Revised Astrology
The further development of classical astrology in the 20th century. In Germany, for example, Thomas Ring and Baron Herbert von Kloeckler wrote important works which contributed to the further development of astrology.
Ring challenged the idea that there could be a mechanical explanation for the influence of celestial bodies. He also rejected rigid rules of interpretation and any kind of determinism or event predictions. He also spoke of the limitations of astrology and did not believe that a horoscope was capable of showing an individual's time of death, sex, level of maturity or intelligence. Revised astrology has influenced many branches of modern astrology, in particular psychological astrology.
Thomas Ring also had a different approach to aspects than classical astrology. He rejected judgmental interpretations and classified aspects as either "analytical" (instead of "difficult") or "synthetic" (instead of "good").
Ring developed his own characteristic terminology to describe the signs of the zodiac and planets. The same term is used for signs in the same element: Fire, for example, is described as volitional; earth as material; air as mental and water as emotional. The following list shows the properties of the signs as the energy that:
- Aries: volitionally propulses
- Taurus: forms the material basis
- Gemini: mentally fluctuates
- Cancer: is emotionally creative
- Leo: volitionally attracts
- Virgo: is materially limiting
- Libra: is mentally directive
- Scorpio: is emotionally tense
- Sagittarius: volitionally directional
- Capricorn: materially moves
- Aquarius: mentally orders
- Pisces: emotionally partakes
The ten planets are described as follows:
- Sun: the creative life-force
- Moon: the dreamlike
- Mercury: Intelligence
- Venus: the Aesthetic
- Mars: Instinctive energy
- Jupiter: that which gives meaning
- Saturn: that which sets limits
- Uranus: that which initiates change
- Neptune: that which is beyond limits.
- Pluto: that which transforms matter.
