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The name of this site kind of means "Opinions of the author." I was a serious student of astrology at one time
and could cast charts by hand -- which takes substantial math -- and I have a strong educational background.
The popular or Sun Sign astrology with which most people are passingly familiar is not what serious astrology is about. It gives serious astrologers a bad reputation and I resent being perceived through that lens as someone who takes astrology seriously and studied it in earnest.
The word astrology means the study of the stars. At one time, it was a form of scientific observation to help predict weather and crop failures and similar.
Then telescopes were invented and astrology as we know it today parted ways with scientific observation and record keeping that began getting called astronomy, a word that means the naming of the stars and was likely initially an upper-class hobby, not a serious scientific pursuit.
Most life on Earth is dependent on the Sun's rays. The Sun also causes wind and the Moon causes the ocean's tides.
It's not only not crazy to believe that heavenly bodies influence life here on Earth, it's actually crazy to deny the idea. Pretending they don't implicitly dismisses the ocean's tides and the critical role sunlight plays in life existing at all here on Earth.
The sidebar of this site says:
I still believe astrology is meaningful and has value but most astrological writing is mired in illogical beliefs rife with emotional baggage from less learned eras, like the idea that mathematically exact aspects are fate aspects and that some aspects and planets are good influences and others are bad influences.
And it long ago sold its soul to pay the bills. Most likely, it became a con job so learned men could get paid as advisors when the world was smaller and both they and kings of old could deny that some smarty-pants with more education than the king was really defacto calling the shots.
Popular astrology is garbage because it's an attempt to get a few bucks apiece from the masses. Only wealthy people could genuinely afford the services of an astrologer back when they had to hand cast charts.
This is my attempt to rescue the baby from the bathwater it's been drowning in for ages.
I actually do, in fact, believe your natal chart is meaningful, though popular astrology does a lot of dumb stuff to try to have broad appeal and make a few bucks. I also think astrological charts have potential value for space development as gravity maps.
I write about astrology as astrology. I critique it and try to suggest how it might be done better, plus I write about astrology as a style tool and tag such posts House.of.Style.
I also write about astrology as an unrecognized science with a wealth of information about gravitational interactions that could be used to help improve interplanetary travel. I tag pertinent posts with Gravity.
12 July 2026
The popular or Sun Sign astrology with which most people are passingly familiar is not what serious astrology is about. It gives serious astrologers a bad reputation and I resent being perceived through that lens as someone who takes astrology seriously and studied it in earnest.
The word astrology means the study of the stars. At one time, it was a form of scientific observation to help predict weather and crop failures and similar.
Then telescopes were invented and astrology as we know it today parted ways with scientific observation and record keeping that began getting called astronomy, a word that means the naming of the stars and was likely initially an upper-class hobby, not a serious scientific pursuit.
Most life on Earth is dependent on the Sun's rays. The Sun also causes wind and the Moon causes the ocean's tides.
It's not only not crazy to believe that heavenly bodies influence life here on Earth, it's actually crazy to deny the idea. Pretending they don't implicitly dismisses the ocean's tides and the critical role sunlight plays in life existing at all here on Earth.
The sidebar of this site says:
Astrology:At one time, I had that in my Hacker News profile because those folks have no respect for astrology and are openly contemptuous. They are hypocrites and ignoramuses.
The irrational belief that the Sun, the Moon and other heavenly bodies influence life here on Earth via invisible forces.
Like gravity.
I still believe astrology is meaningful and has value but most astrological writing is mired in illogical beliefs rife with emotional baggage from less learned eras, like the idea that mathematically exact aspects are fate aspects and that some aspects and planets are good influences and others are bad influences.
And it long ago sold its soul to pay the bills. Most likely, it became a con job so learned men could get paid as advisors when the world was smaller and both they and kings of old could deny that some smarty-pants with more education than the king was really defacto calling the shots.
Popular astrology is garbage because it's an attempt to get a few bucks apiece from the masses. Only wealthy people could genuinely afford the services of an astrologer back when they had to hand cast charts.
This is my attempt to rescue the baby from the bathwater it's been drowning in for ages.
I actually do, in fact, believe your natal chart is meaningful, though popular astrology does a lot of dumb stuff to try to have broad appeal and make a few bucks. I also think astrological charts have potential value for space development as gravity maps.
I write about astrology as astrology. I critique it and try to suggest how it might be done better, plus I write about astrology as a style tool and tag such posts House.of.Style.
I also write about astrology as an unrecognized science with a wealth of information about gravitational interactions that could be used to help improve interplanetary travel. I tag pertinent posts with Gravity.
12 July 2026
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