Carl Sagan on Astrology ✍️

It’s opposite. Astrology works through self fulfilling prosphecy. It gives you ideas on how to change your life.

There is still a vast realm of knowledge for us to discover, so who knows - maybe patterns in the skies do actually matter in some way. The Universe follows rules and logic, and our consciousness is a very complex and largely unexplained subject - many things are possible.

The desire to connect with cosmic and grand universe

Greed to know future, helped science in a way. Astrology got validation from astronomy, prophecies validated astrology. Its men's greed that keeps science ticking.

There are many astrologers in the quantum mechanics field as well. There are as many theories as many astrologers today. No one knows anything for sure. What's the difference then??!!! It's the same bull shit that's sold across the globe.

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Expression of low materialism, labelling who seeks more than that as mere bored person longing to emancipate by their grey lives. I know very little of astrology, but some people who do, and what I get is not what Sagan depicts: it’s about understanding ourselves, not predicting

Nice clip. The closing argument (watch the whole video) is sound. But today, if we adhere to the Einstein/Spinozan view of a determinate reality, why try to change anything? For another way, one with free will, follow me for more.