The wonder of Astrology

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Although some think of astrology only as food for small talk used to break the ice when getting to know someone new, others are quite serious about it. To them, astrology is an interesting field of study that explores the influence of the cosmic world upon human beings. Many individuals rely on astrology for a number of purposes. It is often used to help individuals recognize the existence of certain types of information or circumstances in their lives. It is also used to help people to understand and interpret the information that they discover about their personal lives and existence. Plus, astrology is used to help individuals decide how to put their life in better order.

Astrology is based upon divinations arrived at through perusal of the celestial bodies and their interrelationships with each other. These divinations are used to provide insight into the circumstances and events that surround a specific individual’s life.

In particular, the positioning of the sun, stars, planets, and moon is thought to shape or mold the personality and innate characteristics of an individual from the very moment that he or she is born. The specific positioning not only of the planets, but also of the houses and angles determines an individual’s personality. The specific positioning of the celestial bodies at the time of an individual’s birth determines the path of love that lies ahead for him as well as the path of the individual’s monetary fortune.

Astrology expresses facts through the twelve zodiac constellations. These constellations include: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.

Each of these twelve zodiac signs is used to create daily horoscopes that portray predictions for the bearer of that specific astrological sign. Psychics use the individual’s date of birth as well as their planet sign to create predictions for the individual’s future.

For a complete depiction of an individual’s future including all life events, several factors must be taken into consideration. This information is used to provide insights that offer answers and suggestions for solving minor and major problems that occur or are about to occur in a person’s life. The factors used to arrive at this depiction of a future life course include the combination of planetary positioning that occurred at the time of the individual’s birth, the specific sign that the planets were in at the time of the birth, and the implications of these.

Astrology is an intricate, complicated field that takes a trained person to fully understand and implement for useful purposes. Its practice varies depending on its orientation as either eastern or western astrology. However, many believers think that these differences enhance its power. While this belief might not have as significant an importance when using astrology to predict an individual’s future course of life or determining his goals, it can come into play regarding world events.

Astrology can further be delineated as interrogatory astrology, natal astrology, or mundane astrology. Interrogatory astrology is often used to help define future events in an individual’s life. It can revolve around many different aspects.
Natal astrology is the most common and popular form of astrology. It is centered on the cosmic circumstances surrounding an individual’s birth. Any predictions made through it are based upon these celestial happenings.

Mundane astrology deals more with worldly matters and predictions of world affairs as well as national affairs. It is used to help form predictions for the masses rather than individuals.
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hornswoggled Taipei, Taipei Taiwan
Sat Apr 4, 2009 4:00 AM CST
Astrology is short of one "s" and one "l".

If astrology works, why didn't it predict all the celestial bodies that exist beyond Pluto? Or the outer planets beyond Saturn before we had telescopes? Or the total number of moons of Jupiter and Saturn?

Do fans of astrology want to lend it any credibility? Then make an accurate prediction using it. And by accurate prediction, I mean time, date, day, and exact events that occur, such as:

"The New York Rangers will beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Saturday, April 4, and the first goal of the game will be scored by Ryan Callahan at 3:11 of the first period."

THAT is a prediction, an exact statement of events to come before they happen, not some vague mumbo-jumbo that can apply anywhere to anything or anyone. When astrology fans can make a prediction that accurate, and do it repeatedly, then it will have credibility.

Until then, it's nonsense that deserves to be disparaged.
hornswoggled Taipei, Taipei Taiwan
Sun Apr 5, 2009 12:15 AM CST
And unlike asstrollogers, the rational will admit to being wrong.

It was Boston's Blake Wheeler who scored at 9:04. The only thing I got right was the first period. Let's see an asstrolloger be that forthcoming when wrong.
Sreich Clermont Ferrand, Centre France
Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:34 AM CST
Astrology is, of course, complete twaddle.

Astrologers did not predict the existence of pluto, still less other bodies. And who was it that proved that the Earth and the other planets go around the sun? Galileo, not really a noted astrologer. Astronomy supplanted Astrology as an explication of stars and planets, although there was some overlap.

Astrology was practised, and its beliefs formulated, before anyone knew the paths of the planets and stars, i.e. before the invention of the telescope, before Copernicus before Kepler, before Halley.

Astrology provides no causal link between planets and daily life, merely the assertion that they are linked in some unspecified way.

If I wanted to intellectualise the belief in this ridiculous mumbo jumbo, I would say that it arose from the apparent incongruity between the circular motion of the planets and the apparent tendency for objects on earth to move in straight lines. And that therefore people sought ways to link them together, and ascribed magical powers, and often religious powers to the planets and stars. I think Newton, and then Einstein, showed that these physical realities are, in fact, not contradictory - i.e. gravity.

The seventeenth century saw the stunning innovation that predictions and assertions about the natural world should be subject to experimental and mathematical verification. AStrology just can't cope with that.

As for why astrology should have survived the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason into the modern world, I can think of only one explanation. In order to provide concrete evidence that there are a lot of stupid, irrational and gullible people around. It has that in common with necromancy, psychics, and Dan Brown novels.
friend86 Cessnock, New South Wales Australia
Wed May 13, 2009 5:01 AM CST
I occasionally read my stars in the paper but treat them as a joke. I do enjoy kind words and optimistic predictions. I find they seem to be just well meaning spin and very vague. I suspect they are written by councilors trying to cheer people up.
Botticelli Canberra, Australia ACT Australia
Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:20 PM CST
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.”

Sir Arthur Eddington - (English Astronomer, Physicist and Mathematician, 1882-1944)
mjames napa, California USA
Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:35 AM CST
Excrement;

You will never change your mind and you believe it so that's your thing, but when you say this is truth then it's comical.

Astrology was originally created by the ancient greeks. Unfortunately at that time the earth axis was somewhat different than it is today and the very basis of astrology is extremely inaccurate to begin with. The Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian, Western, and Egyptian astrology tables pretty much contradict eachother.

I remember in psych class in college; 100 of us sent in a 20 page questionnaire on our personality to get an astrological reading. We sent them all in and in 2 weeks we got them back. We read them to ourselves and 95 students (I wasnt' one of them) said the report was right on. Well one read it out loud; we realized he sent in one questionnaire and made 100 copies to us; we all got the same report.

Why did people believe it? because it was the old carni trick that Houdini once exposed during the metaphysical/spiritualist phase the world was going through at the beginning of the 20th century. Vague and generalize.

"you are an outgoing person who speaks their mind, but sometimes you are reserved and quiet. You are confident and bold but at other times careful and calculated."

Remember the Y2k scare? Churches and people in general holding classes or paying hundreds to thousands of dollars to companies to protect from the near end of creation as we know it when many of us in the techie world were cracking up at what a joke it was? People put themselves in a frenzy.

And don't get me started with 2012 and the bullcrap that is. If any of you believe it please contact me and I will take your houses and money so that you dont' have to be burdened with it when the end is near.

To think the night our parents had sex, and the positioning of the moon and the sun during it has anything to do with who we are is comical at best. Another weird pseudo science that people like to feel more enlightened than others by bragging how smart they are, that really is just a fun thing that should be taken very lightly.

Astrology is bull crap; like fortune cookies and fortune tellers.
mjames napa, California USA
Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:37 AM CST
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.”

Sir Arthur Eddington - (English Astronomer, Physicist and Mathematician, 1882-1944)
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Written like a true astrologist.

Yes because he was making money on his publications and his study; I'm sure life would be terrible without it; for billions of people though, we are doing just fine without astrology.




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