Astrology in the Era of Uncertainty By Joe Landwehr

Astrology in the Era of Uncertainty
By Joe Landwehr
Publisher: Ancient Tower Press
Published: November 2023
ISBN: 9780974762647
Genre: Astrology, Spiritual Psychology, History of Ideas
Formats Available For Review: Print (only U.S. based addresses)

Many people with minimal knowledge of science and even less of astrology assume that astrology is a pseudoscience. The real story is more complex than that, as for thousands of years astronomy and astrology were inseparable. Only since the 17th century, has science disavowed the more imaginative, metaphysical and metaphorical dimensions of knowledge, which astrology retains. Because it does, astrology remains immensely popular despite the aggressive campaign against it by science and provides the sense of meaning and participation in a larger intelligent cosmos that science cannot. This book tells the story of the co-evolution of science and astrology, and shows what is possible in a postmodern era, where science itself has lost its certainty and some of its own credibility, and astrology is free to return to its mystical and mythopoetic roots.

We live in a postmodern era of increasing uncertainty, in which many external sources of truth have lost their credibility and legitimate authority. It can be difficult to navigate such a world without a reliable internal compass. The astrological birthchart has long provided that to those who know the language. But is also a portal through which it is also possible to commune with the sacred intelligence that shapes the world and everything in it. Moving beyond a merely interpretative approach, while returning astrology to its mythopoetic and mystical roots, this book shows how.