Personal Empowerment
Astrology is not a science. Nor is storytelling, depth psychology, mythology, dream interpretation, or poetry.

Rob Brezsny feels that to be humans we need logic, reason, analysis, and discernment. And to be complete we equally need other kinds of intelligence: poetry, dreams, imagination, feeling, myth, intimacy, metaphor, and storytelling. That's where astrology comes in. Image by Ro Loughran, Source Weekly.

I've long sought out Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology column, originally in the alt-weeklies that helped make cool towns cool. Now he's gathered a lot of his observations and learnings into a book, Astrology Is Real.

He says that to dismiss astrology as a pseudoscience we close our minds to a valuable tool. For starters, astrology's best practitioners don't claim that astrology is a science, but a mythopoetic language.

Astrology, he says, is "a symbol system that, when used with integrity, engenders soulful approaches for deepening our connection to life's great mysteries—not predictions of literal events. It liberates and fertilizes our imaginations and encourages us to think less literally."

"As Carl Jung said, it's an aid in understanding and articulating how the psyche works. Like any language, it's both logical and messy; it's useful in making sense of the world, yet full of crazy-making ambiguities."

Like his columns, this book is enormously fun to read, and true to his definition of astrology, uses psychology, story and myth to find the wisdom hiding in plain site.

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