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Crimen y Castigo

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Fiódor Dostoyevski

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“An astrological placement describes an arrow which points somewhere, a creative energy which gradually layers flesh onto the bare bones of archetypal patterning, an intelligent movement which, over time, fills in the stark black-and-white outlines of the essential life-myth with the subtle colours of experience and individual choice.”

“This is called the tabula rasa theory—the notion that how other people treated you in early life gives rise to certain patterns or “scripts” which then determine your self-image and your expectations of what will happen to you later in life. (...) Now psychological astrology views all this slightly differently. Rather than just being born a blank slate and having things done to you which then lead you to form opinions about life and yourself, psychological astrology believes that you are already born with an innate predisposition which expects certain things to happen.”

“Es verdad, naturalmente, que la Astrología puede estudiarse en cualquiera de sus ramas sin sustentar las ideas de la Reencarnación o del Karma, de la misma manera que puede estudiarse el cuerpo físico de un hombre sin tener en cuenta su alma o espíritu; pero los estudiantes más profundos de la naturaleza humana saben que la fisiología adquiere un significado más profundo con la adición de la psicología.”