No, Astrology Isn't Dead

For many centuries, astrology had been widely practiced and even fairly well respected in the world, until the beginnings of the 20th century when its reputation began to diminish. I blame much of that loss of respect on the astrological community's failure to warn the world about the 31 years of hell the world would go through from 1914-1945.

During those three brief decades, the world suffered more turmoil, destruction, and death than ever before or since.  World War I, the Spanish Flu epidemic, Prohibition, the rise of Organized Crime, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the Communist Revolution, and World War II somehow all got squeezed together into that one unfortunate generation. And somehow, the world's astrologers didn't see it ahead of time.

Well, obviously such a failure was going to leave a mark on astrology's reputation in the world. 

The astrology that emerged after that series of world catastrophes was a different, humbled practice, given more to safe, subjective psychological analysis than forecasts and predictions.  So long as an astrologer sticks to subjective analysis, you see, they can never really be proven wrong.  That's the beauty of the subjective side of the equation in astrology. By the middle of the 20th century, most astrologers played it safe, focusing on individuals exclusively, never daring to venture into the minefield  of sociopolitical prediction. 

But the world has changed, and so too has astrology. Today's astrologers have information resources their counterparts in 1914 would have given anything for, and those new resources allow us to reach levels of accuracy in our predictions that were previously unattainable.

No, astrology isn't dead. In fact, it's just getting warmed up.  By the 2030's, astrology will have redeemed itself in the eyes of modernity.