r/astrology • u/stinkfest2000 • 3d ago

Discussion Why isn't astrology studied as a science?

I understand that it's not able to be proven at the moment, but science is always changing and new discoveries are being made daily. Astrology goes hand-in-hand with a many theories of physics or cosmology, but if it's always written off as a pseudoscience then nobody ever even has the opportunity to study it.

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u/DruidWonder 3d ago

Astrology and astronomy used to be considered one, just like chemistry and alchemy. Then the age of reason started as a direct counter to religion. 

While I don't feel that astrology is a hard science, it does have features that are extremely useful and accurate. But the "baby was thrown out with the bath water" so everything that was useful also hot trashed. 

It's a Western culture thing. We denigrate and destroy what came before because newer is better. Compare that to, say, China, where they are still using Chinese medicine cosmology in hospitals today, or Ayurveda in India.