
The Nature of Astrology, with Bruce Scofield
The Astrology Podcast
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Astrologers Never Had Good Institutions
After the printing press, after the 15th and 16th centuries. Astrologers got a little carried away with that. Disasters and every astrologer wanted to be more dramatic than the next one because that would sell more almanacs. It's kind of like tabloids. I think that those problems could be avoided with good institutions, but we don't have those. And then the other issue was the issue of astrology being interpreted as deterministic and the church's role in that you can't have any kind of deterministic Universe if you're going to have sin or so on in religion.
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