The Fibonacci Zodiac

by Russ von Ohlhausen

All is number.
Pythagoras

What is “astrology”? What does it mean to each person who studies it, practices it, profanes it or denounces it? You might think this would be a simple query that is easily answered, but as many of us in the field of astrology know, there is no uniform or simple way to address this question. Is it art, is it science, is it a form of spiritual discipline or is it a trailhead to understanding the pathway to our higher potentials? Is the astrological mechanism really just a mysterious operation that ‘mankind was not meant to comprehend’ or is it something that is tangible that can be explained, examined, measured and calculated just like the other fundamental forces of nature? Or in fact, is it an amalgam of the fundamental forces that we are already familiar with through the advances in the empirical sciences.
 
Whenever we delve into the works of Mother Nature, we always find that there is a mathematical underpinning to every phenomenon. We live in a reality that is encoded with information that uses a mathematical structure. Galileo claimed,

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics… Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo had the good fortune to work on both mechanics and astronomy: both problems that can be conveniently mathematicised.

Academicians, scientists and historians have seized on his statements to characterize what they feel is “true” science: according to this principle, no branch of natural philosophy can call itself a science until it has shown itself to be mathematical. The essence of the astrological language is mathematics.

There is only that much ‘genuine science’ in any science, as it contains mathematics.
Kant

The issue is two sided. Scientism needs to return to the realms of natural philosophy that it shunned in the late 17th century and take seriously the relevant questions of our energetic interactions with the cosmos, while astrologers must catch up to the reality of modernity, and not merely rely on ancient tradition but how that tradition can be understood through the mathematical language of nature, the same in which science uses.

Not only does it become easier to describe (reality) with mathematics, as you go deeper and deeper into reality, mathematics becomes the ONLY way to describe reality.
Leonard Susskind (father of string theory)

This does not mean that because the Universe created and follows mathematical intentions that it is somehow devoid of a spiritual endeavor, in fact quite the opposite. The mathematics that atheistic scientists use is the same language that the consciousness has divined through creation. Math is merely a recognition of the alphabet, words, syntax and grammar used to construct the universe. Math, myth and ‘mystery’ all relate to one another and all of these converge in the scientific art of astrology.

Astrology by Divine Numbers

The Fibonacci Entity

The earliest known reference to the same type of pattern shown by Fibonacci, dates to around 200BCE in India. The number sequence is a linear expression of the Golden Spiral based on the Golden Number, which was well understood by that time. In my studies, it has become very clear that Babylonians, Persians, Hindus, Sumerians, Athenians, Egyptians and many other cultures had made this connection prior to the Piscean Age. (By 1200CE, Fibonacci was simply rediscovering very old and lost knowledge, and describing it in a systematic way, using a number system that was created based on that very same knowledge.)

In case you do not remember, the numerical entity that we know today as the Fibonacci Sequence is the number expression of 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144… (the first twelve numbers of the sequence). The sequence continues to infinity, adding the two adjacent numbers to equal the following number. The further it is carried out, the closer it approaches the golden or divine proportion of 1.618 or Phi. The keystone to the expression is that through further comprehension of its connection to the number 9, a fundamental cosmological principle is revealed. It can also be surmised the both Vedic and Greek celestial observers and philosophers already understood this concept well, during the Hellenistic Period. I would go even further to say that it was a foundational understanding well before the Hindu and Greek Bronze Ages; and there is much evidence to support its origins even further into history.

A better and surprisingly simple way to comprehend patterns hidden in number sequences is by using the principle of ‘indigs’ or integral digits, (similar to digit sums or digital roots). Many of you who use numerology as a divinatory practice are already familiar with sum variations of digit sums. In using indigs, one computes the integer pattern down to a single digit, regardless of digit placements in the number to ascertain the fundamental root.

Example: 377= 3+7+7≡17≡8 rather than creating a two-digit number. Also, with fractions such as 33.75 = 3+3+7+5≡18≡9

Through this method the first twelve number connections to 9 are discovered. The first number to equal indig 9 is 144 (1+4+4≡9), the 12th number of the sequence. Also, the total of those first twelve numbers added together is indig 7, consequently the next set of twelve numbers adds to indig 2. The sum of all the digits in both the first two sets of twelve numbers is 9. Furthermore, the first two sets of twelve numbers when added into each other as pairs equal 9, looking something like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 4, 3, 7, 1, 8, 9, 8, 8, 7, 6, 4, 1, 5, 6, 2, 8, 1, 9

Fibonacci Sequences of 12 Pairs Repeating

This pattern of integer sequence integral digits is repeated every 24 numbers (12 pairs) infinitely and is the “prime cosmological simplex” pattern in nature.

