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The study of astronomy based on the Maya and Aztec calendars rendered an encounter with astrological practices inevitable.
This project explores their origins, meanings, and the ways in which astrology relates to the astronomy of ancient cultures.
This project explores their origins, meanings, and the ways in which astrology relates to the astronomy of ancient cultures.
The astronomical calculation methods practiced by these ancestral cultures demonstrate that planetary cycles and orbits are far from random; instead, they occur in an orderly and proportional manner within their diverse dimensions and space-time relationships—a reality that is mathematically demonstrable.
This system reveals a universe that reproduces itself within a framework of successive, rigorous, and perfect circular cycles and orbits. These cycles and events manifest with simultaneous and complementary consequences experienced on both the physical-material and spiritual-psychic planes.
This dual relationship between physical and spiritual nature, as a form of cosmic manifestation, was a highly prominent theme in the cultural and artistic expressions of ancestral civilizations. Across mathematics, calendars, and all styles of art, multiple types of patterns were represented to portray the order, harmony, and proportion manifested by the universe throughout Earth's natural life.
This body of knowledge was studied and verified scientifically and mathematically through ancient astronomy. Within this scenario of rigorous, rational astronomical study, astrology was integrated into a broader corpus of knowledge that recognized how the universe influences the evolutionary character of life on Earth.
The universe manifests through cycles and events that assert themselves equally, complementarily, simultaneously, and indissociably at both the physical and spiritual levels. In this complementary manner, astrology aligns with astronomy; both are ancestral branches of knowledge that study and describe cosmic influence and evolution—manifested physically through astronomy and spiritually through astrology.
This knowledge, achieved and developed through astronomy, allowed ancestral cultures to understand and explain many mysteries of physical and spiritual life on Earth. It is therefore no surprise that astrology was severely censored, even facing outright bans at certain historical turning points. Ancestral astronomy was reduced to tribal rituals, and astrology to witchcraft, bringing a regrettable and deeply entrenched halt to this ancestral knowledge.
For the curious researcher, it is worth noting that classifying an element as an 'enigma' frequently serves as a vital clue. Today, the unexplained gaps that lack a rational, cultural, scientific, or spiritual explanation—and are thus labeled 'enigmas'—almost always point us back to ancestral astronomy as matters yet to be deciphered. While ancient astronomy became indecipherable and enigmatic, astrology managed to re-establish its path, albeit incompletely and with certain scientific inconsistencies due to the disappearance of the original astronomy that once complemented it.
Naturally, astrology underwent numerous adaptations to align with modern astronomy. Even so, those who study ancestral astronomy can readily identify within astrology a blend of modern and ancient astronomical practices.
We are currently witnessing a massive resurgence of astrology. Although its study is not deemed scientific by modern standards, this has not discouraged its numerous enthusiasts, specialists, and scholars. They actively analyze how astronomical events influence and determine the evolutionary path of individuals, humanity, and nature alike.
Many of astrology's baseline teachings lost their scientific and astronomical justifications over time; yet, some of this knowledge continues to be transmitted purely theoretically, exclusive to astrological practices and concepts. However, as this investigation demonstrates, a reunion with the contents of ancestral astronomy can restore the scientific and astronomical validation of many astrological insights and methods.
For example, through the terrestrial rotation and translation movements described in ancestral astronomy, we find the astronomical justification for the system of progressed planet transits (secondary progressions) used in astrology—a system which assumes, non-scientifically, that one solar day astrologically equates to one solar year. This alignment between the solar year and solar day, previously considered only by astrology, finally finds its mathematical and astronomical foundation within the ancestral practices uncovered in this research.
Astrology itself serves as an excellent research tool for calendar studies. Precisely because it was censored for centuries, certain astronomical knowledge linked to astrology remained crystallized in time, preventing it from being lost forever. Within this time-preserved astrological knowledge, we can confirm and clarify specific questions in ancient astronomy research.
In this context of reclaiming ancestral astronomical knowledge, many common grounds emerge between astronomy and astrology. One such example is the representation of the zodiac, which closely mirrors the 1440-minute matrix, alongside observations of planetary aspects regarding angular relationships in space, measured in identical units of minutes common to both space and time.
The parallelism described in this study between astronomy and astrology is strictly limited to Earth's space-time. Here, we observe only the mechanics resulting from the trilogy of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun—the mesh woven by these three celestial bodies in space-time, giving rise to the "weave of the Earth."
This planetary structure in motion and evolution is built in space-time. Space-time provides the backdrop against which terrestrial dynamics unfold, thereby adding a fourth element to this astronomical system: Earth, Moon, Sun, and space-time. These are the four primary intervening elements in the construction of the weave of the Earth, manifesting both materially and spiritually—a dual character common to all cosmic manifestations.
Space-time, planets, and celestial bodies manifest on the physical plane. Meanwhile, on the spiritual plane, they operate as integrated manifestations of a psychic nature, expressed through archetypal elements analogous to those on the physical plane.
This is a brief outline of the structure of the weave of the Earth, a mesh described in full detail within ancestral astronomy, involving planetary orbits, orbital planes, and key alignments. The closer these astronomical movements are observed, the more detailed their descriptions become, considerably increasing the complexity of the intervening elements and archetypes in Earth's life. The detailed description of Earth's astronomical movements is the core objective of this ancestral astronomy project.
Ancestral astronomy also explains how the velocity dynamics of planetary orbits manifest in geometric and mathematical patterns that mirror the physical and natural lifeforms on Earth. This scientific recognition, backed by mathematical correspondences found in astronomy, offers a panoramic view of the link between planetary movement and orbits and the generation of physical life on Earth.
This link between sky, Earth, and astronomy, described through velocity dynamics, is equally recognized in the manifestation of Earth's spiritual life. The parallelism between earthly life and velocity dynamics is reflected and expressed also psychically. Thus, the celestial bodies that construct the weave of the Earth and relate to one another in space-time are echoed and manifested in the natural and spiritual life of our planet through their archetypes.
The same applies to the mathematical and geometric patterns produced by events and alignments generated by orbital mechanics; they are projected in Earth's life, recriated through physical models and spiritual manifestations sharing the same symbolic patterns.
These dynamics—involving distinct planetary alignments, cycles, orbits, and orbital speeds within the weave of the Earth—are collectively the builders of physical and spiritual life: the prima materia. The evolutionary character of the universe is also recognizable in ancestral observations of astronomical cycles, operating on patterns of order and proportionality that stem from a framework of stable, fixed perfection and harmony at rest.
This state of orbital inertia evolves into a dynamic state of motion and velocity, developing in a controlled, orderly, circular, and cyclical manner, giving rise to a new evolutionary pattern in constant transformation, with no end in sight.
This evolutionary character of life, determined within cosmic cycles of space-time, always unfolds over an inescapable natural order organized by the universe for each specific dimension or segment of space-time. The organization of the space-time segment in the specific case of the Earth reveals geometric and mathematical patterns which, through cosmic pacing, give rise to the spiral. This spiral, described by the chain of movements and events developed in the cycles and orbits of the weave of the Earth, is equally reproduced in its physical and spiritual lifeforms.
It is within these patterns of life and form—physical and spiritual versus perfect and evolutionary space-time—that life occurs and evolves, guided by the order, harmony, and proportion determined by the universe through its organization of planets, orbits, cycles, and space-time events. This dynamic is far from random or subject to individual whim.
The physical and spiritual order and the evolution of matter determined by the universe were deeply understood and explained by astronomy and astrology in ancestral cultures—a body of knowledge that offers us the true cosmic dimension of humanity's mysterious existence on planet Earth.
