Modern Astrology and Fate ()
What are we thinking, nowadays, about fate? I have often heard people say that “everything happens for a reason”. Sometimes people wonder whether a relationship is “meant to happen” or what they are “meant to become”. What does “meant to happen” mean? Was it written, from all eternity, in the book of fate? Was it the inescapable consequence of our actions, good or bad, tracing back to past lives? Do we “always have a choice”? Do we believe that “The best way to predict the future is to create it?” The way we practise astrology is inseparable from the answers we give to these philosophical questions. In Hellenistic times, the philosophy of the Stoics was very influential. The Stoics had a deterministic view of life. For them, we are like a dog tied to a cart. The cart will go where it must. The dog can kick and scream, or walk along with acceptance. If your philosophy is stoicism, you ask an astrologer what is going to happen because it wi...