Posted by Larry Hoover on December 30, 2005, at 23:53:16
In reply to Re: Astrology, posted by Angela2 on December 29, 2005, at 18:50:32
> I don't think I believe in astrology. But I haven't studied it and I don't know a whole lot about it. But the idea of reading your horoscope to me is like reading a fortune cookie. It's bs.
I'm gonna tell you a little story. I was a scientist geek, going through a rough time. Depression, pain, money problems. Housing insecurity. A friend of mine who I trusted in matters spiritual recommended that I see a woman, named Margaret, who did Reiki (a non-touch energy balancing therapy). Offered to pay for my visit, so I said, all righty then.
Margaret was a learned woman. Clearly done some university. Confident, but shy. Said the first thing she always did was to run a quick horoscope. Asked me details about my birth, and a couple more questions which I forget now. In a few minutes, her demeanour was one of "oh dear". She mentioned some key transitions I'd been through (remember, she's just looking at stars and planets and stuff), and quite accurately described stuff over the last few years. Stuff like major financial drubbing eighteen months back. Surgery eight months back. Current state. Accurate in every element she touched on. She could have been tipped off, but that's a lot of effort to make for this, I thought. And some of what she said, not anyone else knew. Hmmmm.
We went to the table, and she perfermed Reiki on me. She correctly described certain physical disorders, their severities, and offered up ways to be more comfortable, all just simple statements accompanying her treatment. The treatment was surprising, in that I could feel her touch, though she wasn't touching me. She found my weak spots and made them less weak. It was the most relaxing thing I'd ever had, in my entire life. I left there feeling drugged, almost, and went home, and slept for three hours, mid-day. An occurrence that never happened. I don't nap, but I slept like a rock. And I woke up with my bum knee pain free.
That night, my phone rang. Margaret had done a full chart (usually costing something about $100) using all those arcane tables of conjuctions and disjunctions and all that. She'd called because she wanted to warn me. My earlier simpler chart had made her worry about me, and she did the larger work gratis, out of her spirit of helpfulness. She predicted that I might think I was presently at a bad point, but that things were going to get worse. Much worse. And she proceeded to lay out the next eighteen months or so, in terms of financial, health, home, love, relationships. I do forget just all that she said, the details. But I won't ever forget that she was right. All day, everything she said, was specific, detailed, and right. And all her predictions, too. She wrote them out. Mailed them to me. All correct.
I'm a scientist geek. I don't pretend that astrology or Reiki are strictly-speaking, scientific endeavours. However, there are some experiences, some data sets, some observations, that are not amenable to scientific explanation. I am attuned to semantic issues, and I'm conscious of ambiguity of speech, and simple statements masquerading as the profound. I did not find these problems in Margareit's presentations to me. She just did the unexplainable. Knew the unknowable. And shyly smiled about it.
I wish I knew where to find her. I would seek further Reiki for my pain. How could it hurt? But, how might it help, instead?
Lar
P.S. Ghosts exist, too. Data points not in accord with accepted knowledge.
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