Astrology: Fate In The Stars Or In Our DNA?

"Dale: I just heard this: 'One's future is not in the stars but in our DNA.' What is your reaction?"


People have serious misunderstandings about astrology as they think it has to do with event prediction or discerning fate.

Several hundred years back astrology was only about event prediction issues. Astrologers were reputed to be very accurate in predicting events back then and it doesn’t surprise me as society was a lot simpler then. Four hundred years ago, if the astrological forecast was for a major life upheaval in a person then there were not very many ways that this could be expressed. So it was easy to predict the events that were expected to occur. OTOH, our society is now far more complex with so many more options that the upheaval can be expressed in a lot different events. So today we can’t even do what astrologers could do back in the 1600s because society is different. However, the events as they unfold in a person’s life may differ but the psychological impact on the person during the upheaval is far more predictable so for that reason the astrologer should confine his/her predictions to that of the process of change and transformation rather than events.

In any case, astrology was able to predict events at one time but it has never been able to tell of our fate. Event prediction is something that may be done when the astrologer knows a lot about the context of the client’s life and fits the symbols into the context of a person’s life, but as far as discerning fate, NO WAY! Events come and go in a person’s life, while fate is the ultimate destiny and purpose of a person’s life as expressed in the events that we experience. God determines our fate and the planets are great indicators of personality traits in personality dynamics within oneself and between couples, and it can warn of POTENTIAL upheavals in life, but there is not now and never has been a way that astrologers can see the fate of a person.

As far as our future lying in our DNA, that’s about as intelligent as saying that the future of a building lies in its blueprints.