Many of us will flick through the daily horoscopes in our newspapers every morning. Yet many people also believe that really, this whole astrology thing is just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. Whether you are a believer or not, the popularity of astrology in this day and age is at an all time high. The question is: is astrology for real and, if so, what exactly is it and how does it enable us to actually predict what's going to happen to us in our daily lives?

Basic horoscope columns in newspapers and magazines may lead us to believe that all there is to know about astrology is your sun-sign and that, therefore, we all belong in one of the 12 signs of the zodiac depending on the month you were born in. However this is very elementary. To a practitioner, astrology is much more intricate and complex.

Carl Jung in his principle of synchronicity says that there is no such thing as accident or coincidence. Things happen for a reason, many times of which we are unaware, but that the reason is discoverable if we search diligently enough. Astrology is one of the tools used in that search. The principle upon which astrology is built is that the cosmic patterns found in the vastness of the universe are but a larger exposition of the same patterns found within an individual.

When Edmond Halley asked Sir Isaac Newton how he could possibly believe in astrology, Sir Isaac answered, "Because I have studied the matter, Sir. You have not." And therein lays the crux of the matter.

Pythagoras believed that every star, every planet and every satellite gives out a unique vibration through its movement as it travels in space.

Astrology uses the alignment of the cosmos in relation to the date, time and place of birth to study an individual. The stars and planets do not cause the events in your life; they only reflect the unfolding energies, which are already inside of you. The stars and planets are a mirror. If you look into a mirror and see a smiling face, it is not the mirror which is smiling, it is you. Used correctly, astrology can help us know more about ourselves and our basic intrinsic nature, and also help provide remedies to some of our regular day-to-day problems be it in terms of ailments, nature and our spiritual orientation.

The earliest evidence of the use of astrology in the West can be traced back the ancient kingdom of Babylonia in Mesopotamia (now Iraq). In India the practice is even more ancient, dating back to Vedic times. The belief in astrology has been so strong that many kings, queens, nobles and modern presidents and prime ministers have employed own astrologers to guide them on decisions they make, and continue to do so.

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