Learning about astrology

carlowplayer

Interested from a purely anthropological standpoint.where can I learn in detail about astrology and topics such as trines and sextiles conjunctions and injunctions ,semi sextiles quintiles and bi quintiles , modalities and natal charts etc
Also any sites that can explain Chinese and vedic astrology in detail

lukesmom

carlowplayer wrote: »

Interested from a purely anthropological standpoint.where can I learn in detail about astrology and topics such as trines and sextiles conjunctions and injunctions ,semi sextiles quintiles and bi quintiles , modalities and natal charts etc
Also any sites that can explain Chinese and vedic astrology in detail

Ye wha??

Saipanne

Itsaloadofbollocks.com

danrua01

I recommend astronomy instead.

kneemos

A lot of them are self thought I suspect.

Custardpi

You could try asking on the Psychics & Mediums forum, that's kind of related I guess. As has already been said though, complete bollocks the lot of it.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1076

Ficheall

kneemos wrote: »

A lot of them are self thought I suspect.

I'm thanking your post because I assume that's intentional, for a change.
If not, then shame on both of us.

catallus

I hear they are bringing astrology into the new Junior Cert curriculum. From a purely "anthropological standpoint", of course.

Donkey Oaty

carlowplayer wrote: »

Interested from a purely anthropological standpoint.where can I learn in detail about astrology and topics such as trines and sextiles conjunctions and injunctions ,semi sextiles quintiles and bi quintiles , modalities and natal charts etc
Also any sites that can explain Chinese and vedic astrology in detail

That's what most of us posters on AH have been discussing in code for years.

What did you think we were talking about?

But you've just gone and ruined it.

Peregrine

Magico Gonzalez

Just make it up, you'll fit right in.

Jawgap

I foresee a lot of unhelpful posts on this thread.......

MRnotlob606

There are many benefits of astrology. Open your Aurora to the passiveness of the world and.....Zzzzzzzz

You should read the thoughts of great minds like Dawkins on astrology.

Alternatively (and I do mean alternatively), Sally Kirkman is often considered a reliable source by those utterly determined to believe in this crap.

James Randi has some interesting thoughts.

AnimalChin

Learn something useful instead, OP.

A musical instrument or a language or something.

Capt'n Midnight

There are a couple of things you need to know.

The 26,000 year precession cycle of the earth means that the astronomy star signs are about two signs out of alignment since the time of the pyramids.

Exactly the same thing happens to 8 1/3 % of the worlds population every day.

You can collect one million dollars from Randi if you can make predictions

Ganymede Glow

Stephen Hawking says there's a place where pure mathematics and astrology meet. Now we're talking pure mathematics, we're not talking long division. Although I dont know what pure mathematics is I just like to say it.

- Billy Connolly

Capt'n Midnight

http://sciencecomedy.freeservers.com/custom2.html

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

There's a place where astrology and pure mathematics meet. Now we're talking pure mathematics we're not talking long division. I don't know what pure mathematics is I just like to say it, because I know it exists, I've read it in a book.'

- Billy Connolly

So Billy says in a comedy routine that he read a book , yeah that's really scientific.

http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Hinduism/2001/01/British-Physicist-Debunks-Astrology-In-Indian-Lecture.aspx

``When it was discovered that the Earth was not the center of the universe, astrology became impossible,'' said Hawking, delivering a lecture through voice synthesizer to a standing-room-only crowd of thousands.

``The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment,''

Actually precession was discovered back in 130BC give or take so the debunking of the mechanisms of astronomy go way back.

Saipanne

Pure mathematics is an abstraction. What is the point here?

catallus

Saipanne wrote: »

Pure mathematics is an abstraction. What is the point here?

A point is a position. Not a thing.

Joe prim

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

There are a couple of things you need to know.

The 26,000 year precession cycle of the earth means that the astronomy star signs are about two signs out of alignment since the time of the pyramids.

Exactly the same thing happens to 8 1/3 % of the worlds population every day.

You can collect one million dollars from Randi if you can make predictions

Nonsense, it's generally accepted that when Mars is in Uranus, romance will be in the air, and at work, a little application may lead to advancement.

bodice ripper

Surely no one here is going to admit to believing in this ****e, are they?

Cantremember

I can offer you a course in the most arcane aspects of astrology. I studied as a young man in Persia with a Zoroastrian Grand Master and travelled to China later to explore the Iching and the Kundalini with a necromancer descended from the shamans of the Ming dynasty. There is a one time special offer of a 5 session course for the introductory price of 99.99. Terms and Conditions apply. Cantremember is the registered trading name of immaripyouoff.com.

Venus In Furs

I find it interesting. Not reading the stars in newspapers/magazines - that's bullsh1t, but the signs of the zodiac thing does interest me. I don't know whether it's real or not, but there are all sorts of beliefs outside of this dimension so meh, people will believe/be interested in them I guess.

Saipanne

catallus wrote: »

A point is a position. Not a thing.

Who gives a ****?

paulbok

carlowplayer wrote: »

Interested from a purely anthropological standpoint.where can I learn in detail about astrology and topics such as trines and sextiles conjunctions and injunctions ,semi sextiles quintiles and bi quintiles , modalities and natal charts etc
Also any sites that can explain Chinese and vedic astrology in detail

Try Paddy Powers

paulbok

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

There are a couple of things you need to know.

The 26,000 year precession cycle of the earth means that the astronomy star signs are about two signs out of alignment since the time of the pyramids.

Exactly the same thing happens to 8 1/3 % of the worlds population every day.

