Who is to say these stars do not reflect

our human lives on earth not far below,

that movements of our neighboring planets

cannot affect the patterns of our souls,

that minds and habits do not also spin

in time and space and rhythm across lives,

that turning circles facing these twelve signs

will not affect our cycles over time?

There’s science in these ancient teachings still,

though modern tools cannot yet quantify

how studies of the sky above relate

to our affairs like atoms typify

the empty spaces amid planets spun

around a central sun, not leaving much

but dust to block the astrological

effects of globes crossing constellations.

These days I blame the papers and the press

for simplifying it to the extent

that people don’t have reason to believe

in the potentials of astrology,

but with research into one’s natal chart

we start to see how rhythms of the stars

can stir the cycles of our lives and minds,

twirling through a universe in time.