Astrology provides a compelling myth for how the universe works, that is far older than the Christian story. We feel it in our bones, we cannot resist it. That is what a Creation Myth should feel like. None of this wondering whether the Bible is true or not. Of course, we doubt if astrology is literally true, as we should. But we live in an age where the only truth is literal truth, so that makes us doubt astrology itself. Never doubt that visceral feeling that your story is writ in the sky.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born |
Yeats continues, "the best lack all conviction, and the worst are full of passionate intensity." We see things falling apart in the rise of relativism and its injunction that there are no absolute truths - it has a point - but goes to extremes in eg the dismantling of gender, about which the worst are full of passionate intensity, denouncing those who do not agree. (The research shows such people to be low on verbal intelligence.)