Science and its concepts cannot be defined in a crystal clear form. The endeavours of science have set some key parameters, and based on that, they summarised their concepts in the Science Checklist. Some of the existing traditions and beliefs seem scientific, but they fail to meet most of the parameters (or characteristics) of science. 

Likewise, in some certain ways, Astrology seems scientific. It deals with the scientific knowledge about the heavenly bodies, like the Sun, the Moon, the Start, and the planets. Along with that, the scientific-sounding tools, like the star charts. In order to generate expectations about future events and the personalities of individuals, people use Astrology. 

Vedic Astrology is a great tool to predict future events and the personalities of different individuals. Along with predicting the personalities and the future events, Gurudev Acharya Vivek Panchtatwa also comprehends the best possible way to overcome any tough time, or the solutions of the particular problems, which is the integral part of FDA Therapy at The Nidan.

Also, some of the individuals claim that it is supported by evidence, which is the experience of the ones who feel that astrology has worked for them. Still, with all this evidence and beliefs, can we conclude that astrology is a science? Let us have a look at some more points to understand its concepts in a better way. 

Our ancient scriptures consist of the accomplished knowledge on the Vedic Astrology, and based on that data the following points will be presented to you.

Connections with the natural world

Astrology is connected and deals with the natural world itself. The basic premise of astrology is the heavenly bodies, which are the Sun, the Moon, the constellations, and the planets, and also have the influence over or are correlated with the earthly events.

Explanation of the natural world

Astrology generates the predictions and explanations for events on the Earth and the traits of a human personality with the help of a set of rules about the relative positions and movements of the heavenly bodies. For example, an individual born just after the spring equinox is specifically likely to make his/her professional career being an entrepreneur, as per the predictions of some forms of astrology.

Testable ideas in astrology

There exist some expectations in astrology that are so general. Due to that, its outcome may be interpreted in order to make the expectation fit. Astrology is not testable if one will treat it in this mentioned way.

However, a few have implemented astrology to generate some really specific expectations, which can be verified in the contradiction of the outcomes in the natural world. 

As per astrology, the zodiac sign of an individual impacts one’s potential to command authority and respect. We perhaps expect that if astrology could explain the personalities of the individuals, the scientists would be more likely to have the zodiac signs that astrologers can explain as ‘favourable’ toward science.

Reliability of astrology on the evidence

There were a few cases in which astrology has been used to generate testable expectations, and the results were examined in a very careful study. But the evidence did not support the validity of those astrological ideas. It is not a new thing, rather it is a common experience in science. In science, scientists often test numerous ideas which turn out to be wrong and invalid.

Since the concept of testing of ideas is alike in both astrology and science, there is a major difference in both fields of study. One of the hallmarks of science is that, even if the testing of ideas fails, it can be modified and warranted by the evidence. But this method does not work in astrology, because the ideas of astrology cannot be changed or altered, in order to respond to the contradictory evidence.

Involvement of scientific community

In the newspapers and media channels, there are daily astrological predictions, but not in the places where they will be scrutinised by the scientific community. 

In astrology, sharing the findings of an individual and critically evaluating the results of others are not integral parts of practising it. In order to get the information about an individual, an astrologer can go through their whole career and not on the present findings at a scientific meeting or publishing a single article. Even when the astrologers publish the articles, those were not reviewed by the peer groups or published in the places where they will get critically scrutinised by the scientific community.

Ongoing research on astrology

As per the reports, the scientific study that includes astrology has stopped attempting the research on astrology and failing in it, to establish the validity of the astrological ideas. As far now, there have been no documented cases or reports on astrology that contributes to a new scientific discovery.

Scientific behaviour of researchers

When any scientist proposes or discovers any ideas, they don’t rely on others to research them, in order to support or contradict their proposed ideas. Rather, they strive to test their ideas by themselves and try to find out the counterarguments or the alternative hypothesis in order to support their ideas and research. Eventually, they give up the ideas once it gets warranted by the evidence. 

On the other hand, if we look at the Astrologers, they usually do not seem to rigorously test the astrological ideas accepted by them. As shown by the minimal reach of the research in the field, the astrologers rarely put efforts to try to test their argument in a fairway. Along With that, the community of astrologers widely ignores the evidence that contradicts its ideas.