jamwal wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:18 am
How can celestial bodies crores of kms away affect someone just by his/her birthdate ? I don't believe that astrology is real.
Let me provide an anecdote from my early childhood. I don’t know whether attribution should be given to palmistry, astrology and/or just connection of a human with mysterious powers.
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My Aunt -> Married and living in Lodhi Colony Delhi
My Uncle -> Just completed college, in Delhi looking for a job.
Myself -> In early childhood, with bua (aunt) in Delhi for summer vacation.
Palmist/Astorloger/Superior-Intelligence -> A leper with no fingers, but stubs on all his hands and feet. Even the face is affected. Henceforth called X.
Anecdote:
My uncle was passing time sitting under a fan during scorching Delhi afternoon and watching tv in evening. I was too young to take cognizance of such cosmic bodies. I had utter contempt of the ‘ball of fire in sky’, as it curtailed my cricket time to evenings.
My aunt after cooking for us for a few days, got bored and took my uncle to visit X.
X used to sit on the pavement two blocks from our digs. He had a few books on palmistry/astrology and a pan-handles small hindalium bucket. He also had a magnifying glass, which he held using the palms of both hands.
During consultations he would look at palms of hands, soles as well as lines on the forehead. He might also had asked some questions regarding birth date/time and such, which I don’t remember. I was so intrigued with X’s physical deformation as well as his queer request of looking at soles and forehead that I don’t remember anything verbal except what he said at the end of the roadside consultation.
He gave my uncle a date and told him not to drive a car.
Let’s go forward to the above-mentioned date and imaginarily travel to a totally different city. My uncle had all but forgotten about the prediction and went out on an errand driving a Bajaj/Girnar scooter. From nowhere a girl (about 8) ran towards him, got hit and died on the spot.