People desire to know their fates in order to prepare for the worse and to welcome the best.
However, as science advances, there seems to be no way still in accurately reading or forecasting the possibilities in the future.
Nevertheless, many individuals have turned their backs on science and embraced forecast astrology.
This does not mean though that the predictions made by astrologers are a hundred percent accurate.
This is simply because people are desperate about knowing the future.
Whether it is about romantic relationships, business, or career, a person has the natural tendency to wish for knowledge about things that have yet to come.
Interestingly, there have been many cases when forecast astrology accurately estimates the potentials of the future.
As a result, these have encouraged more and more people to indeed try having their fates read by experts in astrology.
However, there are still no statistics that can prove that such forecasts are indeed true and are valuable in making people's lives happier.
On the other hand, forecasting an individual's fate has been said to have bad effects.
For one, an individual who is told of a bad future can tend to be more paranoid and can easily fall in despair.
On the contrary, an individual who is informed about a good future can tend to be complacent and passive.
With no particular statistics to prove its accuracy and the negative effects it may bring, forecast astrology is still something to be very skeptical about.
Of course, men of science will certainly conclude that astrology, in general, is nothing but another form of superstition.
Astrologers and their adherents, on their part, will point out to the length of time that their craft has existed, proving to skeptics that this alone is a sign that it continues to attract many people.
There may be some truth in their argument though.
If indeed astrology is a worthless theory and practice, it should have been extinct for centuries already.
However, that would also seem like saying that superstition should have been totally erased in these modern times.
The fact is that it is people's unquenchable thirst for knowledge to serve their personal purposes that prompt them to believe in forecast astrology.
Whether it is true or not is not the issue.
Its relevance is basically anchored on the desire to know the future.
Therefore, it is only when people accept the fact that it is they that make their futures with that they do in the present that astrology can become irrelevant.
Unfortunately, science may have progressed immensely but people have still to radically alter their philosophies in life.
The future cannot be read from the position of the stars or by palm of their hands.
It is in how they use their hands and mind.