Astrology Is More Than Just A Science

  Astrology Is More Than Just A Science

I believe Astrology is a science in that it is based on the sciences of not only Astronomy but Mathematics. Without astronomers discovering heavenly bodies in our solar system, we wouldn't be using them in Astrology. Without mathematics, astrological charts wouldn't be able to be calculated. Without mathematics, astronomers wouldn't be able to find out the positions of the heavenly bodies as they rely on mathematical calculations/formulas. Of course, aspects,midpoints,and planetary pictures are based on geometry which is a form of mathematics.

The interpretation of the chart is more of an art and language. There are many ways to interpret a chart. There are many ways to interpret an aspect. Heavenly bodies are assigned certain traits,characteristics,and rulerships which provide numerous variations of interpreting aspects. If you look in a Rex E. Bill's rulership book, rulerships of a planet covers over 5 pages. It's the interpretation of the chart that critics of astrology might even argue could be so general that it can apply to anybody. The Barnum/Forer Effect.

I believe that Astrology can be form of psychology as it helps study personality and human behavior. In that way, I believe that Astrology can be a social science. I wouldn't use it as form of psychiatry to help diagnosed people as having psychiatric disorders. I don't see it as form of neurology to understand how the brain works. Of course, psychiatric disorders and neurodivergence greatly overlap in symptoms/traits, and so it's very difficult to distinguish those things from looking at a chart. Even the "afflicted" Neptune aspects don't necessarily mean a psychiatric disorder. Those aspects are common in people that are misdiagnosed including having misdiagnoses of psychiatric disorders. Besides, psychiatry doesn't even recognize the metaphysical. Even people that are actual mystics,psychics can be viewed as psychotics,schizophrenics and get diagnosed as such.

I believe that Astrology can be a form of religion. A lot of astrologers cling on to ideas that are contrary to what scientists say. There is so much disagreement about what even works in Astrology. Some types of Astrology is based on religion. Evolutionary Astrology is based on the beliefs of reincarnation,past-lives,and karma. The stuff that I have read from Jeffrey Wolf Green and Maurice Fernandez seems even a bit dogmatic. Vedic Astrology is based on religious scriptures called the Vedas. There are astrological systems that even use hypothetical planets that astronomers haven't even discovered yet and aren't likely to exist, but they believe that they work. Some people have written books about Transpluto which is planet based on the mistakes of astronomers and has now been proven not to exist. Of course, many people who have a belief in Astrology are viewed as believing in a delusion because they believe that Astrology is a pseudoscience that is based on outdated "knowledge" about our solar system. Old systems based on old knowledge tends to be replaced by new systems based on new knowledge. Even now, majority of Astrologers are using a system that is not updated based on the new discoveries of astronomers. Since 1992, astronomers have been discovering other transneptunian objects, but a vast majority of astrologers show little interest in them. Even after the turn of the 21st century, more transneptunian objects were discovered including big ones, astrologers still weren't interested in them. Even after 2006, there are professional astrologers that didn't even know about Eris which made great news as an object larger than Pluto and got Pluto demoted as dwarf planet. Astrologers can be hypocritical, saying that Astronomers' findings don't change their system. Ceres,Pallas,Juno,and Vesta were classed as planets for 40 years. Most astrologers don't include those objects as planets in their systems. Astronomers discovered Uranus,Neptune,and Pluto, and vast majority of Western astrologers use those objects in their systems. Therefore, astrologers have adapted to the discoveries of astronomers. It's just that they have been selective. It's like them choosing what's convenient for them to use and doesn't complicate their system. Western Astrologers are not much different from Vedic Astrologers in that way.

I believe it's a combination of physical science, social science,philosophy,religion, art,and language.