nce the planets are so far away and their gravitational pulls so small, how can astrology possibly work?
I don’t know. I don’t pay too much attention to the “how” of astrology. Not knowing the mechanism doesn’t bother me — I’m more interested in paying attention to correlations between the “cause” (even if planets don’t actually cause anything to happen) and the “effect.” The theory of synchronicity holds that the planets and stars may not cause anything and may only be cosmic gears or tumblers that signal manifestations on Earth. In any event, this case of an unknown mechanism is not an unusual situation in the “hard sciences” either. Until recently, scientists didn’t understand how aspirin worked either. And yet they could observe a particular effect (pain relief) upon its ingestion. Not knowing how something works shouldn’t preclude us from using it for our benefit.
