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Confirmation bias in the chart
You will find the story you brought. Method is how you notice.
bias · method · mercury
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Eclipses and Catastrophes: How Careful Should Astrologers Be?
Old traditions of omen. Hindsight bias. The ease of matching every disaster to a sky after the sky has passed.
eclipses · prediction · bias
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Why Astrology Loves Hindsight
After the event, the chart looks obvious. Selection, confirmation, flexibility. Honesty about prediction standards is not an attack on the craft.
hindsight · bias · method
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Can Astrology Predict Catastrophes — or Just Explain Them Afterwards?
Eclipses, mundane work, retrospective matching. The tradition is older than the slideshow. Intellectual honesty is still required.
eclipses · mundane · prediction
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Weighing Contradictory Indications
A chart often offers two technically fair sentences that cannot both be the whole story. Method is how you rank them without deleting the one you like less.
interpretation · method · foundations
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Why Two Astrologers Can Read the Same Chart Differently
School, technique, priorities, time, ayanamsa, houses, dasha weighting, human judgement. Disagreement is not automatically empty — or proof.
method · judgement · schools
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