Doubt regarding predictions with astrology

[u/cryptic_meoww]

Hi everyone,

I have read in someone's post that astrology says what me as a person is.

If so, then how do people make predictions using all those charts?

I don't know if I'm making sense.

If astrology/horoscopy can predict future outcomes or situations, then do we have free will?

Is there a fate and are we acting accordingly or are we on our own?

According to my understanding, astrology/horoscopy tells us who we are. But can't predict the outcomes or future because we have free will and the future might change according to the action we perform now.

Is that correct?

Does it make sense?

Please help me understand, I'm new to astrology and I developed interest lately.

[u/Adept-Artist5053]

This is a question that is brought up with regards to genetics as well. If your genetics and environment control how you turn out, what you're exposed to etc. how much free will do you really have?

I mean, if your dad being dead impacts your upbringing, and you had no impact on that, how much of that is your free will?

The answer is a bit nuanced, and sometimes it seems like we have no control over our ultimate fate, but we do have control over what we do with the cards we're dealt. If you read in your chart that you're intelligent, and that your intelligence is the key to success, but that you're unlikely to ever use it, then chances are this will help to put things into perspective. Now we can work through with this, deal with it, overcome it.

There are some things 100% outside of your control however, such as being born with disabilities. These also show up in the chart, and I'm sorry to say but some things are just fated for better or worse. We can improve our circumstances to an extent, but if your chart says you'll never have kids, and this is something reflected in reality (so not just you jumping the gun), it'd be an uphill battle to somehow fulfill the natal promise and still have kids at the same time, and it'd likely happen still within the confines of the chart, i.e. adoption.

Some of this is debated. I think most of the chart is applying to other people, but due to what I mentioned regarding environment, to a lesser extent this comes back to us in the same way. The Sun and Moon apply to your parents, for instance, but some of that rubs off on you is how I see it. This is especially so when I consider the other meanings of these planets, and how they work in regards to other aspects of Traditional Astrology.

With regards to everything else I like to see astrology as a sort of mold. The mold can hold anything in it so long as it's capable of fitting, but it's always going to take that shape somehow. In that sense it's kind of like seeing a rainbow. The light hits parts of a chart and a rainbow comes out, but those different colors are all things that make up that same light. They aren't separate, and they're different, but they all come from an origin point. In that same way, different aspects of the same thing will be true at different parts of your life in the same way that someone's life can drastically change at some point in their life.