Through the use of these pairings, when applied to astrology, the Zodiac can be understood as another expression of the Golden Number in nature. Within this simple association lies the basis for the signs, decans, the planetary ladder, trines, squares, sextiles, antiscia, contra-antisica, and virtually every principle at the heart of astrology… in every culture, in every epoch. When this number sequence is converted into circular form, and we view the numbers and indigs, and apply simple addition to pairs, trines, squares, oppositions, etc., the basis for all aspects is easily seen in this manner.

This natural pattern is the foundational superstructure on which the Zodiac, and all other energetic pattern interaction takes place.

The Foundation for the Zodiac

Natural Systems of Order

It is my conjecture that the basis for all astrological systems was the axiological understanding of this elementary numerical association in ancient ‘natural philosophy’, despite what we in the West may call this ‘numerical entity’ today. It is a fundamental part of nature that was understood well into prehistory. That connection to our astrological foundations was either taken for granted over time or simply lost, as astrology’s place in society waxed and waned in the progress and decay of various cultures over the last two millennium. The understanding of its actual connection to nature became classified as “supernatural”, along with all studies of metaphysics, and was subsequently demonized in the early heyday of material sciences.

As a new emerging world culture begins to compare notes with our ancient pasts around the globe, it becomes clear that the foundations for this ‘golden connection’ is literally everywhere. It was not invented or created, it was ‘discovered’ and described – and is now being rediscovered. It is the prime “cosmological simplex” – the fundamental pattern inherent in all of nature, that merges the expressions of all energy (and subsequently matter), and consciousness on all dimensions and levels of reality.

What most mathematicians, scientists or astrologers do not know, is that the Fibonacci sequence is a cyclical repetition of numerical expression rather than merely an infinite linear numerical set. That fact that its cyclical nature is not understood in our time, has limited all sciences – both in that of scientism & that of meta-science – from grasping its key importance to fields of study of all unified systems.

The integral nature of 12 pairings within ‘one cycle’ of the Fibonacci sequence, whether the pairings are adjacent, opposite, at angle or a variety of other ‘harmonic’ combinations, this system seeks to achieve a mathematical balance within itself. This dynamic is the key to understanding the face of a sunflower or the fundamental structure of the Zodiac. It is the same reflexive interactive energy system at work. The Zodiac, as we know it, is merely a symbolic way to represent this energetic pattern and what qualities the 12 adjacent pairs manifest, atomically, molecularly, biochemically and psychologically.

By number, a way is had to the searching out and understanding of everything able to be known.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian Renaissance scholar

When the ‘perfect circle’ is viewed through an astrological lens, and inspected in closer detail, one can begin to see all of the mathematical and geometric mechanisms utilized by astrologers, as well as a variety of lesser understood structures within varying astrological schools of thought.
For example, the ‘planetary ladder’ is clearly part of the numerical structure of pairings only when viewed along one axis that also corresponds to certain fixed position in the number sequence.

The Big Question

How does it work

Most everyone has posed the question at one time or another to themselves, “How is it possible that the planets, interacting with each other at a great distance, within the ecliptical field of that stars we call the the Zodiac, effect us psychologically here on earth?”. Whether someone has complete blind faith in the processes at play as ‘supernatural’ and beyond our ability to comprehend’, or for those skeptics who are in total denial of planetary influence as ‘superstitious’ and implausible within any possibility of effecting us, most everyone has pondered this issue to some degree. It is currently socially unacceptable, of course, to dwell on the issue as anything other than a curiosity even to those in the studies of metaphysics or the occult, let alone to seek its evidences as a serious area of scientific discovery.

So, the questions remain, even to those who deeply respect, understand and research the celestial influences and the knowledge gleaned from our ancient forebearers. We still do not know, with any degree of certainty using the current scientific universal language of mathematics, the energetic connections between the planet and people. How does information travel in energy fields and light, and how does it affect individual and collective consciousness and the psyche?

