Of astrology and astrologers

In these days when money is made issuing pilot licenses what is the big deal in placing or misplacing a few planets here and there for the extra buck. Ravan (of Ramayan fame) who supposedly piloted his own aircraft without a license had once put all these influential planets in a bag to prevent their good influence on Ram during battle!

Ironically on Friday last, while I was in a meeting with some people (all Indian) from the local Japan pricipal’s factory, one of them got a call about the earthquake in NE Japan. Tsunami came later. Thereafter the interlude centered on earthquakes. When on the topic of earthquake I related my experience on Latur earthquake as I was in Pune (HQSC) at the time. One of my colleagues present had a strange story to tell. It seems at the time of the late night Latur earthquake, he was in the air flying into Bangalore from either Mumbai or Delhi. Dinner was being served on the flight when the plane all of a sudden dropped about 1000ft in altitude. All dinner lay scattered and the passengers were a little bewildered before normalcy was restored. It later transpired, this incident took place approximately over Latur area at about the time of the earthquake. Being a first hand narration I can not dismiss this as a cock and bull story.

We all know a lunatic. Moon (Lunar) is the closest heavenly body from Earth. We have high tide and more exposition of lunatic ways when the moon is closer to earth…it does not require research to understand and recognize these explicit and widely acknowledged phenomena.

We also do not need to pour over lengthy thesis to realise that there is yet something enabling creation of life (as opposed to creation of babies!) beyond comprehension of known science. How the new born begets life. Science has an answer to an ill born child – it has no answer to a still born child yet. So I say, life is a force in the universe which has bits of contributions form Saturn, Mars and all other celestial objects. The intensity of forces from these objects varies according to location and time.

The baby thus gets a dose of life with the prevailing intensity at the place she is born. Babies born in Delhi and Panipat at a particular time get almost similar doses. Do not forget, that is not the end of life. It is just the beginning. In brief, as the baby grows the forces in  the immediate environment have varying influences in his life. With TV, internet and such media further influences his life. As these influence a Delhiite differently from a Panipatite they grow into different material environment – ay be one more affluent than the other or better educated assessed on a PPP basis.

There are no fixed rules for making money from the more gullible amongst us. I do not speak for astrologers; but astrology can not be brushed away. The science of astrology is as yet elusive to a lesser degree than life itself.