Can Astrology predict the future?

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Apart from its ability to predict future trends, astrology can also be used to create the future. For example, a friend, a professional musician, was about to audition for a gig. I advised him to show up early, before a void-of-course Moon kicked in (nothing comes of things started during a void-of-course Moon). He did as suggested, leaving all the other candidates to audition while the Moon was void-of-course. As luck would have it, the band leader chose someone else for the job -- but that choice was made while the Moon was void-of-course (yes, we took that into account). As it turned out, the person picked had a scheduling conflict and couldn't perform with the band, so my friend received an "unexpected message" a few days later (shown by his own natal chart) offering him the job instead.

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Now here's a question that everyone seems to want to know the answer to. And hopefully an answer that will be in the positive, and thus a means for everybody to know their future and do something about it.

According to astrologers, and the innumerable people who believe in astrological predictions due to their own experiences with astrology, the future can be predicted by astrology. But as with all things good, there is a catch here too. Although astrologers claim to be able to predict the future, and there has been plenty of evidence over the years to support their claims, they are very clear to point that astrology can only predict major events and trends in the future, and not specific details.

So, astrology may be able to predict whether you are going to have a good few years in the near future or go through a rough time, but it may not be able to predict the reasons for it.

Astrologers also say that astrological predictions are all made, keeping in mind, that things will run their natural course. But due to variables such as the Free Will of people, such events may not always come to pass in their natural course and may be affected by the choices that any person makes at any point in their life. These choices, which are made out of your Free Will, can alter predictions about the future, positively as well as negatively.

Thus, although the cosmic bodies and their positions are a very accurate and reliable source of knowing the future, what is also true is that no one is bound by their stars, and all of us make choices which affect our future and the astrological predictions about it.

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No. If you had a "vision", or a set of numbers or planetary movements told you of 9/11, the recent devastating tsunami or any number of plane/train/bus crashes that claim peoples lives every day, wouldn't you have an obligation to do what ever it took to alert the relevant authorities before the event? After all, it would only take one correct prediction to be taken seriously. So that leaves two possible conclusions - either astrologers can see the future but can't be bothered to do anything about it or, it simply doesn't work.

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In my opinion yes, people have predicted many things exactly the way they happened. There is a modern prophet that looks to the stars and learned the code and he predicted 9/11 about 5 years before it happened! He knew George Bush would be president, which towers, who did it, around the time it happened and the date! Some think the stars can tell the future and others don't. Now some scientists are going as far as to saying that the stars telling the future, aka astrology, can be purely scientific. You can believe what you want along with everybody else, but I'm just posting my own personal opinion.

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