Posted on 10/29/2004 8:34:54 AM PDT by presidio9
Surveys in the United States may be showing the race for president as too close to call but top Indian astrologers say the planets have clearly made up their mind: John Kerry will win.
Planets governing President Bush are eclipsed and in an uncomfortable position, making his tenure controversial and his re-election bid unsuccessful, the soothsayers said on Friday, four days before the vote.
On the other hand, the planets of Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry were in the ascendant, ensuring him success in competitions.
"Saturn, which is the lord of health and fortune for President Bush, has been eclipsed by the Sun, which is unfortunate and gives him a clear defeat," Lachhman Das Madan, editor of a popular astrology magazine, told Reuters.
"Kerry will win," said Madan, who is also known as "the emperor of astrologers." "It is cosmic writ that George W. Bush cannot become president of United States again."
Ajai Bhambi, a senior astrologer and author of several books on the science of predictions, agreed.
"Kerry is likely to beat Bush in the final verdict," he told the New Indian Express newspaper.
Bejan Daruwalla, another top astrologer, told Reuters he had yet to calculate who would win Tuesday's election. But Bush, even if he won, would not be allowed by his planets to complete a full term, he said.
Astrology is extremely popular in India and many top politicians, businessmen and movie stars consult astrologers before taking important decisions.
Tuesday's vote is forecast to be one of the closest in American history. A Reuters/Zogby poll showed on Thursday that Bush was leading Kerry by 48 to 46 percent but the lead was well within the poll's margin of error.
Yeah, f%$# the geologists, biologists, and chemists too... what do they know? </sarcasm>
(There's a big difference between astronomers and astrologists... astrologists believe stars tell us stuff, while astronomers study space physics. This article deals with astrologists.)
party foul.
You'd be suprised how many of these people are fruit-n-granola types who take this cow plop seriesly.
What does the chicken innard oracle say? THAT's NEVER been wrong before.
That isn't right. ><
FYI
OK, here's where I let myself sound like a goofball. In 1999, I told my housemates: "Bush is going to win the next election, but I think he's gonna be assassinated or something. There's just like this dark cloud over his presidency. Maybe he won't be killed, because I can't picture Dick Cheney becoming president, but the President Bush who finishes the term is not going to be the same man who is running for office now."
On inauguration day, which was cold and rainy... just a hard day: "It will never get better than this the whole four years he's in office."
Premonition of 9/11? Or probably just something funny I ate. But I stayed home from work on 9/11, telling my boss: "It's not a fever or anything; I don't know, I think I should just stay home. I don't think I'm going to be worth my pay if I came in today."
memo to reuters: aren't there more relevant things to expend precious resources on?
Saturn was "eclipsed by the Sun" months ago... It is now clearly visible in the early morning sky. For some reason, I thought astrologers used the actual positions of the planets and moons for their predictions. I guess I was wrong. Either that or this astrologer can't tell the difference between the Sun and the Moon.
Why?
Dammit. >:^(
Hehehe.
Astrologers are superstitious
Astronomers are atheists
Actually, they don't use the present positions of the Zodiac signs at all, but rather where they WERE about 3,000 years ago. Astrology actually has very little to do with the planets and stars, and much more to do with calendars and clocks. It's just that planets and stars were the only method for measuring time back then.
Everytime the Redskins win the game the sunday before election the sitting president wins. or was it the republican wins?
You must be a Joo, right?
Maybe Morford is starting to rub off on me.
(whoops, there I go again...)
IT IS CALLED DESPERATION!!!!!!!!!!!
IT IS COMICAL>>>LOL LOL LOL
Nope, a Papist Catlick.
gasp!.....you must be........PSYCHIC!
"...(insert Uranus joke here)..."
I'm glad you put that there. I was racking my brain to come up with some reference that wouldn't get me thrown out of here and banned for life. Cheers!
Me too, but Reuters told me Joos stayed home on 911.
Or was it Al Jazeera?
I keep getting the two mixed up.
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