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Astrology is the
oldest of all the sciences. From the very dawn of humanity until
today, people have oddly enough looked to the heavens and the planets
for guidance and inspiration. It is older than all religions and has
been guiding mankind from the barbaric cave life to the dawn of the
modern civilization. Interest in astrology has persisted throughout
the centuries, occasionally falling out of favor but always
rebounding. The ancient civilizations are gone, but their gift of
astrology survives. Going across ages and civilizations, astrology
renews its conceptual patterns, taking from its immediate cultural
milieu for its perpetuation. In olden days astrologers were held in
the highest regard by both kings and peasants alike, and were an
integral part of the decision making process pertaining to individual
lives and the fates of countries. At the beginning of the 20th
century, a grand revival of astrology came about owing much to the
efforts of the charismatic, enigmatic, and controversial astrologers.
Astrologers hold that the positions of the planets at the moment of an
individual’s birth are an important key to his or her character and
destiny.
Astrology sets itself apart from the ensemble of religious,
philosophical and ideological discourses by reason of its continuity,
its ubiquity, its capacity to endure and regenerate itself despite
norms and cultural modes.
Astrology in
modern world is based on the view that modern scientism may be the
cause ofcontemporary problems rather than the solution. A major
difference between Medieval Astrology & Modern
Astrology (predictive "traditional" & psychological) is that the
modern astrologer, mainly due to the influence of psychological
astrology views the entire horoscope as "myself" or as the native. Now
is the time for astrology to forge its own concepts for it acts on the
relationship between what is felt and what is manifested. It does not
give an immediate effect of a visionary or divinatory nature, in the
first instance because the practitioner is in no position to evaluate
with certainty the weight of extra-astrological factors. The notion of
the pre-conscious awareness liberates astrology from its servitude to
an exterior psychology, be it psychoanalytic, behaviorist,
phenomenological, gestaltist, existentalist or reflexologic.To
determine the structural laws of interiority is considered to be the
main function of astrology today. In its practical application in
horoscopy it is a tool for the comprehension of lived experience,
where it infuses experience with consciousness. The types of astrology
that modern astrologers use as their main traditions include Chinese,
Indian, Mayan and Western astrology. Western astrology has greatly
diversified over time with the introduction of new movements and
different approaches. Among the recent developments in Western
astrology include Cosmobiology, Hamburg School of Astrology, Modern
tropical and sidereal horoscopic astrology and Uranian astrology which
is a subset of the Hamburg school. Apart from this there are number of
websites like www.findyourfate.com,with its planetary study of
astrology with relevance to the modern world provides excellent
solutions for individual queries on astrology and
horoscope.
The complex
problems of the modern world can only be solved by individuals who are
willing to take up the responsibility of living their own lives more
consciously and creatively by studying their own horoscopes. Here
astrology is perhaps the most useful tool of all, because it can offer
so many insights into self-understanding and self-understanding is
essential if we wish to make intelligent and constructive choices that
might contribute to a better world. The times in which we live provide
us with (too) many choices and an astrologer can read the road
map of your
life with
horoscopes. Astrology and
horoscopes is considered to be the first psychology and
sophisticated one in tracing symbolic map of the essential patterns of
development within both individuals and collectives. The remarkable
thing about the astrological map is that it has so many layers and
levels, and is compatible with many different psychological and
spiritual perspectives. Today people are more exposed to the sacred
craft that, more than
any other tool
available which can assist them in living their lives to the fullest -
in the highest and purest manner possible - to fulfill the role they
meant to in life and to maximize potential to the best of their
abilities. Thus now astrology is the study of individual moments of
time - far better to propose to the love of your life when you will be
well received or start your new business venture when it is the right
time to do so than to expend the energy and have the investment of
your time not bear fruit.
The
pseudoscience of astrology has made many people in the modern world
relatively wealthy. In past years, too, it was a means for astronomers
to support themselves: Johannes Kepler might never have discovered his
Laws of planetary motion, if the aristocrats of Europe hadn't been
willing to pay for horoscopes. No wonder with the modern tools
available in astrology people might come out even with a new business
inventing horoscopes. The technological idolatry of the modern world
no longer favors contemplation of the starry skies, instead allows a
sort of spell to be cast over one, or a kind of stupor or convulsive
agitation, coming from the rebroadcast of a football game or some
other television program. This does not involve the same category of
"spectacle," nor, above all, the same quality of looking at things but
the filtering of our perception of reality implies a divestment of our
natural relation to the world. Most people are familiar with newspaper
horoscopes for the day which are based on the sun and become a common
part of our culture. The better readings come from a person’s
individual birth chart reading, which looks at the birth planet and
the interactions or crossing paths of other sky entities and planets
acting on that birth planet. The Chinese have also had their own
horoscopes but they are different from the better known Greek-based
horoscopes. The Chinese horoscope method uses animals as horoscope
signs which are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, monkey,
boar or pig, horse, sheep, rooster and the dog. |
