Can you prove astrology works?

By properly functioning, I mean not being overwhelmed by unwarranted skepticism, which closes the mind to knowledge and is usually based on a particular kind of fear of being fooled.

However, we cannot understand the science behind astrology. Neither scientists (yet) nor astrologers ourselves can, just like we cannot understand the essence of time, a black hole, the size of the universe, electricity, or the fact that there is more empty space in matter than any solidity. There is more to the cause of phenomena than our science can fathom now; the causal realm is not physical. Quantum physics is beginning to get a hint of this.

Let’s take the time to investigate (which is a basic necessity of the scientific method before forming an opinion that is worth its utterance). We can see the evidence of the connection between the larger cosmoses and the smaller cosmoses AND the evidence that an astrological chart or map of those celestial bodies’ positions correspond to palpable stuff down here. Not “cause,” I said “correspond,” as in “describe” or “indicate,” which is what a map does. The evidence is available; there is nothing supernatural about it, and no belief is involved. All that is needed is genuine curiosity and a relatively sharp mind unhampered by excessive emotional or intellectual bias.

However, it must be noted that astrology is NOT about the cause of phenomena BY the planets like some misguided astrologers want us to believe. A map does not cause the landscape; it describes it.  Astrology is not physics; it is not even about metaphysical causality. Astrology (like Tarot) is symbology. The planets are markers only. The laws that operate in the creation process “are the cause”; the planet’s positions merely express some of those laws in symbols, like words or a video expressing laws by presenting images of reality.

Can you prove it then? How can you prove to people what you are saying?

Which people? I could not care less about proving it to most people: those with closed minds, arrogance, and fear of being fooled. Let them go on with their logical/materialistic reality. Hopefully, they will not be too much of a nuisance to those of us who have put in the time to study.

As I said before, it is not difficult to be convinced if you are genuinely interested or curious. Not only does astrology work, but it also produces an output that no other human activity can, except perhaps for some specific psychic phenomena and, nowadays, some computer predictive technologies that most people have no clue about. This is two-faceted: with astrology, you can know stuff that cannot be found on Google, and the functioning of astrology itself *demonstrates* laws that science cannot hope to explain yet.

Horary astrology, in particular, is self-evidently magical, to say the least. When charts repeatedly reflect palpable and verifiable reality without the least ambiguity, a sense of awe is almost inevitable. There is pure communication with an invisible and way more broad intelligence than our personality-limited minds.

What is wrong with skepticism?

There is nothing wrong with questioning and investigation. There is everything wrong with fear, closed-mindedness, and ignorant denigration.

Could you look at the pudding before judging? People who criticize without knowing, from ignorance, are tedious, to say the least. Their god is their blunt intellect. Pseudo-scientists and fearful skeptics are usually triple-stupid when making references to astrology.

First, they never took the time to study it and insist in proclaiming an opinion. Second, their opinion is built based on the belief that astrology does not work. Note: *belief*. The very people who shoot down belief systems at every opportunity form an opinion based on belief; what a joke! Third, they believe they know what they do not know, so they block their minds from expanding their knowledge. In the name of knowledge, they unwittingly promote ignorance. How’s that for stupid? And some call that “science”!

Many modern astrologers are primarily to blame for the denigration of astrology. The astrology developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is a castrated, simplified, and idealized version of a much older system referred to as “traditional astrology.”

So, I partly join the critics in bashing astrology. However, I have studied, trained in, and know traditional astrology, and I know how limited and distorted modern astrology can be. So, in order to have an intellectually honest discussion, any knowledge lover will need to get educated first.