What is a child? Is it merely a product of procreation? With nature having endowed us with the requisite emotions for procreation and there being an abundance of biological possibilities for having one or more children, why is it that we find some having many children, some having a few and some not having any even if they wish to? Why is it that in certain cases, a parent never has any link ? not even cognisant of, her or his biological child.

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Studies in Child Birth

? R. Ramakrishnan 2001

A Child - Biologically Conceived, Emotionally Perceived, Mathematically Derived

What is a child? Is it merely a product of procreation? With nature having endowed us with the requisite emotions for procreation and there being an abundance of biological possibilities for having one or more children, why is it that we find some having many children, some having a few and some not having any even if they wish to? Why is it that in certain cases, a parent never has any link ? not even cognisant of, her or his biological child.

This paper is an attempt to seek an astrological answer to these questions on the assumption that it is destiny?s directive that we do or not have children, and if we were to then how many and what gender. The procedure evolved for computing the date of birth of children, their number and gender is based on the idea that every planet assumes a child giving potential depending upon its placement in the natal chart. This potential comes to fruition during the operating period of the planets during the course of the native?s lifetime. Further, after making the event happen, the planet loses a measure of its potential ? this measure too being a function of its placement in the natal chart. If the fall in potential takes the active residual potential of the planet below its threshold level, it no longer participates in the child giving exercise.

The study is based on a sample size of 127 charts. The author welcomes inputs, suggestions and comments on this approach from other astrologers and researchers and is willing to cooperate in collective research also.

The Differing Fates of Birth Date Mates

Humankind prides itself in the presumption that it possesses the power of preference. Given the circumstances in which each one of us began our existence, we may perhaps believe that wherever we are today is because of the choices that we have made at every crossroad in life. But did we have a choice about the circumstances under which we came into being? Was it our preference that we were born at a particular place and time, into a particular family and to a particular set of parents?

My answer to this question would either be an assertive 'No' or an uncertain 'I don't know'. Some philosophies speak of the soul deciding to take a particular birth to expiate accumulated karma. To me, this line of thought is in the domain of heresay, as I have not realised this situation personally.

Looking at the scenario from the point of view of parents, the choice of having a certain number of children, their gender and the time around which to have them could probably be attributed to them. But the nagging thought remains that as the choice of an individual about his or her own origin is uncertain and as an individual's thought process are a function of this original circumstance, how could one term the thought to have a child at a particular time as a 'choice'?

It was these and similar questions that made me take to astrology to seek answers. The attempt was to see if uniform procedures could be evolved to compute the birth of children and their gender from the parent's chart, as well as the birth of parents from a child's chart. The first presentable outcome of this effort was a paper titled 'A Child - Biologically conceived, Emotionally perceived, Mathematically derived'.

Although the procedures are based on quantifying astrological patterns, I will not like to categorize this work to be following a 'scientific' or a 'philosophical' approach. I believe that both philosophy and science express the basis and workings of existence in different languages - the former in a non-mathematical language and the latter in the language of mathematics.

This paper and those to follow in this series are extensions of the earlier paper 'A - Child ?'. In this series, the attempt is to look at charts of persons born on the same day but a few minutes or hours apart, in the background of the procedures as they have evolved so far and give possible explanations as to why, most astrological parameters being similar, the individuals had differing outcomes with regard to the number of children. Each paper will consider a set of two or three charts.

The procedures too have undergone further refinements since the time the earlier paper was presented.