Are the things told by astrology correct?

Have you ever chanced upon seeing a child looking upward toward the sky for an answer, when someone should have asked him a question for which he may not have had an answer in his sleeve?

This is exactly what happens with you when you look up into the sky to check up the position the stars may be occupying when you want to know what was going to happen in your life.

Astrology is a unique combination of two ingredients — statistics and nonsense.

Whenever astrology gets you a correct prediction — it is the statistics part of it that works.

Whenever astrology gets you an absurd prediction, it is the nonsense part of it that works.

However both parts work — it depends, sometimes the statistics part and sometimes the nonsense part.

Do you think I am joking?

No!

It would have been lot better if the people who evolved astrology would not have mixed nonsense with statistics in astrology.

Look at the statistics part of it. There is nothing wrong with it.

The statistics part of it comprises the wealth of four types of data A, B, C and D.

A-type of data

This is the data relating to the position of the stars (The geocentric planets — nine of them, the constellations that traverse the ecliptic belt of the celestial globe within 10°N and 10°S of the equator of the ecliptic — twelve of them and the fixed stars — twenty seven of them known as Nakshatras in Vedic astrology) making up for as many as forty eight entities.

B-type of data

The Ascendant Sign of an individual, the constellation that was rising from underneath into the sky at the time of the sunrise n te day he or she should have born.

C-type of data

Various pockets of sky (into which, the ecliptic has been divided), known as Houses in astrology — twelve of them and twenty seven lunar mansions.

If we know what may have been the position of the stars when we should have born, we can calculate what position they may occupy in future on any date is something that is not of any of nonsense.

D-type of data

What sort of things had happened in the life of the people having various Ascendant Signs, at a time when any of the planets or constellations should have been spotted in any particular House or when moon should have been spotted in any particular lunar mansion forms the D-type of data.

The statistical part of astrology comprises the correlation of all the above four types of data.

It would have been sufficient if the astrologers would have not mixed up any nonsense into the statistical part of the astrology.

But they made a mishmash of astrology by mixing all sort of trash also into it.

The type of trash swirled into the statistical part of astrology by the predators of astrology

I call mixing of theories such as “Since the planet Jupiter rules the knowledge and the Venus rules the romantic phases of life” makes the astrology just a “jumble up” of babbles of a sort and you can see all such babbles littered all through in the courtyard of astrology.

Or even take the following babble about the moon.

It is this sort of trash that has converted astrology into a ragbag of a sort.

If such trash would not have been mixed into astrology, it what could have grown into a sane technique such as “SQC” — we so sternly use in mass production without any hesitation.

Just have a look at the babble of moon for instance.

The babble of moon

According to this babble, the moon spends one day during each monthly cycle in each of the twenty seven lunar mansions with each of its wives, before going into a “No Moon” state at the end of the cycle.

Though it does not create any ripples of absurdity in the mind so long it tells us that a person who may have born when the moon should have been in such and such mansion, it does create a ruse when they tell that a person who may have born when the moon may have been, say, in the mansion known as Ashwini, the horse goddess are supposed to possess a natural gift for the use of herbs as a medicine to cure various diseases because according to the Vedic-time mythology, the Ashwini brothers should have had such powers and all such gag.

I shall say, we are able to make correct predictions based on the statistical part of the astrology and incorrect predictions based on the absurdum of mythology that has been rolled down into it by the people whom we may call the “predators of astrology”.