How does astrology exist?

I also wondered why astrology was taken seriously by anyone, until I took the time to actually investigate what it is and what it is not. read more

Astrology was also a primary tool of Nostradamus (1503-1566 A.D.), who used astrology as the basis for the timing of his many prophecies (many of which profoundly affected royalty and influential leaders and whose validity could thus be determined). read more

It is almost entirely superstition. Astrology is 99% BS and 0.001% real. The other 0.001% helps you understand what people who believe in astrology believe. There is very slight and almost no truth to astrology however. I suspect that astrology is an extremely primitive and crude system for mapping patterns by superstitious people. read more

Another school of thought on astrology suggests that the forces involved in astrology exist beyond science, in a quasi-religious realm involving a person's soul; or perhaps the influences extend to an ethereal, other dimension, where our laws of science do not hold true. read more