Student: Some people say that Progressions…(laughter) Or isn’t there a good one?

Ra: I have friends who are really good astrologers and I drive them crazy. I make them very depressed. I’ve seen progressions. I’ve had progressions done for me. I’ve watched them go through all of that process. The underlying nature of astrology is that it cannot possibly be accurate. It is not possible. Anybody who knows their design knows that. You all have planets in dormant gates.

If an astrologer says to you—just dealing with personality activations—that your personality Mercury in Sagittarius means this that and the other, if that personality Mercury is in a gate, and it’s dormant, and it’s in an undefined center, that aspect that’s given to you by the astrologer is not true. It’s sometimes true, but it’s not true. It’s not consistently true. Now, of course, there are all kinds of astrologers that are going to read your personality chart, and they’re going to read your personality and what they’re reading are many, many aspects that are dormant, that have nothing to do with who you are, that has nothing to do with who you are consistently.

So at the base of astrology is inaccuracy. The fact that astrologers have invented house systems and progressions and all this stuff, it doesn’t impress me. Now, I go back to the simple, and the simple says, “It’s obvious and evident that astrology can only be accurate sometimes, and can never be accurate all the time.” So I’m not going to put any credence into anything that astrology presents as a more sophisticated way of looking at this or that. I find that the more astrological knowledge you have, the more confusing it is. And the more things you know about astrology and can say, the more difficult it is to understand what the hell anybody’s talking about.

I have a famous Vedic sannyasin astrologer staying in my house right now. When he gets into astrological babble-speak, I just kind of look at him and I watch him, and then he’s talking about himself, and then I’ll say to him, “Where is that in your chart?” And then he’ll look at it and see that it’s in an undefined center, and I say, “You’re full of shit; you’re a lousy astrologer. You don’t know nothing man.”

I’ve made him so depressed he wants to study Human Design now. This is a joke. So, yeah, what I do in situations like that where I take it seriously in the sense that it’s a legitimate, honest question of the moment, is that I just point out to them that basic inaccuracy. If your personality Sun is in a center in a gate, the center’s undefined, the gate is dormant, an astrologer telling you that you’re a Taurus or a this or a that is a joke. You only become that thing when somebody hooks up that center. And you may have a relationship in your life where your partner never hooks it up. Can you imagine?

And the astrologer’s telling you you’re a Taurus and this is the way you do things, and that doesn’t come out. That Sun is locked behind a closed door somewhere. And then your partner, who knows nothing about astrology, reads the description of Taurus and says, “Ah, astrology’s full of shit, he’s not like that.” Because she didn’t bring it out, or he didn’t bring it out of the other. So this is a basic thing about comparing things to Human Design.

The most astonishing thing about Human Design is how accurate it is. You do get to see. I respect the astrologer’s knowledge, the recognition, the revelation of the impact of planets on our lives, what planets mean. I have respect for aspects, but only if they actually function.

One of the people that deeply impressed me in Europe is a man by the name of Döbereiner. He’s one of the greatest astrologers, living astrologers, in the world. He specializes in medical astrology, and on many occasions over the years where we’ve been able to sit together, and of course to be able to see the depth of aspects the way he can, what he knows about a relationship between planets is incredible. But the accuracy of using that, he doesn’t have.

The moment you take that depth in the knowledge and you apply it to the matrix, you apply it to what Human Design is, which is a non-dogmatic field. Projected Channels and Circuitry

And you put it through, and then you get to see whether that aspect is alive or not. If somebody looks at your astrological chart and you’ve got a Mars-Saturn in conjunction, they’re going to give you a whole story about it. But if it’s in an undefined center, it’s not consistent in your life. It’s not a major theme. It is for other people; every time they hook up that center they get it.

So, that’s not my business in this life to be argumentative in the sense of,—I could trash everything because of course I see it from its limited perspective. I see that the modern, revealed synthesis is going to be always much more accurate than any of the components that it’s synthesized out of. It’s just obvious. Astrology is one of those things where you can clearly point it out. After all, the revelation of Human Design has done more to substantiate the basis of astrology than anything ever. I like to think of the fact that I’ve honored astrology just before I kill it.

You know what I mean? “Yes, you were right, the planets do influence us, now drop dead, there’s something new. Because it’s not accurate and this is, eh? Have a nice day.” So welcome to a new day.

Ra Uru HU