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of a past event can provide detailed insight into what happened, and it can often provide additional information and perspective. e problem is that we tend to look for a single, exact trigger that describes the event, such as transiting Uranus square natal Mercury for the chart of a car accident. And it’s particularly impressive when the orb of that aspectwaslessthanhalf
a degree at the time of the accident.
Time is the issue. We assume we’re considering the dimension of time
when we look at triggers and past events, but
we’re not.
of time when we look at triggers and past events, but we’re not.”
the hard way.
I had always assumed that
you could learn to predict future events by analyzing past events. You would have to
Certainly, Uranus square natal Mercury could describe a car accident, but if that aspect is active for extended periods of time, how is it useful in a predictive sense? You could say it suggests a period of increased potential of a car accident, but you can’t pinpoint when a car accident is most likely to happen. You can’t tell a client not to get in a car for two weeks until the transit passes. And you can’t know for certain that an upcoming trigger — whether a transit, direction, or progression — will even correspond to an event.
This is a problem because we expect that by studying past triggers we can predict future events.
Analyzing the past is easy. “We assume we’re Hindsight is always 20/20.
considering the dimension Foresight, on the other hand, is legally blind. I learned this
We’re looking at a single frame when we need to consider the entire movie.
At rst it seems impressive that transiting Uranus was exactly square natal Mercury at the moment of a car accident. But it’s less impressive when we consider that Uranus was in an exact square to natal Mercury for about two weeks. Using an orb of 1° applying and separating, most primary directions are exact for about two years.
consider multiple triggers, of course, and nd the right combination of tools, but I assumed that there would be consistent, underlying patterns, and if you could learn to recognize these patterns, you could predict future events.
at assumption, combined with my unrealistic expectations that the natal chart could be used like a crystal ball, and that transits were reliable tools to forecast events, made up the iceberg in the sea of predictive astrology, and about four weeks into the class, I collided with it. As I became aware of my mistakes and how wrong my assumptions were, I began to lose faith in the course material. I muddled through the rest of the course, but my heart
wasn’t in it.
In the aftermath of the wreckage, I caught a glimpse of the bigger picture.
My assumptions about predictive astrology were so wrong because I was looking at the universe from a linear perspective. But the universe isn’t linear, and it isn’t governed by the Law of Cause and E ect. e universe is quantum. And so is astrology.
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