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The study of astronomy based on the Maya and Aztec calendars made an encounter with the practices of astrology inevitable, exploring its origin, its meaning, and how astrology relates to the astronomy of ancient cultures.
The calculation method practiced by ancestral cultures in astronomy allows us to observe that the cycles and orbits of the planets are not random, but occur in an orderly and proportional manner, within their different dimensions and relationships within space-time, capable of being mathematically proven.
This system exposes a universe that reproduces itself within a context of successive, rigorous, and perfect circular cycles and orbits.
Cycles and events manifest with consequences experienced in the physical and material plane, as well as in the spiritual and psychic, simultaneously and complementarily.
The dual character of the relationship between physical and spiritual nature as a form of manifestation of the universe was a theme of great prominence in the cultural and artistic representations of ancestral cultures.
In mathematics, calendars, and all styles of artistic expression, multiple types of possible patterns were represented in order to portray the order, harmony, and proportion manifested by the universe over the natural life of the Earth.
This knowledge was studied and confirmed in a scientific and mathematical way through the astronomy of these ancient cultures.
It is within this scenario of rigorous and rational astronomical study that astrology can be found, integrated into a body of knowledge that knew how to recognize the evolutionary character of life on Earth as influenced by the universe.
A universe manifested by cycles and events that asserted themselves at both the physical and spiritual levels in the same proportion, complementarily, simultaneously, and indissociably.
It is in this complementary way that astrology aligns with astronomy, both being ancestral branches of knowledge that study and describe the influence and evolution of the universe—manifested physically in astronomy and spiritually in astrology.
This knowledge, achieved and developed based on astronomy, allowed ancestral cultures to explain and understand many mysteries of physical and spiritual life on Earth.
It is no surprise to anyone that astrology was severely censored, having even been banned at a certain point in history.
Ancestral astronomy was reduced to tribal practices and rituals, and astrology to witchcraft, thus putting a regrettable full stop to all this ancestral knowledge, one that is difficult to correct.
For the curious, it is interesting to note that classifying something as an 'enigma' is frequently an important clue in research on this topic. Nowadays, the empty spaces that lack a rational, cultural, scientific, or spiritual explanation, and are therefore considered 'enigmas', almost always point us back to ancestral astronomy.
While ancient astronomy became indecipherable and enigmatic, astrology managed to re-establish its path, even if incompletely and with some scientific inconsistencies, due to the disappearance of the original astronomy that complemented it.
Obviously, many adaptations were made in astrology to adjust to modern astronomy. Even so, for those who study and know ancestral astronomy, it is possible to identify within astrology a blend of modern and ancestral astronomical practices.
We have all been witnessing the almost massive resurgence of astrology, even if its study is not considered scientific. This factor was not enough to discourage its many enthusiasts, specialists, and scholars who know how to analyze the way astronomical events can influence and determine the evolutionary path of the life of each individual, of humanity, and of nature.
Many baseline teachings of astrology lost scientific and astronomical justification; even so, some of this knowledge continues to be transmitted, albeit in a purely theoretical way and exclusively related to the studies and practices of astrology.
However, from what I have been able to ascertain in this study, the reunion with the contents of ancestral astronomy will be able to restore the scientific justification of many of its insights and practices to astrology.
For example, through the movements of Earth's rotation and translation described by ancestral astronomy, it is possible to find the astronomical justification for the system practiced by astrology regarding the transits of progressed planets (secondary progressions).
A system that assumes, non-scientifically, that 1 solar day astrologically equates to 1 solar year.
This alignment and correspondence between the solar year and the solar day, considered only by astrology, finally finds astronomical and mathematical justification within the ancestral astronomy practices uncovered in this study.
Astrology itself is also an excellent tool in the task of research linked to calendars. Perhaps because it was censored for many centuries, there is astronomical knowledge linked to astrology that may have remained crystallized in time, thus preventing it from being lost forever.
It is within this time-preserved knowledge of astrology that it is also possible to confirm and clarify certain questions in this research on ancient astronomy.
It is in this context of rescuing ancestral astronomical knowledge that many common ground points can be found between astronomy and astrology. An example is the representation of the zodiac, which is very similar to the 1440-minute matrix [insert link to previous publication], as well as the observations made in the form of aspects regarding the angular relationships of planets in space, measured in similar units of minutes, common to both space and time.
The parallelism found and described in this study between astronomy and astrology is strictly limited to Earth's space-time. Here, we will only observe the mechanics resulting from the trilogy of the Earth with the Moon and the Sun.
The mesh woven by these 3 celestial bodies in space-time, giving rise to the weave of the Earth.
A planetary structure in motion and evolution built in space. Space is the backdrop against which the dynamics of the Earth unfold, thus adding the 4th element to this astronomical system, now composed of the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and space.
These are thus considered the 4 main intervening elements in the construction of the weave of the Earth, which manifest materially and spiritually—a dual character common to all known manifestations of the universe.
Space, planets, and other celestial bodies are the elements that manifest on the physical plane in the universe. Meanwhile, on the spiritual plane, they are integrated manifestations of a psychic nature, through archetypal elements analogous to those manifested on the physical plane.
This is just a brief outline of the structure of the weave of the Earth, a mesh described in full detail in ancestral astronomy, involving planetary orbits, the planes of planetary orbits, and other important events and alignments.
The closer astronomical movements are observed, the more detailed their description can be, considerably increasing the complexity to be considered among the intervening elements and archetypes in the life of the Earth. The detailed description of Earth's astronomical movements is the main objective of study in this project on ancestral astronomy.
Ancestral astronomy also teaches and explains how the dynamics of the speed of planetary orbits manifest in geometric and mathematical patterns similar to the forms of physical and natural life on Earth.
This scientific recognition, with a mathematical correspondence found in astronomy, offers a panoramic view of the link between the speed and orbits of the planets and the way physical life is generated on Earth.
This link between the sky, the Earth, and astronomy, described through the dynamics of speed, is also recognized in the manifestation of the spiritual life of the Earth. This parallelism found between life on Earth and the dynamics of speed is also mirrored and reproduced psychically.
Thus, the presence of the celestial bodies that build the weave of the Earth and relate to each other in space-time is also mirrored and reproduced in the natural and spiritual life of our planet in the form of its archetypes.
The same occurs with the mathematical and geometric patterns reproduced by the events and alignments generated by the dynamics of speed, also mirrored in the life of the Earth, reproduced by models in physical form and spiritual manifestations with the same symbolic patterns.
These dynamics, involving different planetary events and alignments, cycles, orbits, and orbital speeds present in 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, starting from a framework of perfection and harmony, stable and fixed, at rest.
This state of orbital inertia evolves into a dynamic state of speed, 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 the space and time cycles of the universe is always carried out over an inescapable natural order, which manifests in a particular and specific way for each dimension or segment of space-time, all organized by the universe.
The organization of the space-time segment in the particular case of the Earth finds geometric and mathematical patterns that, through the dynamics of speed, give rise to the spiral.
A spiral described by the chain of movements and events developed in the cycles and orbits of the weave of the Earth, equally reproduced in its form of physical and spiritual life.
It is within these patterns of life and form, physical and spiritual, versus space-time, perfect and evolutionary, that life occurs and evolves.
With the order, harmony, and proportion determined by the universe, which manifests itself by the way it organizes the passage of planets, orbits, cycles, and events of space-time.
A dynamic that is far from being random and to the liking of each individual.
The physical and spiritual order and evolution of matter determined by the universe, very well known and explained by astronomy and astrology in ancestral cultures.
A knowledge that offers us the true cosmic dimension of the mysterious existence of humanity's life on planet Earth.
