You are an integral part of all that is, a cosmos alive with meaning and inherent purpose.
The Three Motions of Love - ancient philosophy and a spiritual thesis of astrology
Have you ever noticed that LOVE spelt backwards is EVOL - the root of the word evolution?
This is not simple wordplay. It reveals something profound and points to an ancient philosophy: love is the force driving all evolution, from our personal growth to the cosmos itself.
Recently, I’ve been exploring how this philosophy might connect to three different types of cosmic movement, each operating at different speeds, all working together in a beautiful dance of consciousness evolving.
The Three Motions of Love: A Cosmic Dance
Imagine three dancers, each moving at their own pace, yet perfectly synchronised:
1. The Slowest Dance: Divine Evolution (Cosmic Time)
The ancients understood something we’re only now remembering: the divine experiences itself through us. Every joy you feel, every challenge you overcome, every moment of love or insight, isn’t just a personal experience. They’re how ultimate consciousness knows itself, grows, and evolves.
The stars themselves are slowly moving, being born and dying across billions of years, as the cosmos slowly evolves. This happens so slowly we can barely perceive it - like watching a mountain grow - yet it’s intimately connected to everything we do. Our collective experiences feed into the divine’s own unfolding. The slow movement of the cosmos is, I propose, the physical manifestation of this divine unfolding.
Timescale: Infinity
2. The Steady Rhythm: Our Daily Framework (Earth’s Rotation)
Earth spins on its axis every 24 hours, creating day and night, sunrise and sunset. This steady, reliable rhythm provides the stable framework for all life on our planet. It’s like the stage upon which the drama of our lives unfolds - constant, dependable, divine order made manifest.
Timescale: 24 hours
3. The Dynamic Dance: Our Personal Experience (Planetary Movements)
The planets move through the sky at different speeds - the Moon changing signs every 2-3 days, the Sun monthly, while Saturn takes roughly 29 years to complete its cycle around the whole zodiac of twelve signs. These movements mirror the rhythm and cycles of our experiences, reflecting the challenges and opportunities unfolding in our lives. This is where we feel change, growth, and transformation happening - our evolution.
Timescale: Days to decades
The Beautiful Ancient Philosophy: We Are How the Divine Knows Itself
The ancient philosophers knew this truth: we aren’t separate from the divine, looking up at it from afar. We are the divine looking at itself through infinite perspectives, learning, growing, becoming more through each of our unique experiences.
When you overcome heartbreak, the universe discovers more resilience through you. When you create something beautiful from pain, consciousness itself learns more about the alchemy of transformation. When you find courage in the face of fear, divine awareness experiences more of what it means to be brave.
How you respond to those experiences - how you grow, love, and evolve - feeds back into ultimate consciousness itself - a consciousness we are all an integral part of - contributing to its evolution.
The Three Motions of Love: A Theory
My thesis is that the three motions of love, as I outlined above, are the physical manifestation of this ancient philosophy. This places astrology firmly in the role of a divinatory practice in the true sense of the word - to know the divine - and is why I consider astrology to be a spiritual practice.
As above, so below. As below, so above.
What This Means for Your Life
Every challenge you face isn’t random. It’s part of a cosmic pattern that astrology can help us read - an invitation from the cosmos for consciousness to unfold a little more, to discover something new about itself through your unique experience.
The divine is experiencing what it’s like to be you, right now, in this moment. Your struggles matter. Your growth matters. Your love matters - not just to you, but to the evolution of all consciousness. You are an integral part of all that is, a cosmos alive with meaning and inherent purpose.
The Spiral Home
This journey isn’t a straight line. It’s a spiral. You’ll revisit the same lessons, the same themes, but each time from a different perspective and vantage point, gained from the wisdom of your experiences.
The word “evolution” comes from the Latin evolvere, “to unroll”, like unrolling a scroll to reveal what was already written there but hidden from view.
Your spiritual evolution is the gradual revelation of what you already are: love itself, a unique expression of divine consciousness, temporarily having forgotten so you could experience the joy of remembering.
And through that remembering - through your journey of unfolding - ultimate consciousness evolves too.
Love Is Evolution, Spelt Backwards
Simply put, love and evolution are the same thing. We’re actually how the divine, as us, knows and evolves itself.
Understanding this profound truth transforms everything. Every moment becomes a sacred gift, every challenge a chance for growth, every relationship a mirror reflecting our divine selves, and every experience an invitation to fully awaken and embrace our true potential.
We’re all part of this incredible cosmic dance, evolving through matter back to the love that’s our source, our path, and our ultimate destination. Divinity is experiencing itself through us, becoming through our unique journey home to love.
So, what would love look like today, through you, as you?
This is a simplified introduction to a framework I’ve been developing that synthesises ancient Hermetic and Platonic philosophy with modern understandings of consciousness and evolution. This framework, which I have called “The Three Motions of Love”, is rooted within the divinatory lens of astrology. If you’re interested in the deeper philosophical and astrological foundations, I’ll be publishing the full hypothesis soon - subscribe and stay tuned!
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