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Attention stargazers...
So I know there are a few astrology buffs (serious and non-) on here.
Could someone please explain the ramifications of losing Pluto as a planet?
Thenk yew.
For that matter... how did astrology handle new planets being discovered? It would seem that's easier to work with than having one suddenly be declared irrelevant...
Just wonderin'.
Could someone please explain the ramifications of losing Pluto as a planet?
Thenk yew.
For that matter... how did astrology handle new planets being discovered? It would seem that's easier to work with than having one suddenly be declared irrelevant...
Just wonderin'.
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Astrology hasn't have to handle many planets being discovered - Uranus was discovered in 1741, and Neptune in 1846, and all the rest are obvious naked-eye objects, so it's not like it happens all the time. Since astrology is a pseudo-science and has no agreed-upon methods, it's hard to answer your question thoroughly, and therefore it depends on whom you ask. Ask the astrologers (as the Wall Street Journal did) and they'll say it'll be huge, and most of them (who were asked) said that the new decision doesn't matter and they'll leave it in the charts. Of course, it wasn't on the charts before Pluto's discovery (as has been noted here), but some will say that leaving it in provides better results, others will say that taking it out will produce even better results. But since astrology makes no quantifyable or firm predictions, it can't be shown that the accuracy of the predictions has changed.
Fuck them all. Let them all sputter and burn and die trying to cope with this.
What, professional rivalry? Naw, couldn't be...