The capital of India, New Delhi saw the mass wedding of 30,000 couples
assembled together to marry on one of the most astrologically auspicious
days of the year, December 13, 2006, in order to maximize the good omens for 2007.
The whole city had been awash with music festivities and celebrations for
several days, and this was even mentioned in the Indian parliament.
The downside is that so many people wanted to take their holidays at the
same time that many companies' timetables were badly disrupted.
There are said to be 10,000 practicing astrologers in the U.S.A, with a
clientele of over one million. Many of these are politicians, stock exchange
annalysts and other educated professionals, yet in the west astrology is
ridiculed by many in academia.
So while accepting that newspaper horoscopes are not always to be taken seriously,
in fact they are not even horoscopes they are sun sign solarscopes and
traditionally are written by an in-house journalist with time on their
hands.
This is the crux of the problem because many of the books and
particularly magazines on these subjects, are written not by practitioners
but by journalists, who know about writing but not the subject matter. People understandably get turned off by this.
Astronomers represent the main body of astrological criticism but just this
year a N.A.S.A spokesman said; "The new information coming in from the Mars
probe means all the present information we have is now defunct," so even
astronomers make mistakes.
In fact this has been a grand bumper year for scientists, doctors and astronomers who were caught fudging and faking up
research papers, taking bribes, lying and general dishonesty.
My weekly postbag contains so much in the way of complaints about fake
psychic readings, and a quick browse across the internet shows this is the tip of the iceberg.
But we were fooled in other areas too. In 2006, look at how we were tricked
into another foreign war on Muslims, while the same government filled up our
towns and cities with these same people we were told were so dangerous we
had to bomb and burn them in their homes.
A recent report claimed that more people read their horoscope in Britain
than read the Bible, so what are people searching for?
The T V news which replaces 'real news' with football and sport, tells us
that others are spending more money than we are at the Christmas sales, so
to be happy we must spend spend and spend again, and all on borrowed money.
Psychologists have a formula for happiness which runs as follows;
"Personal chacteristics" e.g. outlook and adaptability, shortened to 'P'
'E' for existence, health money, friends and 'H' for higher order, self esteem ambition and sense of humour.
So are you ready? P-5 x E=3 x H they tell us can predict our happiness quotient,
just like an astrologer's chart, but this year has brought conflict and argument to psychology also.
So what will 2007 bring?
Added together the numbers make a 9, the number of Mars the god of war,
and Britain is ruled by Mars.
Of this Shakespeare said;
"Oh England thou seat of Mars" and this year has the omens of great
bloodshed, with its nucleus in April.
Astrologically the new moon on December 20 2006 falls in Sagittarius with a
Pluto conjunction promising threats of coming violence.
We must be aware that as 9 is the number of man, greed and materialism.
The words of the master; "only the meek will inherit the earth"
Copyright © 2006
Author Terry Stokes is also a lecturer and broadcaster in paranormal studies who welcomes feedback from readers.
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