Q. ANCIENT SCIENCE OR LOAD OF RUBBISH?
A. Astrology has always been a controversial subject, but whichever view you take, a great many people regularly read the astrological columns in newspapers and magazines. Maybe you are one of them! However, does your interest extend beyond a light-hearted daily read? Would you like to know more about what lies behind those columns? If so read on…

Q. SURELY ASTRONOMY IS THE SCIENCE AND ASTROLOGY THE LOAD OF RUBBISH?
A. In the distant past, astronomy and astrology were not separated from each other as they are today. This is commonly attributed to the primitivity and superstition of ancient peoples, but it is now known that many of these peoples were scientifically far more advanced than we previously realized. They observed the heavens with considerable accuracy, while their astrological conclusions (based on their observations) affected the conduct of affairs at the highest level.

Q. SURELY WE CAN’T BE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE THAT THE RAYS COMING FROM THE PLANETS AFFECT US IN ANY WAY?
A. This is one of the commonest misconceptions about astrology. “REAL” astrology does not and never did suggest that this is the case. Rather, it rests on the premise that the universe outside is mirrored by a universe within the human psyche and that it is possible to use the movements of the outside universe to understand the unfoldment of the inner one - a correspondence exists between the two.

Q. ISN’T THAT RATHER FAR FETCHED?
A. Hardly. There are so many correspondences between different levels of life. Take, for example, the similarity between the basic structure of the atom and that of a solar system, which mirror each other in so many ways.

Q. SO WHAT HAPPENED TO “REAL” ASTROLOGY TO DISCREDIT IT?
A. It was badly misused; interestingly, this began at roughly the time when astrology began to be used to cast horoscopes for individuals, although it need not have been so. Previously, this was not the case. In ancient times only very important people such as kings had their horoscopes cast, to help them conduct national affairs. Astrology was also used to predict the weather, suggest the correct times to sow and reap crops, go to war or conduct diplomatic missions, and so on. Later, however, it degenerated as it became used merely for fortune telling and to satisfy personal curiosity.

Q. IN THAT CASE WHAT PRICE THE NEWSPAPER COLUMNS?
A. These are of very limited value, assuming as they do, not only that you can simply divide the population into twelve according to sun-sign but also that everyone will react to the same influence in the same way. However, they are useful in that they draw people’s attention to the fact that genuine astrology exists. And they are (although loosely) based on “real” astrology, however ridiculously generalized they may be.

Q. WHY HAS ASTROLOGY ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE WHITE EAGLE TEACHING?
A. First, because White Eagle himself made many astrological references in the teaching, and second, because ‘real’ astrology is a science of the soul and can help us to understand human life and its purpose. The White Eagle School of Astrology organizes the astrological side of the White Eagle work.