Link:https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/how-to-believe-in-astrology
Excerpt:
Until the eighteenth century, the London Bills of Mortality would frequently list a cause of death as “planet.” This meant that a man had died without apparent cause, but the reason was clear. He had fallen under the influence of an evil star. A planet had killed this man, as directly as if a trillion tons of livid space-rock had come screaming out of the sky to conk him on the head. This is what it means to believe in astrology: accepting that at any moment, the mathematically preordained rhythms of the heavens might simply decide to kill you.
Author(s): Sam Kriss
Publication Date: October 2021
Publication Site: First Things