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 Introduction

As I am curious of everything, or rather as I wondered for what reason I entered in this world where reigns as masters the lie, the cruelty, the spitefulness, etc... I decided, one day, to buy a book dealing with astrology, merely to try to understand how it works.

Then I bought another book that said the same thing than the first one and quickly I had one linear meter of astrology books in my bookcase.

But I still was unable to interpret a birth chart seriously in spite of the study of all this books.

I had to do a correspondence course and also to follow seminaries in order to be efficient, at last.

( I am graduate in astrology, but this discipline not being recognized officially, the diploma is only a certificate internal to the astrology scholl.)

As it is extremely easy to say whatever you want concerning the interpretation of the birth chart of a newborn, because no one can contradict by facts, I decided to practice on my fellow workers of at least forty years old, and by only interpreting their past. It prowled me thus

The astrology allowed me to understand the reason why of the behavior of my family's members, of friends, of colleagues, of personalities, etc...

I am now able to forgive some behaviors of relatives, friends, etc... this discipline allowing me to understand the reasons behind this.

Pros and cons

In the past the astronomy and the astrology were considered as the same science.

The renowned astronomers of the past, who brought so much to the man's knowledge on the solar system, were also astrologers (Galileo, Kléper, Copernicus, Tycho Brahé, etc...)

The atheistic materialism and also the religious fanatics made that this discipline was considered like a "cursed science ! "       

But today the liberty is back and makes that the astrology recovers some fame.

Some modern astronomers (Marcel Boll, Paul Couderc, etc), some modern "thinkers" condemn the astrology without having studied it seriously, and in some cases, without even having studied it at all.

These astronomers are very capable in their particular domain, that is the science that studies the position, the movement and the composition of the stars and the planets.

In short, they only study the physical world.

The astrology being based on the position of the sun and planets in the zodiac to the birth allows to determine some features of the human soul, these scientists believe themselves competent in order to decide, to criticize and to judge about this discipline.

However their knowledge concerning the stars are only from the domain of the material world whereas the astrology is a matter belonging to theimmaterial and spiritual world, that is to say the domain of the working of the life, of the soul and of the ordeals that an individual will have to support.

A person who affirms that his material and physical knowledge allows him to treat immaterial and spiritual disciplines, that his personal understanding is "The Truth", who judges and condemn a discipline without having studied it in depth, is a person who is out of the ordinary.

Either we are in presence of a genius, that is to say someone who has a huge and innate power of comprehension of the topics and facts that he perceives, who will be able to understand the ins and outs of these facts, starting from some elements only.

Or then we are in presence of a Happy Simpleton, that is to say an overproud person, a pretentious person, very full of himself, an arrogant person, who sincerely believes that his expertise in a particular domain gives him ipso facto the necessary expertises to treat other topics

To summarize, some scientists can be at a time very competent in their particular domain, but completely illogical when they tackle pretentiously some other disciplines.

It is necessary nevertheless to mistrust some among them !

Let's not forget that, until the end of the XIXth century, the scientific world believed blindly in the theory of the spontaneous generation, that is to say the spontaneous creation of living beings from mineral matters or organic substances in decomposition !

The scientists of the time of Jules Vernes were all deeply convinced that the airships heavier than air could never fly.

Nowadays, while seeing a Boeing 747 taking off, one can notice their mistake.

And if one extrapolates : what will it be tomorrow?

Lately an engineer, Michel Gauquelin, attempted to search for, scientifically and by the statistics, what was the part of truth that existed in the postulates of the serious astrology treaties.

Using a computer, he made it calculate the horoscope of thousands of sportsmen, of politicians, of soldiers etc... and he noted that for these people having succeeded well in their life, they had a sky of birth effectively in conformity with the assumptions of the astrology books.

They didn't have it at hundred per cent, but they had it more often that statistical laws would allow.

All people who examined the statistical method used by M. Gauquelin recognized that this one was perfect.

Is astrology a science ?

The astrology decomposes itself in two complementary parts :

       1) the survey of the character, of the temperament, of the possibilities or impossibilities in some domains.

       2) the dating of factual predictions that are good, neutral or bad.

Saint Thomas d'Aquin:"The celestial bodies are the reason of everything that occurs in this  sublunary world, they act indirectly on the human actions, but all effects that they produce are not unavoidable."

In short : the astrology is not a science but a discipline.

Two people, who exactly have the same horoscope, will be able to act differently when facing the same test.   The twins are the best illustration of this.

