Astrology's always had a soft spot for a large asteroid or two anyway, so I don't see where declassifying Pluto would change anything significant.
Raymond Smullyan (logician, and Taoist) has an interesting take on astrology--there are obvious correlations between the positions of heavenly bodies and seasons, for instance, even though not all of them are relations, and he suggests, more or less, that if you treat it all as a series of various clock cycles, that it's possible some interesting things emerge from it. That is to say, you could just as well use cicadas, or sunspots, to do your astrology. Theories of spooky influence, on the other hand, he has no truck with whatsoever, and rightly so.
Who has a 'professional rivalry' with astrologers? Used car salesmen?
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Date: 2006-08-27 02:59 pm (UTC)Raymond Smullyan (logician, and Taoist) has an interesting take on astrology--there are obvious correlations between the positions of heavenly bodies and seasons, for instance, even though not all of them are relations, and he suggests, more or less, that if you treat it all as a series of various clock cycles, that it's possible some interesting things emerge from it. That is to say, you could just as well use cicadas, or sunspots, to do your astrology. Theories of spooky influence, on the other hand, he has no truck with whatsoever, and rightly so.
Who has a 'professional rivalry' with astrologers? Used car salesmen?