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Actually, the thread was about journalistic professionalism and whether Australians like being lectured to by a US journalist.
The validity of astrology arose subsequently.
Re: "the sun shifts away from the center of the solar system when planets line up so weather on earth becomes more extreme", here is a bit of science - from my reading, the Solar System barycenter spends most of its time within the main structure of the Sun. In the extremely rare circumstance of all the planets aligned in a line away from the Sun, the barycentre would be approximately 500,000 km above the Sun's "surface", the maximum possible distance from the centre of the Sun. Given the Sun's approximate diameter is 1,400,000 km, this would not be particularly significant. Given the difference between perihelion and aphelion for the Earth is some 5,000,000 km, having the barycenter move to one tenth of this distance above the surface of the Sun every few thousand years (guess - when the planets fully "align") is clearly not significant for the Earth's weather, nor anything else of importance on Earth, for that matter.
By the way, Chucky, I thought you were taking a break from IIS? Please feel free to do so.
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