Gravity Maps

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TLDR:
Astrology, which is Greek for the study of the stars, is a misnomer. Astronomy, Greek for the naming of the stars, is really the study of the stars.

Historically, planets were called wandering stars. Astrological charts are actually geocentric maps of our solar system. 

And they are essentially Gravity Maps with substantial annotations concerning gravitational wake interactions. (AKA aspects and transits.) Space agencies just need to learn how to use that existing wealth of information about our solar system as a navigational tool.

Hiring a professional Astrologer (ideally, one familiar with the math -- which is substantial if you calculate charts by hand -- and not just the personality profile lore) and a sailor experienced with sailed vessels can help you figure that out.

It's a little like how historically Ben Franklin tracked water temperature every time he crossed the Atlantic Ocean and thereby mapped a warm channel of water. My recollection is that ships that had that information could cross the Atlantic in three months instead of four and he made that information available to captains of colonial vessels, giving the American colonies a strategic advantage over England.

I don't have experience sailing. I can't tell you how to use Astrological Charts as Gravity Maps and turn that into navigational advantage like a space version of sailing ships using wind and waves.

But if you figure it out, I bet you would go Zoom, zoom, zoom. 

And then the NASA Engineering Department would be taken over by GIRLS because astrology is mostly studied by girls. 

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