Is there even any link between Astronomy and Astrology ?

Question

And is there even any logic behind Astrology or someone just came up with idea of predicting future by looking at stars because they were bored?

Answer 1

Bored?
no.

Astrology (and religion) began as honest attempts to understand the world around us. However, after a while, some really enjoyed the position of authority that these practices gave them (power to control people) and really got annoyed whenever somebody else contradicted them.

Astrology was meant to decipher the messages that the gods were sending to us through the position of the planets (each one being controlled by a different god).

When Kepler provided a mathematical way to easily predict future positions of planets AND Newton explained why planets behaved the way they did (gravity), astrology stopped being linked to astronomy.

Answer 2

Astronomy started as astrology, just like chemistry started as alchemy.

Oh, that has been said already! I'm a minute too late.

The astrologers though (for reasons on their own) that the position of the planets controlled events on Earth. So they though if they could predict the positions of the planets then they could predict the future. So the set about figuring out how to predict the positions of the planets, and that was the start of astronomy.

Answer 3

As others have said, astrology came first. But they have almost nothing in common apart from the names of the planets and constellations through which the ecliptic and the sun pass - what astrology calls the houses.

In astrology, the twelve houses or signs are equally wide, whereas in astronomy, they are not, so from the perspective of one, the sun or moon may be in Leo, but in Cancer from the perspective of the other.

Also, astronomers note that the sun is actually in thirteen constellations a year, briefly passing through Ophiuchus, the serpent, in the first half of December, between Scorpio and Sagittarius

Astrology doesn't care about other constellations above or below the ecliptic. Nor does it care about galaxies, distances, the Big Bang, exotic celestial objects such as quasars, pulsars and black holes, or celestial mechanics.

And astronomy does not concern itself with fortune telling or personality traits.

But the measurements made by astrologers such as Tycho Brahe were the basis of important astronomical laws later, like Kepler's laws of motion.

Answer 4

The only link I see is that both have to do with stars and planets. As for the validity of astrology - it's nonsense.

Answer 5

astrology is the grand daddy of astronomy. just like alchemy was for chemistry.

Answer 6

You might enjoy watching this, Carl Sagan talking about Astrology
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Iunr4B4wfDA