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That's correct Kieran. People can be fooled. That's why you would need to do some research. Don't just go to the first one you hear about, look around. Contact organizations in your area. Talk to others who may have been to one. There are always risks. Personally i would ask the astrologer to deliver their interpretation of your chart without asking questions. If they have a problem with that i would be sceptical of their abilities as it would fall into the realms of cold reading. In fact if you attend any form or divination of yourself, or psychic reading as such, i would avoid answering any questions, especially ones that would help the psychic or reader "fish" for answers.
As for cold reading, i don't know that he was essentially "cold reading" the participants as say a "psychic or medium would do. As you have already pointed out, he would have compiled simple charts for each of them, and due to time constraints, made a quick assessment of that information supplied by each person: date of birth, birth time, place of birth (lat & long). He probably would have factored in the position of the planets in the various houses and also determined the ascendant sign and sign at mid heaven. I don't know whether he would have enough time to factor in the various planetary aspects as they relate to each other.
His "reading" as such would have been made using the information those factors supplied him. Having the participants in front of him when he delivered the reading is problematic in a way as their feedback may have helped him. In the end, as you say he did a pretty good job with the testing criteria supplied to him.
Astrology is far from a perfect method of divination as indeed all methods are not. I think the people who i had mentioned as having used it would have used it as an adjunct to their other methods of information gathering, just as the U.S government used remote viewing as an adjunct to its other intelligence gathering methods.
Yeah and the Shermer facial expressions were priceless.

<blockquote data-quote="The Pair of Cats" data-source="post: 103492" data-attributes="member: 521">That&#039;s correct Kieran. People can be fooled. That&#039;s why you would need to do some research. Don&#039;t just go to the first one you hear about, look around. Contact organizations in your area. Talk to others who may have been to one. There are always risks. Personally i would ask the astrologer to deliver their interpretation of your chart without asking questions. If they have a problem with that i would be sceptical of their abilities as it would fall into the realms of cold reading. In fact if you attend any form or divination of yourself, or psychic reading as such, i would avoid answering any questions, especially ones that would help the psychic or reader &quot;fish&quot; for answers.As for cold reading, i don&#039;t know that he was essentially &quot;cold reading&quot; the participants as say a &quot;psychic or medium would do. As you have already pointed out,&nbsp; he would have compiled simple charts for each of them, and due to time constraints, made a quick assessment of that information supplied by each person: date of birth, birth time, place of birth (lat &amp; long). He probably would have factored in the position of the planets in the various houses and also determined the ascendant sign and sign at mid heaven. I don&#039;t know whether he would have enough time to factor in the various planetary aspects as they relate to each other. His &quot;reading&quot; as such would have been made using the information those factors supplied him. Having the participants in front of him when he delivered the reading is problematic in a way as their feedback may have helped him. In the end, as you say he did a pretty good job with the testing criteria supplied to him.Astrology is far from a perfect method of divination as indeed all methods are not. I think the people who i had mentioned as having used it would have used it as an adjunct to their other methods of information gathering, just as the U.S government used remote viewing as an adjunct to its other intelligence gathering methods.Yeah and the Shermer facial expressions were priceless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Pair of Cats, post: 103492, member: 521"] That's correct Kieran. People can be fooled. That's why you would need to do some research. Don't just go to the first one you hear about, look around. Contact organizations in your area. Talk to others who may have been to one. There are always risks. Personally i would ask the astrologer to deliver their interpretation of your chart without asking questions. If they have a problem with that i would be sceptical of their abilities as it [I]would[/I] fall into the realms of cold reading. In fact if you attend any form or divination of yourself, or psychic reading as such, i would avoid answering any questions, especially ones that would help the psychic or reader "fish" for answers. As for cold reading, i don't know that he was essentially "cold reading" the participants as say a "psychic or medium would do. As you have already pointed out, he would have compiled simple charts for each of them, and due to time constraints, made a quick assessment of that information supplied by each person: date of birth, birth time, place of birth (lat & long). He probably would have factored in the position of the planets in the various houses and also determined the ascendant sign and sign at mid heaven. I don't know whether he would have enough time to factor in the various planetary aspects as they relate to each other. His "reading" as such would have been made using the information those factors supplied him. Having the participants in front of him when he delivered the reading is problematic in a way as their feedback may have helped him. In the end, as you say he did a pretty good job with the testing criteria supplied to him. Astrology is far from a perfect method of divination as indeed all methods are not. I think the people who i had mentioned as having used it would have used it as an adjunct to their other methods of information gathering, just as the U.S government used remote viewing as an adjunct to its other intelligence gathering methods. Yeah and the Shermer facial expressions were priceless. [/QUOTE]

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