How Astrology Works
From New Age Village
By Ashutosh Agnihotri
Nobody really knows how astrology works. And while a definitive work such as The Astrology File by Gunther Sachs now stands tall for every skeptic to challenge the truth of statistics in favor of astrological correlations, people will continue to believe what they want to believe. As such, astrology is as scientific as any uncertain science that exists today, or it can be said that astrology is as workable as any acceptable science today. It really is up to every individual to decide for himself. And if you're not sure how to make that decision, this article can help. Today, I still don't believe astrology works. Just as I do not believe medical surgery is capable of saving every life.
There are various ways the mechanics may be explained. But in doing so, does not make that explanation the sole authority as to how the mechanics truly work. For a while, a certain explanation may appeal to the general sense, and may be largely accepted. But how long was it that society at large accepted the appealing idea that the world was flat? Or that it was ridiculous for metal to fly in the air? Today, I don't believe astrology works, but I know some part of it has been proven by my own hands and keen sight of observation, that the correlations are beyond chance. At the same time, I would also say that there are still grey areas in astrology whereby I am not convinced of some of the theories propounded. Not convinced by experience, and not intellectual or philosophical debate. If a belief system is personal, then the way out is experience. It has to be an experiential affirmation to make astrology part of your arsenal to use, or one of the numerous things for you to personally reject in life. I do not possess the whole answer myself, but I do concur with some of the following ideas:
1. The stars do not compel but they impel
Very much like an individual who doesn't smoke. He might not begin with the urge, and he might find himself strong in resisting the temptation to start smoking. But after due time, when always surrounded by a people who incessantly smoke, the resistance can diminish, and new urges may build up. Not by coaxing of the surrounding people, but by the steady acceptance of the habituations of the surroundings. Before long, there is a strong tendency that that individual might take up smoking; even if he insists he's just an occasional smoker (that is how most begin). And subsequently, even if he does not take it up, he might just contract a secondary cancer; getting the effects of a surrounding cause of which he believes he is not a part of, or that it shouldn't have affected him in the first place.
2. The stars do not cause; they co-relate
If the stars were taken as causes, then we shouldn't stop with the stars. We are constantly bathed in a myriad spectrum of energy forces; terrestrial, extraterrestrial, near and far. The movements of the elements surrounding us here would easily make for personality shifts. Never mind about distant planets. There is a greater likelihood that their depictions of motion imply similar movements within our own collective unconscious that in turn might urge us to move in specific directions for the various experiences we gain. Minus the semantics of course, this would be causal enough to the causal theorist.
3. The collective unconscious is a field of past energies that continues to snowball into a collective reality.
An ancient illuminati developed the model by which an unevolved race could use it to their decision-making advantage. Then somewhere along the way, a great number of people inserted a tremendous amount of belief into the model, and then moved it down the ages with a non-questioning tradition of practice. That made the forces take on an intelligence of its own, in turn giving feedback into that which is believed in. That which was once an idea, evolved into a governing reality. Thus, a practitioner will find that the principles of Feng Shui might not apply to him, but the applications of Vasthu Shastra might; and vice versa, whereas both make use of subjective symbology, albeit culturally different.
4. Astrology works for those caught in its field
Everything that has gone down history with its momentum, gathering its own life force, eventually creates an intelligent field of its own. Once caught in this field, based on blueprint affinities, such individuals tend to get deeper into its core, until its suggestions become a realworld structure to its denizens. This works both ways. Either an individual peeks into the astrology field from a parametric and cautious location and eventually allows himself to get sucked deeper its core, or the intelligence that is the astrology field reaches out in an ever enlarging boundary to embrace new denizens into its core without consensus or with a sufficiently minute permission for immersion to occur. Either way, the individual and the field both share some structure of similarity so as to suggest affinity with one another.
5. The planets affect us by cosmic bombardment of energies
If this is wholly true, then it shouldn't really be a major problem because we would then have recourse in our own geologic sciences. It might be advanced enough to guide us as to how we may counter undesirable cosmic rays to prevent undue pain, or to enhance them with some high-technology appliance in order to boost them for better life experiences. Very much like the movements of the moon around the earth, causing our ocean tides. Affecting the major oceans, the lunar movements likewise affect the motions of the water that makes 7/8th of our human system, impacting upon our very biochemistry, a substance that predominates our very brain, affecting our very psychology of the moment. But is that biology, psychology, or cosmogony?
6.The planets do not cause, but they describe the quality of the character that coincides with the quality of the time that the entity was born
Character makes destiny. The starts in this instance do not cause the kind of character to be born as such. Instead, the stars depicted at that time, show the qualities of that time, and for that personality to be born at that time, one may glean the probable expressions and directions into which that personality in all probability will grow into. And as character produces preferences, develop aptitude and predilections, then character produces destiny; something that can be calculated as projections of personality.
Cause or co-incidence, this idea tells us that it is calculable. It stands to reason that the father of modern day psychology, Carl Jung himself, studied more than three thousand horoscopes by the time he died. When asked why he did it, he simply said that people came to him for second opinions, and for him, he uses astrology for second opinions. Intellectual discussions are never as gratifying as a personal hands-on experiment. Don't let yourself be taken in by the rationale and logic hype. Make your own statements based on your own experiences. Then decide with your own conclusions or semi-conclusions. With that, you can at least become some kind of authority to the extent that you have committed yourself to the exploration of truth.
Dr Agni has been using astrology for 37 years and has taught astrology for free every week till today, since 1986. He is now advisor to the Institute of Astrological Science, Malaysia at astrologyuniversitymalaysia.com. He invites all friends of astrology to email him at rizabeg@gmail.com.
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