Is astrology real or not?

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Thinking of astrology, remember the planets in our solar system are made up with different mineral content than the earth, some of them very high in heavy metals. Do you think nothing would be affected at all if you swung a giant magnet past the earth? Oversimplification of course, but that’s essentially what mercury retrograde is.

If it were simply a magnetic force then each planet would give more or less the same effect, instead Jupiter is said to bring prosperity in the physical world, Mercury affects the mind and is also pure motion, Venus is love and joy, Mars is destruction or the collapse of structure. Nor would it really matter much what constellation they appear to be in from our point of view. Mars in Aries is very different from Mars in Scorpio. Then there is also the issue of imaginary points such as the Lot of Fortune, Lot of Spirit, and Black Moon, which aren’t actual objects but are believed to have a powerful effect in astrology.

I’ll add two of my previous posts on this subject:

Indian/Vedic astrology and Tarot Reading

I wasn’t saying that it’s bound to countries and boundaries. The reason I advised that is because people in the west find that Western Astrology better matches them and people in India find Vedic Astrology better matches them. In my personal views, I believe that is because it is a system of omens. The observation of the flight of birds is an ancient practice of divination, even though there is nothing random about it, but the subconscious of the individual can influence them to be in the right…

Is it possible we have astrology wrong?

Traditionally your birth is viewed as the time you officially ‘entered’ the world. So for that reason the stars in that moment is considered to predict the rest of your life, and it sets the position for all the Houses of Heaven in your chart, so the Ascendant is considered to be when your soul entered the world. But in truth, it is chosen to be that way simply because it’s more practical. If you start a branch of astrology that takes follows the time of conception rather than the time of birth…