Astrology

ASTROLOGY

Astrology is as old as mankind itself. People have always looked up to the sky. Nothing stands still in life. There is a continuous “coming and going”. There are also a positive and a negative; a male and a female; a night and a day.

The planets have exerted a tremendous influence on man. Some have made a life study of these motions and sometimes these observations were recorded. They drew conclusions as to the effects on people.

The effects it had on their crops, harvest time etc.

These findings were handed down to their pupils, their off string. These observations were expanded and new theories brought forward. The ancients named the stars and the planets after gods and ascribed particular traits to each one of them.

They discovered that a person’s appearance and character was greatly influenced by the location of these heavenly bodies at the time of the person’s birth.

Although this science has been with man all through the ages, it is still considered as nonsense, good for playing games or just plain hocus-pocus by a great many people.

Their ignorance stems mainly from the fact that they have not studied the subject very well. They haven’t even taken the trouble of checking out a few things or reading some authoritative paper on the subject. Or maybe they just think that if one denies these influences, one is considered enlightened and not a pagan or so called “gullible fool”. Well each to their own!

Of course astrology is not without its sort comings. The astrologer can not foretell everything. Thank goodness for that!

Man still has a freedom of choice as well and an astrological forecast can apply to a variety of happenings. Astrology is not a religion, nor is it against religion.

As a matter of fact these three wise men referred to in the bible followed a specific star to find the Christ child at Christmas. The horoscopes one reads in the newspapers and magazines don’t do the science of astrology too much good actually. These predictions are based on the position of the sun in each of the twelve signs of the zodiac and each sign covers an identical period of one month (roughly) of any year, past, present or to come. You can imagine how many millions of people are born in each of such a period. So, it will be pure luck if the given horoscope applies to you personally in every sense. And of course some of the skeptics will smile and say: “see, it is all nonsense” but if those skeptics studied astrology a bit more and actually managed to “cast’ their own horoscope, they would soon change their minds. (That is if they were giving their honest opinion) all they need to know is their date and time of birth and their place of birth.

Sarah Kulkens

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