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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past.
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.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.