Astrology

Astrology Secrets

By Tranquilpen,

In my research for this article, I discovered that many people who read their horoscopes do so with an unusual approach, in that instead of reading all of the details as recorded in the texts, this new breed of reader, tends to ignore non applicable parts but do a retrospective search for the relevant and positive parts that did come true...

How Serious Is Astrology?

Star Signs

Although the Astrology approach, seems to be a world wide phenomenon, there is really no harm done, as long as we don't use our horoscopes as our only source of reference and motivation.

A recent study, by Susan Blackmore and Marianne Seebold, indicates that even those of us who believe there is something to astrology, don’t take it too seriously in our real-life relationships; in the study, women who received excellent horoscopes about their relationships were no more likely to report that the relationship was stronger than they were before they read the horoscope

What Do These Two Experts Say?

E. Alan Meece in his book "Horoscope For The New Millennium" published in 1996 made this forecast: “There is no doubt in my mind that the years 2010 and 2011 will be the most difficult of any we face in the next half-century. If we survive them in reasonably good shape we will have dodged the worst bullet in our future.”

He goes on to say, “….we don’t have time to dawdle if we wish our golden age to unfold—the opportunities after 2010 may not be as good as those of today (1996). Unless we learn to live harmoniously with the Earth and its diverse peoples, our standard of living may sharply decline from 2010 on, forcing us to focus on more practical matters. As Neptune enters Pisces in 2011, thus leaving the higher signs and moving into lower ones, our focus could narrow toward ‘worldly matters’ as it did in 1520 or 1848.”

Richard Tarnas, the renowned historian, states in his book Cosmos and Psyche, Intimations of a New World View, published in 2006, in his chapter entitled ‘Understanding the Past, Creating the Future’, “…..I tentatively anticipated that humanity’s collective experience during those eras would bear something like the distinctive archetypal character I had observed in so many earlier instances of the same configurations.”

“While these anticipations of the future proved well-founded, there occurred many specific events and trends in those periods that I did not anticipate. Before it happened I did not foresee that anything like the Internet revolution and the globalizing impact of the World Wide Web would happen during the Uranus-Neptune conjunction of the 1990s...Conversely, other possibilities that I feared might occur during these periods did not in fact take place.”

He further states, “In the vast majority of cases in which I have considered the likely coinciding events for future alignments, whether in my personal life, the lives of other individuals, or the life of the human community, I have been surprised—both by the many ways in which the relevant archetypal complexes actually manifested themselves beyond what I imagined, and by the ways in which they did not manifest themselves as I might have thought or feared.
Instead, in countless instances, I received a new lesson in the infinite creativity of the cosmos as it unpredictably unfolded its processes and events in extraordinarily consistent archetypal patterned correlation with the ongoing planetary movements.”

Between these two men’s observations we get a pretty good idea of astrology’s value in today’s world when when we try to make sense of "predictions". Astrologers, like the Farmer’s Almanac, base their predictions on observations made when past cycles occurred. In today’s world there are increasing mutations and variations that cannot be foreseen as so clearly stated by these respected sages. I am not an astrologer in any sense of the word, however, in my preparation and research for this article, I needed a reference or focal point of departure.

So I set out to collect various "substantiated" (documented) accurate Astrological predictions from the past and to select, by means of elimination the two most authoritative accounts, that of E.Alan Meece and Richard Tarnas.

Sources:

“Are Horoscopes Healthy?”www.sparkpeople.com/resource/fitness_articles.asp?id=886

“The effect of horoscopes on women’s relationships” by Susan Blackmore and Marianne Seebold, Correlation www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Articles/Correl01.html

“Who believes in astrology? Effect of favorableness of astrologically derived personality descriptions on acceptance of astrology” by Margaret Hamilton, Personality and Individual Differences:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200605/following-your-sign

“What is Synastry?” Sasstrology: www.http://sasstrology.com/2009/10/nodes-in-synastry-an-introduction .

Comment:
And now, I would like to hear your comment. Do you have any tips to share with other readers of this article? Do you read your horoscope? what is your star sign? Please leave me a comment for my going research into this phenomenon. Thank you, Andy Hartslief (A.K.A. "Tranquilpen