In the initial thread, I found the following post from Bearheart most telling:

From: Bearheart Date: 17-Aug-00 - 01:56 AM

This IS fun! Didn't realize I'd raise so much comment.

I will tell you my first success story as an amateur astrologer. When I was 19 (5 years into my studies of astrology) I was having this sceptic discussion with a fellow student, whom I had known for some years, and who considered himself a scientist (he was also a musician and later left the sciences and went into threater, but that's another story...) So I said," get birth data for someone you know that I don't know. He decided to pick his current love interest. We set up a time and I read her chart. I described her physical characteristics-- weight, height, hair color, eye color and something of her general shape and bone structure, etc. Then I went on to tell him about her character. He never argued with me about astrology again. Of course I was young and foolish and into taking dares.I don't do that stuff any more.

And why don't you do that stuff anymore?

Because it's utter tripe and you can't actually do it.

If you were really able to tell peoples weight, height, hair color, eye color etc by merely reading a birth chart, you'd be a major scientific phenonomen, and probably a multi-millionaire.

But you can't, can you?