Zodiacal astrology
December 21st, 2008
Western (Zodiacal) astrology relies on the position of the Sun, Moon and planets at the time of your birth to determine your personality. Each planet has a particular “personality” and affects different aspects of your personality.
How this happens is never really explained, why it kicks in at the time of your birth instead of the time of conception is also never really explained either. Is there something in the womb that shields you from the astrological effects?
If it is a “force” that emanates from the astronomical bodies that effects you, then it is an entirely new force unknown to science. We only have four forces to work with – gravity, electromagnetic , the strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force. The last two only work at atomic levels (they keep atoms held together and can only be felt if you’re about the size of an atom), so they can’t be any use. (more…)