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The Birth Chart

An astrological birth chart can sometimes help parents to find out a little more about their newly born child.

In many countries, primarily in Asia, a chart is drawn up as soon as a baby is born. It is treated as a map indicating areas that need to be understood by the parents or those responsible for bringing up the child to help it to attain its full potential.

A birth chart interpreted by a competent astrologer can point out possible character traits, inclinations, strengths and weaknesses of a new-born baby. For instance, the chart could reveal the possibility of a child being unusually sensitive, in which case the parents are alerted to the inadvisability of administering harsh discipline. It could show that a child is likely to have a certain ability or talent which the parents can then be prepared to encourage instead of propelling it into avenues of their own choosing. Or again, it could show that a child is apt to be deceitful and will need very firm but understanding correction of this undesirable trait.

Astrology can be useful so long as the astrologer is capable, and so long as parents treat the chart as a general guide to a child’s potential rather than allowing it to give them fixed expectations. It must be remembered that a chart can be lived out in many ways.

One of the most important points to bear in mind, and one that will help to prevent parents from causing undue hardship to their children, is to remember that each child is an individual with different specific needs from either the other siblings or the parents. When birth charts for each member of a family are obtained, these differences show up very clearly. Parenthood can then be an adventure in discovering the essential selfhood of each child and helping them to fulfil their potential. This should be the aim of every parent instead of rearing children to be little carbon copies of themselves or to be the successful people that they themselves have failed to become.

If this understanding attitude is adhered to, true education can proceed, whereby the child’s innate qualities are recognised, drawn out and encouraged, instead of the parents projecting onto their children their own expectations and demands and, in so doing, suppressing and stifling their separate individuality.

Astrological birth charts can help parents understand their children; they can also be very useful in indicating those areas of an adult’s personality that need to be worked on. But it is not advisable to consult an astrologer or a chart for every small decision or plan. Astrology can become a crutch for some types of people, making them far too dependent and incapable of using their own reasoning in making decisions. Anyone or anything which becomes a crutch eventually assumes control over the one who has come to rely on it.

A birth chart interpreted by a reputable and knowledgeable astrologer can act as a map indicating the tendencies, strengths and weaknesses from past lives to be balanced and realigned in the present one. When used as an aid to character analysis, it can be a most helpful instrument. When it is used to foretell the future it can have a negative effect. Like any means of prediction, it can prevent a person from realising that they are at liberty to alter future events in their life by working hard to eliminate personal weaknesses and change their attitudes. It is foolish to try to look into the future just as it is of no avail to hark back to the past with regrets or longings. To quote Baba again, ‘The present is the product of the past, but it is also the seed of the future.’