Why do you believe in astrology?

Question

i have no problem with the people who follow this kind of thing.

but at what point, and HOW, do you come to believe that the

positioning of the stars and alignments of the planets can actually affect our lives?

i was looking this up myself, and i was shocked to see that

people think you can presume what kind of person someone

else is like just by when they were born. how can someone born

in may be more compatible with you than someone born in December?

what do you use to justify everything you follow?

its not like most religions, there is no written history of events,

and no holy scripture or anything.

Answer 1

Thank you for being so diplomatic in the wording of your question first of all, that's nice to see:)

I don't believe in astrology. I have observed astrology at work in enough instances to recognize that it works. No belief required. It's not a religion.

Further, I'm not entirely convinced that the planets and their movements affect what we do so much as they reflect what we do. I'm in the habit these days of looking at the solar system as a kind of giant cosmic clock, with the signs of the zodiac being akin to the numbers on the face of the clock, and the planets like the hands. It's really not much different than telling time. So for instance, say you have to be at work at 9:00 a.m., then you know that at say...7:30 or whatever you need to start getting ready to get yourself out the door. Similarly, when I look at the transits to my birthchart, and I see that I have for instance transiting Mars square Mercury, then I know that it's time for me to keep in mind that I maybe don't want to speak as hastily as I could, and try to keep my temper under control. To apply this to a birth chart...at the time someone was born...it may be reflected in the cosmos that the particular individual in question would be more or less outgoing, more or less emotional, more or less insert any adjective here, really, because it was time for that particular person to be born having those particular personality traits.

Does that make sense?

Answer 2

i don't believe but there is one thing : you know none of them are real but can make the hearts calm ,just this... for example i believe that when ever i look at the sky, god look at me and help me, maybe it is not true but it make me calm and relax and hopeful so i can keep on my way. maybe some people believe astrology , and they see their nice future , and it make them hopeful , now maybe 2 minute later they die :d . but by calm heart and it is a point. do not search if it is true or not , many of them are not but not bad too. maybe some of them are real and me and you do not believe or know them , who knows.

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Answer 3

I'm not gonna say it's fact, but if you get a professional horoscope prediction it can be quite accurate.

I'm not sure why I believe in it. I just like stuff like that.

Obviously I don't believe those ones you find in teen mags. They're not even predictions - they're questions!

'Is it the right time to ask that guy out?'

How should we know? We're not the astrologers!

Answer 4

Yes that is similar to me like what the devil made me do it said.....i started learning about astrology because of my family and how we interacted though.  I wanted to know how me and my sister being brought up exactly the same way by the same parents in the same house could be so totally different people and have different views of our childhood.  I first looked up aries (her sign) and mine aquarius and then went on from there and found there were moon signs and mars signs and whole birth charts with houses the planets were in that made the planets function differently as well.   I was hooked.  But it's hard also because none of my family or friends want to give it a chance.....they stop listening after i tell them that their zodiac sign is actually a sun sign and we have moon signs and such also...so they get a big smile and say cool and just stop listening :(

Answer 5

It sort of itriguied me ever since i was little. As i grew older, i realized it wasnt all rubbish, if you learn to read between the lines, and can distinguish fact from fiction, there is some very valuable infromation in the characteristics of the zodiac signs. I can tell alot about a person by their sign. Of course, its never dead on exact, but half you know by their sign and half you figure out from their personality, and there you go, you can read them like a book!

Answer 6

I've answered this exact question before, so I thought I would give you this link rather than saying the same thing over again. It explains my views quite well:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

There is more more to astrology than a sun sign. Like everything else in life, a subject has to be studied in order to form an individual opinion.

Edit: tired of having a username, excellent answer!!!

Answer 7

Since when reading about the sun sign,the moon sign and all the rest,reading YOUR own explanation coming from the stars,the position that they were at at the time that you wer4e born,are all very accurate and even make sense.

This is a very smart system that if you don't want to understand then you won't.

