The relationship between astronomy and astrology was in many respects similar to that which existed between chemistry and alchemy, and like that relationship, was swept away in the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Astronomy, Robert B. Culver. There are two main directions astrologers are running towards. Some argue for celestial influences by stars, constellations the Moon, the Sun, the planets. This is the preferred route for skeptic-weary astrologers.
Humans prefer to believe in anything rather than nothing.
In simplistic popular astrology we judge people by one of twelve character types depending on their month of birth. But if the typing is false, we do an injustice to the people we are typing. We place them in previously collected pingeonholes and do not judge them for themselves, a typing familiar in sexism and racism. Here are some of the results. It is common belief of chinese astrology that one's death is more likely during a year attributed to a specific astrological sign.