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Have i ever… … decided to do something or avoided doing something due to what i’ve seen happening in the/my stars?
I have heard of ‘cases’ of Astrologer’s not going-outside ‘the house’ due to having what they consider a badly-starred day, but these ‘cases’ seem to been ‘hundred’s’ of years ago. And fate seems to have found a ‘way’ through in many known ‘cases’ anyhow.
Thankfully i have never considered Astrology in ‘that’ way, preferring to think that ‘if’ its going to happen, you may still be able to [do something] in the ‘days’ around when its supposed to happen to avoid or stop it, or even transfer the energy. But somethings are meant ‘to be’ due to past actions, so if you’ve handled ‘life/them’ well enough, a big load may not come your way.
But of course you may just be a ‘victim’ of someone else’s ‘working-outs, if you’re closely involved with them. But i have my doubts on ‘how’ much this could ‘really’ affect you.
Still in all ‘honesty’ i wouldn’t know what to look-for and ‘find’ anyway, as i’ve never ‘read’ or ‘understood’ enough, to understand just what they were trying to avoid, ‘bad directions/progressions, or transits’, i assume.
Making me think ‘what’ in Astrology could really bring/signify ‘such’ events/catastrophes? but like all things, a bit of research Is all that is needed.
And as it ‘seemed’ to have ‘preoccupied’ those Astrologer’s from century’s past, more than ‘those’ of today; i wonder [that if you do do] ‘something’ [like this], then please let me know, and also the ‘reasons’ why you do it.
As for ‘doing’ something due to ‘what’ i see in my ‘stars’ the answer is an overwhelming ‘yes’ [in a general sense], [as you might expect].
Because if Astrologer’s agree on ‘one-thing’, then its the ‘use’ of reading a ‘pattern’ i.e. a single aspect by transit or progression, and working-on ‘seeing’ something in their life which is representative of this, then using their ‘astrological/artistical license’ to come up with some conclusion, between sky and their earth-life. But sadly hardly ever in advance, meaning ‘predictively’.
The ‘trick’ is to always have an open mind, because the ‘minute’ you start to ‘believe’ you ‘know’ [what is happening in/to your 'life'] is usually ‘when’ the ‘doors’ really start to close.
Although the ‘moments’ and ‘processes’ between thinking and knowing have to be ‘gone through’, just like ‘anything in life’.
Prediction often ends in failure, and it is ‘usually’ only when ‘in the midst’ of a developing ‘pattern’ [that I] start to catch the ‘thread’ of what’s going-on.
Rarely have i predicted anything more than two weeks in advance, and then it was vague, meaning it was ‘one’ of many possibilities. Seeing a ‘theme’ developing is ‘more like it’, looking more like a combination of influences.
But this isn’t a weakness of Astrology, no, its just ‘one’ of its limitations, which can be ‘overcome’ if you see what the previous patterns were leading-up to, making-it/events almost inevitable.
Or perhaps you see a developing situation ‘outside-of-yourself’ that you can ‘pin’ on some one-thing in your chart, like a relative dying and leaving you their ‘estate’. But something ‘big’ like this usually comes with 2 or 3 indications together in your chart.
But after saying all ‘this’, ‘prediction’ isn’t impossible, i just think that we haven’t quite got to the ‘right’ thinking-stage of being able to do it with any ‘great’ confidence, or feel/know ‘as yet’ just what we are looking for/at.
I would like to give examples, but the ‘truth’ is [as said] we all think we’re ‘wise’ to what is happening to us and when, but its ‘never’ any ‘great’ time ahead of ‘when’ it becomes quite startling obvious to us.
For example i never foresaw that Saturn in my ninth house would ‘see me’ writing all these ‘posts’, and i am not even looking at ‘what’ may happen when it reaches my 10th house, and ‘that is’ always part of the problem, we are simply unaccustomed to thinking ahead like this, only feeling ‘smart’ and pleased with ourselves when we start to get an ‘inkling’ of what may happen, but that’s not that great, is it?
Because when i’m in the ‘now’, and Saturn’s passage through the 9th is gone, and the 10th house is ‘where’ [Saturn] is, i will look-back and realise that no real ‘forward-thinking’ had previously occurred and no opportunity had been taken, and simply because i was too scared to see myself in this ‘future’ place, preferring to wait until i got there. A ‘trap’ many a astrologically-minded person finds themselves in.
Begging the question, can we ‘ever’ lift ourselves out of the ‘now’? as to put ourselves into a future time without having, [and feeling the need to have our] instant get-go mentality working, and the idea ‘of’ i must see this thinking and doing manifest itself right now, is always a ‘feeling’ we battle with.
So the ‘future’ as an ‘entity’ cannot be based on what you are doing right ‘now’, only on possibilities, and that’s just ‘right’ for Astrology.
And if we can ‘see’ quite clearly ‘when’ we are ‘in’ a situation i.e. Saturn in the ninth, it really shouldn’t be such a leap to see what may happen in the next house, so long as we are not ‘trying’ to predict the extra-ordinary.
But if i were put on-the-spot right now and asked what i thought would happen when Saturn reaches my 10th house i’d be hard-pressed to say something, but surely it can’t be that hard, can it?
Saturn is ‘hard graft’ so i may encounter that on any work front. i may encounter some recognition for my work, but its unlikely. I may have more contact with my Mother, or she ‘takes-on’ more importance to me, as Saturn is my 2nd house ruler. I may get a sense of value and identity through Work, as Saturn is lord 2 and part 1st house ruler. Or it may be just as valuable to me to have no work, it all depends on your point-of-view. And with Saturn in Mars’s sign perhaps my Mars on my 9th house cusp will see my Work being ‘studies’, [continuing a natal theme].
So keeping it ‘simple’ has to be the ‘mantra’, and if you do do something, or something extra special happens to you, and you can pin-it onto something ‘astrological’ happening to ‘you’ then do so, but don’t expect something similar to happen under the same stars again, as your life and circumstances will have moved-on.
I can do some simple prediction though, and do. Past experience has taught me ‘that’ [any] planet to a house cusp by ‘transit’ will show-up ‘something’ of the ‘nature’ of that house, [for example] i regularly find that when the ‘inferior’ planets come to conjunct my 6th house it will bring ‘small’ times of ‘illness’ of one-kind-or-another, but ‘only’ for a matter of days during the ‘transit’, so knowing ‘this’ forearms/warns me, and ‘that’ then just becomes ‘one’ piece of the ‘puzzle’ found-out.
And so the ‘have i ever’ question turns into a ‘yes’ of sorts, as i’ve found somethings-out, plus its helped-me to stop ‘asking again’, and perhaps that’s the ‘best’ i can hope for at this stage in my astrological development.
But ‘denying’ my Astrology working-out? that is something i’d not consciously do, but ‘who’ including me is ‘ever’ fully-aware of Astrology in their lives. And just like ‘everything’ in life, if it were to ‘turn-bad’ we’d need a re-think.
