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1


Larry Pesavento and Shane Smoleny, A Traders Guide to Financial Astrology (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015).




2


Carl G.Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, In The Collected Works of C.G.Jung, vol. 8, (Princeton University Press, 2010), 114;   ,  (: -, 1997), 192.




3


Astrologers Are Predicting the Result of Americas Election, The Economist, September 9, 2024, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/09/09/astrologers-are-predicting-the-result-of-americaselection.




4


Shawn Carlson, A Double-Blind Test of Astrology, Nature 318, no.6045 (1985): 419425.




5


Marcus Tulius Cicero, On Old Age  On Friendship  On Divination, trans. W.A.Falconer (Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, 1923), 473, 481;   ,   (: , 1985), 276, 278.




6


Lucilius, poem 163, in The Greek Anthology, vol.4, trans. W.R.Patton (Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, 1971), 151;   /       ; ,        (:    , 1960), 222:

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7


Sophie F, Astrology: How Vulcan Could Change How We Think of Virgo (2021), https://www.scribd.com/document/810373051/Astrology-Howti-Vulcan-Could-Change-How-We-Think-of-Virgo.




8


Michael Feist, The Hamburg School (2010), https://uraniansociety.com/USIG_articles/article_history_of_uranian_astrology_ michael_feist.pdf; Uranian Astrology School, Uranian Astrology: ABeginners Guide, https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/ 571b43668cb6410b?89dd-d225bcf8f6f5/Beginners%20Manual% 206th%20edition?0b79668.pdf.




9


Sue Tompkins, The Contemporary Astrologers Handbook (London: Flare, 2010), ch.7.




10


Geoffrey Dean, Arthur Mather, David Nias, Rudolf Smit, Tests of Astrology: A Critical Overview of Hundreds of Studies (Amsterdam: AinO, 2016), 376.




11


Spencer Greenberg and Andr Ferretti, Study Report: Can Astrologers Truly Gain Insights about People from Entire Astrological Charts?, Clearer Thinking (blog), July 21, 2024, https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/can-astrologers-use-astrological-charts-to-understand-people-s-character-and-lives-our-new-study-pu.




12


Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, et al., eds., Casebooks, Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 15961634, the Casebook Project, Cambridge University, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk.




13


Margaret Hone, The Modern Text-Book of Astrology (Bel Air, MD: Astrology Classics, 2010), 271.




14


Owen Gingerich, The Great Copernican Chase (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 8.




15


Nicholas Campion, The Beginning of the Age of Aquarius, Correlation 19, no.1 (2000): 1415.




16


Hone, The Modern Text-Book of Astrology, 276.




17


Carole Taylor, Astrology (New York: DK Publishing, 2018), 14.




18


Pamela McDonough, Vedic Astrology: An Introduction to the Origins and Core Concepts of Jyotish (Emeryville, CA: Rockridge, 2020), 7.




19


Astrology Is Booming, Thanks to Technology and Younger Enthusiasts, The Economist, January 15, 2025, https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/01/15/astrology-is-booming-thanks-to-technology-and-younger-enthusiasts; McDobough, Vedic Astrology, 5.




20


Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations (London: Routledge, 2002), 45;  ,    (: , 2004), 65.




21


Sven Ove Hansson, Defining Pseudoscience and Science, in Philosophy of Pseudoscience, ed. Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 81.




22


Mark Travers, This Study Found That Some Hiring Managers in China May Discriminate on the Basis of Astrological Signs, Forbes, May 2, 2020, https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2020/ 05/02/in-china-hiring-managers-openly-discriminate-on-the-basis-of-astrological-signs/; Angela Lashbrook, People Are Timing Their Pregnancies to Get Kids With Good Zodiac Signs, Vice, September 14, 2021, https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-are-planning-their-pregnancies-to-get-kids-with-good-zodiac-signs/.




23


Taylor, Astrology, 8.




24


Michael D.Gordin, On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 16.




25


Alexander Boxer, A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science (New York: Norton, 2020), 12;  ,    .   (: , 2022), 1011.




26


Kim Farnell, Modern Astrologers: The Lives of Alan and Bessie Leo, Kindle ed. (self-published, 2018), Kindle loc. 22.




27


Farnell, Modern Astrologers, Kindle loc. 146.




28


Nicholas Campion, A History of Western Astrology, 2 vols. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), 2:232.




29


Tamsyn Barton, Augustus and Capricorn: Astrological Polyvalency and Imperial Rhetoric, Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995): 3351; Alexander Boxer, A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science (New York: Norton, 2020), 106;  ,    .   (: , 2022), 102.




30


Farnell, Modern Astrologers, Kindle locs. 212 and 227; Bessie Leo, The Life and Works of Alan Leo, Theosophist, Astrologer, Mason (London: Modern Astrology, 1919).




31


William James, letter to Thomas Davidson (March 30, 1884), in Delphi Complete Works of William James, Kindle ed. (Delphi Classics, 2018), Kindle loc. 5793.




32


John Warne Moore, Laboratories of Faith (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008), 159.




33


Helena Petrova Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 2 vols. (1888; Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 2022), 1:564.




34


Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 1:531, 1:541; ..,   (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 2024), https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd-ru/ru_sd_vol_1.pdf.




35


Charles W.Leadbeater, The Hidden Side of Things, Kindle ed. (1913; Global Grey, 2016), Kindle loc. 19.




36


Campion, A History of Western Astrology, 2:232233.




37


Alan Leo, The Art of the Synthesis (1904; London: Modern Astrology, 1912): 3132.




38


Alan Leo, Everybodys Astrology (1910; Kessingers Rare Reprints, n.d.), preface.


