Hi Robert:

This is a very interesting question and I?ve been mulling it over since you posted it. (I?m not a quick thinker )

I think that I avoid the whole fate vs. free-will debate most of the time. If I was advising someone about what was in their chart I think I would be prone to saying something like ?act until you can?t? unless there was something strongly prohibitive in the chart - a warning of sorts. This has less to do with my philosophy, if I have one, than it does with the nature of my personality I believe.

The greater issue for me, I find, is how to deliver bad news. I have found this challenging in horary and would, at times, find it virtually insurmountable in natal (at my present level of understanding).

For instance, I ran somebody?s chart through Christian Astrology and there was nothing there. No money, no career, no apparent chance of a career (a botcher!), no long term relationship and therefore no family, being ?a captive?, which I interpret in modern terms as lacking agency in one?s life, and then a violent death. How exactly do you communicate that to someone?

?I?m sorry, Mr/s. So-and-so, but this life?s a dud. You might as well take your chance with reincarnation and set your violent death in motion. Good luck with that. That will be $200 please.? Sounds rather Python-esque.

Lilly says:
afflict not the miserable with terror of harsh judgment; in such cases, let them know their hard fate by degrees;


but I?m not sure that makes me feel any better.

Thanks again for posting the question.

Cheers.

Hello Robert,

First of all, I wld. Like to say I am so sorry for not being able to thank you for your response for my previous comments.

Quran says " It is We (God) who created the ground and sky and anything between them.

I think that the planets are NOT responsible with the things in our lives and that the planets are simply a projection of our lives.

Based on the above, the correlation between planets and mundane life just might be God's own way to able us, may be just to be cautious, may be patient, may be hopefull with our current/ future lives or may be just to make us think of some other usefull actions different rather than what we wld do if we do not look at the heavens.

So, I think looking at the heavens is just like looking at the weather forecast i.e. we cld. Look at the heavens and we cld either leave home with or without an umbrella which is free will.

With regards to an astrologer predicting future with 100% accuracy...

I had a "no" answer for a previously erected chart (predicted by a well-known astrologer) last April. Months after that chart, I erected another chart about the same issue (also predicted by an astrologer ) which gave a very clear explanation as to why the outcome was a "no" for the 1st chart.

Looking at that 2nd chart, the outcome will always be a "no" as per the very 1st chart. (What is going in mundane life also seems to be confirming the 2nd. Chart). God knows for sure...

Best regards.