Probable Realities - V
The sum total of all the probable realities which branch off from a person’s present lifetime is what William Butler Yeats termed the “Body of Fate.”8 This is what the astrological horoscope shows. Attempts to use the natal horoscope to describe what Yeats termed “Will” – the precise series of events which occur and occurred in this present lifetime – often lead to incorrect predictions. The person’s birth horoscope is valid for all of his or her probable realities rather than for any particular one of them. The birth horoscope shows tendencies, propensities, possibilities; but not facts. Exact prediction is sometimes possible when there are lots of indications pointing the same way – e.g. lots of Uranus transits and directions happening about the same time, which indicates sudden and unexpected shakeups in the life. But the only way to make exact predictions in the normal course of an astrological reading is to use intuition. This is the only way to cut across all the possibilities and get down to the one that will be chosen for this present life history. And this is done by reading the client – by psychically anticipating his or her already-made subconscious decisions – not by astrology.9
All probable realities for a particular lifetime start from the same birth moment: they are all variations on a theme begun at the same moment in time. Astrology merely suggests; it doesn’t command. All astrology per se shows or ever can show is the wind speed and direction at a given moment, but not where the leaf will land. There is always a greater or lesser element of chance involved. Astrology doesn’t have the mechanistic surety of physics or chemistry, and it never will. All claims of exact astrological prediction that I have investigated have proven false.10 Exact prediction is only possible by using inspired intuition or psychic ability. The existence of probable realities means that even physics and chemistry are not and can never be as mechanistic as materialistic scientists would like. We astrologers must not make the mistake of the materialists, falling for their incorrect assumptions about the nature of reality (in particular that time is linear).11 We are not unitary beings who live our lives in linear sequence, but rather infinitely ramified “waves” who can only remember one single line of personal history at a time (although our memory can be expanded to include probable realities using a technique similar to past life regressions).
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NOTES
8 William Butler Yeats, A Vision, Collier NYC 1966 page 83 ff.
9 You can psychically probe a client at a distance; even one you’ve never met. But this is intuition, not astrology, although the practice of astrology sharpens intuition. See Intuition in Astrology – The Sunshine House System, posted at www.dearbrutus.com => Makransky Miscellany => Astrology Articles.
10 Bob Makransky, Inexact Astrology, appendix to the book Primary Directions (available as a free download from www.dearbrutus.com. This book also explains the primary directions described in this article).
11 Time is not linear. Rather, everything that has ever happened and ever will happen, in all past and future lives and probable realities (what William Butler Yeats termed “Mask”), is all going on at once, in an eternal now moment. Linear time is an illusion, similar to the illusion of motion produced by the series of still pictures which make up a movie. Babies (and even young children, who sometimes talk about memories from other lifetimes) are not as centered in a one-track existence as adults are. Babies and young children are consciously impinged upon by influences from other lives and probable realities which most adults have learned to ignore. The same socialization process which props up a baby’s sense of being a unitary, abiding, separated individual also imprisons that individual in a furrow of inexorable linear temporality. For more information see Bob Makransky, Thought Forms, Dear Brutus Press 2000.