As previously reported: 2020 marks the start of not only a new decade, but a new astrological era. And, back in January, astrologists everywhere claimed that this meant our year would be an intense one. Indeed, Astrology.com even likened it to a “birthing process”.

Why? Well, with no less than six solar and lunar eclipses to contend with, not to mention a union between Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn and a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius, they insisted that 2020 would prove a time for change, challenge, and shifting perspectives. And, based on the year’s events so far, we begrudgingly admit that they may have been onto something.

And yet…

Astrology, on the surface, may be based on the position of the sun relative to certain constellations – and it may be influenced by the movements of the sun, moon, planets and stars, too. However, is is absolutely not considered to be a ‘science’. Indeed, it’s been wholeheartedly rejected by the scientific community – with many pointing out that astrological predictions are too general, too unspecific to be subjected to scientific testing.

Despite this, there are many people who put great stock in what their horoscope says each morning. They carefully scan the pages of their morning newspaper, searching for their own zodiac sign, and drink in everything that the astrologer has written for them that day. Even during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.

“Fancy,” they say, “Mercury is in retrograde. That explains everything.”