Ramblin' Man
Written in the stars?
Astrology is a system based on nonsense
Since there has been so much recent news about the matter, my wife urged me to write an article about astrology. The study of the influence of the stars on nations and human affairs is as old as civilization, and the predominant school of astrology used in the West can be traced back to Babylon in the third millennium B.C. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I could not give this subject its due; however, I will give you thoughts on the matter. I became interested in astrology as a teenager when some girl I was going out with introduced me to it. It was a lot of fun comparing the traits of people we knew based on their sun signs. At the same time, I had a strong interest in astronomy, which, at the scale of the solar system…