Lost Moments and Memory: Laura Brainard Raborn
Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author and researcher in the field of parapsychology, who proposed the concept of morphic resonance. He morphic resonance posits that "memory is inherent in nature" and that "natural systems ... inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind." Sheldrake proposes that it is also responsible for "telepathy-type interconnections between organisms." His advocacy of the idea offers idiosyncratic explanations of standard subjects in biology such as development, inheritance, and memory.
Though he did not mention astrology, his postulated "morphic fields" energies, does explain why we respond to the energy field of planets in our horoscopes. Sheldrake is a Cancerian and so was Marcel Proust (b. July 10, 1871), author of Remembrance of Things Past! Astrology links Cancer to parents and the individual’s roots in general. The zodiac signs are truly collective myths. A myth maps the universal human patterns, while the birth chart maps the individual one. The Greek word mythos contains two meanings. In one sense, mythos is a story. In another, more profound sense, it implies a scheme or plan . It is this latter shading of the word which is most relevant both to psychology and astrology, because the universality of basic mythic motifs reveals a groundplan or purposeful pattern of development inherent in the human psyche as well as in the human body.
The birth horoscope too is a story , as well as a scheme or plan, and the two - horoscope and myth - form a dyad. Myth maps the universal human patterns, while the birth chart maps the individual one . This is a tale of fate, the pattern of growth from seed to mature plant to seed again, which has been written before the concrete story begins. [1]
Presented here is Sheldrake’s birth horoscope. Not only is his Sun in Cancer (4th sign), it is conjunct Jupiter, ruler of his 4th house. Both the 4th sign and house are connected to the past or “roots”. When his book "The Presence of the Past," 1988 was published his Primary Direction (Van Dam) was Uranus conjunct Sun. The planet of the pioneer, Uranus was coming up with a new and revolutionary idea. In research that casts cells as curators of their own history, Harvard Medical School researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that adult tissues retain a memory, inscribed on their DNA, of the embryonic cells from which they arose.
[1] The Astrology of Fate; Liz Greene
[2] https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Sheldrake,_Rupert
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