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Originally Posted by orionjim
Very well said Warren! 
It was hard for me to accept the fact that when working with planet alignments and correlations that until I had some real physics behind the causes it was just astrology.
(still looking....)
Jim |
One example of a very strange resonance in the Solar System is the apparent rotational resonance of Venus with the Earth--something that was completely unknown to millenia of astrologers until its discovery by science in the 1960's. Yet, surprisingly, I have yet to hear an astrologer mention it: I would have guessed that there must be some sort of astrological significance to the fact that Venus presents her backside to the Earth every time she passes us.
But is it a
real resonance? At first, scientists were in that phase that
Robert's apparently in--it's just too good to not be true. Then people did some calculations and found out that the relation is just a little too far off the ideal resonance for Venus to be librating. But then some Chinese scientists did some more calculations and suggested that if you take into account the torque exerted by Venus' prevailing winds, then it might very well be librating around the ideal. And there the matter stands. So who know? But at least there's a scientific story to be told. It may very well be a false story, but at least it's there. But for 99.9% of astrology, there just isn't any
scientific story to be told at all.