Ah Ivor -- you're back. Good! I've been pondering your comment -

Real astrologers, incidentally, don't predict in the ways you seem to be demanding. Prediction is not the heart of the subject. Nor is planetary influence. The weltanschauung of astrology is somewhat different from standard western science.

- and wondering, would you expand on this a little please? If not prediction or the influence of the stars and planets, what do you see as the heart of the subject of astrology?

(PS I see that transiting Mars entered my 1st House yesterday - Aries energy firing up the ole Gemini Rising. Hmmm.   No wonder I'm still wrestling with the mood for wrangling. Bring it on I say! ;-)