Made in Heaven

These days astrology has started to fascinate me. It started with a friend of mine saying that the Sun signs match a persons qualities to a great extent. I started reading my sun sign description and found that, quiet matching my personality. Then I went on to an other sign as I wanted to know that person. Even that matched. You could get the sun sign descriptions at this link [http://www.cyberspacei.com/englishwiz/library/names/zodiac/contents.htm]. Please read them and I hope they match your personality to quite some extent.

In this blog I will try to explain this "Marriages are made in heaven" concept using astrology. Might be difficult but lets see how it goes. Now assuming you know nothing about astrology. Take any given year. That year has got 12 months. If I ask how the weather was in the month of May in 1975, what would you answer. Simple answer is "Must have been hot". You probably weren't even born then, as myself, but you know that May is summer and it will be hot whatever the year may be. Now extend it- how about someone born in may 1975. Can we say anything about that person. The answer is yes. Now why is May always hot. Because Sun is closer to the earth. Now how about someone born in may. The "Sun sign" has a role to play there. So here comes the Sun sign. April and May might have somewhat similar weather but same is not the case with Sun signs. They are quite different. Now how about Moon doesn't it have a role to play. Yes, it too has a role to play. The Moon sign comes in. Why leave out the planets and stars, they too do something to our brains.

Looks weird but its a fact. The only force we know of celestial bodies is gravity and how could it shape our personality. No answer at least for the time being. One of the dialogues from the movie Matrix says "You have already made the choice, you just have to execute it". Similarly Astrology says that "Your personality is already shaped, you just have to live it".

Sun sign is very basic in astrology and astrologers do not give it a very high priority but it has its significance and is easy to find out as you just have to know the persons birthday. The link given above has the signs and the dates, please check that to know your sun sign. Moving on to our weather example. If I ask how would the weather, tomorrow be exactly. You would have to wait until tomorrow morning atleast to see the rising Sun and say that today would be a sunny day if the sun is bright and cloudy if the Sun is behind the clouds etc. To say simply if you look east at the time of sunrise you get a feel of how the day would be. Now if you have to know how someones personality would be, you have to look east at the time of his/her birth. That[Zodiac Constellation] gives you something called Ascendant[Lagna] which is very important in astrology. I am giving all the confusing terms. Let me try to make it simpler.

Einstein said that Space & Time is like a smooth fabric and celestial bodies create dents in it. Similarly your brain is like a raw piece of tissue and the planets and stars print something onto it as and when you take your first breath. Now you might ask how about the 9 months in the womb, do these celestial bodies sit idle all these 9 months. As said in the matrix example, they too have already made a choice and they are just executing it. Like as and when you are born your future is decided and so does the no. of children you have etc. Palmistry would prove that I guess. To go further, in ancient days we had a muhurat for first night too. Recently I was watching a spiritual channel and in one of the programs the discussion was on this. The person said that the muhurat for first night is very important and you shouldn't just simply jump into making love.

Coming back to our made in heaven concept. There are 12 zodiac signs like the 12 months. The stars are fixed i.e these zodiac signs are fixed in space and only we [Earth] are moving. If you go to any astrologer or any astrology website to know what the future holds for you they would ask for your birth date, time and place. If you know these you can get the position of planets with respect to Earth at that very specific time from astronomy. Now we come to something called natal chart and is the one that is used by astrologers to say anything or everything about you. Getting the natal chart is a 2 step process to say. As and when someone is born draw a line from their birthplace to the center of earth. Draw an other line perpendicular to it [lets forget latitudes and tilt for the time being] in the east west direction. This is your co ordinate system to say, with yourself on the +Y axis and East direction on the negative -X axis. The negative X - axis points to the ascendant. and +Y axis the Mid heaven and +X axis is the descendant, -Y is the Imum coil. Draw lines at 30 degrees to divide the plane into 12 parts. Place the planets according to their positions.

Your natal chart is ready. Who is the perfect match for you. We have always heard that "Opposites make a good match". Astrology echoes that saying you are attracted to someone who has your descendant as their ascendant. So whatever is being missed by you would be taken care of by your soul mate. Planets bring in some asymmetry but lets ignore it for the time being. Your ascendant is on the -X axis so your matches ascendant should be on +X axis. You are on the +Y axis so your match will be on the -Y axis. As I have said earlier +Y axis is your mid heaven and -Y axis is the mid heaven for your match. So where did your match take shape. "In HEAVEN".