How will the demotion of Pluto as a planet affect astrologists?

[QuettaKid]

Will they start backpeddling? spinning another story that "we didn't really need Pluto" anyway? Kuiper belt objects will do just fine thanks very much.

[longship]

1. It's like everything else--they'll make shit up.

Astrology is undoubtedly the worst pseudo-science.

[Orrex]

6. After Freemarketism, perhaps

And we can throw in Creationism and the Myers-Briggs Test Instrument, while we're at it.

[SpiralHawk]

14. At least they won't be making up shit like the word "astrologists"

They'll probably do the correct and wise thing, as usual, and call themselves astrologers...and leave the trash-talking opinions to the willfully uninformed.

[soothsayer]

19. Huzzah!

Well said!

[NEOBuckeye]

2. Simple: It won't.

Pluto and it's influences are simply too powerful to ignore. Astronomers can do whatever they want. It won't at all change the essences of what Pluto represents, death and transformation.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. LOL.

So how did astrologers account for these powerful influences back before astronomers discovered Pluto?

And what do all of the hundreds of Pluto-like objects represent?

[Ezlivin]

3. Will the failure of Christ to return affect fundamentalists?

Nope. They'll simply re-examine their prophetic materials, revamp their statements and get ready for the next armageddon.

[Orrex]

10. You've described the ultimate Missal Defense System

And people said that it would never work!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Orrex]

4. The "best" explanation of Astrology that I've ever heard...

Granted, that's like saying "the best explanation of the Tooth Fairy that I've ever heard," but bear with me.

The obvious question is "how the hell can planets and stars, the latter lightyears distant, affect what goes on here?"

The answer, according a friend and self-professed Astrologer, is that they don't. Instead, they respond to the same forces and cycles that govern us terrans, so the planets and stars are useful indicators of astrological data, rather than sources of it.

As an explanation, that sounds groovy to me. It's all nonsense AFAIC, but as long as the astrologer isn't harming anyone by her predictions, so be it.


And as for Pluto, I predict that its demotion will be of little significance among astrologers. They'll still make vague and non-verifiable predictions and will still be praised for their accuracy.

[SaveElmer]

5. Shouldn't they have known this was gonna happen?

It's like the psychic place nearly by here...only by appointment.

I mean shes a psychic, shouldn't she know when you are coming without you having to tell her first?

[Orrex]

7. Well, if you show up for your appointment, then she *does* know

Oooh--spooky! :scared:

[SpiralHawk]

15. Youbetcha -- Neptune is opposite Saturn right now.

perfecting at the end of August, and symbolizing all of the above. So there you go...

[ThomWV]

9. If Your Moon Is In Libra and Your Head Is Up Your Ass It Will Matter

Otherwise, back to work ....

[sarge43]

11. Well, Pluto has little effect on an individual's chart

Plus, the whole thing is based on an earth centered cosmos. If astrology can overlook that, the demotion of one planet sure won't slow 'em down.

[QuettaKid]

12. it's pretty wild to see how even people who can

be totally in agreement on one thing, as in "bush is an idiot", can on the other hand believe in things like this. FWIW, I think you can get the same results from any astrologer as you could from the Yellow pages. There ain't no "there" there.

[soothsayer]

18. If you've ever had a pluto transit, you won't soon forget it! lol

I'm still calling Pluto a planet, cuz that's one mutha you just don't want to anger

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Whew! I'm glad I read that a little closer. I thought you said

demolition!

[KoKo]

16. And what about Gemini's and Vigo's suffering under Planet Mercury...

It's the Virgo's that don't fit in that one...still looking for their own Planet that won't make them so "nervous and wonky." :-(

[karlrschneider]

17. I guess they'll have to dig up some old crap from before it was

discovered! :D

[AnneD]

20. Here in our Elementary school...

kids are taking it pretty hard. They loved the planet named after a Disney Character.

[Octafish]

21. Ask quaoar.

Heck of a DUer.

[Zhade]

22. Easy, they'll just make more shit up and insist it's true.

"BUT IT IS!!!111!! Relly reaally TRUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Laughable nonsense. I hope I never learn any of those I respect actually BELIEVE that bullshit, it would be sad to hear.

[sleipnir]

23. Real science beats junk science any day.

I just don't understand how people can believe the system of astrology that uses the universe as its base set, an enormously complex system that even legitimate scientists and researchers don't understand.

And it boggles my mind how people get sucked into believing all the crap that the fancy fortune tellers give them on a daily basis. But then, Scientology sure does have a lot of people paying money to a small number of people. Humans are easily duped by fanciful and easy explanations.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

24. They can just replace it with Goofy

[Ivan Sputnik]

25. I doubt it will affect them at all

Pluto is still there, whatever it's called. And it was only discovered in the 1930s -- astrology is a lot older than that, so I think it's never been too concerned with Pluto anyway.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

26. It won't

As long as some people are:

A) Told whatever they want to hear by astrologers

and/or

B) Willing to pay astrologers for "advice"

Then the the pseudoscience will continue.