A Challenge to Astrology [General - common thread]

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Dear Prasann ji (and other contributors to MS thread),

 

Indeed diseases are quite the challenge to astrology. MS even more

since it has been called a chimera of diseases. Like mercury the

great mimic, the disease shows up in so many different forms and

strikes suddenly often just when life is going so smoothly and

everything is hunky dory. Knowing a few close friends and how the

disease devastated their lives and of their families, a personal link

exists.

 

But this is a deceptive disease, a veritable fitna! What about other

diseases? Do they have a clear and predictable signature? For most

astrologers, perhaps not! I realize that very experienced members and

professionals etc would like to fight that and claim in general terms

that this is not so and may even make a statement that intuition has

nothing to do with astrology, just because of the last four letters

in its name! I will leave that there!

 

For the majority, a detailed horoscope is a mass of figures and

numbers and patterns. They mean things to us individually or in small

groups, but when facing the blind alley of human experience, often it

is difficult to decipher the exact pattern and what would ensue.

There are some very clear rules, and there are not so clear rules and

there are so many dashas and vargas and other nuances and layers.

Many revolt and return to basics, the black and white of rashi, maybe

a navamsha and a dasha. Then they hit the quagmire of ayanamshas and

different dasha durations and role of nakshatras and padas and

jaimini vs parashara and the juggernaut begins again!

 

For time to time, in this babbel one hears the clear sated voice of

someone who has found the ayanamsha he seeks, for example Suresh

Balaraman. Right or wrong, one can only feel happy for his state of

mind. He has found peace, at least for now. Such faith and belief and

contentment indeed brings peace. Such individuals do not even need

astrology. Most others who are restless individuals, however, would

continue to need astrology -- not having instant faith and a

questioning mind and the need for the logic in astro-logic, the frail

branch on which we must hang on to because we can see the rapidly

flowing wild river of chaos below, can sense the consequences if we

give up and let go and have not lost our ability to think of, if not

see the future!

 

It will be a unique day if astrologers suddenly give up their habit

of questioning even themselves and others and move away from the gift

of uhapoh. It is a natural instinct and not just a habit. It is like

breathing! We live on oxygen which someone recently associated with

Jupiter or Jeeva!

 

RR