Good news for rational, level-headed Virgoans everywhere: just as you might have predicted, scientists have found astrology to be rubbish, writes Science Correspondent Robert Matthews.

Good news for rational, level-headed Virgoans everywhere: just as you might have predicted, scientists have found astrology to be rubbish.

Its central claim - that our human characteristics are moulded by the influence of the Sun, Moon and planets at the time of our birth - appears to have been debunked once and for all and beyond doubt by the most thorough scientific study ever made into it.

For several decades, researchers tracked more than 2,000 people - most of them born within minutes of each other. According to astrology, the subject should have had very similar traits.

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I think that astrology is generally right. It is more than just where the Sun, Moon, and planets were when you were born, it is how you were raised or where you were raised. Outside influences have just as much to do with who you become as those closest to us. Astrology can give you an idea of who you are or who you could become, or expain why you may act the way you do sometimes. Plus, it's just plain entertaining sometimes.

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."
--Carl Gustav Jung