Astrology.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by STEED

Rubbish just like reading tea leafs its all rubbish.

Yeah, that sums it up for me.

People just love to be told something special about themselves, particularly when it's flattering. Astrology, tea leaves, palm reading. Being the center of attention is the thing, like a moth drawn to a lightbulb. That's the attraction that keeps this ancient rubbish going.

It also seems astrology almost never predicts anything useful, and the occasions that it does are so rare as to be easily the result of blind luck. The most famous predictive astronomer the world has ever known, Nostradamus, never seems clear enough in his writings to warn us about something in advance. It is only by post hoc reasoning that his babbling fans seem to understand what he actually meant.