What is astrology?

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Astrology is a way to determine the forces of the universe by tracing what effects they have upon the planets. In Astrology, the planets and their coordinate systems are used to make predictions.

Astrology can be referred to as the study of cycles. According to astrology, everything in this universe is cyclical, meaning that is follows a certain cycle, including human beings. Astrology not only looks at this cycle but also at the cycles of life which go on for three years, ten years, 25 years, etc.

Just as our lives follow a cycle, the planets follow these cycles, too. Tracing the planets in their relatively simple paths is much easier to comprehend than it is to appreciate how human actions flow in the same rhythms, what with them being so complex. Because it is not easy to evaluate your own self, tracking the planets enables you to look into our nature in an approach so as to make predictions which can be the difference between success and failure. This is the heart of astrology and is how astrology works.

Hence astrology can be correctly called the study of the outcome of planetary movements on our lives, and astrologers have to know the exact positions of the planets at any given time, and also the proper positions of the zodiacal fixed star signs, at any given time, in relation to any place on earth, to be able to make astrological predictions. Interestingly, planets discovered after the development of astrology, such as Neptune and Uranus, have no place in astrological predictions.

The fundamental principle on which astrology works is that all things are linked. Your karma, destiny, fate or fortune, whatever you choose to call it, is determined by a predestined cosmic design. Astrologers believe that every body is just a soul present in the body at a very particular time and place, and that the life of people is just a reflection of the larger whole into which they are born. The study of this pre-set destiny is known as Astrology.

In other words, astrology is the study of stars.

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astrology dates from a time when we didn't know what stars were. the charts that astrologers use today are from hundreds of years ago when the earth was in a relatively

different position to the where those stars are today. so even if there were some truth to astrology when those charts were created, the fact that astrologers base their predictions on out of date charts makes anything they say moot.

A form of studying the stars and other celestial bodies.

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