This week in Astro News:
How can you get your personal characteristics from the stars? Surely, you get
them from your parents? It’s not planetary influence, it’s DNA, say the
sceptics. Well, yes, it is, but as an astrologer I’d have to say that it’s
both. Whenever I look at the charts of a parent and child, there are always
very powerful contacts between them, such as the Moon in the parent’s chart
being in the same sign, or even the exact same degree, as Mercury or Venus in
the child’s. And not just one contact like this, but several, every time. If
you can go back a generation, to the grandparents, you will probably find a
sign or a degree that repeats over all three generations. Isn’t this an
astrological form of heredity, passing the same characteristics and values
down the line? I think so.
I’m not the only one who thinks this way. The current issue of Correlation,
the academic journal of scientific research in astrology, reports on a
project by Australian astrologer Bernadette Brady, who has been analysing
1,250 sets of parent-and-child data to see if the old astrological rules hold
true. The results show that the frequency of astrological links between the
mother and her first child are far beyond what you would expect from pure
chance.
I think there’s a natural timing mechanism going on here, linked to fertility
and conception, which perhaps we don’t fully understand. It will be picked
up, though, by an astrological chart, which shows things such as lunar cycles
very clearly. It’s interesting, whatever it is – and interesting, too, that
the old rules which this new research supports actually come from the
astrology of the Ancient Greeks, nearly 2,000 years ago. Obviously they
noticed things that we’ve forgotten.
Romeo Beckham, who arrived last week, demonstrates astrological heredity
perfectly. He has five planets in very close alignment with his mother’s
chart – including the classic Moon-Venus link – and four with his father’s.
He was also born with Venus, goddess of love, rising in Libra, the sign of
lovers. And people wonder why they called him Romeo.
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Research into Astrology and Infertility by Pat Harris, MSc., D.F.Astrol.S.
I would like to thank everyone who has responded to my earlier notices on Jonathan's website and who volunteered to take part in the research that I am conducting as part of my PhD in astrology and health psychology at Southampton University, UK. I now have quite a number of people taking part which will help me in conducting my study into factors that may or may not correlate with fertility treatment outcome. I should have a progress report out soon. However, I am still looking for women who are currently pregnant - not necessarily as a result of fertility treatment - and who would like to contact me about details of my research to see if they would like to take part. My email address is: pharris@interalpha.co.uk
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