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Astrology, Astrology is a science which claims to foretell the future or make predictions by studying the supposed influence of the relative positions of the moon, sun, planets and other stars on human affairs. It, requires study of celestial bodies, of their positions, magnitudes, motions and distances, etc. Astronomy is a pure science. It was studied as a subject in ancient India and India has produced great astronomers, long before anyone in the Western world studied it as a subject. Since Astrology is partly based upon study of movement of sun, earth, planets and other celestial bodies, it is a study of science at least to some extent, P.M. Bhargava v. U.G.C., (2004) 6 SCC 661 (669): AIR 2004 SC 3478. See also Vedic Astrology.

Astrology is either a science or a pseudo-science the forecasting of earthly and human events by means of observing and interpreting the fixed stars, the sun, the moon and the planets has exerted a sometimes extensive and a sometimes peripheral inference in many civilizations, both ancient and modern. As a science astrology has been utilized to predict or affect the destinies in individuals, groups or nations by means of what is believed to be a correct understanding of the influence of the planets and stars on the earthly affairs. As a pseudo-science, astrology is considered to be diametrically opposed to the findings and theories of modern western science, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2nd Edn.

Astrology is the science or doctrine of stars, the formerly often used as equivalent to astronomy, but now restricted in meaning to the pseudo-science which claims to foretell the future by studying the supposed influence of the relative positions of the moon, sun and stars on human affairs, Webster's New International Dictionary.