How does astrology work and where does astrologers get the crews on what happens in individual lives?
Posted by carl on Oct 4, 2008
some one would be told about the future and those things happen as to the preditions. what is astrology then and how does prediction happen?
Astrology began back when folks thought the earth was the center of the universe. Most stars in the sky moved predictably – because they're synced with the rotation of the earth around the sun; they change the same way (almost) each year. So, they fit with the earth being the stationary center. The planets, however… their movements DIDN'T make sense at all. It's kind of hard to picture, but… a whole bunch of eliptical orbits, different sizes, at different angles, and taking drastically times to complete one orbit around the sun… they're totally haywire! Their brightness, placement, alignment, all vary from year to year, decade to decade, and even further. So, to make these seemingly random movements jive with the idea of every celestial body fixed in orbit around the earth, the (Greeks?) decided that these particular bodies were floating in (uh oh… vapors or something, I'll get back to you). This material was important – shoot, now my memory of this lesson gets a little fuzzy, but I think they thought the movement of the planets (the special bodies) reflected the intention of this matter, and that they could learn truths by analyzing the bodies' movements, and thus analyzing the material that guided their movements.
Sorry – this was from a lesson from one of my favorite history professors last term… he like an encyclopedia or random facts. It's so cool – you can ask ANYTHING and he'll probably just rattle off the answer, names and dates and all 
But there you go.
The significant part, though – the earth is NOT the center of orbit. Put the sun in the center and think of the earth as one of those "strangely moving bodies" – and it's all clear. Basically: how does it work? It doesn't. Not if you're into science, anyway.
Edit: The "celestial fluid" the planets supposedly floated through…. it's called the ether There!
Carl Sagan on Astrology
Posted by carl on Oct 3, 2008
From Cosmos, episode 3 “The Harmony of the Worlds”.
Duration : 0:8:35
How many people read their astrology and believe it?
Posted by carl on Oct 3, 2008
I certainly do. I am a cancer myself, and it says (in a whole lo of places ) that my best match is a pisces. Well I went out with a pisces for 4 years and did I ever love him, it was crazy. But it all turned so nasty that I sometimes wonder can astrology be all gibberish? I'm with a virgo now…I love him dearly, except that now it has to work his way or the hiway(ven if he says it's not true.
I just read it for fun, just to see if it's right, sometimes it is other times it's so far off it's not even funny. But hey I'm a Pisces
so i'll just swim up the river and things will be fine!
Why is astrology making me judge people?
Posted by carl on Oct 2, 2008
Ok.. so I read up on astrology like a few months back and now that’s all I think about when I meet people. My first impressions of people are now being linked with astrology. For example if someone says that their birthday falls on the aquarius month I start to make assumptions that they’ll only talk about humanitarian things and if they fall on the cancer month then they’ll be really clingy and emotional. I don’t know what to do!
Oh my gosh! I thought I was the only one who had this problem lol, everytime I find out someone’s sign, more times than not they’re a water sign, with me being an Aries (fire sign) I get to know them, but they always prove true to their sign and I end up not being able to stay friends with them! Weird! I guess you really just have to learn how to seperate people from entertainment. Astrology isn’t REALLY life or death you know? People can get along even if they are Scorpios and Leos. Because there’s more to people than their signs.
Star Signs Astrology The Facts
Posted by carl on Oct 1, 2008
After watching this short video you may decide that your star sign is highly unreliable if in fact it is your star sign!!!
Duration : 0:2:21