Not written in the stars.

Astrology is bunk. I think that most people know this already and just accept the crappy horoscopes printed in the paper for what they are. That is a few lines of nonsense that may distract you for all of a few seconds. But there really are some people who take this nonsense seriously. And there are people that make money off selling this fraud to these poor suckers.

I'm not going to go too deep into the total rubbish that is astrology here. Because frankly there is so much to deal with that it would take me all day. And I'm a busy man you know. 

So here are just a few bits on Astrology. The astrology I'm referring to here (There are many, many different types) is the idea that the position of the planets in relation to the earth, sun and stars as seen from the earth, can some how have an influence on things in our lives. They can apparently affect everything from your personality to your romantic life and even your work place success.

Any way. Before the discovery of Neptune. Astrologers didn't use it in their predictions. Now surely if there was anything to their system that even approached reality. Their observations and predictions should have been off. Astronomers were aware that Neptune should be there because they could see it's gravitational influence on other planets. Low and behold. Neptune was discovered by science! The Astrologers of course quickly made excuses and added Neptune into their made up charts.

Round two. Mercury was a tricky devil. It didn't seem to be behaving its self according to the laws of Newtonian mechanics. Astronomers thought that there must be another planet there to account for the strange behavior. The mysterious planet was given the name Vulcan. The Astrologers did not want to look foolish this time. So they began to incorporate Vulcan into their worthless system and confidently declared that any day now the astronomers would find Vulcan. Wrong! The planet Vulcan does not exist. The misbehavior of  Mercury was due to it's proximity to the sun. It orbits so close that the equations of Newtonian mechanics were not adequate to explain it's motion. General Relativity was needed.      

Those aside. Astrology just plain doesn't work. They cannot make a single specific prediction that has any relationship to reality. If your thinking about paying an astrologer for a reading. Buy a magic 8 ball instead. They are way more accurate and so much more fun.