Horoscopes and Their Reality.
10:39:00 PM
Horoscopes are maddening!
I still read mine from the newspaper I read every day; hoping to find—I don't know—something? I read them, I think, only for entertaining myself and then vowing to prove a particular prediction wrong. No matter what!
So, why are horoscopes so popular?
This is what a Karma theorist and Astrologer wrote on Quora:
The lack of 1. self-confidence, 2. will, and 3. putting in efforts.
The desire to achieve things easily, faster and to put blame on planets for their failures.
There are others who believe in horoscopes too. These are the ones who just want to understand their past life Karma and use it, not to fight destiny, but to accept it much easily with awareness.
However, astrologer Khier Starchylde wrote on Quora:
Clearly the reason people believe is that their experiences have confirmed the reality and relative accuracy of Astrology. In other words, it works. And has worked for thousands of years.
To not believe in Astrology is like not believing in protein. Both are needed to live fully and intelligently, but Astrology of course goes much farther. It furthers the health of the spirit and the soul as well as the body, mind, and emotions.
That said, I must explain that I don't use Astrology for prediction or to plot out my life in the future. I use it to understand the past and the present primarily so that I can make intelligent and psychological choices that affect my spiritual life. It's a psychological and emotional upleveling.
But the biggest point in its favor is that Astrology works with the biggest forces that we know – stars and planets. Simple observation shows the connection between the Moon and the tides, Uranus, Neptune, Ceres, and Chiron's connection to earthquakes, and the full moons effect on emotions, most visible in hospitals, asylums, and the police stations.
A neutral review from a Jan Christian Meyer from Quora:
I think that an attraction to seeing how our ideas are correct is a basic part of how we learn, people certainly seem to take great satisfaction in pointing it out whenever their preconceptions match their surroundings.
Generic descriptions that most people can adapt into descriptions of themselves make honey pots of personal gratification, since there is practically no way to be very wrong about how you perceive yourself. All horoscopes I have read to date contained this kind of malleable ambiguity.
Without attributing any accuracy to horoscopes, I still sometimes read them for the self-indulgent entertainment of spotting what they contain that lets me identify with them. That consistently rewards me with confirmations of my perspective on horoscopes, and I love to find evidence that I have understood things as much as anyone.
Because of not really knowing what goes on in the minds of others, I imagine that it must be mostly like what happens in mine. If that is the case, then people find value in horoscopes because they let you invent a truth you would like to see confirmed in writing, and that is a very easy thing to believe in.
In a world overflowing with people of conflicting thoughts and beliefs, we must develop our own opinions, question everything and choose to believe whatever we deem believable.
I still am looking forward to reading my horoscope tomorrow.
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Great Write... :-)
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