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.

WEll, that feels right, B!    :-)   Sometimes those daily horoscopes don't seem to apply, but more often than not they do. And the 25th was a great example of that -- I just realized that all my posts here that day were about current scientific investigation/hypotheses of "love". All while, unbeknownst to me, transiting Venus was conjunct "her" position in my own natal chart - in the 10th house, too. THe house of work and career. And look what happened at my oh-so-loving performance class yesterday!    :-)

Oooo ... way to go, Venus -- you absolutely beautiful thing!

(hat e to disappoint the scientific community but apparently smelly t-shirts were never her style anyway)

how are the wonders of the universe any less special if they run according to a handful of basic laws

Well, does the idea that love is nothing more than the product of body odours, firing neurons and brain chemicals sound as "special" (or even as realistic) as say, a romantic sonnet does? Do you find the current scientific view of "love" wholesome, meaningful, inspiriting? Or even just satisfactory??