How to treat astrology

Astrology, also known as astrology, is a system that uses the relative position and motion of celestial bodies (especially the position of planets in the solar system) to explain or predict people's fate and behavior. It is a primitive diviner who observes the positions of celestial bodies, the sun, the moon and the stars and makes explanations to predict various things in the world. Astrologers believe that celestial bodies, especially planets and constellations, predict the changes of everything in the world in some causal or accidental way. It tries to explain people's character and destiny by birthplace, birth time and celestial position. All cultures in the world have very different astrological systems and theories. Astrologers also have different views on the scope of application of astrology. Some astrologers believe that astrology can objectively predict events that can be verified in the future, while others believe that the interpretation of astrology is only directional, and it cannot predict astrology or make predictions.

In all cultures in the world, people once or still believe that astronomical phenomena have an influence on people.

In astrology, the specific influence of any astronomical phenomena is limited to a specific place and time on the earth, and the influence of other places and times is different. Because all people on the earth see the same astronomical phenomena, the objectivity of astrology is only superficial. This is also the main criticism of astrology by natural science. Today's astrological predictions are generally symbolic, and most of them cannot be verified by physical science, so today's astrologers think that their knowledge has nothing to do with physical and natural science.

Astrology may meet the needs of many people for supernatural and metaphysical explanations of their current or future situations, but any metaphysical explanation proves the criticism of natural scientists by definition. Obviously, astrology is more like a superstition advocated by primitive astrologers. No matter how high it is held by some believers, it can't compare with faith and religion.

Astrology describes a person's personality and future, so it may help to form a similar personality and future. If a person believes that something will happen, he may cause it unconsciously or consciously. He may also unconsciously adopt a specific personality. Therefore, astrological prediction is consistent with actual observation. From the perspective of natural science, such practical observation does not mean that astrology is really realistic.

From a psychological point of view, such self-influence shows that astrology can be used as a tool for self-reflection and self-understanding. In this respect, astrology has the same function as other prediction methods, such as tarot cards. Of course, this does not involve the prediction of non-participating third parties.

From a psychological point of view, in addition to self-reflection, there is also the problem of external influence, that is, to influence another person's character by making astrological predictions for others. Some studies show that these effects can be very strong. From this point of view, the influence of real stars seems insignificant.

In any case, astrology is one of the oldest superstitions of mankind. The reason why it can last so long may be that its theory directly links a person's life with the whole universe, thus giving people a special and illusory feeling.