![]() It is entirely possible that consulting an astrologer might show better effects on one’s mood or outlook on life than people a control group in which an astrologer is not consulted. After all, astrologers are experts at cold reading, sussing out people’s fears, and in counseling them, sometimes in an empathic way. Compared to no therapy at all, astrology might be effective-though I maintain it would be no better than random guesses in predicting the future, especially if the astrologer has no foreknowledge about her clients or doesn’t make guesses based on knowing them. ![]() The only way to do that is a double blind test, and the only one I know of failed miserably. The double-blind aspect was that the astrologers were provided with the volunteers’ natal astrological charts and asked to analyze the charts and describe the subjects’ personalities. ![]() The subject was then provided (blind) with their own chart as well as with two other charts from different people, and asked to pick out their own.
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