Whether or not you “believe” in astrology-I personally don’t “believe” in astrology I practice it-let’s consider that its multiple millennia of history points to something valuable and meaningful within it. Yet astrology, unlike other predictive fields, often involves extremely personal conversations, intimate life insights, and a more or less obvious infusion of the numinous as such, it carries its own moral and ethical concerns. No human is omniscient, and as seen in other prediction-oriented fields, being wrong is inevitable. The ability to predict is precisely what makes astrology so potent, and exactly what brings risk into astrological practice. Still, rulers of nations and empires have a long history of relying on astrologers as part of the growth and maintenance of power there’s just as long a history of astrologers being imprisoned (or worse). The massively subjective nature of astrological interpretation doesn’t help: Two astrologers can look at the same planetary configuration and come to decidedly different conclusions, and sometimes, they’re both right. Empirical astrological data, while extant, fails to satisfy the craving for clearly replicable quantitative results. And though many astrologers twist themselves into intellectual knots in an attempt to legitimize astrology within a scientific materialist paradigm-thereby creating a boundary between astrology and less-reputable “fortune-telling,” and avoiding guilt-by-association proximity with swindling “psychics”-there is no mechanistic explanation for how it works.
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