Last week, a friend of mine shared something she remembered discovering in my western astrology chart over 10 years ago. She was reading a book by an astrologer and looking at my chart and saw that according to the astrologer’s description of star charts, an unfortunate pattern was going to repeat in my life. She didn’t bring it up at the time, because she thought it would be upsetting to me and unhelpful.
In our conversation, my friend couldn’t remember the specifics of what she saw in the star chart from 10 years ago. I was desperately curious to uncover if her observation might be true. As soon as I got home, I turned to my computer. I thought, “I wonder if Chatgpt has an answer here?” Sure enough, it did.
I entered in my birth details and in just seconds, Chatgpt was able to whip up my star chart and tell me all kinds of things about how the positions of my sun, moon and planets might be affecting my life. From what I could tell, the Chatgpt version pretty much matched what I had seen in other astrology calculators. When I asked about the particular pattern my friend had observed, Chatgpt was not as specific as saying the pattern was there twice, but it did have several data points to share with me that corroborated her interpretation of my astrological destiny. A little creepy and certainly curious.
This got me thinking …. Chatgpt may be gunning to replace our accountants and our travel agents, but will it replace our hypnotherapists (like me) or our astrologers? What about psychics and hand readers? Meditation teachers or meditation composers? There are thousands of people who work in these professions. Where is this going?
I asked Chatgpt a few months ago if it could hypnotize me. It told me no, it couldn’t do that. Whew! At least my profession is safe for now. However when I asked it to write me a meditation about a tree, it did so without hesitation. It wasn’t a particularly good meditation about a tree, but it was instant. Score: Chatgpt 0 for hypnotizing people but 1 for writing meditations.
Can Chatgpt do hand readings? It turns out it can. When you upload a picture of your palm, it will tell you all about your lines and mounds and a fair bit about your life lines and so forth. It doesn’t go as far as talking about the lengths of your fingers, and it doesn’t talk about seeing any stars in your palm, which are said to be a sign of highly intuitive people. Chatgpt is not advanced with hand reading, but it has made a start.
My summary as of July 2024, is that Chatgpt has already learned how to calculate and observe many of the data points metaphysical practitioners like astrologers and hand readers use, and it can do so very quickly and effectively. However, I think that the real pros in these professions will be safe both in the short-term and long-term. I can’t see people turning to Chatgpt anytime real soon to be hypnotized. I believe good astrologers combine their intuition with the data they see in the star charts to express their findings for their clients. While I believe Chatgpt will improve, and maybe next year be able to talk about finger length or star patterns in palms, the human element of the delivery of a quality hand reading has a lot more value to me than one that prints words to the screen at breakneck speed.
What do you think? I’d love to hear your stories about Chatgpt and what you think will become of these questions and answers in the short- and long-term.
P.S. Are you curious about the troublesome pattern in my star chart? Stay tuned. That story is coming!
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