Fate and Astrology

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

In episode 392 astrologers Adam Elenbaas and Chris Brennan discuss the relationship between fate and astrology, and how astrology can be used as a tool to study fate. This episode was originally recorded as a Q&A for Adam's YouTube channel, where we answered some questions that were sent in my his fans about fate, free-will, and ancient astrology. During the course of the episode we talk about how ancient astrologers viewed fate, and used astrology as a tool for understanding and negotiating it. Along the way we also touched on other topics such as karma and reincarnation, electional astrology and magic, and how to delineate a birth chart in a way that balances determinism and free-will. This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:11 Diverse views of ancient astrologers 00:04:48 Were ancient astrologers fatalistic? 00:07:10 Definition of fate 00:10:35 Complete determinism 00:16:03 Partial determinism 00:19:08 Signs vs Causes 00:30:07 Resources about Jung on astrology 00:31:28 Is fate the same as karma? 00:43:24 Was astrology a religion? 00:49:08 Did ancient astrologers believe your chart was a set of instructions? 01:02:16 Was astrological magic used by all astrologers? 01:10:30 Electional astrology and magic 01:12:44 Limitations of predictive astrology 01:18:20 What successful astrology looks like 01:22:36 Why ancient texts sound fatalistic 01:28:45 Modern astrology's view of charts as a set of potentials 01:37:42 How to deliver a delineation 01:38:45 Why fate is a good thing 01:44:36 Concluding remarks 01:47:04 Patrons and sponsors Watch the Video Version of This Episode Watch the video version of this episode on fate and astrology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAr4wbJ-gMs - Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 392 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download the MP3 here:

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0:00.0	Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the Astrology podcast.
0:03.6	In this episode, I talk with Adam Ellen Boss about the topic of fate and astrology.
0:09.0	So this was originally an episode recorded for his YouTube channel where he put out a call
0:13.9	for questions amongst his audience about different topics related to fate, free will.
0:21.4	We also got into some topics related to karma and reincarnation and how those integrate
0:27.7	into Western astrology, if at all, and basically it was just a very wide-ranging discussion
0:32.9	about a variety of different topics.
0:35.5	So the discussion went so well that I asked Adam if I could also release it as an episode
0:39.5	of the Astrology podcast on my channel, and he said that would be okay.
0:43.5	So I'm going to release this episode as a standalone episode of my podcast as well.
0:48.9	So I think that's it for this introduction, so without further ado, let's get started
0:52.8	with the episode.
0:53.8	Hey, everyone.
0:54.8	This is Adam Ellen Boss from Night Let Astrology, and today I am joined by my friend and colleague
0:59.4	Chris Brennan of the Astrology podcast, and we are going to take some questions that
1:04.1	I did a poll on Instagram the other day asking some questions that we could prepare for
1:10.2	an interview with Chris.
1:11.6	And you guys sent in a bunch of really good questions on the topic of fate and free will
1:15.6	in ancient astrology.
1:16.6	You've got a whole list of them.
1:18.3	Chris, of course, is world-renowned expert in Hellenistic Astrology, author of the book
1:23.5	Hellenistic Astrology, the person that I initially started learning Hellenistic Astrology
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