However, science asks that all same experimentations produce the same results systematically.

This is due to the fact that, in addition to the effects of the sun, the moon and the planets, every individual possesses a free will whose quality is conditioned by the kind of education that it received.

( To see Of the barbarism to the spirituality - The education.)

The free will is analysing, more or less well, the events to which he is confronted, then takes a decision and acts accordingly.

Astrology theory

It is the astronomy of the solar system that constitutes the basis of the astrology.

This one has nothing to do with the system of the stars (constellations) : the only star taken into account is the sun.

When we tackle the spiritual world of the soul, we tackle the domain of extremely fast electro-magnetic frequencies . They are so fast that today the most advanced science ignores their consequences and don't have any tool able measure them.

Some of these vibrations constitute" life ".

 The waves (frequencies) of the ideas, the thought, the understanding, the working of the different parts of the body and their synchronization, is not part of the material world.

The brain and some glands are only transformers.

Examples :

The creative thought, the intelligence, the conscience, are the prerogative of a very small number of individuals although everybody possesses the same brain.

The digestion makes itself automatically, the heart beats automatically and control its frequency of beatings automatically according to the efforts asked the body.

A man is sick whereas another one of the same age, of the same level of instruction and who is living at the same place will be in excellent health, etc...

What phenomenon, what intelligence is managing  this ?

All components of our universe are in relation between them.

Today's science is competent in order to explain and to use the capacities of the material (physical) world, but is only at the first steps concerning the domain of the human soul.

This science has created the tools allowing to perfect the capacities of the five human senses.

In the domain of the electromagnetic radiations, those that are currently discovered and exploited can be considered to belong to the low-frequencies (X-rays, Beta, Gamma etc...)

As the radiations of the domain of the soul are much more faster, only some mediums on this earth are capable to detect them (clairvoyance of an individual's aura, for example.)

The sun is the main cause of the life on our earth, without it no life can exist.

The sun being emitting radiations of frequencies that are extremely elevated, the tools of the modern science are unable to detect them.

As the light, these radiations reach our earth directly but also are bouncing on the planets of the solar system. Some radiations are absorbed by the planet and, because of this, are boucing only some specific frequencies.

What makes that every planet sends back on earth of the different radiations.

The astrology, as the Bible, teaches that the soul enters in the body of the newborn to his first inspiration.

Bible, Genesis 2-7 : « The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.»

At his birth moment, at his first breath, the new born is penetrated by the planetary conditions existing at his birth date, these being conditioning the coding of the genes of his personal DNA.

This signs there his personality and the karmic endeavors that he will have to undergo and to overcome in this incarnation.

These features of the soul, are described in Of the barbarism to the spirituality chapters The human being and Mission of the soul."

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A person's astrological theme can be compared to a clock which is indicating, at the beginning his character and his physical appearance, and also the potential events that will punctuate his life.

This clock consists of a dial composed of 12 astrological signs and 12 astrological Houses

The Houses wedge themselves in the Signs according to the date, hour and birth place, and if one takes the second of arc as reference, it makes 360 X 60 X 60 = 1 960 000 different positions of the Houses in the Signs.

The needles of this clock are to the number of twelve.

These are the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, March, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, celestial bodies having each one a specific displacement speed in the Signs.

The 11st needle is a reaction of two or several planetary global influences, consequence of some angles that the planets form between themselves  during their displacement in the Signs.

Angles of 0°, 180°, 120°, 90°,60°, 30°, 150°,45°, 135°, some being beneficial, therefore helping the native, and some others dissonants, then bringing an ordeal to be overcome by the native. 

In the first case the things happen without any effort, but in the other case an unpleasant effort is necessary in order to overcome some potential ordeals.

The twelfth needle is represented by the position of the astrological Houses in the 12 signs of the Zodiac.

Every House being representing a particular characteristic of the life (social standing, loves, marriage or assosiation, study, journeys, illnesses, projects, etc)

Have also to be taken into account the planets in Cardinal, Stationary and Mutable signs, the planets in Domicile, in Exaltation, in Exile, in Fall, the planets in signs of Fire, of Earth, of Air, of Water, the Masculine or Feminine planets, the planets of Self-control and the planets of Instincts.

The calculation of the birth chart is from the domain of the astronomy (I repeat the astronomy).

The horoscope consists therefore, by means of the astronomy, to draw the birth chart that consists of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac, the positions of the Planets in the Signs, the aspects between the Planets and, with the help of the Local Solar hour (to calculate), the position of the twelve astrological Houses.

