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Indian Astrology
Planetary Movements
Causality and Synchronicity - How do the movements of the planets influence our lives?
The modern era of astrology in the West has largely taken up the model of astrological-synchronicity, partially in an effort to outgrow the old time religion of astrological causality. Now, many assume that the planets do not cause events in lives but the planets along with the terrestrial lives mysteriously reflect one another by a process of meaningful coincidence which Carl Jung calls “synchronicity”. The synchronistic model exists entirely without a sense of causation which implies that lives and planets' wanderings reflect each other perfectly, without having any kind of cause-and-effect impact on the other.
Astrological-synchronicity model has become an easier way for western astrologers who did not take a stand regarding the causative dimension of the astrological system. The astrological-synchronicity model has been an effort to distance from all vestiges of ancient astrology and its frequently non-empowering overtones. The modern western tradition has run far away from any kind of causality in astrology since it wanted to avoid whatever had made astrology fatalistic and non-empowering.
Lives are definitely dependent under some kind of astrological boundaries. At times when the astrological picture looks grim, severe challenges have to be experienced and vice versa when the astrological picture looks rosy one is deemed to experience a lot of grace, ease, and success. The great soul, Yogananda admitted that there is a real causative influence to astrology, after he hoped to find that there was none. The West have largely put off the confrontation of astrological-synchronicity theory which denies causality with intuitive and experiential sense that some real causality is involved with astrology in some way.
Astrology can absolutely revolutionize the way the world is seen and much more if connected with some kind of causal influence. It will indefinitely be the kind of perspective that will give astrology more credibility to the materialistically minded.
Many of the founding fathers of the United States were Deists who thought a higher power set up the way things work and then left for a permanent vacation. This is not coincidentally how a democracy is meant to work: without the intervention of a King or Queen but instead according to a self-regulating system that practically runs itself, even after the founders have left the building. But the problem with this view as a spiritual philosophy, according to many, is that no room is left for G-d to directly or actively intervene in lives or to have any kind of actual relationship with any kind of higher spiritual power.
Some very substantial causative influence on lives go along with the interesting synchronicity which
could either be viewed as mysteriously mechanistic and automatic without a cause or as an apparently real, but still caused or created by some kind of higher power behind synchronicity. Things happening by synchronicity is all amazing similarly like the universe, an unbelievable and mind-boggling machine that runs itself. |
