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Volume 35Hi Gary, my wife wants to know – What is your opinion on astrology and how it has evolved over time?
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Walt from the Discord server asks, Hi Gary, my wife wants to know – What is your opinion on astrology and how it has evolved over time? Thoughts on the 13th zodiac sign?
Well, I don’t think too much about astrology. As pseudosciences go, it isn’t a very good one. There is no mechanism by which the stars can guide our fortunes. All the horoscopes are different, and astrologers can’t seem to agree on the same predictions or set of principles. Astrology would be very easy to test and to run experiments for, and yet after thousands of years, no validation of it has ever been shown.
Astrology developed from ancient astronomy. The signs of the zodiac were simply a way to divide the heavens into 12 roughly equal parts, which corresponded to the 12 months of the year.
As the zodiac is an entirely arbitrary construction, so would a 13th sign. As far as I can tell, the idea of a 13th zodiac sign is one that was developed in the 1970s.
If you can just invent a new zodiac sign, it sort of goes to show how arbitrary astrology is.
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