“A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with one’s individual karma. One's horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing one's unalterable past and its probable future results . . . The message boldly blazoned across the heavens at the moment of birth is not meant to emphasize fate – the result of past good and evil – but to arouse one's will to escape from one's universal thralldom. What one has done one can undo. None other than oneself was the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevalent in one's life. One can overcome any limitation, because one created it by one's own actions in the first place and because one possesses spiritual resources that are not subject to planetary pressure.”

– Swami Sri Yukteswar, guru of Paramahanasa Yogananda,
author of Autobiography of a Yogi.