You can go to http://astro.com/ , http://cafeastrology.com/ , http://astrology.com/

Answer 8

There's absolutely no way to explain. I've tried, over and over again, and every time I come to the conclusion that... I simply do not remember when and how it happened.

Astrology sort of grows on you.

All I know is, I've always been a curious person. Ever since I was a little girl. I need to know everything about anything that crossed my way. Because my mother - despite her disbelief in horoscopes - always proudly claimed to be a Scorpio. Me, being one myself - I knew that much at a very young age, because I was born only less than a week after my mother's birthday - wondered how come I was so different from her if, since I assumed what I understood was that people with the same sign acted in the same manner. So I went on a personal little crusade. I asked around; friends, people in primary school and family. I tried to build up a large enough database. I did it for years, up into the first years of secondary school. I gave up on the idea somehow, and focused more on my hopes to become an Archaeologist.

Disappointed because my mother would refuse to let me learn "dead languages", I acted quickly. What else did I want to study? Psychology, different direction. My mother was okay with that. But the major brought up the thought in me again. Psychology - behaviour. Behaviour - personality. Personality... Astrology. It crept back into my mind, but the psychology took centre stage. I still had trouble believing Astrology at that point, but it was entertaining.

Then, a few years later and in a completely different school, I must've been only 13 or 14. A teacher asked us about Astrology, I let out a sigh and just as I was about to raise my hand and wait for the teacher to acknowledge me, so I could tell him that it was entirely wrong... that teacher caught my attention. He explained he needed our entire birth data; year, month, day, place and time. I lowered my hand and let it simmer. After all I heard about Astrology, that was the first time I heard of anyone needing more than day and month of birth. What was that about?

Since then, my regular position in the local library moved from the History and Travel section, to the Alternative Sciences and Esothery section. I needed to find out what that whole "entire birth data" thing was about. Why the year of birth? Why the time? Place, even? Might there be more than just the star signs? Is that why nothing ever added up? Over the months, the books grew bigger, more information, but always about the same thing: star signs. I felt effed over. They'd been fooling me; every book simply contained more general b*s. But perhaps the only part of me that actually acts like Scorpio is the fact that I never give up. I will find the answer. None of the books explained the "complete birth data" thing. Until I found a tiny little booklet, that suggested me to find my moon sign. Still, knowing I had a Gemini moon didn't explain most of my behaviour. Sure, Gemini was curious, but what about my obvious interests in history, travel, culture, music, art... Japan? But only a turn of the page kept me from the first breakthrough. A sentence let me know that knowing your time and place of birth might make it easier to find your moon sign. It was part of the calculation. The last page of the booklet said that the other planets made up your personality as well. Breakthrough. It wasn't just the star sign. I had to find out how. From my dorment interest in astronomy, I remembered how planets moved. Another breakthrough. I understood why I'd need my entire birth data. Now all that was left to do was to see how *my* planets would match up to my personality. I found a programme that could do it for you. Double whammy. Half my chart was in Sagittarius. To me, that explained a lot.

Although it convinced me, I didn't leave a thing up to chance. I checked everyone's charts to see if their charts had the same results. Family: to a tee. Friends: for as far as I knew them, yes... but I realised I didn't know them enough to form a conclusion. Or knew Astrology enough. Now, roughly eight years later, I can say that it definitely wasn't a waste of time.

But, I assume you are talking about popular astrology. Sun sign astrology. I've stepped off the "who's compatible with whom" ages ago. in fact, I never got *on* it. I could try to convince you, but I don't like to force people. If you don't want to believe it, you won't believe it no matter what I tell you. Unless I tell you what you want to hear. I don't justify anything I do. I don't *follow* astrology; I *use* it.

And it's very handy! ^_^

Answer 9

Because at some point when you know enough about Astrology, then you can easily predict how people handle themselves and what interest them.

This relates to the whole play "whats your name, whats your sign" deal. f you know enough, you can find common ground, or play with people, depending on your personale.

As for written history, yes Astrology is dated to be older then Astronomy. Astronomy is dated to have come at or after the same time as religion. Astrology is much older then the oldest religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, etc.