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Old 18-December-2006, 03:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Gillianren View Post
. . . And their passage relative to stars.
With respect, this comment repeats the ill-informed view that the arbitrary constellations which happen to be behind each point on the zodiac are seen as having a causal relationship to astrological observations. This may have been the case 2000 years ago, but is no longer so. Astrology uses the tropical zodiac (based on earth's seasons) not the sidereal zodiac (based on constellations). Debunking such a straw man is as valid as debunking chemistry by talking about phlogiston.