[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

Betonov's afterthought there is perhaps telling. Isn't it pretty much accepted that the moon's phases affect some people? And a force powerful enough to create the tides on earth must likely touch us in other ways, so is it such a leap to imagine that planets might also exert some influence on our neural development in the womb?

The Moon influences us because it creates dark and less dark nights by it's phases and a full moon was more dangerous because predators had an easy way of spotting us so we learned to be more alert and agressive during a full moon.
Planets and stars are simply just too far away to influence us. Neither durign development or once we're born.


One more thing:

Around 600 BCE, the zero point was in Aries and was called the "first point of Aries." The constellation Aries encompassed the first 30 degrees of the ecliptic; from 30 to 60 degrees was Taurus; from 60 to 90 degrees was Gemini; and so on for all twelve constellations of the Zodiac.

Unbeknownst to the ancient astrologers, the Earth continually wobbles around its axis in a 25,800-year cycle. This wobble—called precession—is caused by the gravitational attraction of the Moon on Earth's equatorial bulge.

Over the past two-and-a-half millennia, this wobble has caused the intersection point between the celestial equator and the ecliptic to move west along the ecliptic by 36 degrees, or almost exactly one-tenth of the way around. This means that the signs have slipped one-tenth—or almost one whole month—of the way around the sky to the west, relative to the stars beyond.

For instance, those born between March 21 and April 19 consider themselves to be Aries. Today, the Sun is no longer within the constellation of Aries during much of that period. From March 11 to April 18, the Sun is actually in the constellation of Pisces! (Figure 2) See also Figure 3, which demonstrates the precession of the equinoxes from 600 BCE to 2600.

http://www.livescience.com/4667-astrological-sign.html

Originally Posted by Oberon

That's 9/10s of all Wiccan really, knowledge of things taking place around you, be it peoples behaviour, animal behaviour or plantlife behaviour. Knowing what herbs make what remedies and so forth. Just a basic grounding in natural behaviour.

Wiccans are what ''hippies'' and ''tree huggers'' should be.
Non brainwashed, non hysterical, non loud and reasonable people that understand that being one with nature is not wearing hemp clothes and writting blogs.