Astro*Carto*Graphy P.I. Part Deux

    

   Lucky us - for two reasons.

 

   Hallelujah! Senator Obama's birth certificate was published on the internet. Aquarius Rising. Aha! We now have a real,  birth certificate, verified time of birth and astrologers the world over can start  working on his horoscope and  maps. In a world where hard-to-get, concealed and false birth times are business-as-usual for political candidates, we got lucky.

 

   As soon we I clap eyes on the latitude crossings and  Cyclo*Carto*Graphy maps for Misters McCain and Obama, we'll have lots of ideas to play with.Watch this space.

  

   But there's another reason we got lucky. As it turns out, NONE of the rumoured or rectified birth times astrologers presented were anywhere near his actual  time of birth.

 

    Surprise, surprise.

 

   Why is this lucky? Because it's way past time that astrologers faced facts - rectifying horoscopes almost never bloody works.  The temptation and the rush to play with birth times for Senator Obama, and the failure to get anywhere near his real time of birth, is, sadly, nothing new. A 'rectified' birth time is ultimately unprovable.It wastes our time.. And the time lost is considerable, almost tragic. Astrologers can spend days, weeks, months  futzing around with  speculative birth times when we could be working with facts we already have. 

 

     Any conscientious astrologer can do seriously useful work for people with uncertain birth times. You can run consecutive Astro*Carto*Graphy maps and do a thorough, detailed  intake interview. Where has the native traveled? Was the native  lucky or unlucky? Where was the love of the person's  life born or encountered? Where were the parents' ' traumas and triumphs? Every person's life and maps  has 'hot spots' - places they've yearned to go and been thwarted, or fulfilled beyond expectations.

 

   Where is our intellectual humility, our caution. our hesitation, our respect for what is not yet known? You'd think that astrologers. of all people. would have some awe and wonder for the Great Mystery.

 

  Have we no tolerance for ambiguity? Must we have an answer, even if it's a wrong one, for everything? No wonder science laughs at our profession.

 

  The rectification of birth charts with unknown birth times is worse than a waste of time: it is an insult to those who respect mystery and truth,  an insult to the intelligence. 

 

   It belongs straight in the dustbin:

 

   Buckminster Fuller, the author of  'No More Secondhand God', couldn't have put it better.  

 

  This week,  we count more than 270 newly-discovered planets outside our solar system, and plenty more in our own. We don't even have 3-D horoscopes easily available yet. 

 

 Let's not stick our heads in the sand and go medeval now. That would be torture, indeed. Onward!

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

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