Form of fortune-telling

Usage examples of astrology.

We had both been born under the sign of Libra, so if one believes in astrology, as Narayan, who once supplied me with my horoscope, certainly does, we were destined by the stars to know each other.

To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.

Whether we choose mediumship, palmistry, astrology, meditation, imagery, visualization or any number of other possibilities, the only prerequisites necessary seem to be that we keep an open mind and make the effort to try something.

Astrology is much more of an art than a science, and the personal factor in both querent and astrologer is a very large one.

Any pairing of poetry, astrology, and ornamental rugs, for instance, can mean synergetic miracles.

Once more, we cannot fail to see that just as astrology has given place to astronomy, so theology, the science of Him whom by searching no man can find out, is fast being replaced by what we may not improperly call theonomy, or the science of the laws according to which the Creator acts.

True, among these sundry things he would indeed have been able to find some newly published books, but not scientific, but rather antiscientific in character: books on astrology, chiromancy, occultism, black magic and witchcraft, and so on, which would have led him to the conclusion that civilization is dead, and the mankind has been thrown back into the Dark Ages.

Everything from Vedic mathematics, physics, geography, Ayurveda and the study of human physiognomy, cosmology, astronomy and astrology to military strategy, self-defense and hand-to-hand combat, mastery of weapons, engineering and architecture .

For you, it could be astrology, numerology, yoga, dance, dowsing, meditation, astral projection, hypnotic regression, dreamwork, breathwork or religion.

There are various manuscripts of Averroes extant treating on physics, pure mathematics, astronomy and astrology, from which it would appear that, in spite of their encyclopaedic attainments, the celebrated men of these times still believed in some popular errors.

I did not indeed run much risk, for everything hung from an if, and in the judicious employment of ifs lies the secret of all astrology.

We believe that morality in the traditional sense, the morality of intentions, was a prejudice, precipitate and perhaps provisional - something on the order of astrology and alchemy - but in any case something that must be overcome.

It is a discussion that flows thematically from the previous section on astrology and relates to the story, two sections back, of the two angelic American girls, Gabrielle and Michelle.

To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.

In being sceptical of astrology, Khayyam was in tune with Avicenna, who wrote a book refuting it.