Does God Speak Through Horoscope?

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We read our world through the eyes of the filters of our personality, experiences, and values - in sum, our perceptions. We make attributions with what we see quicker than we can even understand. Add to this the fact we're all spiritual beings, searching for meaning in life; we more easily find the wrong answers, thinking they're right for us.

Think about horoscope. There are 12 varieties - one of twelve boxes we fit into. The theory of horoscope is we're similar, if not the same, as others born in the same period of the year as we were. Think about that for a moment.

Christians hold that God speaks through his Spirit in ways to communicate the will of God - what we're to do, that's right, just and fair. Christians, by character and not merely name, don't enter into Crystal-ball gazing or ruminating over what the day holds for them, though they may pray - again, seeking God's will.

THE LOGIC OF BELIEF

By trying horoscope, and actively seeking it out in newspapers or via Internet apps etc, we've decided to align with a belief system that sorts us into personality types by birthdate. Think about the logic in that.

Add to this the fact that horoscope finds that 12 personality types will share similar fortunes on any particular day. Think about the logic in that. It's true that any horoscope analysis can be read many different ways, just as people self-select a particular item of clairvoyant interest. 'Your day will be busier than normal', is not actually that groundbreaking. Horoscope is generic enough in its form that it satisfies the reader who believes in it. The believer seeks to be affirmed in the reading.

Contrast this with the logic of belief in the Christian God; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To outsiders the theology of God may be confusing. But this bit is simple: we are to worship in Spirit and in truth, according to John 4:24. God is Spirit; we worship in Spirit - and not via any talisman or idol. That leaves truth. Anything that consists of truth is of God. And though we believe by faith, God has reckoned all things valid that subsist in the truth. Does horoscope, in any way, subsist in truth? Does it, for instance, instruct or challenge or affirm us regarding moral or ethical truth?

I, and many others, would argue that horoscope does not, in any form, belong to the truth. Belief in horoscope satisfies a spiritual urge, but in a lie. We give ourselves what we want, leaving God far from view. The reality is the Evil One (Christians call him 'Satan') has accomplished his goal in diverting and diluting our worship when we choose horoscope or any other idol of aberrant focus. An otherwise life-transforming worship is missed out on.

God doesn't speak through horoscope, but our yearning to hear from God is 'heard' in our attribution of the horoscope - how we make sense of it. Horoscope doesn't fit, at any level, the truth. And, as horoscope defeats the purpose of faith, by addressing our desire to predict or interpret our day, it cannot fit in alignment with a true worship of God. The people of God are justified by their faith alone.

Beautiful Monument of Love

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The new Seven Wonders of the World were announced in July 2007 and among stiff competition the Taj Mahal of India has been included as the seventh wonder of the world. The is no doubt in the mind of every Indian that this great monument is truly a great wonder of the world. It is tribute of love made by Emperor Shah Jahan for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Thousands of people vist Agra in India to view this beautiful and beloved monument. Built on the bank of river Yamuna, this treasure of India is worth a sight.

This beautiful monument of story has a beautiful love story behind its construction. Shah Jahan the fourth Mugal Emperor of India, fell in love with Mumtaz Mahal, whose name was Arjumand Banu Begam, at the age of 14. He later married her after five years in 1612. Shah Jahan became the Emperor in 1628. The title Mumtaz Mahal which means "Jewel of the Palace" was bestowed on his wife by TajMahal. Although he had other wives, Mumtaz was his favorite and he loved her so much. But Mumtaz died while delivering their 14th child and Shah Jahan was terribly heart broken. He went into mourning and two years after her death, he undertook the task of building the most beautiful monument in memory of his loved one. And the great Taj Mahal was constructed.

The Taj Mahal which entombs Shah Jahan and his wife is made of white marble with 28 varieties of precious metals and gems, and the construction took 22 years to complete, by 20ooo workers, from 1631 to 1653. The materials and precious stones for construction were bought from different parts of India and around the world. The marbles were bought from Jaipur, and stones like jade came from China, Crystal from tibet, Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan, Carnelian from Arabia and Sapphire from Sri Lanka. A interesting fact about this magnificent and wonderful monument is that the Taj seems to change colors as it reflects the light of the rising sun and setting sun.

