Astra inclinant, sed non obligant. (The stars incline us. They do not bind us.) Exact Aspects get called fate aspects . I hate it so much. There's no fate but what we make. I grew up with a darling mother with a sterling character and heart of gold and a mountain of personal baggage. I grew up with horrible ideas like "If you dream it, it WILL come true." and spent much of my early adulthood desperately trying to escape a deep dread and the terror that my life was like a Greek Tragedy, where the harder I tried to escape my horrible fate, the more doomed I was to make it come true. So I like collecting movie snippets and sayings that assert this is not true, such as this line from Minority Report that I typically misremember as you still have a choice. You can choose. And I like collecting anecdotes. Someone sold their house and traveled the world hunting for gold and later gold was found literally in the backyard of the house they sold. When my eldest son was thirteen, I ...
A Critique of Astrology