Does Stars effect our Present & Future?

Question

As da study of astronmy shows tht different planets hav different effects on our future, Is it possible? Tht our fate is dicided by other misterious objects in sky?

Answer 1

i disagree on that. it is us who make our own future. the stars, the planets and all, has nothing to do with it.

Answer 2

I dunno so much.

Mariners have always known that the moon effects the tides; the position of the moon in relation to the earth has a very real and proven geophysical significance and humans do respond to it. I have been out on the fishing boats myself, and frequently broken bread with lifelong mariners and they often say that they have a mistress in the moon because she is the one who kicks them out of bed. The moon effects the tides, the tides effects the sails, the sails effect the mariners.

Similarly, Michel Gauquelin extrapolated compelling and verified statistical evidence that to some extent planetary movements and alignments can influence human lives and demonstrated that the position of one of the planets - I think it was Mercury although I remain open to correction about that - was reponsible for TV interference in the days when TV signals were weaker than they are now. It was reported on one occasion that a chap got so angry about missing his favourite thing on TV that he gave his poor wife a right pasting. So a planet adversely effected the TV, which adversely effected the man, who then adversely effected the woman. And when you think about it, isn't that how the planets would logically effect human behaviour if they could?

I'm not saying for one moment that astrology in it's popular form has any validity. Indeed, I'd say that anybody who believes that 50 million Pisceans will all fall in love today while 50 million Virgoans will get bitten by a dog needs serious therapy. But the universe does have a language of it's own and the various bodies within it do exert all sorts of gravitational, energetic and harmonic influences over the planets around them. They can't avoid doing it by virtue of what they are, any more than a pebble can help making ripples onn the surface of still waters when a collision takes place.

And as for the philosphical apects of astrology, why not revise a Jungian theories of synchronicity then compare those with the causal effects of the planets as espoused by serious astrologers?

At present it is hard to imagine how even advanced science will ever be able to read with fluency the complex and mutable hieroglyhs that form then fade when we look outward through space from this tiny little lump of rock. But our inability to read the book is not proof that the book has not been written.

So who knows?

Maybe an open mind is needed in relation to this.

Answer 3

You are talking about astrology, NOT astronomy!!!!

I, for one, do not believe in astrology, especially since I am an astronomer and can poke several holes in the subject of astrology.

But one thing that should be taken into consideration is the actual basis for "real" astrology...

Astrology is completely based on statistics. It is all about probabilities and chance, not true sight of future.

In other words...when certain things happened in the past when the stars and planets were positioned the way they were in that moment, then the probability of something similar happening again when the alignments are the same are calculated and spewed out as fortune telling.

Whether or not this is philosophical is a whole other question which in-and-of-itself presents a philosophical question.

:-)

Answer 4

They don't. Astrology suggests that stars had an affect on us because at birth based partly on their gravitational effects and some other baloney. Truth is, the delivering doctors gravitational pull on you was stronger than that of any star besides the sun.

Answer 5

The Mayan civilization believed the history of the world went in cycles... they based there calendar and predictions on movement of the stars and planets in the sky... there calendar was actually slightly more accurate then the calendar that is used today.

Answer 6

Yes, very much true, each moments of ours are effected greatly by the planetary position of the stars currently, relating to the time & place of birth, whether U believe it or not. Study of this science is known as astrology, with the help of which astrologer predicts one's future & tells about past & present too. hence it's very true.

Answer 7

yeah.. Maybe.. cause I hear it alot and it's really weird cause at certain time people do the same thing... or flock together like birds and I think the stars have alot to do with it I don't know really really. My physical body is controled by the stars I believe... like when I sleep or wake or feel excited ( a full moon)

Answer 8

Yes - Stars effect our presense and future ...
You see - Sun is a star , so if it blow up - there is neither presens or future ( this is also true for all close enought stars ) :)
anyway ... it can have affect if we merge some does with them ..
like - "tonight we shall explore stars ( telling to some girl ) .. and you start realy hard exploration in "different deeps" ;P

Answer 9

no. There is no evidence that the stars have an effect on us. It also requires a strange leap of imagination to imagine that massive nuclear fusion reactors, billions of miles away in space are interested in humans on one tiny planet.

Answer 10

I really hate to think that I am not in control of my life. It’s just another way to blame something else for once actions and consequences. It’s better to take responsibility for the actions. Somehow, believing in astronomy and heavenly bodies controlling our fate is tantamount to cowardice.

Answer 11

Yeah that's why twins are always the same, or that children born at the exact same time in the same hospital have completely similar lives.

Give me a break.

Astrology =/= philosophy