In this lecture Brian tells a story of astrology before it became a history. He muses on the imagination of the heavens and considers how there always was a revelatory storybook for anyone who joined the starry dots together.
While the early Greeks did not literally observe the skyscape astrologically as their Egyptian and Babylonian counterparts did, nonetheless early references to the heavens are embedded in their myths and epic literature. Astrology, as divination by the stars, is still in part revelation from the night world and its imagination reminds us of the right-hemisphere of the heavens, long before the left hemisphere’s measurements cleaved its distance from the imaginative reading of the stars.