Astrology Quotes

Come wander with me, she said,
Into regions yet untrod;
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.
~ Longfellow

"A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief." ~ Johann Kepler

"It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens." ~ Claudius Ptolemy

"The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe." ~ Louis Pasteur

"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician." ~ Hippocrates

"Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Astrology is the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity." ~ Carl Jung

"Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars." ~ Emerson

"I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars." ~ President Theodore Roosevelt

"Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer." ~ J.P. Morgan

"We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with." ~ D.H. Lawrence

"The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world." ~ Thomas Aquinas

"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

"The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos." ~ T.H. Huxley

"There shall be signs in the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars." ~ Jesus Christ

"Astrology interested us, for it tied men to the system. Instead of an isolated beggar, the farthest star felt him and he felt the star. However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in it, the hint was true and divine, the soul's avowal of its large relations and that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of its biography." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong." ~ Carl Sagan

"[H]is gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered." ~ Charles Dickens, Edwin Drood

"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

"We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment." ~ Johannes Kepler

[Though Ben Franklin was an astrologer, this quote has been neither proven nor disproven..]
"Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?" ~ Sir Walter Scott

"Without astrology man treads, as it were, in the dim twilight of ignorance." ~ Luke Dennis Broughton, The Elements of Astrology

"A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual", find out how he feels about astrology." ~ Robert Heinlein

"You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology." ~ Freddie Mercury

"Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?" ~ Mason Cooley

Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat." ~ Sri Chinmoy

"The astrologer who spells the stars, mistakes his globes, and in her bright eye interprets heaven's physiognomies." ~ John Cleveland

"Astrologers that future fates foreshow." ~ Alexander Pope

"An Astronomer who denies Astrology, is like a butcher who recognizes the brain but is unaware of its transmission of waves." ~ Ahmed Hulusia, From Friend to Friend

"All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them." ~ Isabel Hickey

"Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you." ~ Dane Rudhyar

"The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the looms; the will is the weaver." ~ Author Unknown

"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

"Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality." ~ Steven Forrest

"Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?" ~ Walter Scott

"Our jovial star reigned at his birth." ~ William Shakespeare

"There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable." ~ William Shakespeare

"It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology." ~ Donald Regan

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings." ~ William Shakespeare

"There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life." ~ Varahamihira

"A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma." ~ Sri Yukteswar Giri

"I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop." ~ William Shakespeare

"There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life." ~ Varaha Mihira

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings." ~ William Shakespeare

"I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny." ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

"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

"Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that exists in the world." ~ Karen Hamaker-Zondag

"Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing." ~ Barbara Goldsmith, Astrology Made Easy

"Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike." ~ Elizabeth CLare Prophet, The Astrology of the Four Horsemen

"Astrology is like a weather report; it tells you what conditions you're likely to face in the future. If the weatherman says it's probably going to rain, you bring an umbrella. If you follow that advice, you won't get wet." ~ Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu

"Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle." ~ E.M. Forster

"If astrology isn't scientific because not mechanistically deterministic, neither is that which man has called "science." If partial knowledge of laws is science, then astrology is science." ~ Sidney Kimball Bennett, Astrology: Science of Prediction

"[I]f you give [astrology] one honest look, there's a good chance that you'll want to know more, because it gives you a feeling that you have the inside scoop--and we all love having the edge on everyone else!" ~ Mark Husson, Mark's Power Peek

"Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark." ~ Leo Nid Andreyev, He Who Gets Slapped

"Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle." ~ E.M. Forster

"There is something out there. Astrology is like a game of chess with an invisible partner. We set out the board and the rules, make a move, and then find that the pieces are moving themselves, as if by an invisible hand." ~ Noel Tyl, Astrology Looks at History

"Astrology isn't fortune-telling, nor do astrologers speak of life being fated. As agents of free will, we always have a choice. We need to drive our lives in the direction we choose or else risk having life's events control us. We usually have more choices than we think we do; our horoscopes can easily suggest possibilities that may have been overlooked." ~ Susan Miller, Planets and Possibilities

"I am a scientist. As such I cannot propose or understand a model of reality which does not take account of scientific data. I am not an astrologer - in fact this theory developed out of an examination of the arguments that astrology cannot work! As a theoretical astrophysicist, with an interest in the relationship between fundamental physics and the large-scale structure of the universe, I am searching, as are many others, for a model to explain the current anomalies and paradoxes in these areas that are beyond the domain of astrophysics (ie: biology, chemistry, and to my amazement, astrology.)" Dr. Percy Seymour

