AS I SEE IT by Astrologer * * Ed Cheetham ON REINCARNATION Every once in a while because of my b el i e f in Astrology , I am asked that p o i n t e d question, "Do you bel ieve in GodI" Nearly everybody has his own idea of what God'is "physicallyI" like but since the finite can never know the infinite, it is of course, very difficult to define in descriptive words just how the Crea- tor would appear. However, my usual answer when asked th a t question is that one cannot possibly look into the sky and contem- plate the planets which were placed and whichmovewith mathematical precision w i t ho u t tak ing into consideration the theory that there must be some supreme power responsible for al1 this. God & the inequalities of the earth I read a letter in the newspaper over the weekend, from a person wondering how any God could allow the conditions and tragedy prevail ing in India and Pak- istan at the present time to continue. As a boy I was sent to Church and Sun day school but in my teen years, I b e g an to wonder how th is God of Love WHITBY-HARRISON FUELS LIMITED "Your TEXACO Dealer" 211 Brock St. S. Phone:668-3610 WHITBY FREE PRESS Page 12, Thursday, December 2nd, 1971, ASTROLOGY iriterior cle-corating, service t p r *art reproduction - d r ci pe s 153 SIMCO E ST. 5. TELEPHONE OSýiA'W'v'A, ONT. 725-6323' justice and mercy could treat the chil- dren of earth in such diverse ways. For when I looked around, I could see pov- er ty and misery, the crippled and the handicapped, while on the other hand, there were people who were well to do with no greater problem in life than to enjoy the m a te rial benefits of life to their fullest'. In those years I was in the same pos- ition as the Scottish poet Edward Hunter who wrote in his book, "The Miner and His God"; When upon my mother's lap I lay, Drink ing of depths, far deeper than the sea, I suckled faith and grew from day to day, TilI i t took shape & heaven thereby to such as I made free, T h e n 1in the shades my soul sought to explore and blindly strove, my faith deserted me. Godof the mine, faith faltered at the door. Reincarnation Around in my twenty-.second year, I struck up a conversation wl'th a man and in the course of our discuss'on, I men- tioned the perplexities in my mind about these apparent inequalities in the lives of people. He suggested I come to hear a lecture on reincarnation, explaining ho w we return to earth 1life after life, reaping as we have sown, making sense of t h e statement in t h e Bible, "As ye sow so shall ye also reap. I' Further biblical indication is when the disciples as k ed Christ at the time he healed the b I i n d man, "Hath this man sinned that he be born blind?Il Today, more and more people are ac- cepting this bel ief in reincarnation. But the p re achers go on blindly teaching Cal vin, Knox and Wesley, and what t h e y a d vo c ated centuries ago. They can be compared to a drummer beating a big drum, unable to see over the top of i t, following a straight path, but fail- ing tonotice, all thewhile, that the band COMLEE OURCHISMA VOLKSWAGEN FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY BRAND NEW '72's FROM $2245.00 LARGE SELECTION OF GOOD RECONDITIONED USED PICKERING CAR CENTRE LTD. Basesne Rd. AJAX 942-1881 has made a turn on to another street. I believe it was William Wordsworth who wrote the poem, Our birth is but a sleep and a forget- ting, The soul that risedwith us, our Iife's star, Hath elsewhere had it's setting and cometh from afar Not in entire forgetfullness and not in utter nakedness, Bu t tra iling clouds of glory do we come, From God who is our home. This1is fnot intended to be a sermon, but to outline how I initially became in- terested in astrology. The doctrine in reincarnationfilledone gap in my think- ing, but I ike Omar Khayyan I found a door to which there was no key. Horoscope Since a prisoner who is about to be sentenced for a crime is given the reason w h y , th en the horoscope gives us an o u t line of our fates each time we visit t h i s e a r t h. Looking at an horoscope may be compared to an airline pilot looking at his instrument panel advising him of turbulent weather ahead so that he can w a r n the p a s s engers when to fasten their seat belts. And above all, he must have a knowledge of his destin- ation. Andfinally, to wait for instruct- ions f rom the control tower when to land. This also is the purpose of astrolo- g y , t h e instructions from the control tower being indicated by the planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, the amount of fuel shown by Jupiter, ruling the ad- r e n a I glands, Saturn the destination, M ars the plane crew, Venus, Mercury a n d t h e moon showing the mood of the passenger s. Then, of course, reincarnation which is sometimes referred to sarcastically, in that one may come back as an animal in the next life. This is obviously, ab- surdandwill also explain why two peo- ple born on the same day may lead sim- lar lives, but on different levels as in the case o f the famous London caster- monger w ho was born on the same day as the King of England, but raced with donk eys instead of racehorses as did the king. I hope the foregoing article will ex- plain, in part, why the daily horoscope one sees in newspapers fail to work in every case. 0