Kudos to Ilavenil! :D
Since the arguments here for astrology are based "typically" on vedic astrology, i am tempted to add this one!
The "conservatives" have been "insisting" that India needs to "get back' to her "glorious golden age" (whatever that is?! ;) ), but as Rohit would emphasise time and again, India was under the rule of "foreigners" for a 1000 years isnt it?! ( let's forget about Caucasus, Bactria, Margiana, Central asia, Persia, Iran and Afghanistan and Khyber & Bholan Pass route - immigrants of approx. circa 1800 BCE for a moment here!)
What were those "Vedic astrologers" doing all those years? Couldn't they "predict" the imminent threat to the "vEdic Golden period"?!! due to "foreign invasions"?!
If they can't predict such "BIG and VITAL" outcomes which would affect the course of "Indian history" - where do they get this outrageous tendency to claim "predicting the future" nonsensical rhetoric?!! :)
(Hey - am just taking off on Badri's reminder about Vasistha's failure to "predict" Rama's "adventure" into forest instead of coronation! )
ellOrukkum puththANdu vAzthukkaL! :)