There’s a version of astrology a scientist can honestly engage with — not the planetary-influence version, which has been repeatedly falsified, but the human-psychology version, which is the real reason horoscopes work, the real reason birth charts feel uncanny, and the real reason this practice has

The standard register of contemporary commentary on astrology tends to treat the entire subject as if it consisted of one claim, which is that the positions of planets at the moment of one’s birth exert measurable influence on one’s personality and life traje…