Text | Bai Suxin

Two or three weeks ago, a colleague from another office heard that I knew astrology, so he couldn't wait to find me and asked me to help her read the chart.

I was very happy when I received the job, because every time I saw a different plate, it meant that I had taken another step forward in practice. Isn’t it that my abilities are developed through such practice again and again? Of?

But here comes the problem. This colleague doesn’t know his birth time. For this reason, she went to a fortune teller to calculate it for her, and they calculated a time period for her of about 5:00 to 7:00 in the morning. Because in traditional numerology, two hours are one hour, so they could only give her She calculated an abstract hour.

There is also a technique in astrology called "birth correction", which is used to calculate the time of birth. I studied it when I was at an advanced level and watched the video more than once or twice. So I told my colleagues that it doesn’t matter, I will calculate the birth time.

Because I have been too busy in the past two or three weeks, my colleague has urged me two or three times, but I have not been able to find time to help her.

Finally the weekend came again, and I decided I couldn’t put it off any longer. So I took advantage of the few hours I had after get off work on Friday afternoon and waited for my children to get out of school, and I began to try to open the astrolabe according to the time she gave me.

I opened an astrolabe at 5 o'clock in the morning, and another at 7 o'clock in the morning. Maybe because two hours is too long, the difference between the two horoscopes is too big.

According to the first step of birth correction, I first looked at her rising signs, one with Scorpio rising and the other with Sagittarius rising. The personality traits of these two zodiac signs are quite different, but because I don’t know this colleague very well, I really can’t tell which zodiac sign she is more inclined to. In my opinion, she doesn't look alike in either sign.

She herself can't tell which side of her personality she prefers. After all, no one is willing to admit their bad side in front of others. Scorpio is passionate, jealous, and vengeful, and her colleagues don't like these characteristics. However, Sagittarius's yearning for freedom is not obvious in her.

I encountered difficulties in the first step of correction when I was born, which made me panic for a while and inevitably I was a little confused.

So I tried to help her further calculate through Fada fortune telling. I asked her the year she got married and the time she gave birth to her child. Through these two major life events, I determined that her birth time should be After 5:42am.

I was just about to rack my brains to help her continue to calculate, but a few casual conversations with her unintentionally dispelled the little confidence I had just built up.

I asked my colleague if her parents had provided any other information about the time of her birth, such as the sky was slightly bright, the street stall selling fried dough sticks had just started setting up, etc.

My colleague thought about it and told me that her parents had no memory of her birth at all. Her mother only remembered that it seemed to be evening when she was born, and she could see the sun in the sky through the window. But compared to this time, she believed more in the time in the morning that the fortune teller guessed for her.

There is a world of difference between one morning and one night. I was no longer able to give her an astrolabe for that time of night. I was worried that I had calculated it for several hours and that in the end the calculation would be wrong.

Looking at the time, my daughter was about to get out of school. She had her high school entrance exam in two days. I didn’t want to waste my child’s time, so I decisively gave up showing the tape to my colleagues.

My colleagues left a little disappointed, and I was also depressed inside. I have obviously learned the techniques of intra-life correction, and when I listened to the teacher explaining the cases, I felt that they were very clear. I even thought that the techniques of intra-life correction were not that difficult. However, when we actually put it into practice, we found that there is such a huge gap between theory and practice.

I seem to understand what "you will know once you hear it, but you will lose it once you do it". It seems that I understand what it means to be "high-minded but low-handed". I seem to understand why "I have heard a lot of truths, but I just can't live this life well."

The famous educator Montessori once had a famous saying that has been engraved on the walls of many schools, "I have heard and I have forgotten; I have seen and I have remembered; I have done After passing it, I understand.”

Hearing it does not necessarily mean he will remember it, and remembering it will not necessarily mean he understands it. There is still a step between thinking and doing, which is deliberate practice.