Steve, what is really surprising is that scientists use pure intuition to get to the most important discoveries in the physical sciences. Yet the same scientists often criticize intuition when applied to the knowledge of metaphysical truth.
Again, not everyone is the same. But today's academic world frowns upon physical scientists speaking about God, subject striclty pertinent to philosophers. A few centuries ago, scientists were also philosophers and nobody minded. And interesting enough, philosophers often make ample use of scinetific material to try and prove their metaphysical hypotheses.
The intersting phenomena about astrology is it is very emperical and physical in its assesment about the angular relationship between planets. This works out both in natal charts and in predictive astrology which is called 'transits'. In many ways it is much more clear cut then modern science which has the view that even the observer affects the observed. There is that element of subjectivity in all realms of human phenomena. Science has only begun to understand this. Yet the angular relationships hold true in both vedic and western astrology free of any signs which is a more murky subject. We must accept that any 'science' understanding the human dimension which is called psychology cannot fit so neatly under the physical sciences. Because a human is quite noticably different then the physical world it lives in. There is an added dimension which is spiritual. Can we say this as easily for its recognition in phydical phenomrena? No we cannot because there is the element of awareness and reflection on that awareness which is uniquely human.
