curl-6 said:
There is no more evidence to support Astrology than there is the belief that the Earth is flat. |
I accept that is your reality and you are valid in it.
I hold that there is insufficient clinical studies to prove or discredit astrology. A study could be done. Get ten people born in each of the twelve lunar years and compare their traits to those of the chinese standards. Also, get ten people born in each of the lunar months and compare their traits to the babylonian (western) standards.
People say that astrology is generic traits that apply to anybody but this is an over statement. We are all made up of the same heaps or traits but their dominance over other traits are significantly evident by looking at what was written by the ancients. The only faith required is the faintest amount to initiate a study. After a study is conducted, it becomes fact or fiction.
The problem with astrology is there are so many authors. The placemat in a chinese restaurant is useless except for entertainment and collecting spilled soup. A decade ago I went looking for a good book on astrology. I was not happy with any that I found until I went to the Bohdi Tree in hollywood. I found Suzanne White's "New Astrology". In it was the first and only descriptions I'd seen for Western and Eastern combinations. For example it described a Scorpio Tiger as a single entity with it's own unique character traits. With there being a total of 144 combos I've since been collecting birthdates of the people I've met over that decade and from the beginning and continually to this day have been astonished by the accuracy.
It defies logic but so does the mystery of "How did we get here", "Why are we here", "Where are we going", "Is there a god". What existed before the big bang, or why it happened is beyond physics. We must rely on meta-physics to explain the mystery for our five senses will never do it on their own. Besides, there is the sixth sense of feeling with your heart and with your stomach. Sometimes you get the feeling that there is something beyond sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound. The feeling of love or the lack of for example. It is a sense. I'm going way off on a tangent. And I have no idea how the ancients discovered astrology. But unlike the quantifiable existence of love (which I hold does exist) astrology is provable or it is disprovable. I'm fine with either.
