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GUEST ASTROLOGER:

Robert Zoller

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Reprinted with the Kind Permission of Robert Zoller(copyright©, 2001)

On Astrological Prediction

Predictions must be clear and unambiguous. They must convey practical advice that can be acted upon.

This applies to both natal readings and deliberation on mundane matters. In natal: unless people leave the consultation with both increased knowledge about themselves and some firm practical information they can use as a guide for the future then they have not had an astrological reading at all. In mundane: ideally, someone reading the prediction should be able to act on it. This paper only addresses mundane prediction. Matters specific to natal prediction must be discussed another time.
Behind prediction lie complex philosophical questions that have occupied some of the greatest minds. These questions include the nature of Divinity, the interrelationship between fate and free will and the place of Man in the Cosmos. It is the primary purpose of prediction to direct us toward these questions.

However, for the moment we are to stop a little further down the path – at the place where knowledge resides. Therefore, this paper will only be concerned with the secondary purpose of mundane prediction – the passing on of knowledge that gives a practical understanding that may be acted upon.

Usually to do this prediction must be precise as to both time and place. This is not so all the time because as we will find illustrated below, all prediction must be balanced against both moral and ethical considerations, which may prevent the publication of exacting detail. There may be legal and political considerations too particularly for those of you who will practise in restrictive jurisdictions but for all it is the moral and ethical matters which must never be lost sight of. These considerations are not prescriptive as many in the British and American astrological communities are presently trying to make them but matters for your individual conscience. Be vigilant in this for once you discourse or act you do not have the ability to recall either your word or deed. Prediction properly practised is both.

Astrological Prediction and Intuition

Astrology is a divinatory Art but it is firstly deductive, as are chiromancy or physiognomy and should not be confused with purely intuitive Arts such as clairvoyance.
However, this is not to say that there are no intuitive factors involved. By way of illustration, in April 1997 Robert Zoller made the statement:


"America will have a new president when all this kicks off and he will be in the stamp of Bush. A younger more inexperienced version from the same house".

This statement was not primarily the product of a deductive astrological analysis. As such it is not classed as an astrological prediction but nonetheless proved extraordinarily accurate. It was made at a time when no one empirically knew that Bush junior would be running for the White House let alone would be American president. The words "all this kicks off" refer to terrorism.
It is the product of intuition. But intuition as you must employ it within your astrology. More on this is said later but for the moment please understand that the intuition employed by the Predictive astrologer is very particular and different from that which is commonly understood to be intuition. In your studies you will find it described as "predictive intuition" so as to distinguish it from its more popular cousins.

The key to this predictive intuition lies as usual in the capacity to dislodge your own ego, in transcendence as it were. This is something that can take many years of training and conscious effort to achieve but nonetheless must be striven for if you are to practise astrology accurately and well. Without entering into fuller discussion, for the purpose of this paper please treat "predictive intuition" as that moment when you act as a vehicle – or a channel if you like. However, this is not the passive condition of the medium. It is a state when the greatest insight comes. It may be called the quantum leap. It is that point that lies just beyond reason and the application of the mind and heart.

 

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