Local Solar hour = hour for a very precise geographical place.

When it is noon in London (sun to the vertical of the city) it will be noon in Plymouth several minutes later, that is to say the time that will put the sun to move to the vertical of Plymouth.

The astrology consists in deciphering this astronomical horoscope.

Every House possesses its specific assignments, its proper significances, that have been determined by extremely long studies in the past time.

The planets not being static but being turning around the sun, they will visit in their move some other Signs and Houses, they will also meet the positions of departure of the other planets and will condition good or bad tendencies thus in the visited domains. It is the destiny of the person.

To notice : a lot of women or remarkable men have a lot of angles of dissonance in their horoscope, what obliged them to fight to succeed their life positively, that is to say to overcome the karmic constraints.

The horoscope is therefore only a solar and planetary clock, with all the needles that have been described above.

Concerning the Zodiac, it is mandatory to know that the real traditional astrology takes in account the Zodiac of the Seasons, that begins with the spring and that takes into account the solstices and the equinoxes.

The celestial Zodiac, composed of constellations, is not used in Astrology.

Some Constellations (not to be confounded with Signs) are in the sky, the number of constellations is greter than 12, and these constellations of the sky have lengths of different arcs from one another.

Also some are overlapping from one another.

It is a source of confusion for those that criticize the astrology without ever having studied this discipline in depth.

Astrology reality

You have to mistrust the horoscopes that you find in the magazines and the newspapers.

They take into account only a part of the dial : the Signs, and ignore the birth chart of every individual (position of the planets in Signs and Houses, that is the most important part) superbly.

Let's illustrate it :

The purpose of a car is to transport somebody. A car  is composed of wheels of a motor, of a clutch, of a steering wheel, of seats, of brakes etc...

If you want to move and that you take only the steering wheel and the four wheels, you won't go far, you will remain there.

To summarize, one can say that the horoscopes of the magazines and newspapers are only tales for bimbos in research of emotion.

Don't take these horoscopes seriously.

The astrology is not recognized officially and is only tolerated.

To my knowledge, in order to set oneself up in astrology business, it is sufficient to put on the door a panel indicating "Mr So-and-so, Astrology adviser", and to have read at least once a book dealing with astrology.

This is the reason why one finds everything among the astrologers, of the serious and competent, but also of people having found a good bonanza to exploit the human weaknesses.

The big problem with the people who are consulting an astrologer is that a lot of them are coming with a problem.

However, instead of trying to solve it by themselves, they hope complacently that the astrologer will immediately give them the answer as well as a close date to which the problem will be resolved by itself. 

"Help yourself and the sky will help you ".   But for these people, it is not possible for lack of courage and of will.

On the other hand, while consulting a good astrologer, it is possible to determine if of the events as one journey or the creation of an enterprise for example, will take place under good omens or then under a climate of difficulties.

Concerning the profession, an astrologer will be able to say, for example :

"Your child will be gifted for the arts. In Sign of Air, he will be interested by song or music. "   

But the parents might have a different opinion and might say :

"You are our unique son and we want you to be a pharmacist in order to take over your father's pharmacy."

The child will study to become a pharmacist and will take over his father's pharmacy, constrained and forced, but his heart will not be in it.

He will find this job boring but he will make up for it while playing music during his leasure time.

Astrology is absolutely unable to detect this kind of situation.

The kings have all their astrologer, and even ex-president Mitterrand had his (Elizabeth Tessier.)

The queen of England and the prince Charles are doing journeys in India or New Zealand on their astrologer's advice, in order to live on other longitude and latitude, this in order to eliminate potential ominous tendencies.

But the most dangerous with the astrology  is its action on the subconsciousof the person who is consulting an astrologer.

This is why it is advisable to approach it with the biggest prudence.

Bible, Deuteronomy 18-10:  « There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,^»

Indeed, a lot of people have a weak mind and everything that the astrologer will tell them will be distorted in their mind, will be perceived differently, misunderstood.

The good astrologers have also to be good psychologists, otherwise there is a risk to make irreversible damages in the psyche of the consultants.

A good astrologer, by studying the birth chart of a person, is able to see the favorable aspects quickly, but also the unfavorable ones and the problems that the customer will have to overcome.

These evaluations must not be presented crudely to the customer, but on the contrary the astrologer has to prepare him  subtly to a temporary time of hindrance that he will have to experiment, and to search for in the birrth chart if some beneficial aspects will attenuate the problem.

