K, here's an opportunity for Wolfgang to inform me, expertly of coure, that my personal observations, experiences, feelings and memories are not factual, and therefore not real.

What Wolfgang said was, ( to paraphase) that your feelings of something are real to you, but are may or may not be based on reality.

Your feeling that the stars give insights about you is real to you. What we have been trying to say is that this is not because they provide a concrete and testable prediction, but that you can interpret your chart, to tell you what you know. It may only be telling you what you already know deep down, and the language used allows it to be applicable to very many situations.

What an impoverished, limited view of "reality" - and how are the wonders of the universe any less special if they run according to a handful of basic laws. The more we know, and can question, the more we understand, and find some amazing link between things we never expected. Is it too much to ask these wonders to be real?