I've always been happy to listen to and consider other peoples' various claims, opinions, theories, ideas etc. - provided the person I'm listening to then qualifies and supports such claims with credible facts. We would all love to be presented with absolute proof of the existence of ghosts, the afterlife, the Loch Ness Monster and alien visitors and I've always be prepared to listen to advocates of astrology. However, I have never heard one such claimant proceed to support their ideas with proven facts and mechanisms by which they operate or exist.
I've never heard an astrologer or believer explain how the location of the planet in space and it's relation to surrounding astronomical bodies at the time of a birth can affect a person's personality or course of life.There are only four forces in Nature - the two nuclear forces, gravity and electromagnetism. The position of astronomical bodies could only affect a person at birth electromagnetically or gravitationally, but those forces would be so weak and there's no process for them to affect a person's make-up anyway. For that reason astrology has to be dismissed as nonsense. However, before anyone dismisses me as closed-minded, I am still prepared to listen to any explanation of a mechanism by which astrology works. I would like to be proved wrong!
(Secondly, why is it invariably women who seem to believe in astrology and witter on about star-signs?)