Global Recession: For better or for worse

The global recession has resulted in recent increase in the number of people approaching Astroyogi.com asking for astrological assistance in matters related to their jobs or careers. Clearly a lot of people have been hit by the recession and many feel that websites like this one can offer them advice in times of crisis. While recruitment specialists have lots of ideas about how people who have lost their jobs can get back into employment, some prefer to believe that astrology really can help them.

Since the start of the global recession the number of questions put by the users of Astroyogi dot com about the way their future appears in the stars has shot up by 30 percent. Most of these callers work in the computer industry or are graduates of business schools, both of which have seen a lot of people being laid off in recent months. Not surprisingly 20 percent of the queries resolve around job prospects.

Astroyogi dot com was launched in 1999 and houses over 10,000 pages of unique content dealing with all areas of astrology and spirituality, including numerology, tarot, vaastu, fengshui and Chinese astrology. The site has a registered user base of a million people and the firm's popularity has increased sharply with the onset of the world recession.


Meena Kapoor, CEO Astroyogi dot com, comments on which segment of society are worst effected by recession.

"Its the young people who are emerging into the work force as they got used to high salary packages at entry level and suddenly due to recession they are finding it difficult to combat the situation. Job availability has gone down radically. There is a huge pool of qualified people who are now available who were not available before. It is important that employees are not just giving 100% output but 200% output."
Meena Kapoor explains what can be done to combat the situation:

"Astrology cannot combat recession but it can certainly provide guidance to people who want to make career moves. It can help give direction about what their next move should be or what are the wise investments they should make. It is a good guidance tool."


The site's callers are not only from India but also from countries like the US, U.K and Malaysia to name but a few.
At times of disappointment large numbers of people clearly hope that the movement of the planets will in some way indicate where financial markets are going to go in the future. Ginni Arora is a tarot card reader and panellist at Astroyogi. In her opinion astrology can help in the present recession scenario and help people to get on in their careers despite the poor prospects at the present time.



"It gives guidance and strength to face the problems. It can tell you the correct timings of events and guide in taking other professions as well."

Inner strength is of course important to face a crisis, but at the end of the day every individual has to decide whether to believe in the power of astrology or not.