Ah, scoff sarcastic all ye wanna - but take for example that most earthquakes do happen around full moons, new moons ~ n especially eclipses. See, it's all about gravity ~ n that's all Astrology is, gravity n cosmic radiation. We're sensitive, fragile, biochemical n electrical creatures. These "cosmic" forces are totally physical in nature. If we had the equipment to measure em, we'd see that they're everywhere n in everything. They touch on stuff, aspects of our lives n personality, that science has yet to discover on its own ~ n therefore is painfully reluctant to admit even exists. But they're working on it.

I've long been a proponent of astrology n astronomy comparing notes. As far as I'm concerned, they're just different aspects of the same science ~ n neither one can fully exist without the other. Some believe that Astrology is part of what little is left to us from a much more advanced ancient civilization, Atlantis ~ n they were more in touch with nature. Think of it this way ~ there is a giant clock, surrounding our solar system, marked out by constellations ~ groupings of stars recognized for aeons. Each of these stars acts like a laser beam, sending us all kinds of energy n radiation, each with its own unique blend n specific complex bandwidth signature ~ sometimes changing, however, depending on the star's personal customized circumstance.

Planets act as giant mirrors of our own sun, n refract this energy coming from outside the solar system ~ n also the energy thus reflected by other planets. Besides the sun, the biggest deal is the moon ~ what phase it's in, full, new, or especially an eclipse. We get used to these waves, and are particularly identified and acclimated to how the sky was when we first physically popped out into this world, n even when we were conceived. These "vibes" also pertain to inanimate objects. Some schools of thought, however, insist that nothing is purely inanimate ~ not even rocks, or for that matter, computers.

When planets go into retrograde, they send us vibes we're not used to ~ kinda like a dischordant symphony, if alluva sudden one or more instruments began playing their pieces backwards for a few minutes. Another major player in all of this is what sign was rising in the east the moment we were born ~ also, if there was a planet in that sign, or even relatively nearby. We are particularly identified with these values because they were in the sky for the longest time in our first moments of life. Then they set, but twelve hours later, they returned, and we thus became acclimated to the cycle of radiation eminating from the sky on this planet in which we live. When these constellations and/or planets, etc, return to their places of origin, we feel the most "at home" with ourselves, and are better acclimated to daliy life. In contrast, when stars and planets configure in unfamiliar relationships, we may feel out of sync. Thus, people born during a Mercury Retrograde may be normally restless ~ unless Mercury happens to be in Retrograde, which is relatively rare.

Personally, I'm a Capricorn with a Leo Rising, and a Full Moon Rising to boot. Capricorn is the Cardinal Earth Sign ~ augmented by Leo's Fixed Fire combine to make me a generally grounded but notoriously stubborn person. Leadership abilities are strong with both signs, so they combine to make me kinda a perfectionist. The full moon aspect, for the first 12 hours of life, also being born in early evening tends to make me a "night person" ~ functioning best out of the limelight, but with "all my ducks in a row," so to speak.

Signs where there are not very many bright stars, but a wealth of interesting deep sky objects (like galaxies, nebulae or assorted star clusters) may be less about the light emanating from the Milky Way, or the rest of the Galaxy, and more about local dynamics, further radiations being somewhat obscured. Imagine someone born at night, and under the almost entirely unique circumstances of having no planets overhead, but the countless galaxies of the Virgo cluster rising or at zenith ~ likely particularly interesting with a New Moon in there somewhere. I also wonder if weather has anything to do with this, the sky being obscured by clouds ~ and thus what the Sun's daily effect is on all of this.