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Feelings,
"Hunches"
and the Quest for Luck
For
anyone interested in
directly observing an environment (and the “actors”
within it) that is
totally
dominated by the search for “Luck”, casinos have a
lot to offer. The “playing
rules” are clear, the odds are precisely calculable for any
one game (not so
with the stock market or FOREX), and practically everyone there is
concentrating on being “lucky”: the casino
management wants to make their usual
daily profit, avoiding any large, unsuspected streaks of luck on the
part of big-time gamblers who may be there. The casino personnel are
all hoping
that the players at their table will win big, and give them a
corresponding
tip. And the gamblers themselves are hoping for that “lucky
streak” that will enable them to leave the casino
considerably richer than they were upon
entering.
Of
course, over the years, at some time or another, everything possible
will happen:“lucky”
players will leave the casino with
big bundles of money. Unlucky ones will lose everything but the shirts
on their backs. Most players will suffer moderate losses, and a
somewhat smaller
number of people, moderate gains. If we don’t look at things
any
deeper than that, we’d be tempted to say that all of these
individual events
put together are merely due to “coincidence”.
Yet
others, of a more intuitive nature, may well feel that, at least as far
as the fate of
the individual player is concerned, there is more than just
“chance” involved.
Now,
I will confess that I am not a gambler.Not
that I
believe that gambling is bad – in my view, people should be
allowed to do
anything they want with their money, even throw it out the window.
Nonetheless,
being very
much interested in the “roots of
luck” – an interest that developed through my
involvement with serious
astrology – I welcomed the idea of viewing the activities of
a casino
first-hand.
Back
in the
mid-90’s, while
living in Madrid,
Spain,
I had a friend who
occasionally liked to gamble, so he, his wife and I decided to go the
local
casino, just for the fun of it. I had said beforehand that I wanted to
play
with a very limited amount of funds, since as I said, I am no gambler!
Single-zero roulette was to be our game…
During
our first hour there, I must confess
that I was uneasy. It was my first time in a casino; everyone else
there seemed
to know what they were doing, how to place bets, etc. I had studied the
rules
of the game (and most especially, the odds for each type of bet), yet
all I
could think of was that it wouldn’t be long till I would lose
all the money I
had brought with me.
Antonio and his
wife also
didn’t seem very optimistic, especially after we initially
lost 4 games out of
5. We continued to play for a while, with a similar lack of success.
But then,
suddenly, our mood changed. We had begun to converse about other
things, our
moods lightened, we cracked some jokes, and the whole
“atmosphere” around us
seemed quite different. No sooner had this emotional change occurred,
than…
right, you guessed it. We began to win, and within a very short time,
we had
recovered all our money, and then some. Coincidence? Well, maybe, but
it sure
didn’t feel like it….
On
another occasion, I visited the same
casino with a young American friend. Eric was 23, and astrologically
speaking,
a typical Sagittarius: open, friendly, with a great sense of humor, and
almost
always enthusiastic. Eric had never been to a casino before, but when
we
entered, he was anything but insecure: he was in a great mood, calm but
enthusiastic, and could hardly wait to play. We each went to different
parts of
the casino, and after about a half hour, Eric rushed up to me to tell
me the
news: he had won at roulette ten times in a row! At this point, he
wasn’t
simply enthusiastic, but overly so: excited, somewhat nervous, he could
hardly
wait to get back to the gambling table. This, to me, was a warning sign.
“Eric,
stop now
while you’re
ahead!”, I advised him.
“Are
you crazy?
I’m on a
winning streak! I’m gonna really clean up here tonight!
I’m going to easily
double what I’ve won already, and...
“No,
Eric, you won't You're no longer balanced inside” I told him.
“You’re too enthusiastic, unnaturally
so. That’s a sign you should stop…”
Well,
he didn’t
listen, and
you can guess what happened… 20 minutes later he retuned,
dejected, and said he
had lost everything he had previously won, and then some.
On
yet another occasion, I was at the casino
with Antonio and his wife again. It had been a somewhat unlucky night:
we had
lost what we had planned to risk; our mood had been consistently low.As
we were leaving the casino, Antonio saw an
ATS machine, and decided he was going to take out some money and return
to the
roulette wheel, to see if he could recover his loss on one spin.
“No,
don’t do it!” I told
him. We’re all emotionally low right now, I don’t
feel anything positive. I
wouldn’t take that risk if I were you…”
Antonio
was more confident
than I was, but as you may already suspect, he played that final
spin…and ended
up doubling his losses for the night, instead of regaining
them…
In
all of these cases (and I’m sure that you
yourselves have observed similar phenomena, either in casinos, or in
other
areas, like day trading, etc.), what I noticed was that certain
emotions on the part of the players
seemed to have an influence
on the results.
Note
that I didn’t say the results
influenced the emotions (though this, of course, is also true).But
as we saw in the first case, though the
results had been quite negative, and we would have had every reason to
feel
“blue”; we changed our attitude, perked up, became
merry again... and started
winning.
Before
you dismiss this all as mere
coincidence, I advise you to do some reading on what some great minds
have
opined about just what coincidence is. At www.astrococktail.com/PDF/PAULKA_x007E_1.pdf
you
will find a fascinating article on the Austrian scientist Paul
Kammerer, and
his ground-breaking work “Das Gesetz der Serie”
(“The Law of Seriality”).
Kammerer, who was a friend of the famous physicist Wolfgang Pauli
(discoverer
of the Exclusion Principle), developed his “Law of the
Series”, that postulated
that there are “waves of seriality” - forces we do
not yet understand that
cause what we then perceive as “coincidences” or
“groups of coincidences”.
I
heartily recommend you visit the link above, for the authors of the pdf
you’ll
find there explain Kammerer’s ideas both clearly and
concisely. And if you work
your way through it, you’ll begin to see that the idea that
everything that
happens – even in a casino – is merely
“chance” – might not be correct after
all: those “feelings” that people sometimes get
about what will happen may have
more of a solid foundation than most people think.
OK,
“feelings” and “hunches” may at
times
have validity (as long as they remain unclouded by nervousness,
over-anxiousness,
or just plain greed), but as an astrologer, I had to take it to the
next level:
Assuming
that emotional states could be
somehow connected to “luck”, and knowing from
experience that emotions are
often reflected in the astrological influences at any given moment on
one’s
personal astrological chart – could it be that by predicting
probable emotional
states, we would be able to forecast lucky and unlucky times?
Over
the course ofthirty-two years
as an
astrologer, I have seen that not only emotional states can be
predicted, but
also types of events.
True, it is impossible to make exact predictions
with astrology, of the type: “Tomorrow you will just have
crossed a street,
when you will run into a friend you haven’t seen in ten
years, and he will
invite you to lunch”. No astrologer can predict such
occurrences. But we can
say, for example, when it is most likely that you will feel frustrated,
when
events will occur that place obstacles in your path, when things will
“flow”
more smoothly than at other times, and the like.
In
order to make predictions concerning “lucky” and
“unlucky” times where finances
are concerned, this should be more than enough, especially considering
the fact
that 100% accuracy is not needed, but only an accuracy that will make
it
probable that you “win” more than 50% of the time
– whether at a casino, in
your day trading activities, FOREX, making important business
decisions, etc.
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Forex,
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