I had been reading the new "Your Personal Astrology Planner 2008" by Rick Levine and Jeff Jawer and fell upon two sentences. They were said like this: "To our ancestors, the planets actually animated life on Earth. In this way of thinking, every beautiful flower contains the essence of Venus."

It struck me! Scientifically, it's true; every beautiful flower does...literally...contain the essence of Venus. Ever heard of the story of our Sun once being a Red Giant? Well, when the Red Giant exploded in our universe long ago its remnants remained and stirred like a cloud of dust. At the center, the dust accumulated and turned into what is now our Sun. Later on... the other dust particles accumulated around the Sun in a revolution. They became: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the outer ring (I forgot the name). Venus, literally, is related to us just like the other planets are related to us and as the Sun!

To some, this may be "Duh!" lol, but for me, I really enjoy taking pieces of a puzzle and putting 'em together. Science tends to explain things differently than spirituality/religion (in this case, astronomy and astrology). However, their explanations aren't so contradictory, just in need of a translation!