to opposition every 16.5 years?) Here he noted things related to binding (Saturn) and destruction/death (Pluto) such as events leading up to the destruction of Roman Empire. The connections were interesting but not real convincing of any great significance that we could see. He then went through Uranus/Neptune alignments and Uranus/Pluto alignments and then situations where Uranus/Neptune alignments closely followed Uranus/Pluto. Uranus has the interpretive connotation of electricity which he linked alignments to Faraday’s experiments with electricity and magnetism in the early 1800’s and communication which he linked alignments to Gutenberg’s printing press and to the development of the internet. Neptune connotes matrix or field – so he connected Neptune with the magnetism component of electricity. In any case, since the outer planets were only discovered in the last few hundred years (about 100 for Pluto) there was no existing ancient astrological analysis related to them and even their naming provides another degree of arbitrariness to them. Even so, some of the links are certainly interesting. My own view of most divinatory systems is that if one delves into the mysteries of things with enough genuine intention – that no matter the system used – even if just invented – one may be able to discern patterns that relate. So in that sense I saw nothing particularly remarkable in these analyses of history. Also, I do not see any great ability of this type of thing to really predict anything that humans can really prepare for. With all the New Age –style notions of Planetary Change and Transformation and myriad religious notions of Prophecy that we are inundated with – I have not found a great way to work with such things personally. Perhaps I think there are too many variables for such things to be known and even if known to some extent – the logistics of preparation could be daunting. There are millions of believers of various prophecies all over the world and most of them seem like brainwashed mush and often exhibit the signs of fanaticism. Science tells us that life on earth could be destroyed at any time through any number of causes – disease, super-volcanos, asteroids, nuclear disasters, alien invasions – who the hell knows?  I do agree that analyzing the past through astrology can be useful to some extent and people can think of history in a more cyclic fashion. As time progresses there will be more data of this sort to analyze and history in terms of cycles (or frequencies) may become more common. The idea of World Ages in the Vedic and Greek traditions is a way this had been done in the past. Anyway – neat movie but its relevance remains to be seen.