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“Consulting The Astrologer” (Oil Painting by Henry Nelson O’Neil)

“I agree, therefore, with those who have said that there are two kinds of divination: one, which is allied with art; the other, which is devoid of art. Those diviners employ art, who, having learned the known by observation, seek the unknown by deduction. On the other hand those do without art who, unaided by reason or deduction or by signs which have been observed and recorded, forecast the future while under the influence of mental excitement, or of some free and unrestrained emotion…Men capable of correctly interpreting all these signs of the future seem to approach very near to the divine spirit of the gods whose wills they interpret, just as scholars do when they interpret the poets.”

Cicero, De Divinatione (On Divination), Book I

Welcome to this blog! It is devoted to an exploration of the art of astrological divination, the art of interpreting astrological synchronicity. It is also an attempt to synthesize my ideas on the art of astrological divination developed over the course of several decades of engagement with it.

This astrological interpretation pertains to the symbolism of planets, signs of the zodiac, constellations, and “houses” or sectors of the Zodiac. We will examine both Eastern (primarily “Vedic” or Indian astrology) and Western astrological symbolism. Occasionally, divination by means of the interpretation of the symbolism of five elements (earth, water, air, fire, and space), or the symbolism of deities (gods and goddesses), or the symbolism of animals, e.g., Celtic and Native American animal symbolism, will be used in complement with astrological symbols.

My approach is not based on casting horoscopes for the time of birth of individuals. Instead, it uses horary astrological divination, divination on specific questions or issues by recourse to the astrological symbols corresponding to a specific question or issue.

I also do not rely on the standard horary astrological method of casting a horoscope based on the time of the query or question. In these divination readings, I will not disclose my method of ascertaining the astrological symbols corresponding to the specific question or issue I am addressing. Rather, I will only disclose the relevant astrological symbols and interpret them to draw the probable conclusions on the specific question or issue.

Carl Jung conceived synchronicity in terms of  an acausal or non-causal, but meaningful relation between two events or series of events. Astrological synchronicity is, therefore, an acausal or non-causal and meaningful relation between astrological symbols and an event, entity, action, character, person, group, issue or problem, etc.

Since causal influences (cause-effect relations), alleged or actual, are not involved in divination, the whole question of whether astrology, or divination in general, is scientific or pseudo-scientific is irrelevant to the status of divination.

Rather, astrological divination is the art of interpreting the meaningful relationships between the order of astrological symbols, or other divination symbols, on the one hand, and events, persons, entities, actions, issues, etc., on the other.

Thill Raghu, Ph.D.