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Astrology (n.) promised ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Pompey, Crassus and Caesar that each would die old, at home, and in great glory.

Astrology (n.) cast ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a horoscope for Rome itself from its founding day — as if the stars governed bricks and cement.

Astrology (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠explain why all who fell at Cannae shared one end, and why countless births every day never produced another Homer.

Astrology (n.) forgets ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠heredity: children take their looks, habits and gestures from their parents, not from the phases of the moon.

Astrology (n.) trusts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠sight, the least reliable of the senses, where it should use reason — and the planets lie almost limitless distances from the moon, let alone the earth.