Thursday, March 3, 2016

Astrology OR Perception…

My recent visit to the capital reminded me of an old story that I almost forgot.  The story telling was the best pass time we had as a rusty village boy herding the cattle and collecting firewood to keep ourselves warm through the harsh cold winter of Haa valley.

I have heard myriads of folktales imbedded with myth and mythology custom and tradition, religion and culture, divine and devil, and so on. An oracle or an astrologer predicting or foretelling fortune or calamity would always fascinate me as a young boy, and frankly had it not for my fate and modern education at doorstep I would have become an astrologer under Tsib jagar  of paro .


Thimphu main Traffic
As a student, we still have to herd the cattle during the weekends and once during our usual Sunday lunch time story telling session an elderly man who joined us narrated a story of an astrologer predicting the life of a newborn. He said the astrologer arrived as requested and did all the cleansing rituals and formalities and finally sat down to do all the calculations of the child’s birth signs, star and so on and after long silence in a meditative posture he finally spoke. “The child will have many vehicles around him and will deal with it almost all his life,” enunciated the astrologer. Happiness filled the house and it’s all smiles around, family and villagers were all happy and some said the birth brought YANG (riches of the world or bless by the god of wealth) some predicted the child to be a great builder/contractor while some thought the boy would be an mechanical engineer. Perception matters here for no one sees the future. Can you see the future he would question? Then he continues… the days pass into months, months in to year, years piles and finally came the judgment day. The boy finally turned man; He joined arm force and became a traffic police and remained surrounded by vehicles every day.

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