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[Stroggy]

There are kabalistic meanings behind names which can be found using Gematria (giving each letter a number and then calculating some things) but astrology is forbidden.
However it's never that simple in Juda?sm, Juda?sm does believe in Astrology (horoscopes) soothsayery and even necromancy (in the Book of Kings that first king of Israel, Saul, goes insane for serveral reason and eventually contacts a female necromancer to let his former mentor's ghost rise from the grave - some scholars say it was all a trick and the soothsayer had her own political agenda but nevermind that)

So while it may be possible to foresee the future and such, it's not allowed.

Gematria is difficult to explain and most of the time probably just sheer coincidence.
Like this, for example: There is a story in Judaism where a Grande Visier (He was called Hamman and was a decendant of the Amalekites, sworn enemies of the jewish people. Saul was supposed to kill them all but he let them live and eventually became insane and so on, it all hangs together) in ancient Persia wanted to kill all the jews in the empire. Now Hamman had 10 sons and the first letter of the names of these sons is written in an unually large type in even the oldest scriptures telling the story (scriptures dating back hundreds of year to medieval times) Now if you would gematria each letter would get a number, and if you would count up all these numbers you'd get a large number which corresponds with the hebrew date that Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Kaltenbrunner, Streicher, Sauckel, Jodl, and Seyss-Inquart were hanged after their trial at Nurenberg (at the end of the jewish story Hamman and his sons were all hanged from the tree they had planted to hang the leader of the Jews from)