Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 16Palmistry

Book 1. Part One: Letters, Messages and Other Short Written Statements

X who has been studying astrology has prepared my horoscope. I send it to you to see. Do you think the indications he has given in it for my future have any value?

The horoscope is sufficiently vague and favourable to be taken in consideration as the base of a mental conception for your future.

The most important factor in a horoscope is the intuitive faculty of the astrologer.

6 May 1964

* Why do you believe in what the astrologers say? It is the belief that brings the trouble.

Sri Aurobindo says that a man becomes what he thinks he is.

* Horoscopes have no importance for those who take up yoga, because the influence that works through yoga is much more powerful than the influence of the stars.

* tude and truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises it. Moreover, it relates only to the material destiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces.

3 January 1951

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