Astrology is baffling because it works. So, what, in fact, is a horoscope? What it's not is a way of foretelling the future, or of determining whether that tall dark stranger will turn up next week.

Any understanding of the language of astrology must commence with a realisation of what the birth horoscope can and cannot tell us. ... the birth map does not plot the fate of the individual in a predestined way. Rather, it symbolises the basic lines of his character's potential development.
br> A lot of people are frightened of astrology because they believe it claims to predict fate. Once upon a time, during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it claimed to do precisely that. But astrology as evolved since then, just as medicine has. We in the West - unlike India - don't like to think that there's any factor shaping our lives except ourselves and the tax collector.

Astrology also suggest that the individual's temperament is inherent at birth, and an understanding of astrology may be of help in perceiving the nature of this seed which develops into the adult ego. It can not only tell us about the self we know, but also about the one we do not know.

The horoscope describes a person's inner nature ... The more unaware they are of the stuff of which they're made, the more 'fated' they are by their own inner self. ... The more aware (or we might say conscious) they are, the more choices they have. ... This is the meaning of fate in astrology.

Lately, there has been a good deal of public outcry from academia against astrology as well as from the scientific community at large; which has apparently got a little frightened by its popularity. ... but no matter how strenuously it's proclaimed that astrology is really a load of medieval superstitious nonsense, belief in it is spreading.

Related quotes: Liz Greene on the Luminaries
Related essays: | What is Astrology? | Living with Astrology - or What Stars Have Taught Me |

External link: Liz Greene on Fate (on Amoira - Wisdom Words on Fate)

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