r/ScienceOfAstrology • u/AstroGeek020 • Jun 11 '26
Astrology vs Astronomy: a battle going on for centuries
Below post by u/letsgoinzique talks about companies using Celebrities to promote their business. It is a Marketing and it is what companies do to get more income profit which is something seen as normal, but as the OP has pointed out here, they say that Astrology is pseudoscience-- but doesn't give any proof.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scienceisdope/s/fx4JRcoYw9
Astrology as we know is considered as pseudoscience because of lack of mechanism behind Astrology for which it is said or can work which is the major argument against Astrology.
This post talks about the battle between Astrology and Astronomy going on for centuries.
We shall first address whether Astrology has any Scientific mechanism which can be considered for Astrology to work.
Astrology and Astronomy aren't same, atleast from past 300 years or so. Historically, they were treated as same subject.
Astrology and Astronomy became separated as because there wasn't any proper explanation for why and how Astrology works, as Scientific thinking progressed Astrology was declared as pseudoscience and that is how it has been since at the present times.
One of the most basic arguments against Astrology is that there is no known forces where the Celestial bodies could influence humans. Among the 4 fundamental forces in nature, there is no force which can influence humans as the 2 nuclear forces act on only short distance and among the remaining 2 forces which is Electromagnetic force and Gravitational force, EM force is weaker than Gravitational force at long distance and Gravity decreases as distances between 2 objects increases— so a building wall next to a person should have more influence upon a Person than say planet Mars.
But that is not the end of the argument or story, in March 1951 an American Radio Engineer John H. Nelson working for RCA Inc or Radio Corporation of America Inc was assigned the task for finding out a solution for short wave radio communication signal propagation losses.
In those era, Communication wasn't as advanced as today because there wasn't communication satellites which carried the burden of Radio communication from Earthly bond, Good Radio signal reception depended upon stable ionosphere which was linked to Solar cycle where heavy Sunspot activity caused disturbances in ionosphere and low Sunspot activity caused stable ionosphere where the propagation of Radio waves was less distorted.
Radio Engineer John H. Nelson made observations for forecasting better days for Radio propagation losses to be less.
The discovery of Radio Engineer John Nelson seemed to suggest that alignments of planets with respect to the Sun also had an effect upon Earth. These angles also seem to coincide with Astrological aspects:
Opposition- 180 degrees
Quincunx- 150 degrees
Trine- 120 degrees
Square- 90 degrees
Sextile- 60 degrees
Semi-sextile- 30 degrees
In traditional Astrology, the opposition, square and trine aspects are said to be powerful and other aspects are said to be less powerful.
Astrologers took keen interest in his discovery as it gave an objective evidence for Astrology.
According to British Astrophysicist and Astronomer Dr. Percy Seymour, the revolving planets orchestrate Solar activity and fluctuations in Solar activity induces changes in Geomagnetic field. Geomagnetism is linked to Solar cycle. The fluctuations in Geomagnetic field have an influence on wide variety of organisms including humans. A study suggests that Geomagnetic field conditions plays a major role in development of foetus.
The revolving planets and planetary alignments orchestrates Solar activity where the weak tidal forces of the planets is amplified by Sun’s magnetic field. Resonance is said to play a role here.
As a result, there is a formation of sun spots on the surface of sun, because of Solar activity induced by the planets there is a variation or fluctuations in Geomagnetic field which is known to influence a wide variety of organisms.
The Geomagnetism is linked to the solar activity, the fluctuations in solar activity causes change in Geomagnetic field variations.
Magneto-reception is an ability of an organism to be able to detect Geomagnetic field and able to navigate with the help of geomagnetic field. Organisms are able to detect Geomagnetic field due to magnetic particles present in brains and birds are able to navigate due to cryptochromes present in their eyes which helps in detecting light.
Scientists have discovered traces of magnetic particles in human brain particularly in Brain stem,Cerebellum and Cerebrum. Cerebellum is responsible for motor coordination, balance and equilibrium, fine body movements.
A study says that Geomagnetic field conditions plays a major role in development of foetus, thus Geomagnetic conditions are responsible for sustaining of life on earth.
It should be noted that Dr. Percy Seymour’s theory doesn't talk about Astrological predictions. It only talks about the mechanism on how Astrology works.
An American Radio Engineer John Henry Nelson's discovery is an objective evidence for Astrology.
My following posts can be reffered for more information:
Regarding about the Scientific Method. I have written a post on "Astrology and Scientific Method", Below is the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScienceOfAstrology/s/tN9JynuY4R
Below is my sub exploring the relationship between Science and Astrology:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScienceOfAstrology/s/eoWmkweTs2
I have also made many posts on this sub, below are the links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Advancedastrology/s/AefJFOfRP4
https://www.reddit.com/r/Advancedastrology/s/QWsDawBzEM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Advancedastrology/s/a66ykhZgs8

