Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for sale.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.
I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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