Truth or
coincidence?
Astrologer Dayanidhi
Iyyengar
astrodayanidhi@gmail.com
Call
it coincidence, destiny, fate — in one moment, lives can collide and change
forever. Yet chance encounters aren't necessarily accidental.
We
human being, are uncomfortable with coincidence. We want explanations. Our
nature craves a reason. We need to know. We want to know. We are taught in
elementary school that for every effect there is a cause. So, for those events
that are large enough to warrant our consideration, we search for answers and a
relationship to something else. We are looking for a rational cause.
When
the cause isn’t obvious, we are anxious and become nervous. It just doesn’t fit
into the carefully planned life that we imagine. Some people, when they can’t think
of any other reason, call it fate. Maybe they are just lazy, or stupid, or just
plain don’t care for a cause. But, for them, fate is an explanation they can
understand and rationalize as believable.
The
concept of fate is sort of a crutch that people use. It is sort of a
“catch-all” explanation that soothes the conscious. It presumes that some sort
of orderly plan exists, even if it is beyond our understanding. Fate then can
take many forms, among which are gods, demons, or the alignment of planets and
stars. Even within those categories are many subforms. For those people who
believe in fate, it is infinitely preferable than coincidence.
Humans
need to understand and are always seeking answers to their questions. This
drive has produced religion, arts, science, occult, and astrology. When we have
no rational analysis for the events that take place in our world, we are
unsettled and troubled. For those people who believe in a god who sees all and
controls all, that explanation causes peace and tranquility to return to their
lives.
Astrology,
in its traditional form, is a type of divination based on the theory that the
positions and movements of celestial bodies (stars, planets, Sun, and Moon) at
the time of birth profoundly influence a person's life. Some forms of astrology
claim that terrestrial events such as natural disasters are predicted by
various celestial arrangements or events. Given the innumerable relationships
of celestial items, it would be surprising if one could not find some correlation
between earthly events like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, fires,
etc., and an arrangement of planets in relation to the Sun or Moon. Correlation
does not prove causality, but it is good enough for most astrologers.
In
its psychological form, astrology is a type of New Age therapy used for
self-understanding and personality analysis (astrotherapy). In all forms,
astrology is a manifestation of magical thinking.
What
does our life consist of? Is our existence pre-planned and are we to follow a
psychic map in which events and experiences are governed by coincidences
therefore creating our destiny?
Some
believe our lives are predetermined which poses an interesting question: what
would be the point of living if everything was already preset?
Learning
anything and working hard in order to achieve would be a waste of time. We may
as well sit on the couch and wait for life to happen around us. I wonder what
would eventuate if we all did just that? First thing which comes to mind is
society falling apart. There would not be anyone getting up and going to work
or school in the mornings and we wouldn’t be watching our favourite TV shows as
we slouched on our comfy armchair as there wouldn’t be anyone to create the
programs we love. So it is quite obvious that, although there may be a life
already mapped out for us- and let us assumes it is divinely guided - we are
still required to act. But how? How do we know which decisions will coincide
with the Master Plan?
Is
it a coincidence that you are the way you are? You might say it is the
co-incidence of the position of planets and the formation of your psyche which
lets a talented astrologer interpret your birth chart and tell you things about
yourself which you may not even know yourself. Just as we have a biological DNA
which can be interpreted to predict physical traits, we also have a kind of
"psychic" DNA which can be interpreted to predict psychological
traits. In either case, it is synchronicity which lets us look at one and know
the other.
There
are many secrets to be revealed in your birth chart, that map of the heavens as
they appeared at the time of your birth. It's as if you needed your life map to
be stored in the sky, because you came into this world without clothes and
couldn't carry it in your pocket! Your horoscope is your map, and Astrology is
how you interpret that map. And just as road maps correspond to roads,
horoscopes correspond to people. As you can read a map to know the road, you
can read a horoscope to know the person. And in both cases, it is synchronicity
that ties them together, so you can look at one and know the other.
We
will discuss more on this...
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