Astrology: Superstition, Blind Faith or a Door to the Essential?

By Osho and Osho International Foundation

In this fascinating volume, Osho reclaims astrology from the pop psychologists and fortune tellers” and shares the deep insights that first brought this unique science of the stars into being. From ancient India to the lost civilization of Sumeria, from Pythagoras to Paracelsus to Piccardi, we discover that for thousands of years there has been a thread of awareness of how all things in the universe are interconnected an awareness that modern physics is still struggling to define in scientific terms today.

As Osho says: The universe is a living body, an organic unity. In it, nothing is isolated, all is connected. Whatever is far away is connected to that which is near; nothing is separate. So no one should remain in the fallacy that he is an island: isolated, separate, aloof. Everything is connected to the whole, and everything is all the time affecting others and being affected by others.

Astrology aficionados and skeptics alike will find something in this small volume to provoke a new way of looking at what really makes the world go round.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Osho Media International
• Release date: Jun 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9780880500807

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Osho is one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. He is the author of many books, including Love, Freedom, Aloneness; The Book of Secrets; and Innocence, Knowledge, and Wonder.

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Astrology

superstition, blind faith, or a door to the essential?

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Astrology – superstition, blind faith, or a door to the essential?  by Osho

From a series of OSHO Talks titled: Hidden Mysteries, #5 & 6

These OSHO Talks are complete in themselves

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ISBN-13: 978-0-88050-080-7

Preface

My intention in talking on astrology could be misunderstood. It is not as if I intend to talk on the same subjects that are discussed by an ordinary astrologer. To such an astrologer you can pay a coin and be told your fortune. Perhaps you think that I am going to talk about him or be in support of him. In the name of astrology, ninety-nine percent of astrologers only bluff. Only one percent will not dogmatically assert that an event will definitely happen. They know that astrology is a vast subject – so vast that someone can only enter into it hesitatingly.

When I am talking about astrology, I want you to have a picture of the whole science from many angles, so that you can enter it without any fear or hesitation. When I talk about astrology, I am not talking about the ordinary astrologer – such small matters. But the average man’s curiosity regarding astrology is just to know whether his daughter will get married or not.

We go to consult astrologers only for the nonessential things. Someone goes and asks an astrologer when he will get employment – there is no relationship between your employment and the moon and stars.

The astrology I am talking about concerns the essential, the fundamental.

Osho

Chapter 01 – Astrology: The Science of Cosmic Oneness

Astrology is perhaps the most ancient subject, and also in a way the most ignored. It is the most ancient because astrology has been in existence as far back as we have been able to investigate the history of mankind. Astrological inscriptions have been found on bone remnants from the Sumerian civilization that existed twenty-five thousand years before Jesus. The bone remnants have astrological inscriptions and an outline of the moon’s orbit in the sky.

But in India this science is even older. In the Rigveda, reference is made to a certain constellation of stars which could only have occurred ninety-five thousand years ago. Because of this, Lokmanya Tilak concluded that the Vedas must certainly be even more ancient: the constellation of the stars as the Vedas describe it could only have occurred at a certain moment ninety-five thousand years ago, so that particular vedic reference must be at least ninety-five thousand years old.

The vedic reference could not have been added at a later period. Other, later generations would not have been able to work out a constellation that had existed many years before. But now we have scientific methods which can be used to discover where the stars were at a particular moment in the distant past.

The deepest laws of astrology were first discovered in India. In fact it was only because of astrology that mathematics was born: mathematics was needed to make astrological calculations. The digits used in arithmetic were invented in India; the numbers one to ten, which exist in all the world’s languages, are basically Indian in origin. This decimal system has been adopted throughout the world; it was born in India and slowly spread through the entire world. When you say nine in English, it is simply a modification of the Sanskrit word nav. When you say eight in English, it is simply a modification of the Sanskrit word aht. And the numerals one to nine, prevalent in all the world’s languages, came into existence only because of the influence of Indian astrology.

Knowledge of the existence of astrology reached the Sumerian civilization from India, six thousand years before Jesus. The Sumerians were the first to open the doors of astrology to the Western world; they laid the foundations for the scientific study of the constellations. They constructed a gigantic tower, seven hundred feet high, and from that tower Sumerian priests observed the sky twenty-four hours a day.

Sumerian metaphysicians soon learned that whatever happens to mankind is somehow ultimately connected with the stars – they are the source. Six thousand years before Jesus, the Sumerians thought that whenever illness occurs, whenever epidemics are born, it is somehow connected with the stars. Today there is a scientific basis for this, and those who understand the science of astrology say it was the Sumerians who began the history of mankind.

In 1920, a Russian scientist, Chijevsky, investigated this matter deeply and discovered that every eleven years enormous explosions, nuclear explosions, take place on the sun. He discovered that whenever such nuclear explosions occur on the sun, wars and revolutions begin on Earth. According to Chijevsky, during the past seven hundred years, whenever such phenomena have occurred on the sun, there have been disasters on Earth.

Chijevsky’s analysis was undeniable but, because it went against the Marxist viewpoint, Stalin had him arrested in 1920 and thrown into prison. He was released only after Stalin’s death. Chijevsky’s conclusions must have seemed very strange to Stalin. According to Marxist and communist thinking, whatever revolutions occur on the Earth are fundamentally caused by the economic differences between men. But Chijevsky declared that revolutions are caused by the explosions happening on the sun.

How can explosions on the sun possibly be related to the existence of poverty or wealth in the lives of men? If Chijevsky’s thesis is correct, then Marx’s entire system disintegrates into dust. Then you cannot explain revolutions in reference to economics and class struggle any longer; then only astrology can explain revolution.

Chijevsky could not be proved wrong. His calculations covering seven hundred years were so scientific, the connection he established between explosions on the sun and phenomena on the Earth was so close, that it was difficult to prove him wrong. But it was a simple matter to send him to Siberia.

After Stalin’s death, Khrushchev released Chijevsky. Nearly fifty valuable years of this man’s life had been lost in Siberia. After his release he only lived another four to six months, but in those few months he gathered together even more evidence for his thesis. He also linked solar influence to the spread of epidemics on Earth.

The sun is not a static ball of fire as we ordinarily think, but rather an infinitely alive and dynamic, fiery, organism. The sun changes its mood every moment. And when the sun changes its mood even a little, life on Earth is affected. Nothing happens on the sun without something happening on the Earth. When there is a solar eclipse, twenty-four hours earlier the birds in the forest stop singing. For the entire time of the eclipse the birds stop their singing and the whole of the Earth is silent. All the animals in the forest are full of apprehension, they become oppressed and frightened. The monkeys abandon their trees and come down below; they form themselves into groups, apparently as a means of protection. And it is a surprising thing that these monkeys, who are always gossiping and making such a hue and cry, become so quiet at the time of the eclipse that even meditators cannot compare with them.

Although Chijevsky explained this entire matter, such thinking first originated in Sumer. Later, a Swiss

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[Abhi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

One of the best book on astrology. Osho is genius