I happened to read this story a few years back on Mata Amritanandamayi's Site and I liked how it was linked with Astrology.
So story is about a King who was visited by a Sage. Sage gave him 2 clay idols and said that your Kingdom would have to face a war within a week of the day any of these idols get broken. King gave those 2 idols to his best servant and told him to take best care.
One day while cleaning the idols, one of them had fallen and got broken. King was informed. King was furious and ordered the servant to be imprisoned. He said that if war takes place within a week then he is going to hang the servant.
As predicted, a neighboring Kingdom attacked this Kingdom within a week. The King ordered the hanging of servant but asked him any last wish he had. Servant said that he wants to break the 2nd idol too because 1 fine day that idol will get broken by someone else and you will hang that person too.
King asked, I didn't understand your point?
Servant replied that basically you didn't understand the Sage himself. Sage wanted to say that the day idol gets broken, you must start preparing for war. It is not that war is happening because of breaking of idol. Breaking of idol was an indication that someone is preparing to attack you, so you must begin your preparation.
And this is what astrology is all about. Your upcoming dasha or transit is only indicating you towards start working in a particular area of life before it gets completely screwed. Like being a Scorpio ascendant, Saturn is now transiting 2nd house of wealth for me and this awareness made me to arrange my finances in a better way from last 2 years. As I was prepared, this transit is not impacting much to me but if I had been spendthrift in last 2 years or mismanaged my money then I would have had issues now.
So, this is the whole purpose of astrology, to make you aware, prepared and pro-active for upcoming times of life, either good or bad.
As always, awareness is the only remedy.
Thanks,
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Post on 25th May, 2019
So, there is a concept going on that if you change your place of residence and relocate to a different city or country then your chart changes as per the co-ordinates of that particular city and that can give you a different result in life. It is almost equivalent to saying that your chart changes by relocating. I just thought about giving my views on it and inviting views of you all.
Example - So, 1st let's understand this concept through an example. So, I was born at Indore, India with a Scorpio Ascendant Chart but if I had been born at Moscow, Russia then I would have had a Libra ascendant chart or if I had been born at some other city/country then I would have had a different ascendant chart as per the co-ordinates of that country. Now, putting the theory into practicality as I understood, it means that if I relocate myself to Moscow, Russia then I will start getting results as a Libra ascendant chart. Likewise, my life/career etc would be much like a Libra ascendant person then and it is much like becoming a Libra ascendant person and my birth chart of Scorpio ascendant will be taking a back-seat after the relocation.
Now, my views -
1. 1st of all, relocations are never forced. They happen due to circumstances in your life. If you are destined to relocate to a different city/country then circumstances will change in such a way that you would have to relocate. I don't think it ever happened that someone checked the co-ordinates and rising sign of a country and decided to relocate. It can be an additional reason for relocating but not foundational reason.
2. I remember that after passing-away of my father in 2009, we shifted back to our home town at Ujjain from Secunderabad but within an year in 2010, we shifted back to Secunderabad as I got a job. So, 2 things are important here. 1st is that both relocations happened due to change of circumstances and 2nd is that we came back to the place where we were destined to be, the same city. It may interest few that even within Secunderabad, we came back to the same locality where we used to reside in 2009. 
3. Then even if you are relocating to a different place then even that relocation is an event which is allowed by your birth chart, dasha and transits. If Lord Krishna was relocated from his place of birth (Mathura) to Nandgaon within one night of his birth then this event would have been in his birth chart itself. Then only he could be taken to a different place. But it doesn't make Nandgaon as his place of birth or takes priority over Mathura.
4. I guess this is what I want to convey here is that just like any other event, your relocation to a different city is based on your chart, dasha and transits. So in no case, the relocated city/country or its co-ordinates or its rising sign can take priority over the birth place. In my view, the relocated city/country will never take priority over your birth place and your birth chart will remain as is.
Then how people start getting different or more positive/negative results after moving to a different place?
5. It is just because of the concept of Desh-Kaal-Paristhiti - https://www.astrosaxena.com/dkpb and https://www.astrosaxena.com/difres . Every different city/country is at different level of development, opportunity or social evolution. So, person is bound to get results of these factors after relocation. Even if someone moves from a town to a bigger city within a country then his life is bound to change as he will have more exposure, opportunities and possibilities for improvement of his life. Likewise, if you move to any country which is more developed or less developed then you are bound to get the results accordingly.
