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	Astrology
		Astrology refers to any of several systems, traditions or beliefs in which knowledge of the apparent positions of celestial bodies and related information is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting and organizing knowledge about personality, human affairs and terrestrial events.
		The origins of much of astrology that would later develop in Asia, Europe and the Middle East are found among the ancient Babylonians and their system of celestial omens that began to be compiled around the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE.
		This Babylonian astrology came to Greece initially as early as the middle of the 4th century BCE, and then around the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE after the Alexandrian conquests, this Babylonian astrology was mixed with the Egyptian tradition of Decanic astrology to create Horoscopic astrology.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2Fen%2Fastrology (4222 words)

	Astrology - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Astrology is not considered to be a science and is separate from astronomy, the scientific study of the heavens.
		Political astrology has existed for thousands of years as well, while some astrologers use ancient methods which are supposed to be able to predict the weather and weather-related phenomena (storms, floods, etc.), which is collectively known as meteorological astrology.
		As is often the case with pseudoscience, the practitioners of astrology respond to such disproof either by changing their claims, or by refusing to accept the scientific method as a valid test of their claims.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Astrology (3990 words)

	Validity of astrology - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Validity_of_astrology (228 words)

	Why horoscopes leave us star-struck - Telegraph
		Astrology was introduced to the Greeks and Romans early in the 4th century BC and became extremely popular.
		She believes that astrology works on the belief that the sun is at the centre of our personality, as it is at the centre of the universe.
		Prof Milner said: "This study influenced a lot of psychologists to reconsider their opinion of astrology, Although, the side of the study which looked at predictions was not as consistent as the side which studied the personality traits of different star signs, it obviously indicates that there must be a colonel of truth to astrology."
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/02/13/bahor2_13.xml (950 words)

	Astrology test
		Four admitted that the possibilities of astrology were more limited then they had thought, and seven came to the conclusion that astrology only works in actual practice.
		Astrology is in conflict with science as long as its claims are testable.
		Astrology, they say, gives insight into the meaning and quality of our subjective experiences by locating them within a cosmic frame of reference.
	www.skepsis.nl /astrot.html (2273 words)

	Astrology Q&A - StarIQ.com
		Astrology studies the mathematically based interaction between the sun, moon, planets and life on earth.
		Astrology offers a perspective on life that is a helpful guide to self-understanding and making choices when used intelligently.
		Astrology can also be used to create a time map to find the "eventful" periods in an individual's life.
	www.stariq.com /pagetemplate/T1.asp?pageid=1963 (490 words)

	IS ASTROLOGY SCIENTIFIC? - Dr. Abraham T. Kovoor
		He is prepared to accept astrology as a true "science" because it was believed all over the world from ancient times, and among the believers there were and are eminent scientists.
		Carl Jung endorses the validity of astrological phenomena.
		Astrology originated when man’s knowledge of astronomy and the universe was wrong.
	www.uni-giessen.de /~gk1415/astrology.htm (1507 words)

	Astrological History
		Babylonian astrology was introduced to the Greeks early in the 4th century B.C. and, through the studies of Plato, Aristotle, and others, astrology came to be highly regarded as a science.
		While earliest astrology was used to bring a sense of order out of apparent chaos, it was soon utilized to predict weather patterns, primarily for agricultural purposes.
		Astrology is an all-encompassing art/science which has far-reaching consequences in the lives of countless numbers of people worldwide.
	www.astrologers.com /html/history.html (1265 words)

	ASP: Activities With Astrology
		Astrologers will tell you that the Sun sign (which is the sign of the zodiac the Sun was in when a individual was born) is a crucial factor for the occupation a person chooses and a strong determinant of overall personality as it relates to one's job.
		Have the students discuss some reasons why the predictions in astrology columns might be so general and vague.
		If Sun sign astrology predicts one's day pretty well and everyone remembers the day in question clearly (the astrologer's hypothesis), students should in general be able to find their own paragraph.
	www.astrosociety.org /education/astro/act3/astrology.html (965 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Astrology - Looking to Creation for Answers
		"Astrology was already well underground in Europe during the 18th century and in England the appearance of new textbooks dwindled to a trickle between 1700 and c.1790.
		However, astrology which is a metaphysical (beyond the physical) science, must never be examined by the same tests which scrutinize other sciences.
		Contrary to the fact that Goodman claims astrology is scientific and Oken denies the possibility that astrology is capable of being scientifically examined, 186 scientist gazed into astrology and drew their own conclusion.
	www.watchman.org /occult/astrolog.htm (1129 words)

	Astrology - The validity of astrology
		Astrology (from Greek: αστρολογία = άστρον, astron, "star" + λόγος, logos, "word") refers to any of several traditions or systems in which knowledge of the apparent positions of celestial bodies is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing knowledge about reality and human existence on earth.
		Some astrologers argue that astrology works by a mechanism that is (yet) unknown to science and that it is validated by their personal experience when applied in real life cases.
		The study of Western astrology and the belief in it, as part of astronomy, is found in a developed form among the ancient Babylonians; and directly or indirectly through the Babylonians, it spread to other nations.
	www.experiencefestival.com /astrology_-_the_validity_of_astrology (1100 words)

	Asia Times: Astrology is a science, it's in the stars
		But Joshi (the name indicates his family practiced astrology), who once taught university-level physics, is on a personal mission to overhaul education in India in favor of the pro-Hindu "saffron" ideology of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
		Astrology is considered to be the very eye of the Vedic or ancient scriptures which form the heart of the Hindu religion, its rites, rituals and practices.
		There are those who point out that there is little that is Vedic about Indian astrology because it appears to have borrowed heavily from Babylonian and Greek traditions, especially in the meaning of the signs of the zodiac and the patterns formed by the constellations.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/CH16Df03.html (780 words)

