More on why astrology works

I read the history of astrology and got even more convinced that fundamentally this discipline is no less scientific than any other science.

Modern fake astrologers often like to talk like stars influence people, but this actually have nothing to do with it.

Ancients did not have the abstract mathematically calculated calendar we have nowadays. Instead they used zodiac to keep track of month, years and such. That is why there is 12 signs in zodiac and 12 month in the year. Later Caesar changed where boundaries of the month are so nowadays zodiac sings change approximately 20-22 of each month. However, during Babylonian times each month begin and end at the same time as sun would switch from one sign to another, and half of their month were named after constellations anyhow.

However back to how these people even invented astrology. It was the same as we came up with generations and now many would agree than say boomers are different from Millennials. Back in the days ancients also had the same problem as to why people of later generations are somehow different from those came before them. They could not come up with anything better than to attribute these differences to movement of celestial bodies on the sky and their positions against the zodiacal constellations.

Overtime they developed a body of observations on how people's character changes with the times and recorded it all for everyone to use later. They did not have our modern calendar features such as month year or decade, so they used whatever planets they could observe as markers of time. Observable tools, that can measure different periods of time that they could observe on the sky. They recorded differences they could observe in people against movements of these celestial bodies in the sky.