horoscopy

Reading celestial charts

Horoscopy is the practice of casting and interpreting horoscopes—charts of celestial positions used to predict events or analyze personality.

The term is more formal than simply saying "astrology" and emphasizes the technical craft of reading the stars: She dismissed horoscopy as pseudoscience.

astrology

planets

Star-orbiting celestial bodies

midheaven · transits · conjunction · trine · square · opposition · sextile · ephemeris · progressions · retrograde

divination

prediction

Forecast of coming events

fortune-telling · clairvoyance · oracle · omen · augury · soothsaying · seer · portent · presage · foresight

zodiac

Aries

First zodiac sign

Leo · Virgo · Libra · Scorpio · Sagittarius · Capricorn · Aquarius · Pisces · cardinal · fixed

Opposites
epistemological method

horoscopyempiricism

Knowledge through observation

scientific method · astronomy · fact · evidence-based reasoning · rationalism

causal framework

horoscopyfree will

Autonomous choice capacity

self-determination · secular humanism · agency · randomness · contingency

worldview

horoscopymaterialism

Prioritizing goods over spirit

physicalism · secular humanism · atheism · existentialism · behavioral science

Phrases
Family

horoscope, horoscopes, horoscopist, horoscopic

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