Citation is one thing, but why is it that one just gets a pile of quotations in response when one questions matters of faith and belief? Can people not think for themselves, or do they always have to lean on the gnomic words of others?

Let's get a few more off our chests:
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know (Ralph Waldo Emerson),
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation (Oscar Wilde), and
Quotation: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. (Ambrose Bierce).

Far better than a handful of quotes, however, would be a reference to a proper, peer-reviewed scientific study which said that astrology had any basis in fact. For sure, the time of year in which one is born could have an influence, but the point of astrology is surely the influence of the heavenly bodies (or at least those various stars and satellites on which astrologers agree) on our lives.
Is there anywhere some reputable research which resoundingly proves astrology to be the 'fact' that some here claim it to be? Or should we post-enlightenment types remain sceptical and file it away with chiromancy, tarot, reading the tea leaves, inspecting the livers of freshly-slaughtered sheep and all the other attributes of the deluded and the deluding down the ages?