As Above, So Below
The same laws that keep galaxies in orbit keep your cells in harmony.
Gravity holds planets; attention holds presence. Magnetism aligns stars; emotion aligns hearts.
Through awareness, we restore balance between body and cosmos—microcosm and macrocosm reflecting one another
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The Body Is the Story
I came to neuroscience the way I came to dance—through the ache to understand what moves us. Over time, I saw that the nervous system is like our personal cosmos, sending us signals we can listen to.
Every thought, every tremor, every heartbeat is part of a larger choreography—gravity, pulse, and meaning in motion. My work explores how movement, psychology, and myth reveal one truth: as above, so below. The universe evolves by pattern; so do we.
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Two Great Divisions
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Brain and spinal cord.
Integrates incoming information and generates outgoing commands.
Think of it as the processing core.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
All the nerves that branch out from the CNS to the rest of the body.
It carries messages both ways: sensory data in, motor commands out.
This is the communication network.
The Autonomic Trifecta
The autonomic system has two main “gears,” plus a subtle brake.
Sympathetic nervous system (SNS)
Mobilizes energy: increases heart rate, dilates pupils, directs blood to muscles.
Motto: do something now.
Parasympathetic nervous system (PNS/Vagus)
Restores energy: slows heart rate, stimulates digestion, promotes repair.
Motto: you’re safe; restore balance.
Enteric nervous system (ENS)
The “second brain” in the gut, containing millions of neurons.
Regulates digestion and communicates constantly with the vagus nerve.
These branches act like accelerators, brakes, and suspension in a car: constant adjustment for stability.
The Polyvagal Refinement
Stephen Porges showed that the parasympathetic system isn’t just one wire—it’s hierarchical.
Ventral vagal complex (newest): social engagement, facial expression, calm connection.
Sympathetic system (middle layer): fight or flight.
Dorsal vagal complex (oldest): immobilization, shutdown, freeze.
A healthy system moves flexibly among them. Trauma or chronic stress locks it into one gear.
Peripheral Branches
Somatic system → voluntary control.
Sends motor signals to skeletal muscles.
Carries sensory data (touch, pressure, proprioception) back to the brain.
Autonomic system → involuntary regulation.
Governs organs, glands, heartbeat, and digestion.
Works mostly below conscious awareness.
This is where polyvagal theory lives.
Inside the Brain – The Command Centers
Brainstem: survival regulation—breathing, heart rate, arousal.
Cerebellum: timing and coordination—your “choreographer.”
Limbic system: emotion and memory (amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus).
Cortex: higher prediction, reasoning, imagination.
Within the cortex:
Prefrontal cortex (PFC): planning, inhibition, social behavior.
Insula: interoception—how you feel your internal body state.
Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC): conflict monitoring, empathy.
These regions are in perpetual conversation through prediction loops—each sending guesses and corrections to the others.
How It All Works Together
Sensation: receptors send data from body and environment.
Prediction: cortex forecasts what that data should be.
Comparison: brainstem and limbic circuits register the difference.
Adjustment: autonomic system changes tone, muscle tension, hormone release.
Learning: networks update priors—body and brain agree on a new normal.
Every heartbeat, breath, and muscle twitch participates in this loop.
The Electric Body of the Sky
As Above, So Below — The Celestial Body Speaks in Nerves and Stars
We experience the universe through our own circuitry. Every thought, impulse, and intuition is the body translating cosmic law into living motion. Astrology is not fortune-telling—it’s neuro-symbolic anatomy, a map of how consciousness organizes energy. The planets mirror the functions of the nervous system, each one a verb describing how life moves through us.
Mercury / Uranus — Neural Firing → Insight Lightning
Mercury is the synapse, the messenger darting between worlds.
Uranus is the voltage that reconfigures the network in an instant.
Together they represent the electrical intelligence of consciousness—the mind’s spark. When Mercury’s precision meets Uranus’s disruption, the nervous system generates insight: a flash of order emerging from chaos. Every “aha” moment is this pair at play—the brain discovering a faster route through its own storm.
Body metaphor: quicksilver nerves, sudden clarity, lightning through thought.
Mars / Pluto — Motor Drive → Evolutionary Force
Mars mobilizes—the sympathetic charge that becomes action, courage, heat.
Pluto burns deeper: cellular metabolism, the instinct to transform and survive.
Together, they form the evolutionary engine of embodiment.
When aligned, this circuitry turns survival into purpose; movement becomes metamorphosis.
In the body, it’s the muscles and mitochondria. In the psyche, it’s will.
Body metaphor: the pulse that builds worlds, power tempered by awareness
The Cosmic Feedback Loop
These four pairs describe the living dialogue between body and cosmos:
Mercury–Uranus: perception and innovation
Venus–Neptune: empathy and unity
Mars–Pluto: energy and transformation
Jupiter–Saturn: understanding and stability
They form a neural mandala—an ongoing feedback loop of insight, emotion, action, and meaning.
Astrology becomes not prediction, but pattern literacy: a way of reading how consciousness regulates itself across time and scale.
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Venus / Neptune — Limbic Bonding → Empathic Field
Venus governs intimacy and parasympathetic ease—the body’s capacity to feel safe and connected.
Neptune dissolves the boundaries of self, extending that empathy outward into the collective.
Together they create the limbic field—the heart’s ability to feel another’s rhythm as its own. From oxytocin to oceanic love, this is the circuitry of compassion: emotional resonance transforming physiology.
Body metaphor: heart coherence, synchrony, shared breath.
Jupiter / Saturn — Meaning-Making → Pattern Constraint
Jupiter expands. It tells stories, draws patterns, and finds coherence in uncertainty.
Saturn contracts. It tests, edits, and enforces structure.
Their dance is the brain’s storytelling algorithm: hypothesis and verification, belief and boundary.
Jupiter imagines new maps; Saturn confirms what holds. Together they create the architecture of wisdom—the nervous system’s grammar for truth.
Body metaphor: the inhale of possibility, the exhale of form.
As Above, So Below
Your nervous system is your natal chart in motion—planets firing as neurons, constellations forming as thoughts.
Each planetary current corresponds to a layer of the psyche’s physiology, revealing that the cosmos is not out there but through here.
When we study both systems—brain and sky—we remember the body is not separate from creation; it is creation, learning itself in rhythm.