The chief architects of the Taj came from The State of Delhi India, and from Persia, Turkey and Baluchistan and the cost of the building and its surroundings costs more than $200,000,000 in today's currency. The design was by three main architects, a Persian, an Italian and a Frenchman. The Taj garden, known as the Charbagh Garden is a Persian style garden and is said to be closely linked to Paradise. There is a raised lotus shaped tank in the center of the garden and the view of Taj Mahal can be seen in the water from all corners of the garden.

Taj Mahal, the most beautiful monument, based on love, is a beauty which lasts for ever and ever.

Tourism in Rajasthan

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Rajasthan, the land of kings, is the largest state of the Republic of India. It is one of the most sought after tourist destinations in the country. It possesses unique cultural and geographical features which have made a prominent Indian tourist destination. The state is visited by a large number of domestic and international tourists each year. Tourism in this royal and imperial Indian state provides the tourists a great experience to relish for lifetime.

The historical state of Rajasthan is renowned for its majestic forts, elegant palaces, intricately carved temples, decorated havelis and prosperous museums. Hence, the state is also sometimes described as the Land of Monuments. You will have a wonderful opportunity to some most outstanding Indian forts & monuments while exploring the historical cities of the state.

Jaipur is the capital and largest city of the state. City Palace, Hawa Mahal, Jantar Mantar and Albert Hall Museum are most popular tourist attractions in the city. Due to many pink painted houses and buildings this city is also called the Pink City of India.

Jodhpur is a fortress city located at the edge of the Thar Desert. It is also called the Blue City of India due to blue homes. It is the second largest city of the state. Mehrangarh Fort, Umaid Bhawan Palace and Jaswant Thada are main attractions to see in the city.

Udaipur, known as the Venice of India, is a romantic city in Rajasthan. It is also called the City of Lakes & Palace due to many lovely lakes and elegant palaces. City Palace, Lake Palace, Jagmandir Palace, Lake Pichola, Jagdish Temple, Monsoon Palace and Saheliyon-Ki-Bari are attractions in the city which will never fail to surprise you.

Bikaner is a beautiful city which is renowned for fort, palaces, havelis and temples. Junagarh Fort, Fort Museum, Lalgarh Palace, Deshnoke Rat Temple and Camel Breeding Farm & Research Center are major attractions to see in this city.

Jaisalmer, the Golden City of India, is a wonderful tourist destination to see in Rajasthan. It is famous for Golden Fort, Jain Temples, Havelis and Sam Sand Dunes.

Apart from historical cities and magnificent forts & monuments, Rajasthan tourism is also renowned for wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. The state offers ample opportunities for wildlife tourism at its wildlife reserves and parks. Ranthambore National Park, Sariska Tiger Reserve and Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary are very popular on Rajasthan tours in India.

Rajasthan trip is incomplete if you do not explore its desert landscapes. Camel safari is the most popular way to explore the desert and ripping sand dunes.

Hence, it is but obvious that tourism in Rajasthan is a great experience to relish for lifetime.

Law Of Attraction: Avoiding Common Mistakes

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Lack of Faith:
The law of attraction works with faith. If you don't believe it will happen then it will never happen. On the other hand, if you believe but still harbor some doubt then you are still holding on to the negative energies that make it difficult for you to manifest what you want.

A Limiting Belief:
Practicing positive thinking is more than just a recitation of positive words and phrases to keep you motivated. They must be accompanied by your true feelings. You need to believe in what you are affirming to yourself. Changes start only when you start to believe in what you are telling yourself.

Lack of Clarity:
In order to get what you want, you will first need to know exactly what you want. The majority of people need many things and they need it now! That's where they lose the clarity of their intentions. Clarity sends out a nice positive vibration and the law of attraction responds to it. So be focus and concentrate on one intention at a time.

Lack of Patience:
It is important to understand that the Universe works at its own speed. It has to orchestrate everyone and everything into the right order for the appropriate event to occur just as it should. If you put a time-frame on your efforts, you will eventually become impatient with the Universe and sent out negative energies that hinders your attraction abilities.

