Story Idea 1: Astrology Is Actually Real
What if astrology was actually real?
Then it couldn't be about natal charts (objects in positions) so much as objects in relation to other objects -- about aspects. Maybe there is a general sense in which an object in a position (a person with Sun in Sagittarius) relates to another broader prominent object (a country with Saturn in Sagittarius), in a way that tends to predict consistent patterns for Sag Sun people, places & things within that larger object (the country), but nonetheless, it's still all about relationship dynamics.
What are our major relationships to things? Are we too deep in them to even see them? And can we even know the charts for them?
We have a relationship to our parents, for instance, and they both have birth charts -- the inception of their "personality" beginning to form, arguably, or the beginning of their conscious breathing life as an entity -- what exactly is it that begins at birth? And why say it doesn't begin before birth, arbitrarily? Because we don't know when exactly before birth it would begin?
Are first breaths the true beginning of a life?
What about conception?
What if a baby is born asphyxiating - then they still need to breath, so first breaths are still what count, even if they're on a ventillator. Even if a machine is breathing for them. If a machine is breathing for them, then their fate is tied in with that machine, and when/where it was built, but also when it was invented, when the first prototype was made, when it was cleared by the FDA as a piece of DME to be used in hospitals, when the hospital decided to adopt that technology. The hospital is also a factor in the birth of the child & how that will go, or if there is no hospital, the history of the place.
What about genetics? Genetics always recombine at conception. So conception dates matter, too, at least to that end.
And who we were with, at any given moment. They were all influencing that moment's outcome, and influencing us - who we became. And we were all influenced by where we were. A place, comprised of political boundaries with natal dates, of objects & entities with conception & corporeal manifestation ("birth") dates…
What about the culture. What's the natal chart of a culture? When did it begin? What were its key moments, and was anyone there to see & notice? Was it when the Berlin Wall fell (a date/time well recorded), when Reagan bellowed, "Tear down that wall, Mr. Gorbachev!", or when a seagull crapped on Helmut Kohl's head and he took it as a sign to second Reagan's notion to Mr. Gorbachev (a moment lost to the ages, lost to the memory of even Kohl himself - maybe he can't even remember why he did it, the day was so big, he forgot all about the seagull, though he took it as an omen at the time)?
Everything that ever happens began somewhere, nothing happens spontaneously, so all moments led up to this one, who is to say which was more important than the others - perhaps they were all necessary, to let it cook.
We have no way of knowing, because we can't run the same experiment twice.
There is only access to one timeline.
We can only approximate likelihoods.
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Is there anything to numerology? Do the dates themselves, and quantity of things matter? We could never know, because where do we cut off a date? At the minute? Second? Millisecond? Gigasecond? How can we arrive at a full picture if the correct slice of time itself to be measured is an uncertain commodity -- time is of the essence, after all.
Do alphabet letters correspond with numeric values in anyway? What about hieroglyphics, sanskrit, then, kanji -- languages that lack a phonetic alphabet…what is the numerology of their names? Are we to believe that numerology (a supposedly universal cosmic phenomenon) is only accessible in English -- aka "God's Language"? lol
The anglocentrism is dizzying.
Do all languages get their own numerological tables, then? And is it as simple as "1, 2, 3" numbering the alphabet or characters in their generally prescribed order?
Why, then? Is not that ordering arbitrary? (You ask now -- is anything "arbitrary"? Or does every action hold some cosmic significance…so be very damned careful, all the time, for all actions have consequences…)
You are in a room, a cricket is chirping. If you sat there & counted the chirps, how many do you count? Do you count till you can no longer hear it? What if someone with better hearing could hear it longer? What if you lose count? What if there are multiple crickets? Then does it matter which one is making the most sounds? Or is it the sum total of chirps you're trying to count? What if sometimes they overlap?
