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If I recall (been a long time since I was involved with all of this. . .from a star watcher's position... so we're talking High School) this "IAU" exercise was done so as to deliberately segregate Astronomy from its parent. . . There was some similar action taken in the mid and late 1800's for the very same reason; the "scientists" getting tired of being forced into explaining away Astrological influence.
My favorite of these "let's make the intellects squirm" arguments is how, in one breath they explain the physics of gravity & frequency and how it keeps things "together" as a system and how each gravitational field affects everyone else within that system BUT, there is absolutely no affect on people, places & things on earth as the result of these physical factors and where they may be when one is conceived and later born. . .
so, it affects "everything" but not us 
To this same end, I love watching them trying to explain how study cases in which as many as 12 individuals born within five-minutes of one another and along the same general latitude each hit prime milestones in life that mirror one another's life accomplishments as well as the suggested paths & traits that have been taught by Astrologists for millennia.
This whole thing has lit a fire under my butt... guess I'm going to have to do some digg'n ... CURSE YOU RED BARON! 
Statistics: Posted by Craig Browning — 25 Jan 2011, 02:35
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