Astrology and Psychology
What are expectations with which people go to an astrologer? To be guided, to know about themselves, to hear something good as helps them plan what they want from out of the circumstances they are placed in, or to be merely bluffed in the mumbo-jumbo that passes for psychology or, as in India for graha shanti (propitation of planets) to do which the astrologer may make his client spend a fortune?
To understand the difference between astrology and psychology some salient points which one cannot afford to forget are:
(a) To call astrology merely as a science of tendencies and to insist that planets merely indicate, as even some Indian astrologers keep saying, is to forget the most notable fact that astrology is a close and scientific study of someone’s pattern of destiny which must manifest during the appropriate dashas.
(b) An astrologer who know his subject should be able to write out his reading even before someone comes for consultation or ask himself some questions that must have happened to a person. Enough instances have been given in my blog posts to show what pre-destined events must have already happened.
(c) An astrologer who cannot trace the pre-destined events can neither understand the psychology of the person he is dealing with nor give him predictions.
(d) An astrologer who fails on both counts: his inability to understand the psychology of his client at the time he has come to consult him and see it clearly as happening is a double failure. The psychologist is ill-equipped to do it. This can be illustrated easily.
Example One
1. Here Rahu is in the sixth house of disputes and Mars as the lord of the sixth house is the lord of disputes and he was running in the sub-period of Mars in the major period of Rahu, when he came for consultation. Mars the sixth lord in the eleventh house aspects Saturn the fourth lord of lands, property and mother.
2. Mars as the lord of the house of disputes here whose sub period he was running creates in him, mental agitation (because Saturn and Mars are affecting the fifth house of the mind).
The person admitted that his problem was precisely that. Now it can be seen in this example that it is the astrologer that has been the psychology, read and got it confirmed.
It is a most elementary use of the Vimshottari dasha. It should be seen that in such a case the psychologist would have got all the information from his client.
The difference between an astrologer and a psychologist is that the astrologer ‘see’ what is happening while a psychologist cannot do it without getting this information from his client.
Example Two
He was running the sub-period of Ketu and in the major period of Mercury.
1. Here Mercury is with Mars, the fourth lord, and he decided to have a house of his own.
2. But he had come in the sub-period of Ketu which is in the seventh house of the spouse, or the woman he was in love with. It being Ketu some deviationist tendencies are visible.
3. In the navamsha (not given here) the ascendant is Scoropio, Mercury is in Pisces, the fifth house and Ketu is in the twelfth house, Libra.
4. Both in the birth horoscope and in the navamsha the major dasha lord, Mercury and the sub-dasha lord, Ketu are in sixth and eight position from each other. This shows a conflict in the matters of the seventh house, which can mean spouse, a girl friend or even a business partner.
He confirmed it by saying that he was in love with a foreign girl who was staying with him and had suddenly left him and gone away after there was a quarrel with her.
The first point of difference between the astrologer and the psychologist is that the astrologer ‘sees’ the problem which is agitating the mind of his client. The psychologist never had nor will ever have such a technique. A good astrologer is far superior to the psychologist.
Example Three
See the following horoscope together with the navamsha.
1. This boy was running the period of Mars, exalted and the lord of the fifth house of emotions which is aspected by Saturn (retrograde) in the fifth house. Saturn and Mars have exchanged places.
2. He was running the sub-period of Ketu which was preceded by the sub-period of Mercury, the seventh lord of girl friend.
3. Ketu in the ninth house (father) is aspected by Mars which shows the intense reaction of his father who had disapproved of the love affair of his son with a foreign girl.
In the Navamsha
1. The Moon representing the mind is very heavily afflicted.
2. The major period lord Mars is with Rahu in the twelfth house.
3. The sub-period lord Ketu is in the sixth house with the debilitated Moon and is being aspected by Mars.
4. The lord of the fifth house in the navamsha is Venus badly placed in the eighth house and is being aspected by Saturn, the lord of the eighth, the house of self-annihilation.
The boy lost his mental balance and was found dead in a foreign country.
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In Transit
1. Saturn was in Capricorn causing the third two-and-a-half year spell of saade-saati.
2. Mars was in Pisces aspecting the seventh house of love attractions and death.
3. Ketu was in Gemini the seventh house of death when this incident tool place.
The second point of difference between the astrologer and the psychologist is that the astrologer can see the tragic pattern of an event unfolding in future, though, he can do nothing to prevent it.
Astrology takes one into a firm belief in the Will of God and an astrologer can see it, forewarn about it and sometimes succeed in preventing it or getting it mitigated.
The psycho-analyst need not believe in divine laws. In fact the father of psycho-analysis, Freud, called religion and belief in God as escapism and dubbed it as “father neurosis”.
An astrologer’s counseling is based on the future he sees clearly. A psychologist is handicapped in this respect.
The Case of the Young Man
1. The boy was running the period of the Moon which is with Rahu and is being aspected by Mars from the eighth house.
2. It becomes a case of deep neurosis, astrologically.
3. How was it manifesting?
4. The Moon is the sixth lord of aggression aspecting the ninth house, the father.
5. Mars from the eighth house is aspecting, Venus the ninth lord and the Sun the significator of father.
6. Mars also aspects the fourth lord, Venus representing mother and domestic happiness.
7. Mars also aspects the Moon, the significator of the mother.
Was the boy showing aggression towards his father and also making his mother very uncomfortable? That was the problem precisely.
Now look at the dasha scheme.
The Moon is in the third house and the period of the Moon will be followed by that of Mars, the third lord in the eighth house.
But was the young man behaving properly outside the house? Yes, was the answer.
See the aspect of Jupiter on the tenth house from the ascendant and also from the Moon.
No psychiatric treatment was working. The advice given was, keep the young man somewhere outside the house. The more he stays in the house the greater will be his aggressiveness. The malady is not curable.
The young man got a job outside the city where his parents stay and his malady is under control.
Psychologists are in the excellent habit of producing their researches and getting them discussed while astrologers hardly do any research and what they do in the seminars they attend to deliver some loose general talk and attack the scientists for being antiastrology, or boast about their greatness.
In the journal they edit, they report their speeches and show their photos, to build up a high profile for themselves. So much of space is wasted. Or they claim success for some mumbo-jumbo political predictions.
Most of the astrologers are ill-read. Many of them do not want to keep abreast of good findings of psychologists and sociologists which can help them understand a horoscope against the specific background of their client.
Astrology will always remain superior to psychology but the psychologist is a trained person while the astrologer may be a quack which most of the astrologers are.
There is lot of hope now as more and more of elitist classes have started studying astrology.
In the for-seeable future there will be a very happy fusion of astrology and psychology. Then and then alone will counseling have substance and meaning.
What are astrologers doing to produce tangible and statistical researches to prove that astrology is far above physical sciences and cannot be a subject of examination in a physical laboratory?
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