"A man warned in is worth two." When one expects a n ordeal, it is easier to prepare himself at it, but under the condition to possess the mental adequate.

To be noted is the fact that, for the people having an advanced conscience level, therefore having a free will functioning normally, the unfavorable periods only have little hold.

On the other hand, concerning the materialistic individuals and without education, the predicted facts become true.

In the present day the science is henceforth capable to clone a human, that is to create a living being having the same physical features precisely that a normally conceived human (same size, same weight, same face, same color of skin, of hair, of the eyes, etc...)

However the birth date of the clone will be different, therefore his horoscope will be different, therefore his karma will be different, therefore his education will be different, therefore his character will be different, therefore his behavior in life will be different.

All of this even though their physics are identical.

An Einstein's cloning cannot give a second Einstein.

Summary

The life of a soul personality is conditioned by his karma shown in his astrological  birth chart, but also by the capacities of his free will, this one dependent of the quality of the different educations received by the individual (parental, laic and religious studies.)

Some people are consulting an astrologer when they are facing one or several problems and don't know how to solve them.

Concerning various domains (love, marriage, profession, social success, projects, friendships, illnesses, study, family, journeys, etc...) the astrologer can only note, for the time being,  easiness, neutral state or problems and impossibilities but he cannot solve the problems encountered  instead of the consulting person.

He can only indicate to his customer some favorable potential dates, then it will be up to the customer to use his free will to take personal decisions.

It is very difficult for the astrolger to know in depth what the possibilities of his customer's free will are and it is practically impossible to him to know what decisions his customer will take, after the consultation.

The danger for the customer without will is that he only trusts the astrology, therefore to the astrologer in order to solve his problems, ignoring thus completely the possibilities of his free will, that is to say his power of analysis and reflection. He becomes as addicted, drugged by the astrology.

The analysis of a birth chart is very difficult and the astrologer can be mistaken involuntarily and so can predict a false event that might leave its mark on the consultant's psyche strongly, modifying thus erroneously his future behavior.

The astrologer can predict true events but that are misunderstood by the customer,  this erroneously leaving its mark on his psyche, therefore modifying his future behavior erroneously.

In all this cases the karma of the astrologer and the one of the customer are badly impacted.

For all these reasons I decided to quit the practice of the astrology definitely.

Quotes

Aristotle : Treaty about the sky

"This world is bound of a manner necessary to the movements of the superior world. All power, in our world, is governed by these movements. "

Saint Jérôme: Prefaces, at the head of the Bible of Saint Jérôme

"I keep myself quiet on the philosophers, the astronomers, the astrologers of which the science, very useful to the men, is established by the dogma, explained by the method, justified by the experience. "

Saint Thomas d'Aquin :

"The astrologers, for a lot of things, announce true things."

Hermes Trismégiste :

"Happy is the one that knows how to read the signs of the Sky ! That one, only, will avoid a lot of misfortunes."

Dante: Purgatory

"The stars are really the first reason of your actions, but you received a light that allows you to distinguish the good of the evil, and a free will that, after having begun to fight against the stars, triumph of everything if it is directed well. "

Tycho-Brahé (Astronomer and astrologer)

"The man contains inside him an influence a lot bigger than the one of the stars ; he will surmount the influences if he lives according to the justice, but if he follows his instincts blindly, if he descends to the class of the ruffians and of the animals while living as them, the king of the nature doesn't order anymore, the nature is in command of him. "

Képler (Astronomer and astrologer)

"Twenty years of practical studies convinced my rebel mind of the reality of the astrology. "

Honoré de Balzac

"The astrology is an immense science that reigned on the biggest intelligences. "

C.G.Jung

"If the people with a low level of instruction did believe they could, until this last time, to ridicule the astrology, considering it as a pseudo science, this astrology is going up again from the depths of the popular soul, is present today to the doors of our universities that it left since three centuries. "

Lucien Malavard Professeur of sciences in the Sorbonne University Paris

"I think that the forefathers were precursors and that they made some liberal arts through the intermediary of the astrology : they built a classification of the beings, a manner to better understand the human behaviors. For my part, I would be tempted to situate the astrology next to the liberal arts, a few farther. "

Claude Levy Strauss

"The forefathers constructed a system, and this system, from the moment where it has been constructed, appeared to be effective and fruitful. In other words, each system is effective and fruitful because the man can only think with systems. The astrology has been a big system because it helped the man to think during millenniums."