"It's my view that those who use simplistic models to disprove astrology are violating the principles of the philosophy of science. Any number of theories may be shown not to work, but to say it follows that no theory of astrology can work is just bad science. It totally rules out scientific method. So, I came to the conclusion that they were totally unscientific - a form of rationalized bigotry cloaked in academic language." - Percy Seymour

"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains of necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!" William Shakespeare

"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

"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."" ~ Scott Adams

"The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth." ~ William H. Gass

"Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan have a lot in common -- they're both smarter than their husbands and both consulted the stars for guidance, Nancy with astrology and Hillary with Barbra Streisand." ~ Bill Maher

"We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash." ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

QUOTES BY FATHER OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CARL GUSTAV JUNG..

"The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection." ~ Carl Jung

"Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity." ~ C.G. Jung

"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 of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more." ~ Carl Jung

"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

"As we all know, science began with the stars, and mankind discovered in them the dominants of the unconscious, the 'gods', as well as the curious psychological qualities of the zodiac; a complete projected theory of human character. Astrology is a primordial experience similar to alchemy... Whereas in the Church the increasing differentiation of ritual and dogma alienated consciousness from its natural roots in the unconscious, alchemy and astrology were ceaselessly engaged in preserving the bridge to nature, i.e., to the unconscious psyche, from decay. Astrology led consciousness back again and again to the knowledge of Heimarmene, that is, the dependence of character and destiny on certain moments in time... The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time...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

"So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...[that is,] symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character." - C.G. Jung

"Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They say it is light energy, perhaps electricity, they are not quite informed. At all events the vibrations that could influence us have never been seen, so it remains just a word." - C. G. Jung in 1929

"Our modern science begins with astronomy. Instead of saying that man was led by psychological motives, they formerly said he was led by his stars. ... The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time. Therefore we have to conclude that what we call psychological motives are in a way identical with star positions. Since we cannot demonstrate this, we must form a peculiar hypothesis. This hypothesis says that the dynamics of our psyche is not just identical with the position of the stars, nor has it to do with vibrations - that is an illegitimate hypothesis. It is better to assume that i is a phenomenon of time. ... The stars are simply used by man to serve as indicators of time..." - C.G. Jung in 1929

"The collective unconscious...appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious, introspective perceptions of the collective unconscious." - C.G. Jung

"Synchronicity does not admit causality in the analogy between terrestrial events and astrological constellations ... What astrology can establish are the analogous events, but not that either series is the cause or the effect of the other. (For instance, the same constellation may at one time signify a catastrophe and at another time, in the same case, a cold in the head.) ... In any case, astrology occupies a unique and special position among the intuitive methods... I have observed many cases where a well-defined psychological phase, or an analogous event, was accompanied by a transit (particularly when Saturn and Uranus were affected)." - C. G. Jung

"Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious." - C.G. Jung

"It is indeed very difficult to explain the astrological phenomenon. I am not in the least disposed to an either-or explanation. I always say that with a psychological explanation there is only the alternative: either and or! This seems to me to be the case with astrology too." - C.G. Jung in a letter to Hans Bender, April 10, 1958, C.G. Jung Letters, Volume 2, 1951-1961, p. 428.

"The truth is that astrology flourishes as never before. There is a regular library of astrological books and magazines that sell for far better than the best scientific works. The Europeans and Americans who have horoscopes cast for them may be counted not by the hundred thousand but by the million. Astrology is a flourishing industry. ... If such a large percentage of the population has an insatiable need for this counter pole to the scientific spirit, we can be sure that the collective psyche in every individual - be he never so scientific - has this psychological requirement in equally high degree." - C.G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

"While studying astrology I have applied it to concrete cases many times. ... The experiment is most suggestive to a versatile mind, unreliable in the hands of the unimaginative, and dangerous in the hands of a fool, as those intuitive methods always are. If intelligently used the experiment is useful in cases where it is a matter of an opaque structure. It often provides surprising insights. The most definite limit of the experiment is lack of intelligence and literal-mindedness of the observer. ... Undoubtedly astrology today is flourishing as never before in the past, but it is still most unsatisfactorily explored despite very frequent use. It is an apt tool only when used intelligently. It is not at all foolproof and when used by a rationalistic and narrow mind it is a definite nuisance." - C. G. Jung: Letters, volume 2, 1951-1961, pages 463-464, letter to Robert L. Kroon, 15 November 1958

"Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts which are of considerable importance. Astrology...is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages." - C.G. Jung in a letter to L. Oswald on December 8, 1928, in C.G. Jung, Letters, vol. 1, 1973



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