THE SOURCE OF ASTROLOGY

The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the sky proclaims his handywork.
Day unto day pours out speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.
In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
His going forth is from the end of the heaven,
and his circuit unto the ends of it:
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

PART TWO

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul:
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart:
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever:

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

PART THREE

Moreover by them is thy servant warned:
And in keeping of them there is great reward.

Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse thou me from secret faults!.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be upright,
And I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

from Psalm 19

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This Psalm like many others is called a Psalm of David. That only means that it may have been penned around 1000 BC, during the reign of King David. Like many Psalms it moved from being in the oral tradition to being written down during the Babylonian Captivity (597-537 BC), lasting roughly two Saturn cycles. During this period the First Temple was destroyed. It was also during the period of the Triple Conjunction (exact in 575 BC). This synod combining Neptune, Uranus and Pluto, ended many civilizations and dynasties around the planet; it also saw the birth of the greatness of Athens and the founding of the Roman Republic.

The Origin of this Psalm

The truth is that no one knows the true era or time of this psalm. What we do know is that it speaks to you, even in translation, as clearly as it did thousands of years ago, when it was penned somewhere in the Bronze Age.

Another theory is that came from Melchizedek, a king and monotheistic priest from a tradition preceding Akhenaten, Moses, and Aaron.

C.S. Lewis, an astrologer whose insights equal Dante’s, believed this psalm to be the best, the most powerful of all the all the psalms. Further, he believed key line from that psalm, There is nothing hid from the heat thereof, to be the most powerful in the psalm. You can read more about this in his book, The Psalms, Chapter 6.

One could easily today substitute the word energy or emission for heat. The creed in this psalm reflects pure monotheism.

The heavens declare the glory of God: The heavens speak the creative power of God. The stars at night transmit all sorts of energy and messages and influences.

Day by day these suns talk to us. Night after night in our dreams in our visions they reveal knowledge and wisdom.

There is no speech or voice where their message is not heard.  This voice is what we call conscience. It is a voice heard from childhood on. It is an unshakable knowing of what is right and what is wrong.

In them he has set a tabernacle for the Sun. The tabernacle or tent for the sun is the solar system.

There is nothing hid from the heat thereof. Today we would say, “There is nothing hid from its radiation…And that this radiation goes through our body, mind and spirit every moment.

Section Two

This middle part of the Psalm discusses The Law. It says that we live on a moral planet, in a moral solar system, in a moral galaxy, in a moral universe. This was called in the Declaration and by Locke and Montesquieu the Laws of Nature. In the ancient Chinese philosophy of Confucius it was called the Tao, the Way. The path of the Tao is found in the writings of every civilization, ancient, medieval, and modern.

To wander out of the Tao, away from the Way, as did the Aztecs,  is to fall into the abyss.

Section Three

This part shows the humility of the author.

Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse thou me from secret faults.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright,
and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 

From the deepest antiquity comes to us a foundation of all astrology. Its statements connect us to suns of galaxies.