Zodiac - Why should the date of my birth effect who I
become? How to rationally deal with what we don’t understand?
The date of my birth effected who I became. It’s strange to
accept this. It doesn’t only affect it in a very general way of seasons or
whatnot, but the very specific day matters to whom I’ll become. I can’t understand
why that would be. Our science can’t explain it. And yet there is plenty of
proof.
The zodiac gives descriptions, a lot of descriptions, of our
characters given our birthdate, but it doesn’t give explanations for why that
would be. Ok, maybe if you buy into the “Moon over Jupiter” explanations which
I can’t take seriously. Even if Jupiter’s location affects me, I need to
understand why that is or else it seems like gibberish.
Let me be clear, there is plenty of proof for the Zodiac
viewpoint. (By the Zodiac I mean descriptions of characters and not the horoscope
future predictions!!) The proof, as far as I can see, is more than merely
psychological trickery. That is, I recently mentioned to a friend that Murphy’s
laws’ truth lies only in our psychology. That we see them when we want to, and
don’t see when they don’t happen. This, it seems to me, is not the full case
with the Zodiac.
An especially brilliant book I browsed through is the Secret
Language of Birthdays. For each birthday it gives a description, and at least
for the examples I looked at it was much more correct than not. In fact, it was
so correct as to reveal character aspects of myself which I didn’t bring into
words, as well as of my friends.
But science is more than descriptions, it gives you the
cause to the effect, and that the Zodiac doesn’t give us. You can understand
why, it is a very complicated system with a lot of leeway.
Most people reaction
to what they can’t explain is to see it as nonsense, or as magic. That is
not my reaction. I see proof, but proof with no valid explanation, and no
predictive capacity (perhaps because of the complexity of the system).
How then to deal with what you don’t understand and yet
accept to be true? How to distinguish between it and other possible gibberish?
Tarot readings – utter nonsense; but maybe it’s just because I don’t know
enough (not). People who talk to ghosts – wackos, but then I heard some amazing
stories that I’d be hard pressed to disbelieve. The fact of the matter is that
I don’t know. That none of us know. As we all know, the difference between
science and magic is knowledge as is often described in time-travel books and
movies.
How to deal with such things in a more sophisticated way
than rejecting them because we don’t understand them?
Books Discussed
