Claims

Measurable correlations can be reliably found between the position of the planets and personality and human events.
Related scientific disciplines
Astronomy, Psychology

Year proposed
antiquity
Original proponents
ancient priests and astrologers
Subsequent proponents

Philip Berg, Michel Gauquelin, Linda Goodman, Sydney Omarr, Joan Quigley, Jackie Stallone, Athena Starwoman, Shelley von Strunckel, Richard Tarnas
Contemporary scientists such as Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking regard astrology as unscientific,[and Andrew Fraknoi of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific has labeled it a pseudoscience.

In 1975, the American Humanist Association characterized those who have faith in astrology as doing so "in spite of the fact that there is no verified scientific basis for their beliefs, and indeed that there is strong evidence to the contrary".

Astronomer Carl Sagan found himself unable to sign the statement, not because he felt astrology was valid, but because he found the statement's tone authoritarian.[

Sagan stated that he would instead have been willing to sign a statement describing and refuting the principal tenets of astrological belief, which he believed would have been more persuasive and would have produced less controversy than the circulated statement.[

Although astrology has had limited scientific standing for some time, it has been the subject of much research among astrologers since the beginning of the twentieth century.

In their landmark study of twentieth-century research into natal astrology, astrology critics Geoffrey Dean and coauthors documented this burgeoning research activity, primarily within the astrological community.

In one poll, 31% of Americans expressed a belief in astrology and, according to another study, 39% considered it scientific.