What is the relationship between astrology and science?
Although at first glance astrology and science appear to be antagonistic there is much that weds these avowed epistemological enemies. Beyond superficial discrepancies, astrology and science are related in that both are fields of knowledge dedicated at finding universals and that both were originally motivated by the will to know. Secondly, science and astrology are empirical; both use methods of observation grounded in studying the physical universe. In theory, science as pure method and astrology as a body of knowledge are not antagonistic but mutually enhancing. However, as philosophers of science such as Paul Feyerabend and Thomas Kuhn have revealed, science de jure and science de facto are two different animals, and it is sciencea worldview and philosophy that sees the external, physical world as foundational and yet contingent, devoid of purpose, completely ordered and mechanistic, and understood in full by quantitative analysisthat is hostile to the claims and philosophical unde
