Moons and Stars

“This Week's Horoscope for Scorpio:

        With the kind of positive and optimistic outlook that you have this week, even the toughest of jobs will be a breeze for you. And – though Ganesha advises against it – what you cannot achieve by hook, you may decide to achieve by crook. However, in your personal relationships, especially with your prospective life-partner, you shall be honest and straightforward. You shall confide your deepest feelings to him/her and thereby receive their full support. ”

This is usually what you find in daily newspapers or in weekly/monthly magazines. They tell you that your day’s going to be fine by showing positions of planets and stars. You will find some ‘financial’ or ‘emotional’ benefit. And then, you are just happy for the rest of the day, waiting for that ‘financial’ benefit. But did you even sit down and think: how can the position of stars and planets, which are so far away that we see them as point-sized, determine your day?

Astrology. Another strange study formulated ‘by the Gods to predict your future’. Perhaps this was intended for the study of stars for purposes people like Galileo held, but got slowly dragged back to earth. Some might say that what they predict is usually true, and help their day get better, and that finding similarities on just a trial-and-error basis is quite surreal. But tell me, what is the global population? I suppose everyone reading this know that the count has already passed 7 billion. So, isn’t finding 12 sets of similarities in such a huge number very easy? If it is so easy to find 12 sets of similarities in the first place, I think it is easier to group like-minded people into one set and saying that these people have a lot in common. And forming 12 such groups and showing it out to the world is just as easy.

I think the way superficial astrology works is just out of my thinking. But if anyone is into deeper works of astrology, I know about it just as another citizen of this world. But in the end, these are perhaps just predictions based upon experience and observation, and it does not mean that the predictions are the future. There is just one difference between predictions and the future: predictions can be read out.

So, if I’m not wrong, it is already high time that we realize what is necessary, and rather than just thinking about what might happen tomorrow and be scared of it, we should live in today and act today, because a wise man once said, “It is not your friends, your family, or even your life partner who is making a living for you; it is you”.