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Astrology and the False Identity

posted by Lynn Hayes | 7:16pm Monday February 19, 2007

Susan has a post today that reminded me of an experience I had before I was married. She writes:

I know astrology works. I have made mistakes in casting charts that have proved to me that it is valid. When I cast the wrong time, the charts didn’t fit the person, and the timing of events was off. When I corrected the chart, it made more sense and the timing was correct.

I experienced this also with a clients once; I began the reading and the client could not relate to anything that I said. I double checked her birth data I found I was off by ten days. The reading then was accurate.

Years ago, I met a gentleman that I was interested in, and since I was an astrologer when we started to get closer I asked him for his birth information. I did his chart, and was mystified. The chart did not reflect the person that I was getting to know. The chart using the birth data he gave me was for a more aggressive individual than the sensitive person I was getting to know; the chart had a strong Mars and Aries component and lacked a watery complement. I related my confusion to him, whereupon he admitted that he had gone underground in the 1960s and taken on a false identity in order to avoid the draft for the war in Vietnam. To this day I think that that I am the only person who knows his true identity and the story behind his adopted birthdate.

I have been surprised at the vehemence with which some people want to disprove astrology. Juno in the comments suggested that the burgeoning number of articles trying to prove/disprove astrology is connected with the Saturn/Neptune opposition (fact/mystery) and I certainly agree. But I think there’s an interesting element to the psychology of people who are determinedly skeptical and out to prove that mystery and magic do not exist, and I present the idea that for these people the idea of the mysterious is frightening and therefore rejected in its totality. The opposition of Saturn to Neptune can be destabilizing, as I’ve said, and when the boat starts rocking some people reach immediately for the anchors.



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elsa

posted February 19, 2007 at 8:40 pm


This is a great story, Lynn. The kind other astrologers can reference



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Lynn

posted February 20, 2007 at 6:24 am


Thanks Elsa.



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Rain

posted February 20, 2007 at 1:52 pm


The first time I had a natal chart done, I was off on the birthtime I told her by less than half an hour. I didn’t imagine it would matter, but I told the astrologer the corrected one. Surprisingly to me, the chart changed in ways that made it more accurate. Just half an hour. I suppose there’d be other times where it’d matter less but in that case, it was significant



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Lynn

posted February 20, 2007 at 3:54 pm


The ascendant changes by one degree every four minutes, so a half hour would make a 7 or 8 degree difference. That can change the sign on the ascendant which changes the whole personality description, and shift planets from one house to another



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Lookout

posted March 23, 2009 at 9:53 pm


Why is this page on Australia’s secret ACMA blacklist of banned websites? Seriously.
Check wikileaks.org if you don’t believe me!



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Lynn Hayes

posted March 24, 2009 at 6:53 am


Lookout, that is seriously weird. Thanks for calling it to my attention!



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Josh

posted March 2, 2010 at 12:12 am


Are you aware this this page is on the ACMA black list of banned websites? Well looks like they can add another item to their long list of failures.
On a side note you should raise this information with ACMA as it is attempting to stop a whole nation from viewing this page.



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tompa

posted March 24, 2010 at 6:56 am


this article is on the australian censorship blacklist, just making you aware, please fight this



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