You can collect one million dollars from Randi if you can make predictions

If I could make predictions I wouldn't bother me bo||0x with Randi and his poxy $1M, Euro millions every few weeks for me.

paulbok

catallus wrote: »

A point is a position. Not a thing.

In graph theory, a point is a thing.

Grayson

Custardpi wrote: »

You could try asking on the Psychics & Mediums forum, that's kind of related I guess. As has already been said though, complete bollocks the lot of it.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1076

can we just rename that forum "the idiots forum"

the_monkey

danrua01 wrote: »

I recommend astronomy instead.

This ^^^^

My thanking the post isn't enough, it is an amazing subject and as you learn it you will realise what T W A D D L E astrology really is ..

danrua01

the_monkey wrote: »

This ^^^^

My thanking the post isn't enough, it is an amazing subject and as you learn it you will realise what T W A D D L E astrology really is ..

You can buy me a pint if you really see it fit....

Capt'n Midnight

Joe prim wrote: »

Nonsense, it's generally accepted that when Mars is in Uranus, romance will be in the air, and at work, a little application may lead to advancement.

Yeah you'd need to consult the ancient Egyptians or Sumerians on that one.
Or even Nostradamus. Except of course that Uranus hadn't been discovered yet.

Any astrologer that waffled on about Pluto can be ignored. Not because of it's planet(oid) status but more because there are bigger things out there.

BTW: if the planets influence is any sort of inverse square law type thingy then the Skylab, MIR and the ISS need to be taken into account too.


http://xkcd.com/836/

--LOS--

Holy sh1t OP, I just want to know what your secret is because you must be hundreds if not thousands of years old if you believe in crap like that. It's either that or you're a time traveller from the past.

Welcome to the future though, unfortunately I have some bad news for you, we did start making a distinction between astrology and astronomy about 4 centuries ago. So you can appreciate how nonsensical it is to link disciplines which are in disagreement with one another. Hopefully that will save you some time now.

GalwayGuitar

Judging by his name I reckon op wants to learn some astrology to help him pick up chicks, which is a good idea.

NIMAN

If the OP plays his cards right, he will be selling out theatres across Ireland and the UK (to an audience full of gullibles).

Especially if he learns to communicate with dead folk.

UCDVet

Has anyone been able to prove, conclusively, that astrology has no merit?

Mena

UCDVet wrote: »

Has anyone been able to prove, conclusively, that astrology has no merit?

Really? Surely this warrants the 'not sure if srs' meme ...

rab!dmonkey

UCDVet wrote: »

Has anyone been able to prove, conclusively, that astrology has no merit?

The burden of proof lies on those asserting the value of astrology. If I were to claim that I could fly by flapping my arms, only a fool would believe me. It's not up to others to prove me wrong.

FURET

UCDVet wrote: »

Has anyone been able to prove, conclusively, that astrology has no merit?

This really is the wrong question. It's perfectly backwards in fact. The burden of proof is on those making the extraordinary claim, not on sceptics. If I told you that there were invisible fairies living under your bed, and you were skeptical, it would not be up to you to prove that there were no fairies under the bed.

Littlekittylou

I like astrology. I am interested in it and my chart is quite accurate actually. :-P

Or it is when I write it anyway!

Peregrine

Littlekittylou wrote: »

I like astrology. I am interested in it and my chart is quite accurate actually. :-P

Or it is when I write it anyway!

How far into the future can you see?

What am I having for breakfast tomorrow?

SpaceSasqwatch

Littlekittylou wrote: »

I like astrology. I am interested in it and my chart is quite accurate actually. :-P

Or it is when I write it anyway!

the woo woo is strong in this one

Drakares

OP here are the detailed instructions you need.

1: Stop wasting your time with Astrology
2: Find a better past-time

:pac:

ToddyDoody

carlowplayer wrote: »

Interested from a purely anthropological

You lost me

UCDVet

rab!dmonkey wrote: »

The burden of proof lies on those asserting the value of astrology. If I were to claim that I could fly by flapping my arms, only a fool would believe me. It's not up to others to prove me wrong.

So what you are saying is there is no proof that Astrology doesn't work?

Interesting....

UCDVet

FURET wrote: »

This really is the wrong question. It's perfectly backwards in fact. The burden of proof is on those making the extraordinary claim, not on sceptics. If I told you that there were invisible fairies living under your bed, and you were skeptical, it would not be up to you to prove that there were no fairies under the bed.

Sure.

But if I'm talking to my friend about my super cool invisible faire friends I met under my bed last night and YOU claim that invisible faeries don't exist under my bed....the burden of supporting your claim should fall to you.

If you want to say, 'Well, UCDVet hasn't proven that invisible faeries exist, so, in the absence of proof, I'm not sure that they do exist'. That's totally fine and correct. But to say, 'Given that you haven't proven X, NOT X is necessarily true' is incorrect. And if you want to assert NOT X, you need to prove it.

There is a hugely famous open problem in Computer Science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem) where nobody knows of P = NP. Nobody can prove P = NP, but nobody has proven P != NP. Nobody knows. Just because you can't prove P = NP *does not* mean P != NP. We simply don't know.

catallus

So the scientific method, as a human construct, could be considered to be fundamentally unsound?

TwoShedsJackson

UCDVet wrote: »

So what you are saying is there is no proof that Astrology doesn't work?

Interesting....

That's actually not what he said at all.

UCDVet

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

That's actually not what he said at all.

That's pretty much what he said.

The burden of proof lies elsewhere. It's not up to him to disprove it. Presumably, if he had evidence disproving astrology, he could have just posted it.

FURET

How many points to get into veterinary these days?

UCDVet

FURET wrote: »

How many points to get into veterinary these days?

I have no idea. It's just a name. I studied computer science in school.