Astronomy with Finlarg, Part 4: The Astronomy behind Astrology

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1. Good one!. Actually the One sign difference that you mentioned is covered in eastern astrology. means April 15 to may 15( roughly) is actually aries. We call it 'Meda month' March 15 to april 15 is Pisces etc in real. So what you can do is find out the Zodiac as per the one sign behind rule and then look at the characteristics described for that zodiac
2. Astrology comes from the time when the known planets were believed to be GODS in their Heavenly Spheres.
   The effect of Mars is supposed to be due to the personality of the God of War.
   Saturn is supposed to give you intellect.
   The Constellations are supposed to be cohesive things causing effects.
   
   Astrology is personalities on crystal spheres and flat Earth thinking.
   It also makes a dandy excuse for justifying whatever you want with babbletalk "backed up" by and associated to pretentious measurements of objects beyond reach.
   What is Jupiter doing today? That's why you must do something for me, of course.
3. You attribute beliefs to astrologers which they probably don't hold so you can laugh at them - eg that they think distant stars affect us when, as I understand it, modern astrologers focus principally on the star and planets of our own solar system. However you don't seem interested in any statistical correlation between the predictions of astrologers and the lived experiences of their subjects which is where science should start isn't it? - from an observed reality to a theory to explain it. Not by ruling out observed reality because you haven't got a theory to explain it. I don't say it's easy to identify such a correlation but as you find the subject just too funny to take seriously you haven't even looked
   The bias in your video is evident; the science not so much. It was quite entertaining though and very succinct on what the zodiac signs represent in relation to the movement of the earth round the sun, so thanks. 
4. This is a classic case of apparent objectivity masking a massive bias. This man has no real interest or understanding of how Astrology or even Horoscopes work at all. He is not an intelligent thinker, just an apparently educated parrot. If you study  Astrology with any sincerity it will reveal many remarkable and useful insights that help people make important decisions. Poking a stick at it like this is not science, it is inquisition.  Many who claim to be scientists assume that their perspectives are purely objective,, but they certainly are not. Their perspective is conditioned and is therefore biased. To truly understand how Astrology works one must be open to metaphysics. Scientists look upon metaphysics as bunk because they are religious about their science. The scientific method is a paradigm which presents one approach to knowledge and truth but it is certainly not the only one. The paradigm of science can basically be interpreted as materialistic. So, if you want to disprove Astrology avoid this classic mistake of approaching it from the outside looking in, as we see here. Rather, approach it with the respect it deserves which includes learning how it works then applying your knowledge. This would present a truly integral approach to deciphering if it 'works' or not. PS Many who have taken this approach have become Astrologers themselves because they learned that yes it indeed is valid.
5. So, are you a dragon killed by the goddess Minerva and tossed into the sky upon his defeat? The dragon that was one of the Giant Titans, who battled the Olympic gods for ten years? I'm Orion, the lone hunter, who boasted he could kill any animal n was killed by a Scorpio(n). Which is why Orion is on the other side of the sky from Scorpio (so they don't meet).
6. I feel the same way about astrology as religion. Most of it seems like obvious bunk, but I can't dismiss the possibility that some of it was based on reality, but has long been distorted and commercialized.
7. Some of that is available at: youtube. com/user/KurdstanPlanetarium
8. It's been a while since I made an astronomy video, although I have included some, in a few of my more recent videos.
9. Good idea! Next time someone asks me, I'll tell them mine's Draco ;)
10. When asked my star sign, I reply:"Orion, because if you wanna talk about made up stuff, then I'll make up my own." Or something to that effect.
11. More!
12. Astrology was and still is for those who dived deeper into it, a metaphysical science where the influence of Mars upon the human affairs was not seen as direct physical but metaphysical symbolical influence. Astrology is symbolical interpretation of the astronomical phenomena and this should be understood by those astrologers who think that astrology is scientific [in modern sense of that word], but also by those astronomy lovers who try to debunk astrology as non-scientific. Both are wrong.
13. but I do agree about the fact that this practice hasn't been updated for 2000 years, but there are many historical reasons for this political, religious, etc. However there are some people practicing astrology based on the real skies as seen using instruments for observation and not ephemeris charts, that is the other part of the story
14. 'Solar radiation has 'some sort' of effect on us'...my friend if the sun were to disapear tomorrow all of us will be dead in minutes, and if other planetary bodies that inhabit our Universe and have a 'dialog' and interaction with our sol collapses we will suffer big time the effects, nothing is isolated, see it as a huge neighborhood, and I'm sure the place and family you were born from had and still has a big influence in your life, that is what astrology addresses.....
15. I would really like to see a solar system model, animated, which would show the real orbit of earth around the sun with the barycenter of the moon affecting it and the barycenter of the sun as well. And it should also have the different cycles of the earth's axon and the earth's rotation and orbit in 120.000 years span...
16. I'm an Aries and most people that are Aries don't believe in astrology. 
17. @finlarg Oh I totaly get how they believed it back then, if the starts are a certain way and winter begins at the same time something happens to bring a great deal of wealth into the nation, of course they'd think both are cause by the earth's position relative to the rest of the universe. To tell them the stars don't bring good fortune would be like telling the winter didn't bring on the cold!
18. @tenagliac I think most of it is tabloid tittle tattle, very loosely based upon ancient assumptions...
19. @Coquipirate To be fair to our ancient ancestors, it was humanities first attempt to understand what's going on 'up there'... Unfortunately a lot of people haven't really moved on!
20. @MacNutz2 I didn't even mention that in this short video.... it bugs me, especially listening to the astrology on BBC radio 2 in the afternoons, when I'm at work. They harp on about all the silly nonsense and leave out all the interesting stuff! I would say that most folk with a fascination for the superstitious side of astrology haven't got beyond the geo-centric view of the universe... we learned a few things in the last several hundred years!