	Skeptic's Dictionary: reader comments Rorschach ink blot test
		You criticize the putative scientific status of the Rorschach because the scientific evidence for its validity is based as it must be on correlation alone.
		And if you are wrong about the validity of the Rorschach test, you may do serious harm to a valuable clinical praxis by this publishing.
		Sure, there are some data to support the validity of the inferences drawn from scores on the test using the Exner system.
	www.skepdic.com /comments/inkycom.html (1962 words)

	The Origin of Culture - Reviews - Understanding Astrology - Astrodienst
		Although Dietrich uses astrology to understand developments on the planet over long periods of time, and deals with different astrological ages, he denies the validity of personal astrology.
		Dietrich considers personal astrology without merit because it would be too complex, considering all hereditary and other influences and the complex structure of an individual.
		His reasoning that the human body is the microcosm of the universe would seem to contradict his rejection of personal astrology.
	www.astro.com /astrology/in_culture_i.htm?cid=2k2fileVEfWOu-u1077956774 (860 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Youth for Equality, an organisation of anti-quota activists, said in the petition that the quota law was enacted before the validity of the 93rd constitutional amendment, which empowers Parliament and state legislatures to bring such a law, was decided.
		The petitioners argued that during the hearing of a plea challenging the validity of the 93rd amendment, it was “agreed and understood” that the government would not implement reservation without the court’s permission.
		The validity of these laws would be looked into individually only if the petition challenging the validity of the 93rd constitutional amendment is dismissed.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1070201/asp/nation/story_7333973.asp (300 words)

	The Straight Dope: Is astrology for real?
		I say astrology is completely illogical, and that her predictions are the result of a 12-to-1 shot paying off.
		After all, the stars are unthinkably distant, and the planets, an essential part of astrology, revolve around the sun, not the earth.
		In one study of 22 astrology buffs, half were presented with their real horoscopes and half were presented with fake charts saying the exact opposite.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a3_071.html (512 words)

	ZENIT - Astrology Aims for Respectability
		In their petition to the court the academics argued that Vedic Astrology cannot be considered a part of scientific study because astrology lacks the basic attributes and tenets involved in the pursuit of science.
		Specifically, they argued, astrology does not use the accepted scientific method of inquiry that is characterized by fallibility, verifiability and repeatability.
		Yet, in his book "The Scientific Proof of Astrology," he maintains that brain development may be affected by the Earth's magnetic field, especially during a child's growth in the womb.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55193 (1249 words)

	ASP: Horoscopes Versus Telescopes: A Focus on Astrology
		Yet for astrology it makes no difference whether Mars is on the same side of the Sun as we are (and therefore relatively near us) or way on the other side — its astrological influence (force) is the same.
		If astrology were a science —; as astrologers claim — you would expect after all these years that similar experiments or calculations would begin to lead to similar results.
		If astrology predicts that Virgo and Aries are incompatible signs — to take a simple example — then if we look at thousands of marriage and divorce records, we should see more Virgo-Aries couples getting divorced and fewer of them getting married than we would expect by chance.
	www.astrosociety.org /education/publications/tnl/11/11.html (2334 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - Astrology, Fish, Althouse, and 9/11 Conspiracy Theories.--
		That conservatives are less likely to believe in astrology is fairly obvious to me: conservatives are generally strong believers if not in their culture's traditional religion, then in the power of their culture's traditional religion.
		Nothing in astrology is as implausible, ludicrous, and incompatible with serious thought, as the purported "miracles" described in the Christian and Jewish bibles.
		The claimants' lawyer told me with a straight face that the claimants were all Indian, that astrology was taken very seriously in their culture, and that the astrologer would testify she had advised them all to sell their stock in early April 2000 because something bad was about to happen.
	www.volokh.com /posts/1153670216.shtml (5125 words)

	Knowledge Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In his words, Astrology is in my opinion the only system that can successfully predict both the content and the timing of experiences encountered in non-ordinary states of consciousness in experiential psychotherapy.20 Tarnas and Grofs data on transit astrology and on corresponding historical patterns are summarized in Tarnas forthcoming book Cosmos and Psyche.
		Borrowing on Wilbers concepts, astrology can be viewed as a transrational discipline epistemologically rooted in vision-logic and intuition that points toward a vast holarchy which not only unifies the physiosphere, biosphere, and noosphere, as Wilber calls for, but does so in a larger celestial context that transcends but includes the Gaian system.
		Astrology is a science of the study of the influences of the environment on an individual.
	66.201.42.16 /viewitem.php3?id=170&catid=169&kbid=ionsikc (6093 words)

	Comments on: Skeptic’s Circle #26
		But saying that astrology is bunk and it's practitioners are either deliberate frauds or deluded is not slanderous.
		He summarizes her inane justifications for the results of one test, where they asked her to pick the best candidate for a hypothetical travel agency, but the birth data provided was from a list of convicted felons.
		Astrology is nonsense, can I express myself any clearer?" TS said she was "speaking nonsense".
	www.badastronomy.com /bablog/2006/01/19/skeptics-circle-26/feed (3938 words)

	Psychology Today: Following Your Sign?
		While astrology has repeatedly failed to predict even basic personality traits like introversion, people may be incorporating its ideas into their long-term self-image, according to a study by Margaret Hamilton, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin, in Washington County.
		In a separate study, she found that subjects with negative sun signs are more likely to believe in astrology than subjects with positive sun signs.
		Astrology doesn't just affect "believers." Most of the subjects in Hamilton's study had only garden-variety knowledge of astrology, and she did not remind them about their sun sign characteristics.
	www.psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-20060509-000002.html (572 words)

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