cathryn;

If I may....

> I, for one, agreed with everything you posted. The spouse and I were just discussing the Full Moon Effect, relative to something. Oh, astrology. This may sound lame, but for me the jury is still out on the subject, which will, no doubt piss off believers and non-believers.

Yes, me for one. I've studied everything I could find on the astrology of earthquakes and none of it works.

> Contrary to deterministic prediction, I sometimes feel certain things going either exceptionally well in life, or exceptionally poorly, and then check in with a few astrologers I know, only to find something rather rare and extraordinary is going on.

Astrologers are great at hindcasting. You tell them something and they'll justify it astrologically. But it doesn't work for forecasting except for self-fulfilling predictions, where you find what you were looking for.

> Simultaneously, I have never seen a good argument made for why astrology should work. Most of the arguments against astrology make perfect sense to me. Yet, there are these unexplained things that seem to work, and yet, science et. al. has totally debunked astrology as a pseudo science.

Life is tough sometimes.

Roger