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Dear Hari.
Could you please tell about astrology from the spiritual point of view?
I mean when an astrologer does his prognosis and, for example, it is not so favourable, but there is a mercy of God and everything is very good against the astrologer prognosis. Does it mean that the astrologer was not professional enough? Or there is a spiritual influence takes place which astrology, as a material science, is not able to count?
An astrologer should be able to tell you the planetary trends and influences that are affecting you at a particular time or in a particular place. Depending on the accuracy of the birth data you supplied to the astrologer, charts are cast which can precisely determine these influences. If the astrologer is good, they will tell you about these influences in relation to your personal qualities and situation and will be able to suggest how these influences will affect you and how you might best react to them. They would also be able to say roughly when this will happen, even within a day or so of accuracy. If they are really good, the accuracy can be very precise.
When an astrologer or someone else attempts to predict the future with certainty, I become skeptical. There are many factors that affect the future. The planetary influences indicate the forces active in the future, but although they indicate generally how you might feel and to some extent how you will be influenced to react, they do not force you to react in any manner and therefore are not specific enough to determine precisely how you will react as you have free will, you are intelligent and can therefore challenge the forces around you. Most significantly, there are other forces in the world and in the universe that are beyond your control which make accurate predictions a risky business.
Good astrologers suggest patterns and make you aware of influences. They also clarify the trends in your life and make you aware of hidden weaknesses or situations so you can properly decide what to do when you must choose a course of action. If someone states with certainty that something will happen it often means they are not very expert at their art and are left with mud on their faces and one less client.
If you feel their prediction is coming from the book of fate and the predicted events are therefore inevitable, you may go out of our way to insure that events happen in the predicted manner since "it was supposed to be like that." Do not underestimate your own power to create the future. This is a significant reason why suggesting a certain future to someone is tricky business which has more than once created confusion in the lives of susceptible people.
But then again, perhaps the astrologer told you one thing and you heard another? Sometimes we hear what we want to hear and later blame the person who we thought said it. This is also a factor to consider when questioning the efficacy of any advice we receive.
Most significantly, there are other forces in the world and in the universe that are beyond your control which make accurate predictions a risky business.
Dear Hari.
Thank you for the answer. Most of all I am interesting in these other forces. What could you tell about them except what was told in the books of M.Newton.
"Other forces" refers to the free will of other people, governments, social factors, economic forces and changes, deaths, diseases, or accidents affecting others around us, climactic changes, aging, political crisis, and so on, all of which affect us directly and indirectly and which are unpredictable, as well as changes in the environment, atmosphere, cosmic balance or any other physical power from beyond the earth, along with the most unpredictable intervention of beings who are far more powerful in their capacity to influence people than we realize.
