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Originally posted by duckznutz
Its all bollocks I am afraid (no offence meant!).
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I've come to look at it like I look at other "personality tools" like the Myers-Briggs, numerology, yadda yadda yadda. Not something to use to guide your life (I won't marry you because you're a Libra, I shouldn't take this job because Mercury is in the whatever house), but something that makes you go "hmm" and see something about yourself and the way you operate that you may not otherwise have seen. It may be based in complete hokum but if the end result is a greater understanding of yourself, what's the harm? Looking at a particularly hellish time of my life as a "Saturn return" (a time when Saturn returns to the position it was in when you were born, and during which time you are supposed to learn significant life lessons) helped me see it as an opportunity to grow and change and learn from the situations I was given, instead of feeling like a victim and whining about how much my life sucked. Now, could someone have couched that to me in non-astrological terms? Probably. Most likely you can live every day of your life like there are significant life lessons to be learned. But this perspective somehow resonated for me, and rang true, so I used it.
IMHO, James Randi is as big an ideologue and dogmatist as any new-age guru or televangelist I've ever seen. I'm all for skepticism, reason, and proof, but I'm also for keeping an open mind. More things in heaven and earth, Horatio, yadda yadda yadda