Originally Posted by Driskoll Xun

What most people consider to be science is actually belief. Anytime one has to replace the word "is" with "I believe," it is philosophy that is being talked about. Go to a lecture on relativity and quantum physics, and you will hear the word "believe" a lot. Many of the philosophies that use what we consider to be astrology have beliefs that are conjectured from observation. Do not discount man's power to observe two thousand or ten thousand years ago. Where such beliefs get muddled with superstition lies the problem most westerners have with astrology. The east has been more effective at sticking to observation, such astrology really boarders on earth science. At it's heart, astrology is the study of the effect of gravity on psychology. Without knowing what gravity is however, one can still observe that, hmm, children born in such and such season, have uncanny resemblances to each other. Anything having to do with psychology is statistical; it never applies to everyone or to all circumstances. Only trends can be observed. Until both the brain and gravity are understood beyond our current piddling state of knowledge, the most prudent stance is to be at least agnostic to astrology.