The Great Universe – The Small Universe

 Astrology not only teaches us, through knowledge and wisdom gathered over millennia, about the connection between humanity and nature, but also about the connection between humanity and the universe.

Even more, astrology teaches us that each of us is a small universe, through which the great universe speaks. We too are infinite and vast, yet infinitely small in relation to the great universe.

The natal horoscope is precisely the material representation of how the great universe is reflected in us and materialized in the form of our body and the life path we walk. Although the natal horoscope takes into account the planets of our Solar System — which form only a tiny speck of the Universe — they are powerful and influential enough to affect the course of our life and reveal the blueprint of our soul, our potentials.

To some this may seem unfounded because there is no visible or measurable connection between our character, destiny, talents we possess, and the planets and their influences. In the last 300 years, Western civilization has developed and perfected a reductionist approach to the world around us, successfully breaking it down to the level of atoms and beyond, without understanding the whole and the interconnectedness of those parts. This view has particularly perfected itself in accepting only what can be grasped through our five senses, because at this level of existence only such phenomena can be measured and recorded as such.

Astrology itself has not been spared from this fragmentation; once a science that encompassed everything we now call astronomy and astrology. Thus astronomy became recognized as science because it deals with pure facts, while astrology became marginal — a place for superstition, fortune-telling, and charlatanism — despite all the accumulated knowledge and wisdom gathered over millennia.

In such a view, any sense of symbolism, levels of consciousness, subconscious, collective archetypes is lost — they remain confined to the narrow circle of psychology, without allowing science as we know it to include any holistic approach.

Astrology, on the contrary, is based precisely on the energetic play of symbols, not planets. Astrology does not measure planets or distances (that's astronomy's domain); it deals with the language of symbols through which it reads the stellar codes inscribed in natal charts. Astrology nevertheless has its frameworks, rules, and customs — even very numerous and diverse approaches to certain themes — allowing intuition and other intangible tools, abilities, and ways of manifesting reality that are beyond the reach of the reductionist and materialistic gaze of today's official science.

In interpreting the natal horoscope, the planets of the Solar System, together with the Moon and Sun, play a key role, but the entire Universe can fit into the natal horoscope as well. Thus we could place the center of our galaxy as a strong energetic point, we could likewise place other galaxies, as we can place all the stars — especially those we call fixed stars, which are part of millennia-old astrological tradition.

As we've seen, the universe can be infinitely large and infinitely small. We humans are only one small spectrum of that entire universe, but our physical body size does not define us. Our tininess in relation to the planets, and our hugeness in relation to an ant, are merely measures of the physical level of existence, while the size of the spirit and the possibilities of the soul as our energetic expression of life represent the true parameters that manifest in creation, in creating benefits for others, and in connecting with the highest Source of all Creation — whose small sparks we are, capable of initiating cosmic  changes.