Friday, Aug. 26, 2005 From today's Planet Waves Weekly Let's presume that astrology does not work. That is, that it doesn't matter to Libras that Venus is passing through their sign, or that there's an eclipse coming up; it's just a planet going by. Saturn in Leo is the same as Saturn in Cancer, it's just a little further to the left and that does not mean anything to people, or their cats or dogs. Let's pretend there's no effect on the human or critter realms, just like official skeptics claim. Forget the fact that people get wiggy around the Full Moon, or that more earthquakes happen, or that our bodies are affected by gravitational forces or that every bit of energy or matter affects every other, as quantum physicists know well. Let's forget that there's plenty we don't know about how lots of things work. Let's look at astrology as strictly a social construction. The stuff has been around for a long time, and most people have noticed its existence. Most people know their astrological sign (called the Sun sign), and have a relationship to it; they will either identify with the traits or not; most people who can read have done some investigating, even if it was for 45 seconds in a book shop, or in The New York Post. Independently of the planets and whatever effect they may have, astrology exists as a bunch of ideas that we share and exchange. We'll be posting the whole article soon.