jose also makes mention of the term "astrobiology" which refers to the effects that the stars have on our bodies, and astroaesthetics, which denotes the effect which the stars have on our art forms. the concept of astrology is much maligned by science but has, nevertheless, a strange and integral role in the development of our culture, due mostly to the prevalence of its proliferation as common myth.

our myths weave us together as a cultural whole, forming a nebulous consensus and a fuzzy boundary where our ideas swirl around and concresce. all of this is light and all of it is potentially affected by the massive amount of astral energies that surround us in the invisible aether.

when the ancient mystik held up an astrolabe and examined the sky, he was doing much more than charting the movement of the celestial objects, he was noting the proximity of the earth, as a galactik object, to other galactik entities. certainly the enormous forces at work in the cosmos have effects on our planet and the astrologers of old knew that the stars were more than just motions of little dots in the sky.

but what more?

thru telescopes, increasing in size and range we can stare further back into the history of our universe. we can see hundreds of nebulae and novae, birthing and destroying stars, whirling planets out of gas. our whole conceptual system of understanding the cosmos is built on principles that thad their foundations in traditions we now consider to be superstitious. is this one of the great mistakes of the western world, to knock out its esoterik knowledge on the basis that it cannot be objectively proven? how long do we imagine that anything not understood is junk?

the idea that the movement of stars might affect the develoment of culture and art is a highly resonant and practically observable phenomenon. our culture is obsessed with the science fiction future of spaceships charting the farthest reaches and galactik federations of like minded humanoid races combining together like good citizens. our horroscopes look to the constellations to divine meaning from the motions, and we read them, tho sometimes afraid to admit the strange synchronicities that happen from adhering to the structures. yes, i am a libra.

when the europeans came to central america they set about destroying all that was known by the people who already lived there. it was not an uncommon european practice to ridicule and eradicate anything that did not exactly fit within their concepts of the world. so strange and ironik it seems that we now look to these ancient cultures for answers to why things are on the brink of global disaster, and even more ironik to imagine, in the massive arrogance of the conquest, that the technology we used to navigate the oceans was anywhere near as sophisticated as the technology that mayans were already using to travel the galaxy.