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I have already started to see the "descriptions" of the effects Eris has in astrology.

What amuses me is that no small number of them are based on the idea that Eris' name (i.e. discord) is descriptive of the things he/she/it controls.

So that Eris causes/reflects certain sorts of strife and upeheaval, based on where it is in the zodiac (right now Eris is in Aries, and has been for some 50 years). Since Eris has an elliptical orbit, the periodic intervals are variable.

I can make a reasonable sounding argument for sun-signs (which I can then show to be gibberish; because if one scrambles the various descriptions of what each sign, "means" a person shall be like, as many people as agreed with the canonic explanation will agree with the new ones), but I can't see how to reconcile the "effects" of the planets.

At best it's an amusement, at worst it's a sort of determinism which I not only think worse than non-sense, but anti-sense and nihilistic.

Which is my two-cents.

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I find "serious" astrologers mind-bogglingly weird. Variations in tides related to moon phases being related to actions of animals in some small way? Ok, I can buy that. Things going wrong when something is "retrograde"? Well, if too many people find it confusing at once, I'm sure they'll cause a few things. Beyond that, I'll believe it when I see good data supporting it, which I suspect will be never.