I Don't Believe in Astrology

I don’t believe in astrology.
I practice astrology.

I practice astrology in the same way that I practice dance and writing.
I don’t ‘believe in dance’ or ‘believe in writing.’ They are practices that shape who I am, how I live, and what I bring into the world. They are practices that connect me to traditions and lineages of practitioners across generations.
 
Similarly, for me, astrology isn’t a belief system. It is a practice that connects me to myself, the earth and sky, the more-than-human world, and an ancient tradition that has been practiced by people across this planet for thousands of years.
 
I do not ask whether astrology is real or not.
I do not ask whether it can be proven or verified or not.

I ask: what does it do?
What are its affects and effects?
What do I become more aware of because I practice astrology?
What becomes more possible because I practice astrology?
 
Astrology provides a context within which to make meaning of our lives—a context that is composed of celestial phenomena, embodied observation, ancient mythologies and symbolic archetypes, language, and both human and more-than-human agencies.
 
Astrology cultivates multiple interwoven experiences of cyclical time—expansive and immediate symbolic and real-time nonlinear temporalities unfolding simultaneously across different scales.
 
Astrology attenuates us to complexity, subtlety, nuance, and awe.

Astrology gives us a sense that our lives are part of much longer stories that are bigger than any one of us.
 
It becomes more possible to live our lives with a greater sense of purpose and connection, with more intentionality and less urgency, more slowness and spaciousness, and less conformity to rigid, reductive, unchanging categories.
 
What comes into focus when you consider your own life through the lens of practice rather than belief?
What becomes more possible because of what you practice?