I wanted to write a blog post about astrology. But theres already a lot of material out there that talks about it taking the same approach and viewpoint that I would. So I’m just going to direct you to this website, which is a really good place to start:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/astrology.html
Oh, and to sum up what I would have written: Astrology doesn’t work. And in many cases actually causes harm.
From Shakespeare’s King Lear:
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.
(via: http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/02/09/the-excellend-foppery-of-blogs/)
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves…”
- Julius Caesar, in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
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