tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post3648318124406709860..comments2024-01-03T17:02:06.646+00:00Comments on ASTROTABLETALK: Fate and Free Will in AstrologyBarry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-72474436931028272292012-08-08T18:14:40.901+01:002012-08-08T18:14:40.901+01:00Just an example: it was writ for my husband that h...Just an example: it was writ for my husband that he marries a daughter of Jacob, and Jakob will pass away in March of 2002. And so he married once and 7 years later on hes free will he married second time, but both Jacobs died that March within weeks from each other.metalrabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-84657377115474118572012-07-22T00:44:11.936+01:002012-07-22T00:44:11.936+01:00Great post and only one thing I'd quibble with...Great post and only one thing I'd quibble with after reading astrology naysayer, neuroscientist David Eaglman, who points out or perhaps only makes the conjecture: <br /><br /><i>A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.</i><br /><br />So it seems that our individual consciousness may well prove to be a match for the cosmos! Which is too mind boggling to comprehend. <br /><br />I think transits in astrology, touch us at the point where nature meets nurture and we can choose if we are aware enough of where to take it from there.Linkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12346948772651971988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-78753869669344826272012-07-20T14:59:09.481+01:002012-07-20T14:59:09.481+01:00I loved this post.
Dr. John C. Lilly, inventor of...I loved this post.<br /><br />Dr. John C. Lilly, inventor of the flotation tank, said our Earth is a Cosmic Coincidence Center.<br /><br />And everything that happens is cosmic coincidence. I like that concept. Poetic. Divine. The numinous infusing the mundane.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-31766482245316618792012-07-17T00:24:12.238+01:002012-07-17T00:24:12.238+01:00People are born: fate. People grow and get disease...People are born: fate. People grow and get diseases: fate. Stuff happens: mostly fate (choices are based in personality and background, both of which are fate). People die and the wheel spins again: fate. No big space for free will. Free will is you can chose variations of these fates, kind of different flavours. You can marry that or that, but the experiences will be fateful.<br /><br />Just as an example, watch out for a growing world crises in 2014, much larger than now, also much historical discoveries until end of the decade, and then revolutions and a new world order by 2020-2030.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-9954919609770893982012-07-16T18:51:38.526+01:002012-07-16T18:51:38.526+01:00This was a great post... very illuminative. I wou...This was a great post... very illuminative. I would love a post expounding on this phrase you used: <i>For a man, the Anima shows him his fate. I think it usually comes a bit later in life, once the master of the universe has been knocked out of him.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-81761991291198303552012-07-14T17:24:45.391+01:002012-07-14T17:24:45.391+01:00"Free will is the ability to do gladly that w..."Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do." <br /> <br />C.G. JungAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-49776340386123454112012-07-14T05:59:23.582+01:002012-07-14T05:59:23.582+01:00Thank you so much for this wonderful post! It dee...Thank you so much for this wonderful post! It deeply resonates with me. I get so tired of having to keep my interest in astrology on the down low. My family looks at me like I am a flake everytime I relate something to astrology.LotusLady9https://www.blogger.com/profile/12375358810789712470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-34984615400399412752012-07-12T12:07:35.225+01:002012-07-12T12:07:35.225+01:00yes, that's interesting. and it's fate ver...yes, that's interesting. and it's fate versus free will, and I think it's fate and free will.Barry Goddardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-59969179965876960422012-07-12T03:33:16.423+01:002012-07-12T03:33:16.423+01:00great post.
