Astrologically Speaking!

Astrology-What is Astrology? According to the definition in the Oxford dictionary, Astrology is an art of observing the position of the stars in the belief that they influence human affairs.

Astrologically speaking, who will win the Presidential elections this year in America? Will it be the fabulous orator Barack Obama or the experienced John McCain? Will ideology, power to communicate effectively, dynamic personality be the reason for victory or the stars under which he was born?

Astrologically speaking, Friday the 13th, doom’s day, May 8 2000, end of the world and there have been many similar predictions in the past. Dates have come and gone but the events have not occurred, thankfully. I am saying this without any offense to great astrologers like Mr. Bejan Daruwala, Linda Goodman, etc.

Actually it is incorrect to believe that astrology is accepted by fools or those people who lack a scientific temperament, or are superstitious. There are many great thinkers and scientists who have gone on record for having a firm belief in Astrology. I would like to cite an example: - Scientists- people related to scientific work are assumed to be very practical who prove things to believe in them. Dr. Venkatawardhan, a great scientist, the former director of Nehru Planetarium (Mumbai, India) would go home, take a bath and perform some rituals whenever there was an eclipse because the eclipse is seen as an adverse confluence of stars and not merely as a scientific movement of stars. So even if one claims to be very logical, practical and rational, he consciously or sub-consciously believes in Astrology.

Our belief in Astrology can be broadly divided into 2 types:-

1- harmless belief

2- harmful belief

When a person goes to an astrologer for a point of reference, gains hope and strength from the astrologer’s words, feels at peace mentally, then to such an extent it is fine. Here if everything works well, the astrologer becomes your savior, your knight in shining armor.

But when a person shirks all his responsibilities, doesn’t make a single move in life without taking an advice from his astrologer, he becomes a slave of Astrology-which is very harmful to the individual and people who are in close contact with him. Such individuals lose their ability to think or take a rational decision. Here if something goes wrong, the astrologer become your scapegoat and is blamed for the consequences.

My friend did nothing else except playing Poker at Las Vegas for 3 whole days because his astrologer had predicted that soon his stars will favor him and he will win thousands of dollars. Unfortunately he lost all his money. Ridiculous, isn’t it? This makes me believe in the adage, “Man's needs can be met, greed - never.”

Effort, enterprise, leadership, dedication and hard work is what you need to be someone like Bill Gates, Donald Trump or Larry Page and not luck or favorable stars alone.

Astrologer becomes an alternative therapist in your hard times, but only an alternative, if he becomes your sole therapist, then there’s a problem.

Man is a credulous animal and must believe in something, in the absence of good grounds for belief, he believes in the bad ones. Are you one of those?

THINK ABOUT IT !!!!!!!!