WHAT IS ASTROLOGY???

What Is Astrology A Non-fanatic Introduction to Astrology Answers to Frequently Asked Questions A gentleman, who is a scientist by profession, wrote to me after reading my homepage: "Your characterization of astrology as a probabilistic science is most welcome to me. Most of the population in the west, even the ones that know their Sun sign dismiss astrology as superstitious nonsense and many of those that do accept it expect the astrologer to be 100% correct 100% of the time ("but you're an astrologer, you should have known that my dog would be getting sick this week"). Looking at prediction as a probability puts it in a much more realistic perspective." He is so correct! People either fanatically dismiss astrology or fanatically embrace it! There are few astrology practitioners or fans with a rational and scientific spirit! This has led, in the last century or two, to today's sorry state of affairs, where astrology has the stigma of being a superstition! There are two thing to be done today - (1) to promote scientific temper among astrologers and astrology fans and (2) to make the general populace (and the scientific community) realize that astrology is a credible subject worthy of research!