Is astrology legitimate?

Answer 1

If you're willing to accept that there may be more to the world than just the scientific, then yes, it would stand to reason that astrology could be legitimate. Centuries ago, magi, druids and bards were quite skilled in the astrological arts.

However, I think there is very little genuine astrology practiced today. 99% of so-called astrology in modern culture is a scam designed to part gullible people with their money.

Answer 2

No. Astrology is a mass of error and superstition, but it is very sophistocated in appealing to the human emotions. It is a false practice, and for some a religion without God - for it would deny that God created personalities as individuals rather than people controlled by the stars. Here are some interesting tidbits on the history and evolution of astrology that you might find fascinating. (Click the corresponding urls in the source list for more interesting reading.)

1. The courses of the stars in the heavens have nothing whatever to do with the events of human life on earth. Astronomy is a proper pursuit of science, but astrology is a mass of superstitious error which has no place in the gospel of the kingdom.

2. When asked where fire came from, the simple story of Andon and the flint was soon replaced by the legend of how some Prometheus stole it from heaven. The ancients sought a supernatural explanation for all natural phenomena not within the range of their personal comprehension; and many moderns continue to do this. The depersonalization of so-called natural phenomena has required ages, and it is not yet completed. But the frank, honest, and fearless search for true causes gave birth to modern science: It turned astrology into astronomy, alchemy into chemistry, and magic into medicine.

3. Astrology. This pseudo science of Babylon developed into a religion throughout the Greco-Roman Empire. Even in the twentieth century man has not been fully delivered from this superstitious belief.

4. This defeat of the Salem gospel was immediately followed by a great increase in the cult of Ishtar, a ritual which had already invaded Palestine as Ashtoreth, Egypt as Isis, Greece as Aphrodite, and the northern tribes as Astarte. And it was in connection with this revival of the worship of Ishtar that the Babylonian priests turned anew to stargazing; astrology experienced its last great Mesopotamian revival, fortunetelling became the vogue, and for centuries the priesthood increasingly deteriorated.

5. The medicine men put great trust in signs and omens, such as, "When you hear the sound of a rustling in the tops of the mulberry trees, then shall you bestir yourself." Very early in the history of the race the shamans turned their attention to the stars. Primitive astrology was a world-wide belief and practice; dream interpreting also became widespread. All this was soon followed by the appearance of those temperamental shamanesses who professed to be able to communicate with the spirits of the dead.

Though of ancient origin, the rain makers, or weather shamans, have persisted right on down through the ages. A severe drought meant death to the early agriculturists; weather control was the object of much ancient magic. Civilized man still makes the weather the common topic of conversation. The olden peoples all believed in the power of the shaman as a rain maker, but it was customary to kill him when he failed, unless he could offer a plausible excuse to account for the failure.

Again and again did the Caesars banish the astrologers, but they invariably returned because of the popular belief in their powers. They could not be driven out, and even in the sixteenth century after Christ the directors of Occidental church and state were the patrons of astrology. Thousands of supposedly intelligent people still believe that one may be born under the domination of a lucky or an unlucky star; that the juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies determines the outcome of various terrestrial adventures. Fortunetellers are still patronized by the credulous.

The Greeks believed in the efficacy of oracular advice, the Chinese used magic as protection against demons, shamanism flourished in India, and it still openly persists in central Asia. It is an only recently abandoned practice throughout much of the world.

Answer 3

Astrology is based on the constellations of the northern hemisphere (What about all the people born in the Southern hemisphere? What Zodiac signs are they "born under"?)

Astrology signs are based on the twelve-month calendar and permanently assigned constellations to those months based on their appearances in antiquity that are inaccurate in the 21st century. (A child supposedly born now in the sign of Aries is ACTUALLY born in the sign of Pisces---ask any astronomer for verification)

There are many reasons astrology is a fraud, more than I have time for.

Answer 4

My pesonal opinion is :- Astrology is un-Scientific,irrational,Illogical-.Belief in Astrology has ruined my life.--illogogical is missing in the post

Answer 5

the stuff you read in the paper and books is mostly rubbish its just some way some people are trying to make money. but the bible says that the planets do have a effect on earth.
Job 38:33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set up their rulership on the earth?

Answer 6

At one time it was considered science and people believed without proof. It is similar to evolution today in that there is no proof but people still believe out of ignorance. There will always be false theories where people search for answers , alchemy belongs in this group of false science.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 7

I do not think so. I was a semi - pro in Astrology, and other forms. Found out it was all nonsense. So stopped. (But then us Pisces would - wouldn't we)

Answer 8

Science has proven that astrology is just fake.

Answer 9

1. the real sciences sciences are found in Natural sciences like physics -chemistry.

astrology is fake science. fake fake fake fake .

Nancy Reagan was dumb enough to believe this this.

fake science is dangerous in the 21st century.

Answer 10

No. The positions of the stars do not impact behavior on Earth.