text: why do people believe in astrology? has it benifitted anyone besides the astrologer and people who sell stuff related to astrology? i think there are a lot of people who don't actually "believe in" astrology, in the sense of actually planning their life around it...  but instead, they just find it interesting to see whether something about them was correct or not.  personally, i have seen many things said of me (about past and future) that turned out to be correct.  i don't mean fortune-telling... but simple astrology.  i don't claim to understand it, and i certainly don't hold it as my religion or spirituality.  however, i do think there may be something to it that we don't quite understand.  i think there are a lot of things going on in the world/universe spiritually that we have not even begun to grasp.  that said, there are many people out there who claim to tell futures, etc etc who prophet (and profit) from this market... and are completely full of bs.  but from my understanding, astrology is not related to future-telling in a mystical way.  instead, characteristics of a person and their future are shown through a system that has to do with the placement of heavenly bodies (planets, stars, etc).  it's more like reading a very complex grid than anything else.  and who's to say that god doesn't have some order to the universe that we just take a while to catch onto?  we tend to be a little slow sometimes, you know....