Quote: (11-13-2013 01:52 PM)cardguy Wrote:
Serious question. How are the planets supposed to predict you future? Is this some kind of magical pagan idea? Just curious as to what the idea behind astrology is.
The simplified answer is: Transits, and correlation of planets in reference to your natal chart can predict upcoming events that has yet to happen.
A lot of people think that where they are or what they are doing right now is by choice, it is and it isn't a the same time. An analogy I would use is, picture you reading a novel and you are on page 50, you do not know what happens at the end of the book but it doesn't mean it has not already been written.
You just haven't read or lived up to that point yet so you think that everything is happening is random or by choice but in fact it has already by mapped out.
"Though we don’t know how it works physically, astrology is not a faith. You can experience, observe and know how it applies first hand. There are sound reasons why it has proved so difficult to test the real practice of astrology under scientific conditions and why so many tests have been flawed. However, there are simple experiments that have shown that there is a scientific basis to the fundamental premise of astrology even though the practice is more of an art than rarely scientific."
http://www.astrologer.com/tests/basisofa...#mechanism