Astrology Secrets
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?
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 horoscopeWhat 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
