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I got a call from my wife today morning telling me that one of my friends for whom I had predicted a female child has delivered a male child! That really makes me feel yuck about my astrological skills. It gives me a feeling that is exactly opposite to the ecstatic feeling that I get when my predictions come true.

There is nothing else that can make an astrologer feel bad than the numbness created when a prediction goes for a toss. But then it is all part of the growing process. I wonder what could be the aftermath of this wrong prediction and it is simple. All those people for whom I had done a prediction would start doubting…whether I was right or whether I could go wrong in their particular cases.

Personally, I am amazed at how the world is run by God with each person having his own limitations. And how even when you are blessed with the science of prediction an individual astrologer can never be 100 per cent right. Destiny rules, and I am yet to interpret the hidden messages and the incidents that are bound to take place due to this wrong prediction.

So as of now I need to prepare myself to face few sarcasm and sarcastic smiles & comments from people around. Wish me good luck.

A small story that keeps me motivated all the time (lifted from one of Osho’s books)…

There was an old man living in the outskirts of a kingdom. He lived with his son and his sole horse. He lived his life in silence, and the maximum he could speak was, “what you know is part, the whole is always hidden”.

Once the King spotted the stud horse in the wild, and approached the old man to buy it. The old man refused to sell it off even when he was offered few million gold coins. The king returned disappointed, and it was the time for the people around to do their commenting business. They said what a sick old man you are, and you could be only foolish to put down such an offer. Then old man replied, “what you know is part, the whole is always hidden.”

Few weeks later his horse while grazing brought along some 10 other horses home. Now the old man possessed 10 mighty horses, and the people thought the old man was right by not giving the horse to the king. They came to the old man to praise him, and he replied, “what you know is part, the whole is always hidden.”

The old man’s son while training the wild horses that their horse brought home falls down and breaks his leg. The injury is so severe that the son surely could not walk for a year or so. The people were back now. They said, 10 horses huh! They only made losses to you old man, now what do you say? He coolly replied, “what you know is part, the whole is always hidden”.

There was an emergency in the kingdom and, as the number of soldiers killed in the battle was high the King needed at least one person from the family to take up the ammunition and fight for the kingdom. The only people who were excluded were, people above the age of 50 and also people who are handicapped.

The people were back again. They said, even though your son is handicapped you will at least have your son beside you unlike us who have to send our children to wage war. The old man replied, “what you know is part, the whole is STILL hidden”.

Moral of the story – None can interpret the interconnectedness of life COMPLETELY!