A man burdened with debt came asking the other day: “What is wrong with my destiny that put me into a debt-trapIJ When is lady-luck expected to smile on me to pull me out of my financial woesIJ Do I not hold the right to dream making it big in lifeIJ”
Well, dreaming is fine, as it motivates you to work towards a better tomorrow. But day-dreaming is certainly fraught with danger. For, if you are not awake and alert while setting your dream-destination, you remain vulnerable to become a victim of your own self-undoing act.
Remember, if you wish to reap a good harvest, you need to first figure out the soil conditions in terms of what crops it would support better. Second, you also need to be aware about what crops the immediate seasonal conditions would favour better. You can’t just randomly sow seeds of any thing you would fancy and still expect a good harvest. Having the homework done, you could make the right choice to expect good returns. Towards the second step, you need to till the ground thoroughly well, clear off the weeds, and service it well before you sow the seeds. And then you need to keep servicing the ground and the crop till the final harvest to expect desired results.
Your mind too, which drives you through in life, works on similar lines. It comes preloaded with individual-specific mental dispensation, potentials and infirmities both included, as a carry over from the previous birth. That makes it incumbent upon you to first figure out as to what you are primarily made out for. Second, you need to identify your mental limitations and address them well within time. Third, you need to keep constant vigil on incessant streams of thoughts excited by mind, and keep weeding out the inconsequential and the negatives on a day-to-day basis. And then, you also need to be live about the ground realities as on date. If you accordingly prepare the ground, in all probability, you may set your priorities right and then earnestly work to make them come true. Obviously then, success would be within better reach. Should you, on the contrary, mindlessly chase your fanciful dreams, you leave yourself to the mercy of sheer luck and chance.
let us now look at the person’s astrological pointers to get to his basic fabric of making. He is born in Aries lagna, with its lord firmly placed there itself, also enjoying Jupiter’s benevolent aspect. That makes out a strong headed person bounding with energy, armed with leadership skill, drive, and initiative needed to achieve his cherished dreams. Mind-signifier Moon in exaltation enjoys due support from Uranus. That speaks of his fertile mind armed with vision, foresight, and imagination, having strong sense of innovation and invention, capable of coming up with brilliant independent ideas. Mercury and Venus together in the 11th house, make him good at public relations, and also grant him with good luck and helpful friends and associates.
The above positives often get marginalised by his inherent negatives. For, he never cared to address them. The first to note are the two luminaries, the Sun and Moon, both adversely disposed off to the planet of limitation Saturn as well as mischievous Neptune. That in the first place, brings in strong sense of inertia that often delays his initiatives. Second, he would be a day dreamer distanced from ground realities. Third, he does not acknowledge truth on its first sight and would continue mindlessly chasing his dream-destination. Fourth, he is vulnerable to unpredictable mood-swings and also makes him habitually suspicious of others. And in the event of any failure, he will find fault with others rather than try to figure out and acknowledge his own failings. His lagna sign, apart from adding to his strengths, also brings in the tendency to impulsively jump on to action without applying proper forethought. Added to this is his swaggering ego, coming as it may with the Sun locked in adverse formation to Jupiter. That further gets him stuck to his whims and fancies not allowing him any scope to check upon the ground realities. And if that would not be enough, Mercury being ill-disposed to Mars, makes him restless, impatient, overcritical of others, and the one lacking focus.
To sum up, it is not his destiny that failed him. He rather became a victim of his own making. And astrology used in the above spirit can serve as an effective diagnostic to help shape one’s destiny.
The writer is an astrologer, vastu consultant and spiritual counsellor. Write to him at G-5, Basement, Jungpura Extension, New Delhi 14 Tel: 9818037273/ 24310031 Email: pioneerqueries@bharatastro.com Website: www.bharatastro.com