Astrology courses c/o Pergola15 to see the stars again

Astra inclinant aut necessitant? These are the central themes of the seminar courses: do the stars set trends or determine ineluctable effects? Are symbols to be understood or felt?

On 27 September, open courses aimed at personal growth were held at the Pergola15 event location on:

• asrology
• tarot
• bioconstellations
• registriakashici
• cristalli

The multifaceted space in the Isola district hosted around a hundred people who enriched their personal study paths through insights and reflections guided by experts in these fascinating subjects.

In particular, astrology studies the relationship between Time and Life, has as its reference the widest dimension we can access, i.e. the extension of the Universe, and uses the most precise clock we can conceive of, i.e. the cycle of cosmic revolutions. On the latter, images intensely rooted in human beings flow and alternate.

But, it came natural to ask oneself during the courses what room is left for free will, if the boundless expansion, millimetric precision and intense poignancy of its references make astrology an extremely subtle and inexorable model for analysing Time.

Do we play the game or are we ‘played’ by the stars in a relentless astrological determinism?

Although the attraction of astrology is in many cases the predictions we expect it to offer us, what really matters is not what you win – the numbers for the lotto, a new job, another love – but to start feeling what the real rules of the game are. E. Junger, At the Wall of Time.

Perhaps only by activating the subtlest component of intelligence, that is, sensitivity, is it possible to understand what these ‘rules of the game’ are, to be able to decode the symbols used in astrological readings in order to do what really counts.

In fact, the symbol represents a content rooted in the deepest secrets of the soul, individual and universal, it does not have a rigid and invariable meaning, it transcends consciousness because it is the highest expression of something unknown and, at best, pre-heard, felt before consciousness is activated.

The symbols astrology makes use of are those conventionally used to represent celestial bodies and phenomena and invoke an abyss of meanings and implications of boundless breadth and depth.

In the face of such grandiosity, the ‘accountant’s’ approach, stooped to unwinding the files of rational thought, trapped in a neurotic, algid and robotic logic, slaughters the depth of the symbol and defuses its transformative power.

As mentioned, only by making room for the most magical and capillary component of intelligence, that is, sensitivity, does one have the opportunity to open up to the boundless richness of the symbol.

Finally, the versatile, quiet and cosy event location Pergola15 lent itself well to the aforementioned marathon of courses, a special event with its own microcosm.