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The placebo effect point is profound -- even if it's not the exact mechanism at play it is funny how whatever you think and believe tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Better to set your own record tune, rather than to have one curated to you by an astrologer.

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Thanks a bunch!

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Bingo!

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ਜਿਸਕੇ ਸਿਰ ਉੱਪਰ ਤੂੰ ਸੁਆਮੀ

ਸੌ ਦੁਖ ਕੈਸਾ ਪਾਵੇ

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Believing or not believing reveals you . It reveals your strength and lack of it in your beliefs. If you are weak ,unsure and run out of choices or options then astrology/astrologers become an arm that you want to hold. Just a psychological relief !

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Dear KBS, I am amazed that you had ventured into the pseudo science. I’ll tell from my experience that I got unsolicited astrological inputs about my future. First, all of them failed to be anywhere near the actual happenings. As I said above that all these were unsolicited, they were so general and ambiguous that I folded them in the only one folder: ‘ridiculous’. In my personal opinion, astrology is a bastard child of astronomy with not even an iota of the latter’s DNA, which is a dynamic (not stagnant), yet pure science. I’ve seen many of my acquaintances, fall in the trap and end up losing confidence in themselves, leaving everything to fate. There are reasons to accept that ultimately the destiny will prevail, yet it is gross deception if someone claims that he knows others’ destinies and can intervene by way of remedies to correct the predicted wrongs destined to happen. Gurbani says this about them: ਲੈ ਭਾੜ ਕਢਹਿ ਵਿਆਅਹੁ, ਕੱਢ ਕਾਗਦ ਦਸੈ ਰਾਹੁ। ਵੇਖੋ ਲੋਕਾ ਇਹ ਵਿਡਾਣ , ਮਨ ਅਂਧਾ ਨਾਓ ਸੁਜਾਣ। (Ang 471).

And further SGGS calls them ‘Banaras ke Thag’. (Ang 476).

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Wonderful Horoscopic description of human thinking and behavior!

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