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What is astrology

What is astrology? Like life itself, astrology is an infinitely complex subject. Astrology includes many things. Naturally, astrology is a master vehicle for intuitive perception and psychic insight. Astrology is also an art form--one that lends itself to quick sketches and complex portraits of individuals, couples, corporations, nations and more. Astrology can also clearly have spiritual and religious undertones[1] as evidenced by studies of ancient Egypt.

But astrology is not necessarily a belief system. People no more have to believe in astrology than they do in dancing for example. Both can be fun and useful pastimes[2] without belief in them. Although it must be added that, according to Albert Einstein, a belief in astrology will make it work better for you. After all, we live in a solar system, in a space-time continuum[3], and astrology is the biggest contender for the unified field theory.

Yet above all else, astrology is a language. It works best as a language, and it is perhaps more universal than broken English[4].

注释：

[1]undertone:
undertone原意是指低沉的声音，也可比喻"弦外之音，潜在含意"，比如你的朋友受到挫折给你写信求助，虽然她没有表露出来，你还是可以看出她信中隐含着一股哀戚：There was an undertone of sadness in her letter.

[2]Pastime:
Pastime可以看作是打发、消磨时间的娱乐活动。无事可做的时候，你可能会play cards for a pastime打纸牌消遣。我们可以把pastime看成短语pass (the) time打发时间的名词形式。英语中还可以用kill time来表示"打发时间"，时间就是生命，所以浪费时间、混日子的作法简直就像是在谋杀生命。

[3]Continuum:
Continuum在数学中表示闭联集，连续统，也可以表示事物、时间等等的绵延、连续。a space-time continuum就是指时空连续（体）。

什么是占星术？就像生活本身一样，占星术是一门无穷无尽、错综复杂的科目。占星术可以是很多东西。很自然，占星术是直觉理解和精神洞察的主要工具。占星术还是门艺术--一门可以对个人、配偶、团体、民族甚至更多的人作出大致的判断或是精确的论述的艺术。据古埃及人证实，占星术还在心灵和宗教方面有着潜移默化的影响。

但它并不是一种信仰。人们对于占星术的信奉甚至还不一定比得上舞蹈。这两者都是有趣又有益的消遣，并不包括什么信仰在内。虽然根据爱因斯坦的说法，对你来说，如果你相信占星术，那么它就会更加灵验。毕竟我们还是生存在太阳系当中，在连续不断的宇宙空间中，而占星术就是这个大一统领域理论中最大的赢家。

除此之外，占星术还是一门语言。它像一门语言一样运转地完美无缺，而且它可能比四分五裂的英语显得更为全世界通用。

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[4]broken English:
英语是世界上最为广泛使用的语言，但经过时间的演变，现在的英语在不同的国家，无论是语音、拼写、语法方面都有着一定的差异，最明显的例子就是British English英国英语和American English 美国英语之间的区别了。比起这种broken English四分五裂的英语来说，星相学反而更加通用一致。