Frequently Asked Questions

2 Could someone please do a chart interpretation for me?
3 I have no idea what to do with my life. Here are my birth data. Can someone please tell me what I should do?
4 I was born on a day when the Sun changes sign. Which sign is my Sun in?
5 Which Sun-signs are compatible with mine?

6 Is the Sun-sign all that is important for assessing personality and for prediction, or is there more to astrology?
7 How can one predict the nature of a relationship using astrology?

11 I have seen people born within days/hours of one another whose lives are really different. How come?
12 What is the meaning of the term "the Age of Aquarius"?
13 How is it possible for astrology to work?
14 Does astrology control my future? Is it "wrong" to use astrology to learn what the future holds for me? I'm scared.

15 I notice that I need to know the time zone used in the place I was born and the latitude and longitude of my place of birth in order to erect a chart. How can I find such information?
16 I do not know what time of day I was born. Is there some way to find out?

21 I enjoy many of the postings in this group, but there are one or two people whose postings are offensive and/or there are certain topics that just don't interest me. Is there some way to avoid seeing postings by certain people or concerning a certain topic?

22 Is it legal to practice astrology where I live, and, if not, what can be done about it?

23 I don't have access to USENET. Is there some other way I can read articles in alt.astrology, such as having them mailed to me?

24 Every sensible person knows that astrology couldn't possibly work, so why are you people wasting your time?
25 How could planetary forces, of whatever nature, act upon an infant when it is outside the mother, but not when it is a fetus in the womb? Why should the forces only have effect at the moment of birth?
26 Don't you guys know that astrology depends on a geocentric astronomy? Copernicus blew it away. Astrology can't work because it depends on the view that we are at the centre of the universe, which we clearly are not.
27 Don't you guys know that no cause for astrological effects is known? Therefore such effects cannot exist.
28 Don't you guys know that tests of groups of astrologers show they do no better than chance? Therefore astrology does not work.
29 Don't you guys know that astrology makes an infinity of claims? You could never test them all. Therefore we can dismiss it out of hand.
30 Don't you guys know that you can't really prove a negative, such as astrology never working, anyway? Therefore we can dismiss it out of hand.
31 Legitimate scientists (or educated people, etc., etc.) universally despise astrology. Can such a weight of opinion be wrong?
32 Why don't astrologers consider the fact that when the Sun is in the sign of Aries, it is not really in the constellation Aries?