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122 - OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
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nearly infinite number of different combinations, so that every
client who pushes the buttons in a modem astrology establishment
promptly receives a printout of his horoscope and goes
home proudly convinced that for his good money he has received
a tailor-made guide for his life based on all the mysterious
secrets of the ancient wisdom and guaranteed to be true because
a computer produced it. In reahty all he has received is an
absolutely valueless piece of paper. But what he does not know
does not hurt him.
I had to ask myself what I would do if I had to reform astrology.
Where would I start, considering all my knowledge of
mathematics, physics, astronomy, and electronics and, above all,
with my firm belief that stars do influence humanity. The answer
was simple and there was only one—I would have to start from
ground zero, from the very beginning, as was the case with the
Apollo spacecraft and its communication system that fell in my
hands and was my responsibility.
For me the universe with its billions of stars is a stage where
comic and tragic plays are staged that represent each and every
life here on earth. The actors are the sun, the moon, and the
planets in perpetual motion, and depending on the positions or
situations of these actors, the life of himians on earth can be paradise
or hell. So I came to the conclusion that a new astrology
should be created on a basis that would be fully vaHd for the
next ten, twenty, or even more millenniums to come. To do this,
we would first of all have to make an inventory of all visible stars
within the zodiacal band (but not including constellations that
change from one part of oui globe to the other). In such a way
we would create the permanent background, the stage setting for
the main actors, and this background would remain the same for
thousands of years.
Next we should concentrate on the 7 or 8 degrees of latitude
on both sides of the ecliptic, which is the superhighway of the
sky where the sun, the moon, and the planets move majestically
and permanently. We should forget about the circumpolar stars
for now, even though these wiU serve other purposes. After that,
the stars in the band of the zodiac should be divided into small
groups at equal intervals like the spokes of a wheel so that they
would be easy to recognize and could be used as milestones to