Lack of Gratitude:
Gratitude is an important component to making the law of attraction works. When you are not grateful for whatever you already have in your life, you are vibrating those unwanted negative energies to the Universe. Get shifted to an appreciative attitude and learn to receive with a grateful heart. Else you will find the Universe can be equally less generous in return.

Your Interference:
The Universe is always at hand to assist you but it is not something you can command. This means you cannot expect things to happen exactly the way you want it to be. When you dictate how your desire should be manifested, you inadvertently interfere with other available avenues for your desire to enter your life. For the law of attraction to work, you just need to ask and allow the Universe to do its job.

When you decided to use the law of attraction to make positive changes in your life, you have accepted the responsibility to drive your life towards the direction you desire and to make this natural law of the Universe work successfully for you is your commitment to yourself to reach your desired destination. So hang on tight and know that the bumps along the way are not unavoidable.

Changing Your Life by Controlling Your Mind

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Our mind is a vast, indispensable and improbable medium with which our thoughts are being shaped every fleeting second. We might, at times be unaware of the relentless thoughts that come in and out of our minds. However, there are far more amazing feats that our think tank could accomplish-far more than just the usual thinking engine we use to engage when we want to conjure up an idea. Our mind can actually change everything even as something as complex as our life if we just learn how to control it. By mastering our mind's potential, we can actually direct our lives the way we want it to towards a fuller and much accomplished end. If you want a dramatic change in your life, you ought to take control of your mind first.

So how do we basically control our mind? With the millions of thoughts that come in and out of our minds, we find it at times so hard to get our minds fixed to a certain thought or situation which in turn makes it difficult for us to come up with a single decision on some matters. We could have firm control over these volatile thoughts by initially sorting out or choosing which thoughts we should take in and which ones we should disregard. This is one of the most important steps in gaining access to your mind's unharnessed power. Choose a certain hour or minute in your daily activity to just sit down for a while, doing nothing, and meditate on any single thought. This may seem to be far from being easy at your first attempt, so I suggest that you start, as a stepping stone, to at least try to read a book and try to count the number of words in each sentence without actually diverting your mind to any other thought than your counting. Remember, it usually takes 21 days to form a habit, so try repeating it for 21 days. This may get you in frustration as you try to advance yourself along the course, but patience is everything. After that, you can take meditation as mentioned above. You will find that as you go through this exercise you can now start to gradually enhance your mind's concentration as it is essential in reaching your certain objectives and goals in life. When you have learned to focus your mind on a single thought-excluding everything else from it, you will find that it no longer is a tiresome job for you to concentrate on whatever work is at hand, whether you are simply doing your routine house chores, reading or writing a novel or even studying for a particular exam or interview.

5 Mystical World's Best Places

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Easter Island/ Pulau Paskah

areas of the world. Easter Island is the top of
Easter Island is one of the most remote the list of the most mysterious. This area is full of giant volcanic rock statues called "Moai". The people of the island called Rapa Nui, and nobody knows where they came from and where they have disappeared. There is much research to find the story behind the gigantic structure, but there is no concrete answer to this question.

The Pyramids of Giza

The largest and oldest of the three pyramids of Giza necropolis, the Great Pyramid of Giza is also known as the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Khufu is the highest artificial structure in the world for over 3800 years. Casing stones that originally formed on the smooth surface of the Great Pyramid has been lost and what we see today are really seeing the base structure. Egyptian civilization is said to be the most mysterious and most advanced civilization of the time and only contributes to the mystery of the Great Pyramid.
The three largest pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramid and Pyramid Menkaura Kafhre called special cemetery for the three kings of Egypt.

Stonehenge

Located in the English countryside Whltshire, Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument of the most famous in the world. What makes this place so special is the creation of a round stone. It is believed that the stone monument was built around 2500 BC Although there is no concrete evidence. Cooked in a region from the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Development and regulation is quite impressive, given the work and time by diperlikan.

