An astrolabe is a celestial map obtained from a certain position on the earth at a certain moment. It conveys infinite information to us through the combination of stars, phases, constellations and houses. Take the horoscope as an example. A person's horoscope is the horoscope captured from the latitude and longitude of his birthplace at the moment of his birth. It brings together the information of the owner's physical condition, psychological tendency, personality and emotion, spiritual ideal, interest and ability, and also points out the general trend and mental journey of most people's lives.
Some friends often take his chart and say, "Oh, tell me all about it!" " "This often makes people feel embarrassed. Look at the disk like a person, and each astrolabe is inexhaustible. Imagine, can you cover all aspects of a person in one breath, big and small, advantages and disadvantages, macro details? No, so it's the same as watching the disk. People are three-dimensional, so is the astrolabe. The biggest difference between the western astrology and China's traditional criticism is that the western astrology has no unified and centralized divinatory words like the Book of Changes, and there is no detailed annotation and routine summary of the divinatory words in later generations. The information of the astrolabe is conveyed by the ever-changing combination of stars, phases, constellations and houses. Therefore, before learning the idea of disassembling these combinations, we must have an overall concept of the meaning of these elements.
Let's talk about the stars in the astrolabe first. There are not only the top ten main stars of the solar system (sun, moon, water, gold, fire, wood, earth, sky, sea and ghosts) that we are familiar with, but also some imaginary points that will be involved (not stars, but positions calculated by mathematical methods with specific formulas). For example, the north-south intersection of the moon axis (that is, Luohou and Du Ji mentioned in the Seven Mansions and the Four Mansions) and Lilith in the dark moon ... Secondary stars (asteroid belt between civil engineering), Long Xing, Ceres, Poseidon, Pallas Athena, Vesta, virtual stars named after Greek and Roman gods, Cupid, Hades, Zeus, Cronius, Apollo, Ade Mentus, etc. The position of each star in this picture represents different sides of the owners of different sizes of optical discs. It can be seen that everyone is three-dimensional, and it is also a three-dimensional with countless large and small sides, scattering different forces brought by the stars. So each of us is a unique child in the universe, not only flesh and blood, but also full of spirituality.
The angles between the stars in the astrolabe are called congruence (0 degrees), arch (120 degrees), Liuhe (60 degrees), punishment (90 degrees) and impulse (180 degrees), which are the most basic, including 30 degrees, 45 degrees and 150 degrees. This determines whether the forces of different stars are tense or harmonious, cooperative or antagonistic, dyeing or containing each other, which brings flexible vitality and infinite variables to the astrolabe. From the individual's point of view, the stage reflects the interaction between itself and the outside world. From a macro point of view, it is actually a tacit understanding between us humans and the rhythm of the universe.
The paradigm of western astrology is based on constellation 12 and house 12. 12 is a wonderful number. Mathematically speaking, it is the least common multiple of 2, 3 and 4. The number 2 represents yin and yang, which are two extremes and two foundations; In the philosophy of Laozi, a great philosopher in ancient China, there is a saying that everything is born with three, which coincides with the division of three groups and four main palaces into basic, fixed and changing in western astrology. The number 3 is the law and process of the growth and development of all things; 4 represents the four elements of Tierra del Fuego's geomantic omen and the cycle of the four seasons, which means that it will bite itself with the first two and merge into a double roulette wheel arranged counterclockwise in the 12 area.
What needs to be pointed out here is that since astronomy, macroscopic physics and other disciplines were separated from astrology, today's astrology no longer has the nature of natural science. Although we often use mathematical and logical means to analyze astrology, astrological elements such as constellation, house, phase and astrological meaning are subjective and abstract, which determines that the essence of modern astrology is closer to philosophy, and we should classify it into the field of humanities. Modern astrology and natural science with humanistic nature are two independent systems established under different paradigms. It is arbitrary and meaningless for either party to measure the other with its own paradigm.