Hello everyone!!!
Before you go through this, some of you might have initially checked out your horoscope in the ‘astro’ section of the newspaper, magazine, internet, iphone or whatever source it is. You may find today very good or an average from daily routine. Whatever astrological sign you may belong to the things around you change and keep changing endlessly. If anything goes wrong you sometimes blame saying ‘bad times’ or ‘unlucky’, etc and even a pure skeptic sometimes seems to admit that his stars are not on the right track.
Suppose you are reading this sipping some tea and then you turn the page and stumble upon another saying that having tea that’s too hot, daily increases the chances of getting cancer! First, you put your tea aside and share the news with someone near you or ponder about it but you don’t know the exact consequences. The same comes when you think of the future or what’s going to happen.
For this purpose, people use their curiosity and try to know what’s going to happen the next day, the next month or the next year and its human tendency to believe that things always go in a systematic order of periodicity similar to the numerical system or the chemical periodic table. That’s why our ancestors in Babylonia, Greece and Egypt tried to construct the model of the then known universe. They observed the skies day by day and recorded the movements of the Sun and the five visible planets on clay tablets (ancient ancestors of modern day silicon chips) and came to the conclusion that the Sun along with the planets always seemed to move across a band in the sky called ‘zodiac’ and surprisingly along this band lies 12 constellations (patterns in the night sky by stars but created by pure human imagination. You can also create your own sky, however wild it is) which were already known. So, the planets and the Sun ‘revolving around the Earth’ (remember the Geocentric theory before Copernicus introduced Heliocentric theory opposed then) seemed to traverse across the 12 zodiacal constellations that have definite boundaries. So, the Sun with the planets pass across these constellations i.e. from Aries to Pisces. Here, you can say that each constellation in this band is a zodiac sign. For example, if you were born on 12th November 1986, you belong to Scorpio, but astronomically speaking this means that the Sun in the course of his annual cycle was then passing through the constellation of Scorpius and on that day of any year, when you try to look at the Sun (obviously it’s not at all good), Scorpius will be hiding behind the Sun. It’s just a line of sight effect. Got it!
Also, there are good theories and bad theories. A theory is a set of principles which determines the outcome of an experiment or a phenomenon precisely. A good theory, even if fails contributes to science but whereas a bad theory doesn’t even have a basis of creation. For example, the steady state theory is now a hot topic among astronomers and several cosmologists. This in turn creates a healthy environment for the search for truth. Astrology is an example of bad theory because when we say that ‘whatever has to happen will certainly happen’, we can think deeply and again say that if this is true, then we cannot even think of development there will certainly be several limits to what we do and also the recent inclusion of 13th sign, Ophiuchus conflicts this bad theory. If this is true, then our lives will be controlled by the stars and planets looking down upon us. This is ridiculous since humans did, can and will do wonders such as the reusable space shuttles, cruise ships, maglev trains, atomic clocks, particles accelerators, supersonic jets, whatnot everything!
From now onwards, when you again watch out for the ‘horoscope’ or ‘astro’ section or visit an ‘astrologer’ just think how a line of sight between the mere random imaginative patterns of stars, balls of rock or gas, very hot and huge ball of gas which are millions and millions of miles away can influence the lives of you and me.
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