Astrology Buffs Please

[ukbod2015]

It occurred to me that did Plutos status in astrology change when it was deemed not to be a planet. I`m not a believer just curious....

[sandyRoe]

I don't know.
It wasn't discovered until 1930 so before that how could an astrologer have given an accurate reading?

[mikey4444]

Its looking up in Uranus apparently, if that is any help !

[jno]

this might help, not that I can understand a word of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_in_astrology#Pluto

[Old_Geezer]

I would doubt it. Surely the aficionados of the subject will be more concerned about what is it, where it is, what size it is, and all about it. Whether it is classed/named as one thing or another would presumably be not relevant.

[mikey4444]

Sandy has it right here. The reason that it doesn't figure in any of the astrology nonsense is that wasn't know about.

[jno]

it does figure, mikey; have a look at my link.

[Old_Geezer]

Every new discovery modifies the expected result and clarifies understanding of why it wasn't previously as accurate as expected :-)

[Buenchico]

Given that Pluto wasn't discovered until 1930, and astrologers didn't suddenly rethink all of their ideas then, it would seem unlikely that its change of status would be relevant to them.

[Hypognosis]

Well, unless personalities are subtly altered, on a ~248 year cycle (or whatever Pluto's orbital period is) then all their ideas about planetary influence are cøck-eyed.

They already fudge the small matter of the precession of earth's orbit. The "First Point of Aries" (q.v.) has shifted such that, if your supposed star sign is Scorpio and you look where the sun was on the day of your birth, you will find it in Libra.

The full precession cycle is 26,000 years. A 1/12 inaccuracy suggests to me that Astrology has been broken for at least half of the last 2000 years.

Other modifications to Astrology were required in
1781 - Uranus
1846 - Neptune

Of course, in "the good, old days" astrologers would get executed, for failure to predict things - the appearance of a comet being a classic harbinger of doom for them.

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