Good morning Josh,
You probably are now in the never never but I certainly understand your drift.
When someone heard I was into astronomy they gave some useful books on "astrology" quiet old, but they were absolutely faithful plottings of planets etc such that anyone looking at this book if you changed the title to astronomy you would not have know it was not intened for same. All that it left me was the preoccupation with some is extrodinary
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Past the possibility that we may experience a tidal effect on our blood supply by the Moon causing more or less blood to be available to our brains and thereby influence our behaviour
is as far as I could take it...and that is more to give "their" side a go
. Some see a relationship between the full Moon and "activity" (ask a policeman) but can any thing of signifficance be drawn from that I doubt it..may be there is more light so more opportunity of mischief
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I suspect that the "force" behind astrology is in the box we call "self forfilling prophesy"...
I live in a similar district to you and I bet you enjoy a wide variety of beliefs from those in your community and suspect the astronomer would be "the odd man out" being well outnumbered by those who absolutely believe the world works under the influence of the stars. So I suspect you may also be looking for ammunition for an against case... but its an argument best avoided as a no win contest.
I was absolutely rocked one day when telling a lady of my interest when she said "oh hubby is into that" he came it no " I am interested in astronomy and astrollogy"... usually I like talking astronomy but on that occassion I changed the subject very smartly .... maybe he is the guy to talk to it would be entertaining to hear his reconcilliation of the two.
Personally I recon it is us that influence the motion of the stars and planets such is our greatness
alex