Castlerigg Stone Circle

This stone circle in Cumbria, has an impressive historical monuments in Britain. Stone Circle was built around 3200 BC. Now, the place was invaded by tourists from every part, and also became a topic among archaeologists. Apparently, many of the stones reflect the surrounding hill Castlerigg figures.

38 stones in various shapes and sizes are in this circle. Five foot high cliff. The mystery of how, when and why it was built. Its east side is a rectangular stone about 10 stone. Goals remain mysterious box.

Cenote in Mayan Civilization

deep in the forests in Mexico and Guatemala, this civilization thrived when Europe was still in the Dark. These people are teachers of mathematics and have mapped the sky. This warrior named Maya who had fought against the Spanish. The city was built with a very imperfect without metal tools. Stone structures found in the woods talking about their genius. Maya is a great mystery in architecture, mathematics and astronomy.

Underground world called cenote are bodies of water that will keep your neck cool if you managed to walk down the narrow stairs that led to this vertical hole. Nothing in this world could be more bizarre than this scene. See when you're used to the light 20 feet below ground.

The Mohenjo Daro Necklace - A Priceless Piece of Ancient Jewellery

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In 1950, five years after Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler married (for the third time) Margaret Norfolk, he gifted his wife a unique seven-stranded bronze-metal necklace of great antiquity. The couple was on a visit to Simla then. This being the beautiful hill-station in North India where they had been married five years ago. Margaret proudly showed the necklace to a close Indian lady friend explaining that Mortimer believed the necklace would bring him luck. "Third time lucky!" was what Mortimer had said when he gave her the necklace referring to his two earlier marriages to Tessa who died in 1936, and Mavis de Vere Cole, whom he had divorced in 1942 for cheating on him. Later in 1954, Mavis also served a prison sentence, having attained notoriety for shooting Lord Vivian in the abdomen with a revolver.

Two years later in 1952, after Mortimer was knighted, Margaret (for reasons not known) gifted the necklace to her Indian lady friend. The Indian lady believed Margaret nursed a superstition that the artifact should not leave the subcontinent. "It has been lucky for both him and Leslie. I think it has served its purpose," was all that Margaret explained. Leslie Alcock was Mortimer's assistant at the Mohenjo Daro excavation site (Moen-jo-daro being Sindhi for "the mound of the dead") when the necklace was discovered.

Had Mortimer declared this discovery, the necklace should have been the property of the Archaeological Department of Pakistan along with the figures of the Dancing Girl and the King Priest (Brahmana priest), pottery, toys, seals, tools, weapons and many other such artifacts unearthed at Mohenjo Daro. Today it is a private possession of a family in Simla.

What is unique about this necklace is that it is at least 4500 years old, Mortimer Wheeler having discovered it in an earthen pot in the REM 1 "granary" area of the Mohenjo Daro excavation site of the Indus Valley Civilization, now in Pakistan.

Interesting details about the necklace

The ancient city of Mohenjo-daro was built around 2600 BCE and believed to have been abandoned around 1900 BCE. Even by modest estimation the age of the necklace would be over 3900 years old, but according to Mortimer more likely to be about 4500 years old, based on the pottery fragments and the level of the dig-site it was discovered from. This places it among the oldest necklaces in the world. The necklace has an S-shaped clasp with seven strands, each over 4ft long, of bronze-metal bead-like nuggets connecting each arm of the "S" in filigree. Each bead is less than the size of a pepper-seed and has many facets. Each strand has between 220 to 230 nuggets and there are about 1600 nuggets in total. The necklace weighs about 250 gms. An article about this necklace was reported in The Hindu newspaper in India, dated January 13, 1996. In 2002, a price of 80,000 British pounds was offered for the necklace by a private UK collector. Since its ownership had so far not been claimed by Pakistan, he had hoped to purchase the antique necklace for his personal collection, but the old Indian lady refused to part with it.

The Mohenjo Daro Necklace was exhibited during the Dubai festival in 2006, and recently at an antique exhibition in New Delhi raising speculation once again that it might be available for purchase. For reasons of propriety the name of the owner was withheld.