Every conceivable human activity or experience—from the knotting of strings to the interpretation of dreams—has become an oracle, witnessing man’s desperate eagerness for clues to his future. By contrast with these other kinds of prophecy, astrology was progressive. Astrology differed in asserting the continuous, regular force of a power at a distance. The influences of heavenly bodies on the events on earth it described as periodic, repetitious, invisible forces like those that would rule the scientific mind.
