It just doesn't make sense to me that astrological charts are figured from time of birth and not time of conception.

The alignment of the planets, stars, black holes, etc., should have an effect from birth. Just because one is "inside" the mother, shouldn't matter one whit. After all, people are inside many things that should have more of a shielding effect than layers of skin and muscle.

Don't Eastern astrologers figure the charts from time of conception? Makes much more sense.

Skeptic (hardly sceptic, but maybe septic)?? You bet!

People, who need to feel an outside force is in charge, tend to believe anything that keeps them from accepting responsibility for their own lives: the devil made me do it, it was in the stars, it is genetic, and so on and on.

That old crone
Waved a chicken bone
I don't know why,
But I'll whine til I die.

I went through a period, as a small child, of ardently believing in predestination. My mother said I fell in the creek and came out a hard-shell Baptist. Well, to quote a song done by Win Strake on an album of humorous religious songs: A hard shell is better than no shell a'tall.

No longer believe in predestination, preordination or any of the other pre-done-its, but I kept the hard shell.

Prove it, please. Cold, hard facts.