[Beowulf9]

So how did the astrologists base horoscopes founded on the notion that the relative positions of celestial bodies can explain or predict fate, personality, human affairs, and other earthly matters without knowing about this?

Or other numberous celestial bodies, unknown to us still?;)

[KarlInOhio]

So how did the astrologists base horoscopes founded on the notion that the relative positions of celestial bodies can explain or predict fate, personality, human affairs, and other earthly matters without knowing about this?

Another source listed its estimated distance as 15,000 astronomical units (1 AU = average distance from the earth to the sun). At that distance it would take 1.8 million years to orbit the sun, so it would have moved through less than one degree in the past 5000 years. Even if you believed that the locations of planets had any effect on people's fates, this one's effect wouldn't have changed for all of recorded history.

[Thermalseeker]

So how did the astrologists base horoscopes founded on the notion that the relative positions of celestial bodies can explain or predict fate, personality, human affairs, and other earthly matters without knowing about this?

File it with that psychic convention crowd a few years ago in Chicago that got busted by police. None of the psychics saw it coming.......

[logician2u]

So how did the astrologists base horoscopes founded on the notion that the relative positions of celestial bodies can explain or predict fate, personality, human affairs, and other earthly matters without knowing about this?

That's always bothered me, too.

An alternative theory is [ahem] they (or some of them) did know things we're just now rediscovering.

(Mash here)

You just have to believe . .