‘As it is above, so it is below;
As it is below, so it is above;
In order to accomplish the miracle of the one thing.’
So says the Emerald Tablet.
Nowadays, instead of above and below, we might talk about micro/macrocosm.
In all of observable nature, self-similarity manifests in some way, across scales.
In the case of a tree, this could be the veins on a leaf bifurcating just like the pattern of branches splitting from the trunk, which is also how the roots bifurcate…
…and is incidentally not dissimilar to a bolt of lighting, or the paths of river beds, or a city seen from on high, its streets like veins.
As for the starry sky – doesn’t it look just like a field full of fireflies at night? Except the stars, which are a lot bigger and further away, move much more slowly.
In another dimension, every cell in a tree or human body contains the pattern, if not the capacity, necessary to grow an entire tree or human body.
Parts contain the whole, in some way, and the whole contains the parts.
The poetry of astrology is essentially an examination of how the principle of fractality applies to and through time.
So the first step contains a whole journey.
In astrological fancy, each moment has a gestalt which informs all processes that originate in that moment for the rest of their duration, and also interacts with the original signature of the ongoing processes that pass through it.
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