Most people are not quite sure how astrology “works”, and astrologers can explain to you how it works on a technical level, but not why. This is where the philosophy on which that specific discipline of astrology is built (or not) is crucial. It is a God given craft, just as all things on earth are God given, and in the hands of a skilled and qualified astrologer the symbolic language of astrology is an essential tool provided to accompany life. One of the more common misconceptions, initiated by many ancient civilisations to make sense of the correlation between life on earth and matters above, is that the planets have power over us by means of their “energy”. Planets were deified and their namesakes were worshipped – Zeus (Jupiter) Apollo (Sun) Diana (Moon), etc. This concept is nonsensical – the planets have no power over us at all, a moment's reflection while engaging one's brain should make that quite clear to all, and they do not beam their energy onto earth to “make us do things”. They were placed in the sky as symbols and signs, and as we all partake of the same building blocks of hot, cold, moist and dry, when the planets “behave” in a certain way, so does “matter” on earth which partakes of that planet's essence. It is simply a mirror image and a reflection - “as above, so below”.