Many people will tell you that astrology has proven correct in many instances and that people who scoff at it are close-minded unbelievers. Let’s ask some really specific questions for a moment. If you believe that an astrologer or a magazine Horoscope is good at prediction then in what way has their success shown itself? Did your horoscope tell you that you are going to win the lottery on such and such a day? Did it even go so far as to say you would win the lottery? Or did it say you are likely to come into money. Does your horoscope prove to be accurate in EVERYTHING it predicted or is it hit and miss?

Defenders of astrology will tell you that we are subject to so many other influences that it is impossible to be one hundred per cent accurate, but in what way CAN they be accurate? If you gather a crowd of people together and ask them details of their lives certain remarkable coincidences will occur. The likelihood of two people having the same birthday for instance. Of the thousands of people who read a particular magazine’s horoscope of course some are going to feel that the horoscope was accurate. There are also likely to be thousands who might notice the occasional uncanny coincidence between their lives and the horoscope, and there are all those people who habitually read the horoscope as part of their daily routine and have not found it to be particularly accurate.

James Randi once conducted an experiment with some college students who gave him some details about where and when they were born. He then had horoscopes done for each student. The result is on this video.

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