tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post4690798729873013469..comments2024-01-03T17:02:06.646+00:00Comments on ASTROTABLETALK: ARE WE FATED? Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-31987046445833194072014-10-15T16:31:19.879+01:002014-10-15T16:31:19.879+01:00"Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend o..."Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine. <br />Never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine," <br /><br />Hercules meets Pholus and sez "Hand over the wine and nobody gets hurt". <br /><br />Famous last words...<br /><br />By the way, those who know are working the Kalevala and Bernadette Brady's theories are wearing a tired groove in a way old record.<br /><br />Roll Cage Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154277038544171706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-48471488417118768012014-10-11T15:29:23.462+01:002014-10-11T15:29:23.462+01:00The Industrial Revolution and its consequences hav...The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-84331680057106696162014-10-09T09:38:46.572+01:002014-10-09T09:38:46.572+01:00I think fate has a strong connection with wealth -...I think fate has a strong connection with wealth - the ability to stave off circumstances by buying it off or mitigating it in some way. Individualism in the West has grown as our capacity to override natural constraining factors has grown through industrial and urban wealth-generation. <br /><br />Though it's not just this simple. In Palestine, where I work with refugees and war-traumatised people, there are some who have what it takes psychologically to overcome their circumstances and improve themselves, and some whose psychological makeup has been weakened to a degree that they genuinely cannot - unless they get help which gives them some momentum to overcome other things. And there are others who cannot help themselves, because of disability or other constraints, many of them psychological and cultural (such as not wanting to let down the family by leaving and becoming more self-interested).<br /><br />But even then there are amazing cases where people with ridiculous handicaps overcome their limitations by dint of a massive focus of willpower - so there are no simple rules to this.<br /><br />"There's no right or wrong, there are simply outcomes" - and so much of our fate is a consequence of previous choices made, even if long before. Sometimes I find, when doing an astrologial session, that current hardships/problems aren't exactly connected with current astrological events-trends, but with big opportunities not taken earlier (say, when Ura-Nep affected major planets 20 years ago, prompting the need for, say, divorce or a change of circs, and such changes were not followed up, so the consequences unfold later - say, in the form of illness or loss of purpose).<br /><br />I think a lot of free-will is connected with our responses to circumstances presented to us: we can respond to a rainy, cold day in a number of ways. So much of it concerns how we judge things too - as fortune and misfortune. Loss of job and income can be a problem or a gift, depending on your viewpoint. For me, times of poverty have sometimes been times of the greatest free-will, because of choices and psychological changes I've made as a result. For example, 'prosperity thinking' often hasn't improved my bank balance, but it has changed my self-esteem (I don't eat myself up about it so much).<br /><br />But I think that, in the West and the modern world, much of what we believe to be free-will is actually connected with wealth - ability to buy off circumstances and thus avoid fundamental questions.Palden Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05463527345931710086noreply@blogger.com