however, science does address the iss...great post.<br /><br />however, science does address the issue of fate with the theory of Biological Determinism, i.e. that an individual's behavior is determined by genes, thus negating the idea of free will.Julietnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-33441308768073832782012-07-11T10:30:27.706+01:002012-07-11T10:30:27.706+01:00Brilliant. I particularly liked the following: &qu...Brilliant. I particularly liked the following: "Our individual consciousness is tiny compared to the consciousness of the cosmos. How can we possibly hope to navigate our place in the cosmos purely by our own individual efforts? That is the hubris of modern rational man, of being above and in control of Nature. If we put down our oars, there are currents beneath, there is a spirit within us that has eyes and ears. The art of living lies in paying attention to the inner sense, and not worrying about rational notions such as ‘achievement’, ‘purpose’, ‘being useful’, ‘helping others". <br />Maybe if we begin by seeing ourselves as more a part of a collective than as isolated individuals some things will start to make more sense. After all humanities fate lies not in the individual but in the acknowledgement of One Humanity.<br />CheersMagic Dragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03058470485175140238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-56421670797622545422012-07-10T20:14:58.883+01:002012-07-10T20:14:58.883+01:00Slowly it was built, from learned behaviour and ob...Slowly it was built, from learned behaviour and observations, the deep soul learned how to 'be' in this world. In amongst the layers and the angles, the deposited sediment of rationality and experience, were planted some seeds and some mines...seeds that would germinate slowly, and that would grow through impossible seeming narrow spaces and realms of darkness and anti nature, to one day blossom , and mines that would one day explode, shifting tectonic plates of reality, when the puzzle got too abstract to make any more sense. These were his pain and his saving , in the future days and long nights when spacetime hurried forward to enter new stargates of evolutionary experience.<br />He planned, he divined, he honed and he shaped, to the best of his ability, but no planning or foresight could prevent the sacred anguish, the final surrenders, to the cosmic tides. The old seas had seemed deep, but now they seemed like a pond compared to this...but wait! underneath the thrashing of the spirit, as the tenderness of each armour platelet released caused spasms of anxiety, there was discerned a subtle rhythm, an ancient calling...this was do-able...this was all it was, all it ever was....and with these thoughts, last prayers for forgiveness ceased, as the soul was taken, and became...part of the beat, the rhythm...swimming in a human tide , towards whatever dream may come.TheDeepGoathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508779340341756560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-27641464058066563782012-07-10T10:57:17.127+01:002012-07-10T10:57:17.127+01:00What a great post. I'm increasingly finding th...What a great post. I'm increasingly finding this under the current conjunction - knew it was coming, felt its arrival - but doesn't stop the feelings, or soul reactions. Only glad I have friends who know the same.And yes, it is deeply personal, so can't avoid it! <br /><br />I work more and more with karmic destiny in my own practice - gives such a bigger holding, and more opportunity for Mars and jupiter to go to war if necessary.More acceptance too.Bronwen Reeshttp://eastwestsanctuary.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-88332524721004394692012-07-09T20:45:20.342+01:002012-07-09T20:45:20.342+01:00These truly seem to be intense and changing times....These truly seem to be intense and changing times....for we cannot live much longer in the petri dish of the sientific/rational reality whilst the bulk of ourselves moves in the cosmic tide. but maybe it seems less chaotic if we give in to it to some more of an extent, and we find we can swim in deeper waters...we have to do this..whatever is of worth from our forays into rationality will probably come through and hopefully widen our knowledge and experience of 'being human'. Personally i am finding that life is casting from me anything that isn't real...(well, at present pluto is squaring my uranus which just happens to be forming a conjunction with my natal mars/chiron in the 5th house! ) many of us are feeling this major astrological square, and far from seeming collective, (even though we know it is), it also feels deeply personal )i would love to feel as human as a tree feels to be a tree! maybe one day:)TheDeepGoathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508779340341756560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-30697076602041005652012-07-09T20:37:02.272+01:002012-07-09T20:37:02.272+01:00Good point, Palden.Good point, Palden.Barry Goddardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-73398273742889302782012-07-09T20:22:57.993+01:002012-07-09T20:22:57.993+01:00There's a very simple resolution to the proble...There's a very simple resolution to the problem of free will and fate. Just cut your income and expenditure to (in UK) £30 per week, and you quickly realise that free will is not as plenteous as we've been led to believe. Free will and individualism are very much related to affluence. Westerners will increasingly discover this in coming times.Palden Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05463527345931710086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-79637180438453771742012-07-09T18:13:45.134+01:002012-07-09T18:13:45.134+01:00I enjoyed these thoughts, though am not wholly con...I enjoyed these thoughts, though am not wholly convinced about Fate as a precisely pre-arranged factor in life.<br /><br />I'd rather thank of Fate as more of a kaleidoscope, where the pieces are defined and cannot be changed, but they have the possibility of coming together to form patterns that are different in subtle ways.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-21619925937512577602012-07-09T16:04:33.231+01:002012-07-09T16:04:33.231+01:00marvelous, brilliant, excellent post.marvelous, brilliant, excellent post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com