St. Thomas Aquinas
told all who would listen that "The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world."
Sir Francis Bacon, the father of modern science told us, "The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets."
Confucius taught his followers that, "Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly."
Dante called astrology, "The noblest of sciences."
Albert Einstein said, “Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.”
Johannes Kepler, the author of Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, and one of the greatest astronomers who ever lived wrote, "An unfailing experience of mundane events in harmony with the changes occurring in the heavens, has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief."
J.P. Morgan, one of the richest men who ever lived, repeatedly took advantage of astrology to better himself and his condition. This pragmatic industrialist, financier and opportunist got fight to the point when he said, "Millionaires don't believe in astrology but billionaires do."
Goethe wrote an astrological description of his birth to which he said, "These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation."
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine is credited with having said, "The physician without a working knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a doctor."
DH Lawrence wrote “Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.”
Dr. Carl Jung, one of the founding fathers of psychology and a man who illuminated the darkest recesses of our minds sent shock waves throughout the scientific community when he wrote, "Astrology is assured recognition from psychology without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the knowledge of antiquity. The fact that it is possible to construct, in adequate fashion, a persons character from the data of his nativity, shows the validity of astrology." Seventeen years later he wrote a letter to B.V. Raman the editor of The Astrological Magazine in which he stated: "Since you want to know my opinion of astrology I can tell you that I have been interested in this particular activity of the humane mind since more than thirty years. As a psychologist I am chiefly interested in the particular light the horoscope sheds on certain complications in the character. In cases of difficult psychological diagnosis I usually get a horoscope in order to have a further point of view from an entirely different angle. I must say that I very often found that the astrological data elucidated certain points which I otherwise would have been unable to understand." In one well-documented experiment to determine the accuracy of the traditional astrological rules concerning marriage Dr. Jung analyzed the horoscopes of 488 married couples and then successfully matched each person with the correct horoscope of their partner! If those numbers don't tell you something about the truth and accuracy of astrology then trust me when I tell you it is in your very best interest to brush the cobwebs off a dangerously closed mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson gave us the best definition of astrology ever when he wrote, "Astrology is astronomy brought to earth and applied to the affairs of man."
Benjamin Franklin wrote in Poor Richard's Almanac, "Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there - if you had but skill to read." Eighteen years later he lamented, "The first astrologers I think were honest husbandmen; and so it seems are the last: for my brethren Jerman and Moore and myself, the only remaining almanac makers in this country, are all of that class though in the intermediate times our art has been cultivated in the great cities and even in the court of princes." This amazing man often shared his astrological expertise with the world. Just prior to the American Revolution he penned these prophetic words: "Suffer me to observe that whoever studies the eclipses of former ages and compares them to the great events in the history of the times and years in which they happened, shall find that the fall of the Assyrian, Persian, Grecian and Roman monarchies, each of them was remarkably proceeded by great and total eclipses of the heavenly bodies. Observations of this kind, joined with the ancient and long tried rules of our art make me tremble for the empire now in being."
Sir Isaac Newton is often credited with curtly ending a rather heated discussion with an astrological skeptic with the completely unassailable statement, "Sir, I have studied the subject and you have not." While there is some question as to whether this debate with Sir Edmund Halley, the discoverer of Halley's comet ever really happened, I still love the quote. It would seem to be a most appropriate response to those who would attempt to debunk a subject they know absolutely nothing about. In fact, in comparison to Sir Isaac Newton, and the other esteemed individuals mentioned on this page, the mental gyrations of those who would dismiss astrology with a simple wave of their hand would more closely resemble those of Larry, Moe and Curly. The icon of all that science represents; this giant among mortals, a man acknowledged by all to be one of the greatest minds to ever walk the earth, learned everything there was to know about mathematics in one year and still not satisfied invented calculus. He tells us he entered Cambridge to study mathematics specifically because, "I wish to test judicial astrology."
Louis Pasteur said, “The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in relation with the motions of the universe.”
Plato told us “Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.”
Pythagoras, The brilliant father of mathematics and a towering intellect told us, "The wise individual should strive for perfection by attuning himself with the music of the spheres."
Ronald Reagan’s Chief of Staff said, “It’s common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.”
President Theodore Roosevelt kept his horoscope mounted on a chess board in the oval office. When asked about it he would reply, "I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars."
Shakespeare wrote of astrology. In the person of King Lear the bard writes, "The stars above govern our condition." He follows that with "I was born sir, when the Crab was ascending: all my affairs go backwards."
Mark Twain told us, “I was born with Halley’s Comet and I expect to die upon its return,” and he did.
