How to do SWOT analysis using a Horoscope?
Before I begin the article I wish to tell you what is SWOT just in case you have not yet been introduced to this abbreviation perhaps the most often used abbreviation in the corporate world.
- Strength
- Weakness
- Opportunity
- Threat
Similarities between your horoscope and your school mark sheet.
I am sure you have as a kid been to school. Remember you moved from 1st grade to 2nd grade and then to 3rd grade. A horoscope functions exactly like a school progress report, tracking a soul's ongoing journey across lifetimes. Imagine a student, Anantharaman, who graduates from 7th grade at School A and enters 8th grade at School B. To his new classmates and teachers, he seems to appear out of nowhere, mirroring a newborn soul entering a fresh incarnation.
Similarly we move from one life to another. As we move from in this manner, each time when we are born a cosmic mark sheet is issued. This is called your horoscope. Just as his new 8th-grade teacher looks at his past mark sheet to instantly diagnose his academic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis), an astrologer reads your horoscope to map out your destiny and potential. However, unlike Anantharaman, who remembers his 7th-grade experiences, a reborn soul undergoes a memory wipe by God upon receiving their cosmic mark sheet.
Ultimately, this divine report card remains a mystery to most; trying to read your own horoscope without knowing astrology is like an illiterate person staring at Anantharaman's report card, entirely unable to decipher the crucial life paths written within it.
The Astrologer is reading the Divine Report Card called Horoscope
Eligibility of an Astrologer to do the SWOT analysis
The SWOT analysis should be done only by an experienced Astrologer. This person should be a natural philosopher and a believer of Karma and rebirth. The Astrologer should know that the horoscope is not just a tool for only predictions but it can effectively used to know what one should do to overcome the bad karma that has been carried forward. Suggestions to improve the quality of life and to reduce the suffering in life should be tailor-made for each person. General and vague statements should be avoided.
What to do with the Weakness and Threats in a horoscope ?
The main purpose of reading a horoscope is only to know as much as possible the weakness and threats in one's life. A wealthy, famous and successful person has many strengths and opportunities in his horoscope while a person struggling in life most of the time has more weaknesses and threats in the horoscope. Interestingly the Strength and Weakness are more karmic in nature in the sense that it has been given to a person either as a punishment or a reward for some past life deeds. This the background and the canvas. Your effort comes in how you use the opportunities that knock your door and how you shield yourself from the threats. It is here a wise and expert Astrologer may be the best person who could show the way.
Dhilip Sir, Don't give me any remedies
I remember once in an in-person consultation I had this consultation with Mr ABC somewhere around 2005. He spoke in English. I looked at the overall horoscope and noticed so many threats and weaknesses in his horoscope. I was struggling to start the consultation because there were so many problems in his chart. However Mr ABC looked at me straight in the eye and said "Mr Dhilip, I know you are an expert in Astrology and know a great deal about karma and remedies. But let me tell you just give me the reading and do not suggest any remedy. I do not believe in remedy and I believe that our life is already determined and fated, so let's not waste time discussing remedies". I was not surprised. I was not surprised. Since he was fated to go through so many problems his own Karma prevents him from getting the solutions as well. It is in the same people become an atheist. They are not supposed to get the grace of GOD according to their horoscope and hence they do no believe in God or in the power of prayers.
When a patient visits a Doctor
When a patient visits the doctor to find a cure for the ailment or disease, the doctor will eventually ask for the blood report and do many more tests that would help him diagnose the problem.
Let me tell you a story. My body started to show the symptoms of blood pressure. The doctor asked me many questions and after hearing what I had to say he checked my blood pressure and found that I need a blood pressure medication. He prescribed a standard BP tablet that I had to consume after my breakfast and the dosage was calculated in accordance to the blood pressure reading. I took the medication for 2 weeks and when I went to the Doctor, he found out that my blood pressure remained high as before. It was as though the medication was not working. He therefore had to increase the dosage of the medicine. However the high blood pressure remained.
Then one day the doctor asked me, "tell me what you eat and drink from morning to night"? I gave him the answers. He asked me to stop taking butter milk. I was not impressed because butter milk is actually a healthy drink. He explained, "Look, when you take may glasses of butter milk your salt intake goes up because in each glass of buttermilk you have that much salt added to make it tasty and if you have several glasses of butter your average intake of salt will be very high". From the next day I stopped consuming buttermilk. Now the medication started working. The solution was stop taking buttermilk.
Astrology remedies have to be tailor made after knowing everything about the daily habits of a person and his lifestyle. Had I not revealed the buttermilk story the doctor would never have treated my high blood pressure condition. The doctor has to know what's going on. Today doctors are very busy and have not time to listen to the patient to know their lifestyle.
What is a Yoga in Astrology?
The combination of a planet with another planet is called a Yoga in Astrology. Similarly the combination of a planet in a particular house is another type of Yoga. Yoga means a combination of at least a minimum of 2 factors. A single factor in Astrology never produces a yoga. Sometimes 3 planets combinations may indicate a yoga. Jupiter and Moon together is a good yoga. Saturn and Moon together is a challenging yoga.
Strength:
The positive yogas are to be noted down. These are your strengths. Refer standard classical books in Vedic Astrology. The more you have the positive yogas the stronger your horoscope. You should capitalise on your strength.
Pancha Mahapurusha Yogas are the most popular yogas that adds to the Strength.
To be continued...
By
Guruji E K Dhilip Kumar
Email : ekdhilipkumar@gmail.com
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