Pierre Shaeffer

"It seems to me that the astrology can, to its manner, by means of the configurations that it studies, to discover the most secret relations of the interior life of the human being".

The Reverend abbot Riquet

"To answer this question, it would be useful to specify what the Astrology word really means. So, if by it one pretends to read in the stars everything that must happen, as if all the things of this world were entirely determined by the action of the stars without the man's liberty to change anything, such a pretension contradicts the Christian doctrine of the human free will."

"But one can admit, as have made some famous doctors of the church like Saint Thomas d'Aquin, that the stars exercise a certain influence on the temperament, the complexion of the men, and also on their behavior. From where a possibility to foresee the tendencies that they will probably show, but not infallibly because the man, I believe, can dominate, to direct, to inflect the tendencies that are in him the consequence of all cosmic or astral influences affecting his organism."

"But we must be reserved concerning the value of the prognoses that one pretends to pull out of a science so conjectural of the astral influences on the human behavior. Very imprudent would be the one who would trust this blindly".

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Georges Antarès : excerpt of his book Manuel Pratique d'Astrologie :

"Our Earth, incorporated to the solar system, is bathed constantly of waves that emanate from  the Sun and from the other planets. These waves, these vibrations constitute for us the source of all life and condition all the visible or invisible phenomena that appear to the surface, in the atmosphere and inside our Globe."

"This system of planetary influences is a whole quite harmonious and complete. It is so perfect that, if one of these celestial factors was suppressed, as for example if, following any cosmic cataclysm, one of these planets was destroyed, it would lead to a total upheaval of our life condition and a change radical of our own nature. It is sure that the unbalance produced would return our impossible existence if the Sun was disappearing, because there would be neither light nor heat anymore ; it would be on the other hand as if we underwent the ablation of the heart. In the same way, if one of the planets was destroyed and according to the nature of this one, there would not be anymore of movement, nor of order, nor of harmony, nor of joy, nor of possible progress for us ; we could then compare ourselves, to the point of physical view, to the man to which one would have removed either the stomach, or the liver, or the lungs, or one of the five senses, or any vital organ."

" (...) In truth, the global system is entirely comparable to a big Cosmic Man whose Sun would constitute the heart, while the other planets that are orbiting around it would be the organs of his other functions. "

"The Zodiac delimits the sphere of influence of that sidereal Being. (...) "

"I use this physiological order example to make better understand that a narrow interrelationship exists between what one calls the Macrocosm or Big World (solar system) and the Microcosm or small world which is made uo of human beings. "

"The life of the Big All influences on each of his particles, even the most tiny ones. "

"Within our Universe all is submitted to the same laws and the atom behaves precisely like a miniature solar system. "

"What is in top is analogous to what is below"

This famous law of Hermes Trismegiste is then corresponding to a primordial truth."

"To the precise moment of his birth, the child is impregnated by the set of the global impulses that marks him of an indelible seal, the same way that a virgin photographic plate is impregnated when it is exposed suddenly to the light. This initial influence that one keeps for life is conditioned by the celestial state of the moment but also and especially by the particular angle under which these impulses have been recorded. This angle depends on the hour of the birth and of the geographical position of the place of birth of the native that determine the astral positions in relation to the horizon and to the meridian. "

"Thus, every human being or microcosm is created to the picture of the Macrocosm, but participate to the nature of this one only according to the orientation of the sky in relation to the geographical position of the place, this orientation being dependent of the precise hour of the birth. "

"To make myself understood more clearly I will say that all the human beings been born under the impulses of a same day will all contain,  more or less potentially, the particular state of the sky of that day, but individually every being will undergo these influences to one point of view and to one different degree according to the precise hour of his birth that conditions the positions of the stars in relation to the native's geographical place."

"As it is in the man, in the nature and in all things, is existing in the sky spangled with stars what is named the face and the reverse of a medal, of the harmonious or hostile conditions of which we humans are undergoing the repercussions. According to their celestial longitude and the angles that are formed by the planets between themselves, the results for us human beings are the good or the pain, the happiness or the misfortune, the well-being or the suffering. As well as these influences can endow us with the most beautiful physical qualities, of moral and intellectual, in the same way they can afflict us of the worse flaws, of the shortcomings and the most abject vices. In truth, by the astrology one may come to the conclusion that it is in the nature and the movement of the stars that reside the visible reasons of all the human drama. "