Astronomical Astrology

When it comes to the point of view stating that science starts with the senses, a common objection is that is starts with maths. No it doesn't. Aristotle saw subtleties on frogs with his eyes that we saw more with microscopes, Galileo saw planets first with his eyes and studied them more with his telescope. Similarly, we first need to feel stars and planets before talking about the mathematics of the true alignements of the famous zodiacal signs. Maths do have a role to play in science, but it's more of a tweak with the data phenomenon, it's closer to the end than the beginning of the process.

The first Aura I ever saw was of Hubert Reeves, probably the most famous astrophysicist in the French speaking world. I had just read his book Poussière d’étoiles (stars’ dusts) and when he came to my college, I told the person sitting next to me that they did an amazing light show around him, like with the spots, you know, the professionals that light the stage. This person looked at me with weird disgust which I thought at first only meant to shut up. So I did, I don’t talk during lectures, it was just so amazing what I was seeing. Then Hubert Reeves went outside, in the hall, and people continued speaking with him, I kept looking at the same light around him, I started to be confused and simply asked another person if they saw that light around him. I remember I had a serious discussion with the person because I was clearly seeing that around him, explained to him that I had seen it on stage as well… that person was skeptical, but a scientific so they proposed an hypothesis : maybe ...