Comments on: On Astrology, Ancient and Modern

By: Jeff Lilly

Jeff Lilly — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:56:02 +0000

Kate, that certainly does appeal to me! Unfortunately, of course, doing horoscopes takes time. If you’re curious and want to try for yourself, I can recommend astro.com. You can go there, insert your information, and it will generate a bunch of automatic astrological information for you, free. It’s not as good as getting a real astrologer to look at it — there are general patterns visible to humans that are very difficult to put into a computer program — but it might be interesting for you.

By: Kate Gladstone

Kate Gladstone — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:30:17 +0000

Hmmm … if I didn’t know that you no longer charge for things, I’d ask: “How much do you charge for a horoscope?” and suggest that you do mine in order to post it here and allow me to comment on what I find accurate or otherwise. In case that appeals to you, my birth data follow — March 19, 1963 at 7:24 AM (Eastern Standard Time) in Brooklyn, New York.

By: Jeff Lilly

Jeff Lilly — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:52:10 +0000

Kate, short answer: yes. Long answer: in my own personal experience, I’ve found astrology most helpful in personality analysis, i.e. going by someone’s birthtime and birthplace, getting a good snapshot of their personality and the major issues they’ll be working with in their lives. It has also been very accurate for me in predicting future events, but not universally so. It may be that astrology doesn’t work as well for predicting the future, but it may just as well be that I’m not as good at predictive astrology. I certainly would not call it accurate in the sense that physics is accurate; but then, it very rarely makes rock-solid predictions that can be measured with precision. It makes predictions like “you will experience a time of tension between authority and creativity”.