Yesterday I was watching on India TV a program titled Sabse Bada Sangram. The program was all about experimentally verifying the accuracy of astrological predictions. Normally I am kind of agnostic towards the discipline of astrology. Kinda.. believe it when the predictions are positive and discount it when they are negative. Yesterday's program spontaneously caught my interest for here was the first time I was going to witness the truth or fallacy of astrology as a discipline.
The method was that they would provide a panel of astrologers with the date, place and time of birth and then the astrologers were supposed to guess the profession of the person. The astrologers could not see or hear the person whose horoscope they were calculating nor was there any internet connection to search any kind of database. I saw their predictions of about 6 people and I was quite surprised.
While many people were giving some general answers, some people were telling the name of profession as well. I was particularly impressed by one of the astrologers by the name Ajay Gautam who got about 5 of the 6 guesses about the profession correct. It was an astounding feat. Among the people he guessed right were:
Ashok Masti: Stage show performer
???Jaitley: fashion model, miss india finalist
Vijay Jolly: A politician (Former BJP MP from Saket)
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt: Musician
While many Astrologers were beating around the bush , Ajay gautam accuracy rate appeared to be far above expectation (random chance).
It does appear that after all astrology might have some scientific substance. Perhaps might be following some metaphysical laws.
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