Is prediction knowing what will happen, and sharing it, or is it a guess, educated or not? And what determines whether something will indeed happen–is it already a foregone conclusion, or can we change the course of things? Does an event remain, Shroedinger’s Cat-style, in all possible states, until observation? Is there only one path to events, with both true and untrue visions parceled out like signs along a road (the ‘true’ ones) and decoys leading nowhere (the ‘false’)? I don’t know, but this evening I watched a movie, ‘Knowing,’ that poses a couple of questions: can the future be known ahead of time? The film asserts that yes, it can–and, to follow on this premise it poses the question, if you know what will occur (in this case, the end of life on Earth), what can or will you do about it?
I thought it interesting (synchronicitous?) that this was the film that arrived in the mail today, considering that this evening was the final eclipse of this set, and that my own chart for it made me think of nothing but earthquakes (for the curious, here’s a link to the latest quakes worldwide http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html) Of course, when I made my own prediction, I was well aware that the message I was getting via planet placement was likely a symbolic one (though it pays to take into account the chance of the literal)–and for myself, I intend to watch the coming six months (through to the next eclipse set) for symbolic seismic activity across the House axis where the eclipse fell (for me, the 1st/ 7th)–and I think everyone else should do the same.
So, does astrology allow us to know ahead of time what will happen? I, for one, think the answer is both yes and no (hey, I’m a Libra, cut me some slack!) I believe in free will, absolutely, but I see, in every chart I study, that there are patterns of behavior that we so identify with (natal placements) and respond to (the energy of a planet in transit) that it’s almost as if these responses send a wave out before they even occur, a wave that can be discerned before the point in time where the action’s placed, when the two, the natal placement and the transiting energy, connect. As we examine the individual and his or her proclivities as shown by the precise point in space and time when they entered this world (the natal chart), we can see a range of possible expression–but we never remove the factor of choice–it’s just that individuals, acting within the spectrum of character, will choose in a way that can be anticipated via the construction of the natal chart–and even the choice no one was expecting can be seen if we are looking for it, often hooked to the influence of Uranus, or to any energy that can manifest as destabilized within the chart, for instance, in hard aspect to Pluto.
Annunciation by Beato Angelico
So, is prediction of the future possible? I still say, yes and no (okay, I confess, I have four planets in Libra!) I think we follow the path we are most inclined to follow, one that allows us to express most characteristically, and that that is the essence of Fate: it is the expression of what is most characteristic to our own uniqueness as it interacts with every other form of energy, including other Beings, on this planet. In the movie, an extraterrestrial element took the puzzle outside of the parameters we deal with everyday; it implied we label the other world Beings we see as angels, and their whisperings as clairaudience, and somehow this took the fun out of it for me, operating as it did like a form of deus ex machina (angelus ex machina?) with the number puzzle ultimately being the whispered code of observers, rather than our own intelligence translating the harmonics of the Universe, represented by numbers that stood for those waves I mentioned, but this time generated by the whole human race, rather than a single individual. By the end of the movie, I knew that the end of life on Earth wasn’t something I was interested in knowing about ahead of time, if that was even possible; because, if one can’t do anything with knowledge, what’s the point?
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Did someone say hard aspects to Pluto?
(I am never going to explain my behavior to people in astrological terms anymore, not just annoying, but impossible to understand even..)
-of course you can tell the future with divination, there are countless
documented cases of this being done at all times and many with details so precise as to defy belief. Surely you’re aware of this. And of course you can change it if you know ahead of time, again, countless documentations… all thru history.
Of course the real reason for divination is to reduce struggle by awareness of currents much like navigating a river… to locate where you are…
As for changing the future certainly it is futile in terms of the collective,
and the personal transits with pluto and uranus well, you’re on your own there. Good luck.
I speak from personal experience…
There doesn’t seem to be much point it seems to me, because this world is doomed. Human beings are not capable of rising above… however there is a tradition of guardianship of knowledge to keep it alive for a time in the future when people will be ready (a very long time from now..)
but the tradition must survive as all depends on this.
It is achievement enough to be keeper of the flame, keep it alive.
Otherwise there will be no worthwhile survival that is the only certainty.
We live for this great hope, the world one day become paradise…it could easily happen like that–consciousness coming into it’s own finally..
Being incarnated in human form is most tragic seeming… we are at the whims of the gods. To tempt them is to tempt madness itself. But we are better than them ultimately, and more important than them. The Greeks knew how the gods secretly envied mortals. Even God had to take on flesh to be worth anything. (christian)
It’s all worth it.
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I used to think I’d like to know but after these three back to back eclipses, my Libra self is leaning towards the “Not Know” side. 🙂
Hi Neith! So true, we Libras like to consider all sides, and know all the alternatives–and sometimes that’s the best seat in the house, sometimes the worst!
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Julie, I watched this movie a while ago and like you I was disappointed that another dimension of reality via the extraterrestrial/angelic Beings was brought in, though it certainly became clear at the end, which message they intended to convey – Trust, believe and have faith (in the universe, God or higher powers) – because even though knowing that the world will eventually end and being powerless in the face of this catastrophe doesn’t mean that life cannot be continued in some other place in the vastness of space. Only that for this new beginning or new cycle the known and tried has been shut out, which allows those saved children and thus the new cycle to grow and develop according to their own rhythm by expressing their almost ‘purest’ potential. This notion can truly be compared to starting on a higher level by extending the cycle/circle into a spiral. We were also presented with an exemplification of cycles within cycles – the lesser cycle’s ‘seed’ was integrated into the larger one’s unfolding nevertheless.
However, I hope your predictions about the earthquakes won’t come true for humanity’s sake, but then it might as well be for their sake too if they come true. There’s always the chance that humanity could become more aware, learn and respond differently. I also believe that one person can make a difference, even though this effort might not reach or touch the whole of humanity. But if we can take anything from the axiom “as within so without” then change must indeed begin with the individual.
Great work as always and very inspiring on top of that!:)
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