But this new article-yes, an article, not an op-ed-suggests that Wired, too, may be the victim of woo, and bears watching. It’s the usual modern apologia for astrology, which can’t bring itself to admit that astrology is a “science” that cannot make accurate predictions, and also argues that astrology is much more than just a form of “cold reading” or therapy: the stars and planets really do affect our futures in some way we don’t understand. Since there is no evidence that tests of astrology, properly conducted, show any ability to predict personality or the future (see below) this is basically Wired magazine’s presentation of woo-without any criticism. It is touting astrology, which victimizes people who pay good morning for nothing. Her website is here, and if you look around, you’ll see that her fees, while unspecified, are somewhat negotiable: It’s even worse, for the author is identified this way: I deeply believe that integrating with self is one of the most important things we can do to improve this world we live in.
I am also committed to ensuring that healing work is not limited to those with lots of disposable income. If you feel a connection with me and the services I provide, but lack the financial flexibility to pay my full fees, please email me so we can discuss lower fees or alternative ways to pay. Like everyone, I still need to eat and pay rent, but I will be as accommodating as I can be.
Folks who identify as trans, gender non-conforming, immigrant, POC, and/or who are involved in activist work will be given priority for sliding scale. I suppose that’s admirable, though a lack of income-rather than sexual or racial status-would seem to be a better criterion for identifying those in need. It is entirely possible that consulting an astrologer might show better effects on one’s mood or outlook on life than people a control group in which an astrologer is not consulted. After all, astrologers are experts at cold reading, sussing out people’s fears, and in counseling them, sometimes in an empathic way. Compared to no therapy at all, astrology might be effective-though I maintain it would be no better than random guesses in predicting the future, especially if the astrologer has no foreknowledge about her clients or doesn’t make guesses based on knowing them. The only way to do that is a double blind test, and the only one I know of failed miserably. The double-blind aspect was that the astrologers were provided with the volunteers’ natal astrological charts and asked to analyze the charts and describe the subjects’ personalities. The subject was then provided (blind) with their own chart as well as with two other charts from different people, and asked to pick out their own.
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