Hello again,

my previous post could appear to be too simplistic but I just wanted to make the point.

For a further reading about the subject, I highly recommend to read this blog's entry by astrologer Chris Brennan, graduated from Kepler College:

Controlling the Effects of Planetary Influences

http://horoscopicastrologyblog.com/2007 ... nfluences/

Sonia

Chronobiology -- they have found a "clocking" gene going back to one celled beasties -- 700 million years ago -- differentiating between dark & light -- other clocking molecules of course

Apparently the 28 day menstrual cycle and 28 day lunar cycle are coincidental -- they (so far) have found no clocking molecules for that, though there are other lunar sensitive clocking mechanisms in a variety of organisms (plus sensitivities to gravity, sun's latitude -- migratory necessity for birds)

SGFoxe wrote:Chronobiology -- they have found a "clocking" gene going back to one celled beasties -- 700 million years ago -- differentiating between dark & light -- other clocking molecules of course

I've been looking around the internet. I think perhaps it could have been developed earlier in cyanobacteriae, where the first photosynthesis is found. For this, sunlight is needed, so maybe a circadian rhythm developed at the same time.

However 600mlln yrs ago there was a big ice age with allmost whole Earth frozen and several before that. Maybe the 'real' clocking genes were developed as a reaction to hostile environment, "get what you can get when it's daytime and the sun shines" :must have been the device.

Longer before that ice age there was the oxygen revolution, a harmful gas for many organisms so this could also have stimulated a survival move. Here's more on that period called Proterozoic,
http://translate.google.nl/translate?hl ... 02642.html this is the googletranslated version for the original Dutch version, http://www.museumkennis.nl/nnm.dossiers ... 02642.html
but there's lot more on the internet, looks fascinating.

Well, after a lot of study on relevant issues, my point of view on the subject is that planets definitely do not push us or cause events.

I rather think that zodiac cycle is the UNIVERSAL CLOCK and planets are its time indicators, as I call them, which show us the proper time that our Soul or Psyche or Higher Self or Unconcious Self elected to manifest its Will.
What happens in our lives is not a choice of our Ego Self or Concious Self neither an influence of the Stars. But events are manifestations of the Will of our Higher Self called Soul which existed before our birth and will exist after our carnal death on earth.

So, from my perspective, astrology in its essence is basically and mainly ELECTIONAL. Positions of the stars show when the Soul decided that is the right time to manifest its particular Will. If you ask me, Astrology has nothing to do with influence but only with time election....