Response for Robin
March 3, 2006
http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/mar3.html
Dear Eric,
So, you are basically saying that you see astrology as
something like a weather forecast (or like a measurement of hormonal levels,
which is equally relativistic in predicting future mental states/behaviour).
Bereavement or death won't show up in charts as such, or even in 'spiritual
language' (usually using the metaphors of transition, new beginning...etc.),
but you can answer the question of how someone is likely to re-act to bereavement,
i.e., what purpose it is going to have, how it's going to change them, but only
after you have been told that bereavement is involved. That's not really
prediction, is it?
It's psychology, or rather, the meaning that you fabricate,
could equally be achieved, by looking at how the person in question re-acted to
similar stressors before and then induce how they are likely to re-act this
time around, and even tell them how they could re-act, to make life easier on
them, have I got that right? It makes sense, too. Because I doubt that there is
a point in my chart, my mum's chart and my gran's chart that are congruent,
even though we all have these deaths in common. Similar with charts of all the
people affected by natural disaster, for example. But then, logic dictates,
that there would have to be a common denominator, right?
I could sense both deaths before they happened, but I think
that is down to the fact that they were caused (with involvement of the medical
profession) by sudden bodily failure, not sure if I would register these as
accidents. I'm not averse to the idea that the future can be foretold, simply
because this future is the consequences of the past/present, though they may be
occluded from conscious awareness, and I don't see why astrology shouldn't be
able to uncover/make aware of the past events that are most likely to have
consequences, but it beats me why personality/major events in someone's life
could be pre-determined by where and when they were born, unless you're
inducing this from what kind of impact this life is going to have on the grand
scheme of things. I'm confused by all of this and I don't think I'm expressing
this particularly clearly, I'm lacking the linguistic concepts to be more
precise, but I hope you're getting the drift.
For New Year’s I let myself be persuaded to give my
mum a rune reading (don't think I will do this again, as I am too closely
implicated) and the reading was astonishingly harmonious in the sense that she
has all she needs to succeed in getting herself happy again, and of course I
put it in language that focuses on telling her what she needs to hear in order
to make use of what is available, plus I have a personal investment, of course.
And so I'm quite worried that I misinterpreted 'complete
transformation of your relationship with your mother', and that actually, my
gran is going to die this year. You must be very busy and I'm usually
uncomfortable making those kind of demands, but if you have time, I'd be
immensely grateful if you could help reduce my worry by having a look at my
mum's (17 March, 1958,
Thanx for your help.
Best, Creature
Dear Creature:
Personally, I don't make death predictions. Like most
astrologers practicing today, I feel that some things are best left to God/dess
and this is one of them. But I think you need to honor your own intuition not
for the sake of prediction but rather for the sake of being complete with your
grandmother.
I think that the whole subject of "foretelling the
future" would be an appropriate and indeed excellent subject for this
column, and I'd be happy to hear from readers with specific questions on this
subject.
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