As soon as the first report or article is written or seminar is held on a tragic event from an astrological viewpoint, the ugliness begins. Staunch skeptics of astrology cry, "If astrology works, why didn't you predict the event in the first place?" or "Just like an astrologer, cashing in on tragedy."
Many folks feel that the astrological community sits back and waits for events to take place, and then shows how it could have been predicted after the fact. While this is generally not a true statement about astrologers (and I do stress "generally"), there is a basis for that opinion that needs to be addressed.
One important point to take into consideration is that when an exceptionally good predictive astrologer does make a correct prediction, the general public does often not recognize it. Astrology has been an occult science for 2000 years, and there are lots of charlatans who are doing a great job of keeping it viewed as fluffy nonsense. Another point is that many predictive astrologers by nature are not nay-sayers or gloom and doom prophets, and some keep their practice limited to people as opposed to events. In addition, because time and location are so very important to predictive astrology, an astrologer would literally have to construct an event chart for every city and town in the world every minute of every day to predict every event in any given location. In cases involving acts of people rather than nature or mass occurrences of war, an astrologer would also need the birth data of the people involved. It is literally impossible to do that. Even if it were possible, an event may still be missed or predicted incorrectly, because astrologers make human mistakes, just like everyone else.
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