It is written.
According to Indian Astrologers, the US election has been pre-destined. No report on accuracy of their past predictions, or why it isn't on Reuters' own website.
Screw that. What are next week's powerball numbers?
Excerpt:Bejan Daruwalla, another top astrologer, says he has yet to calculate who would win Tuesday's election.
But he says Mr Bush, even if he wins, would not be allowed by his planets to complete a full term.
Mr. Druwalla can expect a visit from the Secret Service this weekend.
Chinese astrology maintains monkey years are times when unexpected political coups, overthrowns, changes occur.
For what that's worth.
Want to believe in these prognostications by virtue of hindsight, that is, to read that Kerry's won AFTER this election's over.
*buzzes off to make appropriate propitiary offerings*
I dun need no Navaho astrorijerastranamor stargazer to tells me Bush gonna lose.
I'm still waiting (a'la Wizard of Oz) to awaken from these past four years to be told it was all just a bad dream.
Actually (or technically for that matter) if you just paste some wings on W it's a pretty damn close match.
"Saturn, which is the lord of health and fortune for President Bush, has been eclipsed by the sun, which is unfortunate and gives him a clear defeat," Lachhman Das Madan, editor of a popular astrology magazine, said.
What the hell's so unfortunate about that?
"Astrology is extremely important in India and many top politicians...consult astrologers before taking important decisions." Which must be why Indian politics flow along as smoothly as the Ganges, with nary ever a ripple.
Years ago, I had this cute little Shiva temple on a busy street in Cambridge, Mass. I used to get visits from a group of old Indian guys, jyotish (astrology) practitioners who were guests at a nearby ashram. I generally took their advice until one day, one of them broke loose from his crew and came to visit me quite drunk out of his mind. He sat on my lap and insisted that a lot of money would come to me, that year, "out of nowhere".
It didn't happen.
So I guess I'll still vote.
It's sad, how even supposedly educated middle class Indians end up patronizing astrologers. The anthropomorphized interpretation of Hindu oral traditions doesn't help, either.
Gyan - educated middle class people all over the world listen to astrologers.
Personally, I like listening to the prognostications of astronomers. They tell me lunar eclipses will happen, for instance.
Forget the astrologers. Sunday's Packers-Redskins game is the best harbinger of the presidential election.
The subject made the 'oddly enough' section of Reuters. [link]
omg squid that flying monkey link is hilarious.
I have this pet theory that astrological predictions, at least those based on numerology, are essentially pseudorandom. Once you start multiplying and exponentiating large numbers, you start seeing highly entropic behaviour in the digits.
Ma, fuyugare's using big words again!
We could try what folk in the back o' beyond call 'lining'.
Ye take a Worthy book (in the West, often the Bible, in the East, often the works of Hafiz, but I will use The Fellowship o' the Ring, which I think is highly worthy). Ye open it at random while not looking at the pages, and circle around one finger tip until ye feel like stopping, Right above your fingernail should be a sentence indicating the outcome to whatever question ye're looking for the answer to.
So.
'Master Merry's being squeezed in a crack!' cried Sam.
Lo! I share the answer to it all with the world. Heh.
No wonder Nancy Reagan endorsed Kerry. Her astrologers must have discovered the great news before the Indians.
I get, "Except this time you just might be wrong, right?" Which is appropriately open ended.
astrorijerastranamorstargazer to tells me Bush gonna lose.