6. So YES, in my considered view, your life can go through a positive or negative change as per the city/country you are relocating but I don't think that it is going to change your birth chart at all. I don't think that ascendant of birth chart should be changed by any means. Your life will still move as per your birth chart, dasha and transits.
Please let me know your opinions.
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Post on 29th May, 2019
So, this is in continuance of last live session on Fate Vs Free Will - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdcRPoSSgd0&t= . Let me add few more points to this complicated topic which easily could be misunderstood and I always feel that I can explain things much better while writing.
So, there are two ways you can deal with a situation or event in your life.
Both ways have its positive/negative points. Like,
For the path of destiny -
a. Leaving everything on God looks very spiritual and it looks like person is directly connected with source energy but its real test is when person leaves all events on God. It doesn't matter if he suffers any loss or profit in life, he leaves on destiny whatever is the result. But that's not what happens in reality. Whenever we achieve anything or some positive things happen in life, we assert ourselves that "I did this and I took this decision and I was so smart then this positive result was possible". And whenever we suffer a little bit of pain then automatically blame goes to God/Destiny that "how can God do this to me? I am such a nice person. I go to temple daily. ".
b. Well, if achievement is yours then how failure can be God's and likewise, if failure is God's then how achievement can be yours? So, when I talk about everything is destined then I include EVERYTHING. All positives and all negatives. In that case, you can't keep anything with you. It is a path of total surrender. So, if you can do that then path of destiny is yours.
c. Now, there are 2 problems with this path. One age-old argument that what if a person commits a crime and blames it on God or Destiny. And there is no scope of improvement as this path can make a person lazy as he may say that how I can go beyond God's will?
d. For both issues, simplest response is that such people didn't understand the concept of leaving everything on God or Destiny. As I said, this is the path of total surrender, i.e. surrender of ego. Now, any crime or any negative action is done to satisfy ego. Like, I may steal money because I need money. So, ego satisfaction is involved here. But path of destiny is of a person who has totally surrendered his ego and willing to live on God's wish. Such person won't commit any crime because he knows that blame will go on God. Likewise, such person will never stop improving because again blame will go on God. Basically, he surrenders all his actions to God. So, there is no chance that he can surrender any crime to God or laziness to God.
Now, for the path of free-will -
a. It looks like the path of ego assertion because person says that I can manage my life and do actions as per my will. So, this is one drawback but there is one positive thing here that this person is taking responsibility of his actions if he is totally following the path of free-will. Here again, the problem is that people are selective about paths. When they get positive results then it is because of their own actions as per free-will but when they see bad results then they blame it on destiny.
b. So again, if person is truly following the path of free-will then he should take responsibility of ALL his actions, i.e. good, bad or ugly. Now, if he takes responsibility of his actions then there is a huge possibility of improvement. Person won't accept that because of his own actions he is in a mess. Hence, next time, he will put better actions to improve because as per him, results are only as good as his actions. So, positive thing attached with the path of free-will is immense possibility of improvement.
c. As Osho said in one of his preaching that whatever life you are living is result of your own efforts. If you are happy then it is because of your actions and awareness. If you are unhappy then also it is because of your inactions and ignorance. And you can change the scenario in this very moment through your actions and awareness again. Osho says, there is no need to blame God for your situation because God doesn't get any benefit by making you suffer. So, take responsibility on yourself.
So if we see, then both path have its drawbacks and positive points but as I see, the positive use of both paths is on improving your situation. A person who leaves everything on God has to look for better life because if he is living a life of suffering then his God will be blamed for it and as a true lover of God, he won't like to see that. A person who thinks that there is free-will would obviously put his best efforts to improve his situation as he knows that there is none else to do the same for him.
This is how I see it.
Now, the working area of free-will and destiny?
As I said in video, when you put your best effort in achieving anything, at that time you are in free-will zone. During that time of putting efforts you feel that you can manage things your way. Then when you completely exhaust yourself and there is no strength left to put a single more second of effort in that area of life then you have reached to the destined result. So for me, free-will is a way to reach destiny. For ex, there is a guy/girl who is trying hard to get a job and they tried for long time and made all efforts possible but didn't get any favorable result. Now, someone tells them to apply for a job again and all they felt is disgust at very thought of applying again and no strength or desire to go through that process again, then it shows that their free-will is over and they have reached their destiny in that particular area of life.
And as I said in video, we can change things through free-will only in the very initial stages of any thought coming in our mind. But once we get ourselves attached with that thought and give it our attention and energy, it will be stronger than free-will then and will be able to overpower us.
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Post on 31st May, 2019
