“Astrology is the sum of all the psychological knowledge from Ancient times so I think it must be accepted by Psychology without any further restrictions”.
Carl Gustav JUNG(the great Swiss psychoanalyst, who used astrological charts while seeing his patients and had a daughter who became the greatest Swiss astrologer of his time)

Astrology is a science that correlates the cosmic cycles to the terrestrial cycles which involves human life. It is not an “Art” and it has stopped being considered as an “Occult” Science, as it used to be labeled. It has simply returned to its formal status, already multi-millennial, into a science that was taught and evolved in academic spheres.

In fact, Astrology has developed, since the beginning of times, as a result of observations and mathematical calculations from the most brilliant and capable minds of each epoch. It has grown so much that it has given birth to a special kind of astrologers, those professionals who dedicated all their work to observing the heavens and compiling positional charts, evolving then into developing progressively more complex calculations.

These astrologers did not have any more time to continue relating the cycles and positions observed in the sky regarding the lives and business deals of mankind on Earth. They spent nights and days looking up at the stars and writing. After several centuries they ended up being called: astronomers.

The astrologer (Logia = knowledge, description) described the macrocosmic/microcosmic relationships, the astronomer (Nomos = numeration, counting) only calculated, observed, and wrote. He was a type of specialized scribe. In Rome, they were basically Greek slaves, who had to do this long and fastidious task of compiling and calculating, while their astrological masters got the glory and money. So it is not amazing to observe this old (millennial) resentment among astronomers against astrologers

Astrology has always evolved links to the greatest minds of their times, and ancient astrologers had been talented mathematicians (basically on spherical trigonometry, which is something that is considered difficult even nowadays) and of course a good observer of the heavens. Only now, since the end of the 20th century, a good software program is available to perform instantaneous calculations that would have taken days to perform and outputs high-resolution graphs that may be printed in mere seconds by powerful color printers. Of course, this has caused a gigantic revolution in our contemporary Astrology.

Brilliant scientists, known nowadays as astronomers or physicists are linked to Astrology too. This is the case of Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and Galileo. All of them, with no exceptions, were also professional astrologers. Galileo, for example, charged 70 gold-liras for an astrological chart, as Favaro brought out in his book, “Galileo the Astrologer”, the equivalent today of US$110 dollars! These men, honored by current science as great geniuses of humanity, cannot be at the same time considered as stupid people for their involvement in Astrology. Sir Isaac Newton was considered the great physics reformer of his time. He discovered the Law of Universal Gravity and performed wonderful studies on optics, among other accomplishments. And he had a tremendous interest in Astrology, too.

Sir Isaac Newton was considered the great physics reformer from his time. He discovered the Law of Universal Gravity and performed wonderful studies on optics, among other accomplishments. But his had a source of income in doing astrological charts. There is a very interesting quotation, a dialog of Newton with his colleague and great friend Halley (who calculated the orbital period for the comet named after him), which shows in a humorous way a kind of ‘scientific prejudice’: at the Science Academy, in London, before the beginning of another meeting, Newton was busy calculating and drawing an astrological chart, Halley, in a humorous way, commented:

- “I have studied Astrology, Sir Halley, My good sir has not”, this was the reply and good-humored answer from Newton, who did not even raise his eyes from his work.

Men who could not perform complex trigonometrical calculations were portrayed as fortune-tellers, astral interpreters, feeding a whole series of beliefs – the same beliefs that holds, even today, the success of popular magazines on “astrology” sold on the magazine stands and the pitiful daily ‘horoscope’ columns in the newspapers.

At the end of the XIX century, Astrology came on the scene as a serious science again, in the hands of few men and women in Europe. At the beginning of the XX century a prominent woman, Evangeline Adams, held an important role for the resurgence of serious Astrology in North America.

She was a professional Astrologer who was taken prisoner, when 49 years old, accused for telling the future, something which North American law prohibited. She could choose to pay a fine or run the risk of facing judgment. She chose courageously the second hypothesis.

She defended herself, proposing to make and interpret the chart of any anonymous person chosen by the judge himself. He accepted the proposal and furnished her the birth data of that unknown person (for others, but it was the judge’s own son). There, in that audience hall, Evangeline calculated, drew, and interpreted the chart of that unknown person, what took two long hours. The Astrologer got excellent results. And so astrology was absolved, the case granted jurisprudence and the judge drew up his ‘considerations’: “It is stated that Astrology is elevated to the dignity of an exact science”.

It has always been! Astrology has always been dignified, and its reputation has been stained because of the accumulation of bad practitioners, “soi-disant” astrologers. And now, at the beginning of the XXI century, we can view great leaps forward in projects on a higher education level Astrology teaching, such as at the London’s Faculty of Astrological Studies or the Seattle’s Kepler College of Astrology, just to cite two examples only.

This movement has an excellent perspective as a result: demystifying Astrology - in the real meaning of the word: end mystification. The mystification of “daily horoscopes” in the media, 0900 telephone services, the pseudo-astrologers who deceive or take advantage of the good faith of their clients.And besides that, on the other hand, remove the mystic clothing that Astrology has been wearing for so long. People can be mystics or agnostics, this is their sacred right and they must be respected because they are mystics or not. The fact is that mystic people are more easily attracted to Astrology and this is easily understood, as, without a doubt, it is possible to associate the Astrology symbolism to spiritual matters. As much as it is possible to associate the same Astrology symbols to meteorological, seismological, or stock market price oscillation and commodities phenomena in the futures market.

Or, in other words, Astrology itself is not mystic or non-mystic. In fact, it is a basic language, just the same as Mathematics. A polynomial of the 3rd degree is impersonal. And useless, while it is not related to some basic human necessity, be it in solving a technical or engineering problem, or simply for the purpose of a subject in a high school math class.

The same thing applies to an astrological chart who, alone is also impersonal and equally useless, while it is not linked to some basic human necessity, as helping a person to identify its own Shadow and blocks, revealing her clues about potentials and vocation, describing love, family and professional relationships or helping to predict a particular situation for a company.