> But what does that have to do with this discussion? OHHHH you > are still stuck in the same misconception as HUGO that this is about > casuation.
I am very much with you on this. It is so common to hear the argument "astrology cannot work 'cos there is no known causal and physical mechanism between the planets and our lives etc etc". I think I am right in saying this was a favourite tack of the rabidly anti-astrology British astronomer Patrick Moore (who is otherwise wonderful of course). A very long time ago I seem to remember reading Karl Jung's "Synchronicity" which spelt out the alternative position that you are giving here. It seems a perfectly reasonable view to me (and may be true!). The fact that it is difficult to test (falsify) need not make it irrational. Is String theory or the "multiverse" of Quantum Mechanics any better off? Another misconception it seems to me is that if Astrology is "knowledge" it must be certain knowledge (the old joke about the astrologer who gets run over by a bus and "didn't see that coming"). I think all our knowledge is "fallible" knowledge, and so astrology should not be faulted for that alone. I know little about Jytotish - but spent a lot of time studying the I Ching at one time. I was deeply convinced that it WAS revealing something. Something was definitely going on. It's just that I couldn't figure out what exactly! So I came around to the ironic view that Astrology can probably work, but is hardly a practical pastime nevertheless.
