ASTRONOMY DOMINE

Ya know, I dig astrology, the thing kind of works for me. I read my daily horoscope evryday.
I know people who ditrust and discard the whole affair as rubbish; these agnostics argue that astrology doesnt have a scientific significance, these very same people emphatically uphold Astronomy. The truth is, man was always interested in the stars, the moon and the celestial activities much before the first scientific theories were recorded. Now although it is very convenient to assume that all that early man did was gaze at the night sky and utter barbaric growls, my intelligence tells me otherwise. Obviously these people noticed cycles in the patterns of the sky, noticed the moon cycles and noticed the connection bertween childbirths and moon cycles. They went on to study the sky and agreed on a few recognizable constellations and clusters. Further they systematically tried to understand the impact the stars had on their lives. They noticed similarities in the behaviours of people born when a particular star was directly overhead. They Observed, theorized, formulated and Inferred systematically and Astrology was born, a science in every respect.

Advocates of astronomy will agree with me that the moon causes tides, the practical implication of this beleif is that the person accepts that a celestial body situated 384,400 kilometers away(closest distance) from the earth, can actually cause the total sea line to recede by hundreds of kilometers. This is no joke, every cubic meter of sea weighs over a tonne, and if the moon's gravity can cause such an effect on the sea, and if newton was correct when he said that gravity is directly proportional to the density, then it is apparent that, Stars with higher density, greater radiational activity, bigger radii and greater presence in the sky obviously affect the human body not just with gravitational forces but also through radiations and magnetic activities.

Here my argument reaches a point where the non-beleiver of astrology will say, "So according to your argument since the same stars appear visible from anywhere on earth on a particular night, they must have the same effect on every man who sees them ", well these guys are partly right...each constellation does carry a characteristic effect. But logically, the effects of these bodies must be highest on the most succeptible entites. Children born under a constellation or a star are affected most, since their brains are in the early stages of formation. The alignment of electially sensitive receptors, the ratios in the hormone levels are all affected in accordance to the stars above them, causing similar patterns in brain development in children born within certain time slots. That should explain zodiac signs for all of us.

Astronomy is a science that was born out of Astrology and took a slightly different path, just like electronics was born from physics, only difference being that the proponents of Astronomy discarded it's origins as baseless. alternatively if the learnings of Astrology were preserved and researched we might have had a science that could be directly utilized in our daily lives, and found more meaning in our day to day life. I can easily imagine a world where we would have managers making better descisions following an advanced astrological software, doctors making better desicions based on astronomical data and astrological deductions. This I see as more practical than a few wise men arguing the presence of Black holes and the big bang theory.

And here is a good one for the advocates of Astronomy.(I sincerely beleive in astronomy as a pure science and do not rubbish astrology either)
"If the Universe is everything that exists around us, and science tells us that the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into?"

good night,
No, make that a starry starry night,
Blabbergob