[Article] Why We Still Plant by the Sky
This sharp essay by Andrew Crumey pulls alchemy and astrology back into the same frame as science and shows the line between them is thinner than we pretend.
Crumey, a novelist with a PhD in physics, walks through figures like Tycho Brahe and Isaac Newton (a serious alchemist on the side) to argue that history isn't a ladder out of magical thinking but a cliff-face where old ideas persist beneath the new.
That framing matters for celestial agriculture. Moon gardening, planting by the signs, the elemental rhythms growers still follow — these are exactly the kind of "fossilised ideas" Crumey describes, ancient sky-knowledge that never went extinct, just got buried under the topsoil of modern science.
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