A very interesting piece from Mr. Freddie Kissoon

Jan 03, 2013 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
A very interesting piece from Mr. Freddie Kissoon titled “A song for me from me on my birthday”.
Unlike Mr Kissoon, I have more than ‘researched’ astrology: I have studied it, gained a Diploma from the Mayo School in the 1980s and am a hobbyist.
Many people do not realise that astrology is based on a framework of astronomy and is a bit like weather forecasting, an interpretative art. If one does not have an aptitude for maths, one should not undertake its study, although things have moved on since then and relevant ready-made calculations are available on the internet.
As medical doctors can diagnose a patient’s illness from symptoms described, astrologers can assess a subject’s personality from accurate birth details. It is not just about forecasting trends in a life, described as fortune-telling by some. People whose birth dates are a matter of public record would be surprised at how much the details gleaned from such records reveal about them to a trained astrologer.
People with the Sun Sign Capricorn are not necessarily tyrants but, as ‘goats’, they are of two types – those who climb higher and higher to reach their goals and those who remain carping and ‘braying’ and generally being miserable. However, they are normally serious-minded people, on the whole, wise beyond their years, and tend to realise their cherished dreams in old age. They prefer positions of control and can be manipulative. Dark personalities. They have to guard against ‘using’ others.
Astrologically speaking, the fact that Mr. Kissoon admits to being an “anarchist and existentialist……a radical academic” means that he probably has personal planets in Aquarius, the planet of revolution and anarchy, and this could trigger ‘strange’ feelings and uncharacteristic behaviour over a period of time.
Everything that is happening worldwide today – the financial woes, the unearthing of crafty and secret deeds in high places, the disturbances of the earth, etc – was forecast several years ago by the fraternity, and these woes may continue for at least another five years! At the end of these travails, a more humanitarian period may emerge.
I tend to disagree with the view that power in itself is destructive – the abuse of power is, since “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. It is also said that money is the root of all evil. I don’t believe that – I believe that the love of money is. Both power and money can be used to accomplish much on behalf of others. But, used selfishly or perversely, they can do the opposite.
Incidentally, about ‘Karl Marx’s famous quote, “Religion is the opiate of the people”, as I interpreted it at the time of reading Marx, over 30 years ago, the remark was meant to explain that people turned to religion in desperation when all else failed; in other words, ‘religion was the opiate of the people’.
I enjoyed Mr. Kissoon’s column. May he have many more birthdays.
Geralda Dennison

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