astrologist

Zodiac sign reader

An astrologist is a person who practices astrology—the study of celestial bodies' positions and movements as influences on human affairs and personality.

The more common term is astrologer; astrologist appears occasionally but sounds slightly off to most ears.

The astrologist cast her birth chart.

practice

horoscope

Zodiac-based fortune telling

reading · consultation · prediction · interpretation · transit · progression · house · aspect · celestial · forecast

spiritual

mystic

Seeker of sacred truth

esoteric · occult · New Age · energy · channeling · psychic · enlightenment · karma · destiny · fate

historical

Nostradamus

Renaissance physician-prophet from France

Renaissance · ancient · Babylonian · patron · advisor · almanac · omen · prophecy · scholar · monastery

skepticism

pseudoscience

Bogus methodology posing as factual

quackery · believer · credulous · confirmation bias · cold reading · skeptic · superstition · unscientific · criticism · placebo

Opposites
epistemic method

astrologistastronomer

Celestial bodies researcher

astrophysicist · cosmologist · scientist · empiricist · rationalist

belief orientation

astrologistskeptic

One who doubts claims

materialist · debunker · atheist · rationalist · secularist

Phrases
Family

astrological, astrologically, astrologists

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
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