Do you consider astrology to be a legitimate science?

• Yes.
• No.

What a question.

Astrology used to be a legitimate science with great prestige for centuries. But recently, science has adopted the positivistic approach. There are no proofs in astrology. It is a science in the sense that it has a broad theory, it has branches, one can devote one's life to studying it and it has wide methodology.

But the results, the ends, those need interpretation and intuition. The positivism has wiped these from science. And in a sense, it was a great leap ahead. It reduces the possibility of mystification and misleading via would-be scientific results. If every result can be objectively verified, the space for manipulation is much smaller.

But the Universe and life offer things to discover that cannot be objectively verified. And those often tend to be interesting and relevant for life. Astrology deals with those. So as long as we nod at the restriction that all scientific must be objective, then no, astrology is not a legitimate science. But it features many genuinely scientific methods and properties.

I'm picking the yes button.