The Connected Cosmos

In the Bible, astrology is a map to everything

“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars,” Jesus says in Luke 21:25. Why did Christians decide to be against astrology? I guess you could as easily ask why they believed AIDS was God’s punishment on gays. They believed in signs—but not in the sky?

The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.

As in Psalm 19:1–2, readers of the Bible are assumed to have astrological knowledge.

“He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south,” says Job 9:9 (cf. Amos 5:8).

In Daniel 1:20 & 2:10, astrology is among the modes of “knowledge and understanding” that God’s prophet is taught en route to learning even greater mysteries.

“Do not,” warns Jeremiah 10:2, “be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified by them.”

The twelve stones on the robe of the Jewish High Priest were understood “to represent the universe,” as Philo notes.

I had to realize that Jewish spirituality was astrological to its core. The Bible…