| "Our lives are gifts from God. What we do with our | | | | done. I soon knew a whole lot more about who they |
| lives is our gift to God." I have seen this expression | | | | were and why they were as they were. That made |
| on wall hangings and I think it a very useful and | | | | it so much easier to accept what I did not like about |
| positive sentiment to hold. If this sounds right to us, | | | | them and helped me see most of what I didn't like in |
| it then stands to reason that our children are also | | | | them, I did not like in me.Astrology does not cast |
| gifts from God and what we do with them is our gift | | | | destiny in stone, it points out our natural tendencies, |
| to God. Our mission and purpose in the parental role | | | | likes and dislikes. We can change anything we want in |
| would seem to be to maximize the value of our gifts. | | | | our make up, once we see a problem or a need to |
| If we would tell ourselves each day how blessed we | | | | change. Astrology helps us see better. It warns us of |
| are to have the children we do, or may have some | | | | problems that will likely surface in our lives and helps |
| day, we see our duty to them quite clearly and we | | | | us avoid or deal with them. It increases our options |
| live this core belief.When we love our children, all | | | | and choices. One does not need to study the science |
| children in this way, we increase their value far | | | | of astrology to use the information professional |
| beyond gold, silver and precious stones. We begin | | | | astrologers will supply for a reasonable fee.Not long |
| overturning a three thousand year old system of | | | | after learning some about astrology, I was introduced |
| slavery and oppression. If we pass our love of | | | | to numerology, a very simple mathematical system |
| children to our children, we guarantee a revolution | | | | that paints a reasonably accurate picture of one's |
| that elevates all of humankind. Who ever thought | | | | true purpose, tendencies, lifestyle, talents, abilities, |
| that parenting could create a non-violent revolution in | | | | likes and dislikes. I sometimes think of numerology as |
| less than two full generations? We have been placing | | | | shortcut astrology. One can do charts day and night |
| all our hope in an educational system to increase the | | | | with the help of a good book on the subject. My |
| value of our children. In vain have we done so. The | | | | experience so far is these two systems reveal very |
| past century has done little to increase the market | | | | useful information.As we come to know ourselves |
| value of people. More of the same will have the | | | | better, we experience growth in all aspects of our |
| same result. If our educational system does anything, | | | | lives, usually positive but not necessarily apparent - at |
| it increases the market value of American slaves | | | | first. We also become more tolerant of what we |
| above that of many non American slaves. These | | | | have seen as personal flaws, because we find new |
| slaves can then take pride in their superior value. It is | | | | paths for correction. Now we want to see them |
| profitable to have slaves who love to compete.When | | | | clearly. We want to know how they developed. We |
| parents assume the responsibility for educating their | | | | actually care about who we are, instead of what we |
| own children, they have tools that have never been | | | | think we are. |
| freely available to parents before due to conflicts | | | | We have always wanted trustworthy guidance. It is |
| between organized religion and parapsychology; and | | | | available to those who seek its grace. Children can be |
| conflicts between science and parapsychology. Those | | | | taught who they are in infancy, once the parents |
| conflicts are now being resolved as religion and | | | | take the trouble to know about the new addition to |
| science lose their strangleholds on the minds of the | | | | the family. We are conditioned to think a child's |
| people. This in itself, is as revolutionary as the | | | | education begins with school, but it begins in the |
| Protestant Reformation.I once had a brief discussion | | | | womb. Is the outside environment peaceful, |
| with a fundamentalist Christian friend about astrology. | | | | interesting, stressful? Baby knows these things and |
| I said that if the moon's gravity moves oceans and | | | | more without being taught.Read to the child in the |
| large bodies of water here on earth, it makes sense | | | | womb. Sing to the child in the womb. Make music for |
| that force may have an effect on humanity as well. | | | | the child in the womb. Play music for the child in the |
| My friend immediately tried to imply that astrology is | | | | womb. Why not give birth to a wise child when it is |
| what the Bible calls sorcery and witchcraft and is | | | | so easy to do?And how about those robustly healthy |
| abhorred by God. In response, I pointed to the | | | | babies some folks seem to be blessed with? Would |
| earliest chapters of the book of Genesis and how | | | | we like ours to be robust? |
| God gave us the lights of heaven for SIGNS and | | | | There is much we can do to achieve such an |
| seasons. His response was simply anger. All he really | | | | outcome. My theory is the physical health of the |
| knew about astrology was what some authority had | | | | parents at the time of conception, affects the |
| told him. He made that belief his own and had a | | | | growth and development of baby. From the time of |
| powerful need to defend it. I gave him no | | | | the confirmation of pregnancy, mother's health is |
| opportunity with my response. For the Scripture does | | | | worth all we can do to support it. Let's trade a little |
| not restrict signs and seasons to day, night, Winter, | | | | gold and silver for baby. Baby will soon pay back |
| Spring, Summer, Fall, months and years.We learned | | | | many times over.When mother breast feeds baby, |
| much of this from astronomy over thousands of | | | | she maintains health with super nutrition, exercise, |
| years. Our scientific authorities tell us astronomy is a | | | | peace and rest. Baby thrives and rapidly grows. We |
| science, meaning we can trust it. At the same time, | | | | continue reading, singing, playing to baby. Baby is |
| they tell us astrology, which developed right alongside | | | | happy and easy to live with. Baby is a joy to behold. |
| astronomy, is hokum. This authority obviously | | | | Baby is an awesome miracle that happened to us. |
| influenced my friend. It wasn't all that long ago, I too | | | | Baby is a repeatable miracle. From the family point of |
| judged astrology by those little newspaper | | | | view, the more the merrier.I have intuitively thought |
| horoscopes that could not possibly apply to a whole | | | | that mom should have two years to recover from |
| twelfth of the people on earth.When I borrowed a | | | | the last miracle and a minimum of one before the |
| good book on the subject of astrology, I came to | | | | next conception, if a couple desires closely spaced |
| see a great value in understanding myself and others. | | | | children.Ed Howes sought and found, knocked and |
| I saw myself clearly in my own birth chart. I began | | | | entered. Now he sees things differently. To see more |
| doing birth charts for people I knew well, like family | | | | of what he sees, please visit or do an author search |
| members and close friends. Their charts also | | | | here at Ezine Articles. |
| described them better than I could possibly have | | | | |