Richard Feynmann — famous physicist, womanizer and bongo player — said this in his renowned Feynman Lectures on Physics (Vol. 1):
“It is just a strange fact that we can calculate some number, and when we finish watching nature go through her tricks and calculate the number again, it is the same.” (source)
He was talking about energy. Basically, he was saying that whatever you have — a gorilla, say — is energy of a given quantity. If you add more energy to it — for example a hard push, a jog around the block or a pound of peanuts — the form may change. But the amount of energy, the calculation, remains the same. The gorilla is knocked over, more physically fit or a pound of peanuts heavier, but the calculation is still 800 pounds plus the energy of the push or the run or the peanuts.
What does this have to do with astrology? Everything. The birth chart represents the energy you were born with — that is, the natural tendencies to which your personality leans (notice I didn’t say “is enslaved for life”).
If you’re the gorilla, are you the one vulnerable to being pushed around by the rest of your tribe? Are you the one that gets up every morning for a jog around the block? Are you the one that can most often be found under a tree eating a pound of peanuts?
If you’re the bicycle, are you the one that prefers to amble down a country lane, stopping in the shade on occasion to pick flowers and enjoy the breeze? Or the one that blasts past the other competitors in the Tour de France? Or the one collecting dust in the garage?
It can all be read in your chart. You’re given certain tools — a body, a heart, a mind and more — a gorilla, perhaps — and your chart gives you certain energetic tendencies to apply to each one: working mind, sluggish body, perceptive heart, blocked instinct, dynamic persona… Knowing your chart can help you open up or change the energy, help you see how to bring different kinds of energy to apply to different tools when what you’re doing now results in unhappiness or worse.
In the end, the calculation will still be the same — you’ll still have a body, a heart, a mind and more. Perhaps even a gorilla. But the result will be different. If you shift from scattered energy to focused energy, your mind will look different. If you shift from me-energy to we-energy, your heart will look different. If you shift from thinking energy to doing energy, your body will look different.
And maybe you’ll be the fittest gorilla on the block.









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