Albertus & the stance towards astrology & fate &
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:59 am
I have just made a post in the news section about the redesign I have given to this page:
Albertus Magnus and Prognostication by the Stars, by Sue Toohey
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/magnus.html
Sue's article is valuable for helping to counter the still too widespread notion that the practice of astrology ever has been, or is, fundamentally contrary to religious concerns. Of course, it really depends on how astrology is used.
Too often, people believe that if a predictive stance is taken towards something then that necessarily implies a fatalistic outlook. I work as a predictive astrologer but I am not fatalistic in my outlook, except from the view that most things have a level of predictability about them, which can be usefully employed in the same way that weather prediction is.
I make various reference to the comments of Albertus in the horary course that I teach - he seems to me to deserve more acknowledgement within the astro-community for the outspoken defence he made of judicial astrology at a time when its books were severely under threat of being ruled illegal and burned.
I find myself in close alignment with this view that, although we might consider something to be predictable, and judge it so, we cannot know how someone will choose to respond to circumstances, and cannot deny the prospect that what seems inevitable may not be.
Albertus Magnus and Prognostication by the Stars, by Sue Toohey
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/magnus.html
Sue's article is valuable for helping to counter the still too widespread notion that the practice of astrology ever has been, or is, fundamentally contrary to religious concerns. Of course, it really depends on how astrology is used.
Too often, people believe that if a predictive stance is taken towards something then that necessarily implies a fatalistic outlook. I work as a predictive astrologer but I am not fatalistic in my outlook, except from the view that most things have a level of predictability about them, which can be usefully employed in the same way that weather prediction is.
I make various reference to the comments of Albertus in the horary course that I teach - he seems to me to deserve more acknowledgement within the astro-community for the outspoken defence he made of judicial astrology at a time when its books were severely under threat of being ruled illegal and burned.
I find myself in close alignment with this view that, although we might consider something to be predictable, and judge it so, we cannot know how someone will choose to respond to circumstances, and cannot deny the prospect that what seems inevitable may not be.
