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Horoscopes: Myth or Magic?

By: Charles Kassotis

Do you read your horoscope in the daily newspaper? Maybe you call the horoscope hotline on occasion to find out what a reader has to say about your future. You might even dabble in the occult yourself from time to time. Why do people care about this mysterious reading of their zodiac sign and the telling of their futures? Is there any real truth in the predictions?

Horoscopes have been around for centuries if not millennia. Humans have long been fascinated with the earth and its relationship to other celestial bodies in the solar system and even the universe. Star constellations have been particularly interesting to stargazers, who attempt to make meaning from the constellations themselves as well as the shift of certain stars or planets, sometimes called heavenly bodies. The significance of certain planetary groupings, as well as solar or lunar eclipses, is believed to have a bearing on the chain of events in a person’s life.

Such beliefs play a key role in our culture. Even the Bible emphasizes the importance of the Star of Bethlehem that showed the magi, or scholars, in the East where the infant Jesus was to be born. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous novel, The Scarlet Letter, associates various meanings with a shooting star viewed one night by Puritans living in 17th century Salem. The star was believed by some to stand for “A” with respect to hero Hester Prynne, the adulteress, and by others to represent “A” for angel regarding the dying governor.

As our species grew more civilized, we searched for answers to life’s problems among the things of the earth. When these did not always pan out, we turned our collective gaze to the stars of heaven, hoping for more information there. Some people believe they can read the stars and planets to make meaning that will illuminate other people’s lives. People of every land and civilization have attempted to read those specks of light that can be seen above us at night to find the answers to universal and personal questions.

If you are wondering whether a horoscope reader can help you, it may help to ask a few questions before handing over your credit card for processing. Ask about the reader’s credentials. Where did he or she study? How much experience does the person have? What are his or her specialties (i.e., career, romance, health, etc.). What happens if the person’s predictions don’t come true? Can the reader provide references for you to consult?

All of us thrill to the prospect of learning more about ourselves and the possibility of things to come. But be careful to use discernment in choosing a guide who will provide this information for you. Anyone can set up shop as a stargazer or horoscope hustler, and in fact, many people do. Their information will often sound generic, and it could apply to just about anyone. So look for someone who seems to be a little more authentic than just anyone who puts an ad in the newspaper or sends you email spam.

The Role of Online Psychics in Our Daily Lives

By: Neoli Lance Marcos

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant... We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift"…
~ Albert Einstein

It's easy to scoff at people who purport to be psychics and can supposedly read the past and predict the future. After all, we have grown too comfortable with the present world, the one laid out for us by technology. Instead of us relying on our instincts and intuitions, we have our TV's and cellphones and computers to do our feeling for us. We have become ungrateful complacent people who have forgotten that these same instincts and intuitions are the ones responsible for our survival as a species in the past.

What we don't know is that we all are psychics; the psychic power is not just limited to a select few individuals. We are all empowered, but some of us are just more willing to see and feel and understand deeper than the rest.

The Rise of Online Psychics.
Which is why today we see the rise of online psychics as both a technological blessing and pure human attempt to get involved in someone else's life. Psychics, whether online psychics or traditional ones, are only after one thing: ushering in awareness and clarity into everyone's lives. The popular view that online psychics are just another group of people out to cash in on gullible might be true, but this is NOT always the case. There will always be a sincere group of psychics and astrologers who have dedicated themselves to the psychic realm by providing psychic readings and advice, dream interpretations, horoscopes, and other services rooted in goodwill and positivity. The Internet is the free platform that enables them to reach out and penetrate to a wider audience.

As individuals, we owe it to ourselves and to everyone else to unearth and recapture our psychic abilities. Only then are we able to acknowledge the simple, inerasable fact we all are connected to each other. Holding this piece of valuable fact within us guides us in all our decisions in life, from the trivial to the grand, and we are rest assured that all our actions are in harmony with everyone and everything else.

Honoring our Gifts.
Online psychics are our guides then in unraveling the many layers of characters we have within us, each of them crucial to our totality. Each character inside us is laden with possibilities. In our endeavor to fulfill all our possibilities and potentialities, we grow closer and more bound to our purpose in life. What better life is there than one with a clear sense of purpose?

So you see, the word “psychic” is not just all about reading the past and narrating the future. Those are just steps and gateways into something more. But online psychics? It's not an impossibility to unify technology and our innate psychic powers. After all, it was humankind who created technology. We just need to open up more and strike a balance between the two.

Let's have better, deeper relationships with our psychic selves. One that honors and remembers our gifts.