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Originally Posted by Lady Sage
Personally, I believe that people expect too much from astrology. It is a tool. It can be used to guide, it can be used to catch a glimpse of something. It seems to me that it could be compared to people expecting a screwdriver to make coffee. A tool can not do tricks.
Kind of like tarot. The most common misconception being that what the cards say is set in stone. No. You have the ability to change the outcome. The cards tell you what will happen if you continue on your current path and choose not to change. You dont want the tragedy in the cards to befall you? Change the behaviors that would make it so.
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What this says to me is that astrology and tarot make vague predictions that a person can either allow to come true, or can refuse to allow to become the truth. It's easy to make a guess based on a cold reading and allow that to consciously or subconsciously influence what you read as their past and future.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Its not unfortunate that so many TFPers require at least some verifiable proof before they believe something, but extremely refreshing.
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It is impossible to prove a negative, and the logical burden of proof is on those who make fantastical claims. Scientific proof is not an absolute, it is simply the confidence in the extreme likelihood that a solution to a problem is the one that can be reproduced consistently under identical conditions.
I encourage people to have those who practice astrology do a reading for them. If Lady Sage is willing to do readings for members, especially new members with which she has had no personal contact and does not know from the board (reducing the chance that what she knows about them will influence her,) and those members make an honest comparison of the reading to reality, we can make a small effort to judge it, albeit with a small sample of the general public that is not particularly representative of that public.