Is Astrology Scientific?
In antiquity, people noticed that the majority of stars were stationary in respect to each other. They called these stars ‘fixed’. They observed that there were five visible stars which in contrast to the others, were revolving about the Earth, confined to a narrow line. This line, called the ecliptic, loops around the Earth at a certain angle. In fact, the ecliptic is the same line traversed by the Sun, the Moon and the five visible stars. Gradually astrologers divided the belt of the ecliptic into 12 sections and named each one of them after the fixed stars’ constellations that they observed ‘behind’ them. Most of them are named after animals, where specific characteristics best describe the energy, emanated from each constellation. This is how the Zodiac was born.
Furthermore, men observed that when a planet passes through a certain section of the Zodiac it triggers certain events. Babies born at this time share the same characteristics. In their constant travel along the ecliptic, planets move from one sign of the Zodiac to another. After some period of time they ‘return’ to the same sign where they were previously. Babies born in different years, but during the time, when a particular planet is passing through the same sign of the Zodiac, also show very similar traits, pertaining to the domain ruled by this planet.
The correlation between different planetary positions and human behaviour has been studied for thousands of years and nowadays we are in possession of an enormous database, which is constantly growing even larger. Therefore astrology operates on a purely scientific approach. To explain this let us first be clear to ourselves what is the principle on which modern science operates? Scientists make observations in the material world and note when under certain circumstances we always observe the same physical outcomes. Then these repeating outcomes are formulated as physical laws. This is how the 1st, 2nd and 3rd laws of Newton, the law of gravity and so on were formulated.
Astrology operates exactly on the same principle. First the planetary positions at the time of birth of a particular person are noted and then his or her behaviour is observed. We can see that always when two people are born under the same planetary influences they always exhibit similar behaviour patterns in relation to that particular planetary position in question. For example, if two babies are born just a few minutes apart, but exactly at the time when the Sun switches its position from Libra to Scorpio, they will behave in a completely different manner when they grow up. The first one most probably will be charming, peaceful and amicable, while the second one will be intense, forceful and passionate. This behaviour has been researched over thousands of years, it has been very well documented and it forms the scientific base on which astrology operates.
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