Friday July 25th 2003 -
          
            ~ Intergalactic astrology? ~
by Bernard Fitzwalter
          
          
          
    
          
 
          
          
            
              
                
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One day, a baby is going to be born on the Moon or Mars. That child is 
going to have a very interesting horoscope.
  A birth chart, you see, is based on what the sky looks like above your 
exact birthplace. The sky, viewed from any other place in space, will 
still contain a zodiac but it will also contain a planet Earth!
  I wonder what future astrologers will read into that?
  I wonder too, what they do in other galaxies?
  Recently, scientists have detected several planets around nearby stars 
that are capable of supporting life. If the beings there have a culture 
or a civilisation, they will surely have their own form of heavenly 
mythology. And they will have noticed a beautiful mathematical 
relationship between different planetary cycles. No doubt their solar 
system, like ours, conforms to the simple, elegant mathematical rules 
John Michell was explaining yesterday.
  Perhaps they will be awestruck by this brilliant design.
  Or perhaps, like us, they will arrogantly assume that, in all this 
endless space, they are the only occupants!
  We can only guess. But I bet, whatever language those aliens speak 
when we finally meet them, they turn out to speak astrology too!
 
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