INFORMATION ABOUT A CREATIVE ASTROLOGER

I did not know that I had acquired a reputation as a guru of creativity far beyond the corporate circles where I conduct workshops on LATERAL THINKING.
I was surprised to receive an email asking me if I could introduce the sender of the email,—a girl– to a creative astrologer!!
Now I know what an astrologer looks and acts like .My analysis of the art of an artful astrologer has taught me that the secret of being a successful astrologer is as follows
–make vague , general statements that could be interpreted any which way to confirm your predictions
– make several predictions so that by sheer chance some predictions will come true
– give predictions to many people so that by sheer chance some of your predictions to some people will turn out to be true and these people will tell others how uncanny your predictions were

But creative astrologer ? I asked the email writer what she meant by that term.
‘I want an astrologer who can give unusual predictions’ she clarified.
That was all the information I needed. I told her about my friend Unnikrishnan, This astrologer himself told me this story after he and I had one beer too many. Though I am no astrologer I can predict that after 4 beers most people loosen their tongues and confess to me their innermost secrets. This is what Unni told me.
A businessman approached him looking very depressed –his business was facing the effects of recession. Unni had to predict his future..Unni decided to make vague predictions as is the rule.
‘You will have a tough time for two months beginning next Monday. Rahu and ketu will be sitting in your house . Take care’
The businessman went away looking even more depressed
He told his wife that beginning next Monday he would vanish out of sight of the world and not to contact him. The wife was terrified but had no option but to agree with the determined man.
Off went the sad businessman.
Two months later he returned looking haggard and dirty, a far cry from the finicky and neat man that he always was.
‘Let us go to Unni’ he told his wife as they got into their Mercedes Benz
‘So how have rahu and ketu treated you ?” asked Unni
‘Sir I managed to beat these terrible guys. I went where the gods and stars dare not go’ said the now charged up businessman
.‘Where did you go ?’ asked a curious Unni.
‘I set up a home in the dirtiest part of the slums in Dharavi, knowing that these slums are said to be God forsaken. If even God does not go there why will mere stars go there ?”said the man triumphantly. ‘So sir I have proven you wrong’
‘No’ said Unni. ‘The very fact that you had to give up the luxury of your Colaba apartment and live in Dharavi shows that my prediction was correct.You had a bad time indeed. .This was rahu and ketu in action’ said Unni as he picked up his check for consultation fees.
That was a creative astrologer
But wait, My intrepid detective friend Alphonso tells me that he hears voices from his dead friend Armugam a celebrity astrologer who died under mysterious circumstances in Chennai .Armugam speaks to Alphonso on the 13th of every month if it is a Friday.
Alphonso sent me an email, as follows
‘Ravi I am in touch with the most creative astrologer ever, Armugam—the man who died seven months ago mysteriously while watching a Rajnikant film. Police say that in one particular scene Rajni was shown as having been killed by the villain by a bullet that was meant for someone else but took a detour, then a U-turn and ended in Rajni’s chest. Armugam died of a heart attack. But had he lived even a few more minutes he might have found that all that was a dream sequence in the mind of the villain.’
‘However Armugam spoke to me ,last Friday He says that he is busy even in heaven .Even God wants to know His future. Apparently God is worried that more and more people have stopped believing in Him. His future seems bleak Armugam also told Him that in His name many sins are being committed. Armugam had a look at God’s horoscope and felt that Rahu and Ketu were about to position themselves in the most inauspicious position.’
‘What does this mean?’ asked God..
‘It means You will face a rough time . ‘.
‘What can I do to avoid this ?’ asked a worried God
‘Go and live in mountains of Afghanistan’advised Armugam
‘You mean that Godforsaken—sorry self- forsaken place?’
‘Yes’
‘Insha Allah I will go there ’Said God

K.R.RAVI