Right Ascension and Declination - Sixty Symbols 

And they know they are talking nonsense

Loved his wording

loved it!!!!

+TheOddWorldOfJonas same here

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I too was trained to call astrology pseudoscience without evaluating it scientifically. Western (Tropical/Seasonal) Astrology is primarily based upon the relationship of the most important planet (Earth) to the most important star (our sun - "Sol"). The claim is not that the Constellations have some psychological effect. They are used only for reference. Please take a scientific approach to astrology before stating further blanket debunking statements that prove you have not. I'd be happy to discuss the science of astrology with you if you'd like. Why 27,000 years for Precession of the Equinoxes in this video? The model most often proposed states 1 degree of precession every 72 years, which gives a total cycle of 25,920 years (72 years/degrees x 360 degrees). My understanding is that 71.6 years per degree is the currently accepted rate, which would make the cycle shorter, not longer. Please explain. Thank you.

+Gemini Brett I get your point but i think it isn't necessary to have a "scientific" approach to astrology in order to understand what it has to say... only an open-minded approach and a willingness to see your life and events through its lens, to check if it sounds and feels true for you. being based on the Zodiac SIGNS, as that word suggests, astrology nowadays ends up having more to do with semantics than with hard science.

I say have both approaches... meet in the middle... the union of the masculine and feminine. The marriage of Heaven and Earth. Most astronomers thing astrology is nonsense. Most astrologers don't know the sky. Perhaps highest truths are Easy Science. Would love to continue this conversation elsewhere.

in fact non of you above commented peoples know what the professor is saying. and all of you are going behind the old mythology. in fact he is very well explaning the coordinate system in sky . how to locate an object in sky. in which angle it will be on particular time.

Exactly...

Because we send it the coordinates, and we work out the coordinates from where the Earth is in relation to the sun and the stars. So basically Hubble needs to know where Earth is in order to know where it is, so it can know where to point the telescope.

I've actually checked for me: the Sun was actually in Gemini. Not in Cancer.

I too was trained to call astrology pseudoscience without evaluating it scientifically. Western (Tropical/Seasonal) Astrology is primarily based upon the relationship of the most important planet (Earth) to the most important star (our sun - "Sol"). The claim is not that the Constellations have some psychological effect. They are used only for reference. Please take a scientific approach to astrology before stating further blanket debunking statements that prove you have not. I'd be happy to discuss the science of astrology with you if you'd like. Why 27,000 years for Precession of the Equinoxes in this video? The model most often proposed states 1 degree of precession every 72 years, which gives a total cycle of 25,920 years (72 years/degrees x 360 degrees). My understanding is that 71.6 years per degree is the currently accepted rate, which would make the cycle shorter, not longer. Please explain. Thank you.

Gemini Brett"The claim is not that the Constellations have some psychological effect." That's exactly what the claim is in ASTROlogy. That it's the a priori information about qualities associated to the archetypical characteristics of planets and perceived formations of stars that not only dictate the personality of the person but also their influence their fate. Maybe some astrologists are more loose about that, especially now since a less strict interpretation would seem to be more sensible and gives more room to maneuver. But actually using them only "as a reference" is even more false. Because then they have moved from a system based on incorrect understanding of reality, to interpretations based on nothing at all except tradition. if we dismiss everything related to the constellations and planets. Then we are actually talking about biorhythms or numerology instead.

+Wild Hunt Trumpeter Biorhythms and Numerology may be a part of what astrological tradition poses. In the second half of the 20th century, developments have been made in our culture's comprehension upon that form of understanding reality, which is based on myth, allegory, analogy... (that which you call "incorrect" and "more false" than i dont know what form of understanding. Maybe the scientific worldview?). These developments i mention, come from junguian and transpersonal psychology, up to cosmobiology, holography, morphic resonance, fuzzy logic, fractals, chaos theory, etc... That doesn't mean that every traditional astrological postulate has found scientific proof, but that it has a value of its own that should not need be dismissed as "false" like you do. Furthermore, the problem with your argument is that you fall into the "naive picture of astrology" that Merrifield presents: thinking that astrologers base their interpretation on the drawings projected on the stars forming the constellations... As +Gemini Brett says, the mythology associated with the drawings that were projected from the constellations, are only a "reference", that could be cut off from the stars, dismiss the constellations, and project them on 12 equal divisions on the ecliptic tied to the solstices and equinoxes and name them SIGNS. Thats what western astrology in fact dows when using the Tropical Zodiac, that is what +Gemini Brett said when talking about sun-earth relationship. But why dismiss the planets?