What's your opinion of Astrology?

[zurb]

The key to being a successful astrologer is to write what people want to hear while making it general enough that it can apply to anyone.

 

[wyverary]

I'm personally not all that into astrology, as the predictions/advice it makes/gives are written in a way to be vague enough that they could apply to a good number of people, and I don't see any plausible mechanism as to how it could possibly work (I could go on). However, I do hear from believers that it helps them learn more about themselves, not through the astrology reading directly, but in that it prompts them to give a deeper look at themselves, so I think in that way it can be therapeutic and useful for many.

 

[Aspergirl4hire]

For a hyperlexical 8-year-old trying to understand why she was a misfit everywhere, including her own family, it was a mind-saver. It really did help knowing that nothing in my chart is in a place "friendly" to it--and often, not to each other. In lay terms, my energies don't express themselves easily, and when they do, they are explosive. Frankly, whether we call that an unstable chart or Asperger's doesn't make a whole lot of difference. What is interesting to me is that the horoscope reading I had agrees with the better class of psychometric tests I've taking--including the autism battery.

I didn't find Freud or Jung until college, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is descended from astrology (Jung studied astrology and tarot--I own both the book and the custom deck), and I think Isabel Myers was his grand-daughter.

So in my experience, I can't disprove it.

That said, when I notice that Google SkyMap says the Sun is in Scorpio on my birthday, it occurs to me that if there's any correspondence between electro-magnetic emissions and sun placement, then the precession of the equinoxes applies as well. So if it worked then, it works now...but not the way we think.

 

[AsheSkyler]

I am completely lost on horoscopes when they start bringing up houses, planets, and moons in relation to zodiac signs. Give me some trigonometry, I can blunder through that easier than I can involved horoscopes.

 

[epath13]

It used to be one of my obsessions as a kid. Astrology, Chiromancy, Tarot. I invented my own methods to predict future as well. Tarot is still one of my interests. I'm still planning to publish (probably self-publish) eventually my own Tarot deck and book. I want to show how to use Tarot cards as self-help and therapeutic tool. It's probably (most likely) is going to be included in my book project.
I think there are certain similarities between people of the same astrological signs.

 

[TragicKingdom]

I believe Astrology is an ancient belief system for ancient, primitive people. In my personal opinion it is practiced in modern times by charlatans hoping to make a dollar off of a desperate person in many/most cases.

Astrology is untrue and does not even qualify as a pseudo-science.

Kings used to believe that the appearance of a comet heralded an upcoming traumatic event to their dynasty. Now, how credible is that? Laughable, right?

"Two planets becoming aligned at a certain time spells out certain doom or certain prosperity.": No, two planets being in alignment is how our Solar System actually, mechanically works; It means nothing more.