Years ago, some chancer makes up Astrology and today, you buy into it-why?

Answer 1

Because fools are easily fooled..

Answer 2

How Long Has Astrology Been Around?
Astrology is known to be as old as mankind with some experts identifying the very first records extending back as early as 5800 B.C. Like other intelligence that developed concurrently among separate cultures around the globe, scholars believe that different civilizations developed the study of astrology independently of one another. The Chaldeans of Babylonia, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) created one of the original forms of astrology in 3000 B.C. while, at the same time, Mayan astrology advanced in Central America and Vedic astrology evolved in ancient India. The Chinese are know to have practiced astrology as early as 2000 B.C. and Tibetan astrology has its own lineage. The writings of Pythagoras and Plato indicate that astrology had turned up in Greece by 500 B.C. And later, Arabic cultures of North Africa and the Eastern portion of the Mediterranean were using astrology in the 8th century. Albumasur, or Abu Maaschar (805-85 A.D.), wrote the Introductorium in Astronomiam and is credited with the revival of astrology in the Middle Ages.

Somewhere near the 2nd century, the Greek scientist A. D. Ptolemy wrote a colossal work on astrology, which is divided into two parts: The Almagest and The Tetrabiblos. The Almagest deals with the movement of the Sun, Moon, and planets; The Tetrabiblos with the interpretation of these movements as they affect man and human events. These books are believed to be the most complete written records of ancient astronomy and astrology from previous centuries.

During the Middle Ages, the tradition of Greek, Arabic and Mediaeval astrology—which was inseparable from the parallel tradition of alchemy—believed that Man responds to certain indefinable energies or vibrations of the Sun, Moon and planets, and words still used today to define different human characteristics, such as mercurial, saturnine, lunatic, venereal, jovial, martial, came from the astrological-alchemical schools of the 13th to the 17th centuries, remaining a tribute to the work of those times.

Astrology for centuries was used by kings, emperors, popes, scientists, doctors, the bourgeoisie and the poor alike, and together with astronomy was taught in the schools and universities of the world.

However, as a new scientific age was dawning and with it an excessive demand for technical explanation—everything not scientifically provable or rationally explicable began to be rejected, including astrology. The vast distances of the planets between each other was discovered, and people began to say that these distances were too great for any influences to reach earth. Also, the realization that the sun, and not the earth, was at the center of the solar system somehow added to the devaluation of astrology—even though Sir Isaac Newton and others, pointed out that astrology is about the relationship between planets, and could therefore be valid no matter which heavenly body was at the center of the system.

It was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that began the present revival of interest in Astrology. Much of this is attributed to the great Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustave Jung who used astrology in his studies and wrote on the subject extensively, awakening at the same time the interest of other scientists.

As an art and science astrology leaves still much to be discovered. The focus today is less on the attempt to predict events, and more on the use of astrology for personal growth: self-discovery, realizing one’s potential, and learning to resolve conflicts, with a strong trend toward spiritual astrology–the realization of the Self or the Soul. There is an abundance of profound knowledge available in books (not the sun-sign kind), and there are to be found in almost every city around the world, genuine, serious, professional, astrologers, who are doing much to help improve the quality of lives, and raise consciousness. Astrology is being used as a tool to help us all to become more AWAKE to our lives.

Answer 3

mmm, makes up..

spirituality is older than modern religion and we buy into that.
astrology is merely an means of interpretation based on the stars and planets... no different to many faith based philosphies and prediction cults, who differ only in their divination.

we have already forgotten more than we shall ever know, progrees decrees we move forwards, but as we do, what are we leaving behind?

Answer 4

More fun than a Calvinist service?

Answer 5

Your understanding of what astrology is makes me want to cry...