Is Astrology Okay for Scholarly Purposes?

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Hello! I hope everyone’s having a wonderful Advent so far!

My question is this: is astrology, as the scientific study of the effects of stars and constellations on humans, acceptable, as it was studied by medieval scholars, if it isn’t used for occultic purposes like seeing our future?

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To study astrology in an academic manner is just as acceptable as studying Hinduism or Greco-Roman polytheism. It is a perfectly acceptable scholarly pursuit.
 
So if one read commie stuff for school or debate club in school greatly pushed it, does that make one excommunicated or was it a limited thing?
 
The stars which make up the groupings studied in astrology are light years away from each other and from earth. They have no relationship to each other of any greater significance than any randomly chosen group of starts. They therefore have no influence on us as a group. Their relationship is perceived by us, and it is a mistake, an optical illusion. It is not possible to study the effect of things that do not exist on humans. No one has a start sign because there are no such configurations of stars.
 
alcuin18 said:
Hello! I hope everyone’s having a wonderful Advent so far!

My question is this: is astrology, as the scientific study of the effects of stars and constellations on humans, acceptable, as it was studied by medieval scholars, if it isn’t used for occultic purposes like seeing our future?

God bless!
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First of all, astrology, by definition, is not a science. It’s is a superstition.

Astronomy is a science, but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking about.

If you simply want to study the history of astrology that’s fine. If you are approaching it from the point of view that the movement of stars actually does affect human behavior then that’s not scientific or historic; it’s purely superstition.
 
No. Stay away from astrology/new age/occultism…spend “scholarly” time studying something of truth and value…a good Church history, a good biography.
 
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What is the purpose of your studying it?

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I didn’t mean to imply that I wish to study it. My point was that many people in the Middle Ages studied it as a science (whether we view it as a science now or not) and truly believed that the stars could affect us, since they didn’t know how far away the stars truly are. As Catholics, they must not have done this as an occult practice.
 
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I didn’t mean to imply that I wish to study it. My point was that many people in the Middle Ages studied it as a science (whether we view it as a science now or not) and truly believed that the stars could affect us, since they didn’t know how far away the stars truly are. As Catholics, they must not have done this as an occult practice.
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Acceptable? No. Not today, not in the middle ages either.

It is a form of superstition.
 
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