Geoffrey Cornelius - The Moment of Astrology
Geoffrey Cornelius: The Moment of Astrology
The first book we read as part of the Horoscopic Astrology Group’s book club was Geoffrey Cornelius’s highly influential work The Moment of Astrology: Origins in Divination. The subject of the book is the philosophy of astrology, and in it Cornelius traces the history of the subject in order to argue that the true origins of astrology are in divination, and that the practice of the subject itself can only make sense within that context.
Cornelius’ book is important because it has become something of a source book for a growing number of astrologers who seek to reestablish astrology as a legitimate form of divination in the modern world. Rob Hand is commonly quoted as saying that this is the single most important book on the philosophy of astrology in the 20th century.
The book was discussed extensively on the Horoscopic Astrology Group forum, and the discussion is still ongoing. If you are interested in joining the discussion then please see this thread on the HA group forum over on Myspace.
The Moment of Astrology can be purchased through Amazon.com by following this link.
Astrology is an attempt of the human mind to grasp Time in its completeness, past, present and future. In a way more rational than its adversaries think because astrology has always used something that the scientists accepted only after the theory of general relativity: the interconnection of time and space. The astrologer assigns everything that is perceptible on Earth to the celestial bodies it uses and tracing the predictable movement of these bodies, tries to reach the future of an event before this future comes to our perception. The horoscope is circular symbolic expansion of the space-time, which the human mind has invented in order to bypass the fetters of the present. This ingenious craft has been applied for thousands of years and its weaknesses are rather due to incomplete observation than to its rationale.
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