In the beginning it confused me a bit when I heard that the 10th planet has been discovered. Didn’t they find it back in 2003 and named it Sedna? I remembered the articles in papers about how astronomers all over the world debated if it can be considered as a planet. It seems, Sedna was denied the planetary status and the new one is indeed a planet. Not just a huge chunk of stardust.
Immediately, it popped a question into my mind. What is going to be the reaction of the astrologer community? Is there a room for a new planet in the horoscope? I had to wait for just a day to get the answer for that. The newspaper had an article by some famous Astroguru saying that it will not have any significance. That was expected. People are inert by nature. They are unwilling to let go the old stuff and start with new concepts. It would have been a daunting task to make changes in astro- fundas, if provision was to be made for the new member of the solar family.
Now you must be thinking, when did I start believing in Astrology? I still don’t. But I do ponder a lot about this topic. Let me tell you an incidence which got me thinking….
A few years back, Sir Roger Penrose, an eminent physicist from Oxford had come to India for some international conference. British council and Nehru center had arranged a public lecture in which Sir Penrose talked about the “Consciousness and the Universe”. During the lecture, he mentioned about quantum coupling. And said that if we happen to disturb one of the two quarks separated by a huge distance, the other gets perturbed mysteriously. The lecture went on smoothly and as always, was followed by a question answer session. After a few questions from the physicist in the audience (I assumed them to be physicist as I couldn’t get a clue of what they were speaking), an old lady stood up. I started to wonder what she is going to ask. What followed shell-shocked the entire audience and perhaps Dr. Penrose too. She said, “Sir, you mentioned about quantum coupling and how matter seems to be interconnected through some sort of forces that are beyond our current understanding. If that is so, then why can’t planetary motions affect human minds? Why the ancient Indian Astrology has been denied to have a scientific basis?”
The crowd was amazed. Taliyon ki bauchar!
Experienced Dr. Penrose laughed and replied, “Perhaps you can join me and we can do some great research in it.”
Since that day, I am having a totally new perspective towards astrology. …..
