Reclaiming Astrology from the Patriarchy

The Story of the Stolen Zodiac Begins

By: Ralph DeAmicis, Lahni DeAmicis

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This is the story of the Great Rebranding that created the patriarchy, and tried to turn women into second class citizens, one step up from livestock and dogs, and generally equal with horses. The events stretch from 500BC up to 1930 when Pluto was discovered. Like all serious conspiracies, their unraveling occurred because later generations believed their own advertising and pushed society out of balance, off the road and into a ditch. At the core of this story is how and why the symbols of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac were changed. The original symbols served as a celestial blackboard for teaching generations of children about how to find food and manage resources in the proper seasons. The Signs were changed to serve the politics and religion that promoted the patriarchy.

Does this matter in our modern society? More people know their
Astrology Sign than their blood type, and the symbols they relate to were designed to keep women down and steal their money and power! So yes, it matters! The other part of the story is how the Sacred Geometry connecting the celestial bodies to the seasons was broken. Those men built a symbolic wall that penned women into very restricted roles, while damaging the practice of Astrology for centuries by degrading its central philosophical tool.

That began to shift in 1920 when women demanded the vote. Then ten years later Pluto was discovered, and a group of male Astrologers tried to break the geometry even more. Up to then men had a good run, doing whatever they wanted, like Adam in the Garden of Eden, before Eve showed up. But then the first modern computers were introduced in the 1940’s and everything began changing because women were faster typists and better at understanding relationships. When the DaVinci Code was published people started believing that maybe there was a patriarchal conspiracy behind their troubles. Then twenty years later the movie Barbie became a bright pink, billion dollar, anti-patriarchal manifesto, hidden, as they say in the movie, behind a giggle. This is the story of how it was done, and how to make it better.

Note: This is not a scholarly book, filled with footnotes and appendices. It is a story, historical in nature, about the evolution of modern Astrology. It is ‘the big picture’ contained in a relatively small book. This is Book One in a trilogy. Book Two is about how to practice patriarchy free Astrology and Book Three picks up the story of the stolen Zodiac again. As we wrote this, there were hundreds of cultural threads we would have loved to weave into the telling. But because Astrological symbolism is part of so many cultures the book would have been thousands of pages long. Instead, we chose to stay on track and tell the important parts. After all, who wants to read a thousand page book unless it’s a juicy novel, and while this book has some juicy parts, that’s not its focus. Its purpose is to reveal how actions taken in the ancient world skewed the practice of Astrology, and how men changed the Signs to create the Patriarchy. If you don’t choose to believe us, that’s your right. But if you want to prove it to yourself, then go do the research. It is a fascinating journey. R&L
Ralph & Lahni DeAmicis are the authors and publishers of the Planetary Calendar, and you can find their Day Planner and Pocket Version on Amazon and weekly forecasts at the Planetary Calendar website.

The cover photo of the Earth rising over the Moon was taken by NASA’s robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015. The background is of the Sagittarius region from the Webb Telescope.