Once again, the clues are to be found in nature all around us, and the seeds of these next astrological discoveries have already been made in other scientific fields of study. There are two primary areas that will merge with astrology in the future to better explain the connections between celestial and biological form:

Lagrangian Mechanics: From planetary gravitational interactions, barycenters of galactic systems to physics of atoms and the functions of quantum mechanics, Lagrangian mechanics is the best natural evidence for the structure of the Zodiac itself and how a circular wave pattern of energy densities and dispersions is created around any central nexus.

Fourier Transform: Nature’s way of transceiving information is through an analytical tool we call the Fourier transform. From how cells form to how biological systems interact, the Fourier transform is the most used method of understanding frequency interactions with all biological systems. Nature designed itself using this method. Our senses evolved through the epochs of time in constant interaction with this field of information. Our eyes and ears were devised in this vibrational ocean of the Fourier transform so that it could most efficiently interpret the light and sound signals it needed for functioning in a given environment; an environment which was also created by this sea of energy. Since this is the case, it was inevitable that our intelligence would eventually “catch up” and find a way to describe and compute these processes so we can consciously harness this information in our progressive evolution.

These two mechanisms of natural are already well-understood by mainstream science and are utilized in a multitude of practical applications in the areas of study and industry. The time has come to apply them to the meta-science to better understand the evolution of the human spirit.

Shifting the World's Perspectives

A Return to Spiritual Science

Without an awareness of the basic fingerprint of the cosmos, one will never have a true understanding of interface between the psycho-spiritual and the bio-material realms, which inevitably leads to the conclusion that they are indeed one and the same. We are still at the dawn of this age electro-technological advance that awaits humankind in the next millennia. The next phase of this process is ‘integration’, the yoking of the disparate disciplines, into one holistic function, one unified field of knowing. When will the first heretics of scientism step forth using “the one language” of mathematics and begin to rebuild the bridge with metaphysics again? And when astrologers begin to look outside their practice and the focus on self and broaden their vision towards bridging collective consciousness and using our knowledge to build a better society.

The Fibonacci Sequence is the keystone to advancing astrology as a science. With it, if you can understand the fundamental pattern of an atom, you can understand the structure of a solar system. If you understand the nature of a molecule, you can understand formation of a cell. If you understand the resonant nature of a quantum particle, you can understand what shapes all life. If you can comprehend its mathematical connection to the Zodiac, you can devise the path of everything through time. The cosmos is an interactive reflective fractal expression of self-similarities of every conceivable shape, within every fabricable form at every imaginable level. In a word -‘infinite’.

Mathematics is beautiful and where there is beauty there is cause for inspiration. Scientists pursue this cosmic beauty through mathematics and through the philosophy of one unifying fundamental force. Astrologers seek to find this beauty through describing the geometry of light, how it creates and interacts with consciousness, and connects us to one unifying source. Ultimately, there is no difference between either, for both endeavors are inspired to understand the varying subtle levels of the conscious creation by means of the same mathematics that has transcribed the Universe itself.

Image sources:
Diagrams provided by the author
Fibonacci artwork: Image by S K from Pixabay
Golden ratio: Image by Rafael Javier from Pixabay
Fibonacci sequence in shell: Image by Karin Henseler from Pixabay

Published at: ivcconference.com/constellation-news/, 2020.

Author:
Russ von Ohlhausen is an ontological researcher and writer, his work reflects a lifetime study of science, religions, myths, metaphysics & most importantly nature —and what they collectively reveal about consciousness and human behavior. Russ is founding member and past Vice President of the Astrological Society of Austin and has taught on metaphysics and science at Kepler College, serving as interim directing advisor for Kepler Research Institute, in Seattle, WA.
Russell is focused on creating tools and resources to help reintegrate the ancient wisdoms with modern science and reviving the path to holistic spiritual living and evolution. He is currently working with transpersonal healing modalities within both the standard scientific and non-standard meta-science realms, using astro-psychology, entheogenic guidance, and sound-light healing techniques to explore. His ground-breaking work in cosmological mechanics though astrological and mathematical research, Zodiac Faces: Planetary Physiognomy, The Holy Myth, and of course Celestia Mathematica, which is currently being taught by others as a foundational theory of the governing structure behind astrological knowledge.
URL: ritesofthesun.com 

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