Astrology and Whitehead

Astrology is a popular source of practical advice that is taken a lot less seriously as a scientific theory. However, potential intellectual validation for it comes from a very unlikely source--the metaphysical system of the distinguished Logician, Mathematician, and Philosopher of Science, Alfred North Whitehead. That system crosses Leibniz with Bergson: it regards existence as in a constant flux of development, with each new event a 'concrescence'. The latter is a convergence of all previously existing entities, some more relevant to the novelty than others, e. g. entities in the immediate vicinity of the novelty are much more relevant than distant ones, which are, nevertheless, still ingredients in the novelty. Thus, every concrescence is a reflection of the state of the universe at the time of its inception. And, hence, in particular, every human birth is a reflection of the universe at the time of its inception. Therefore, the position of celestial bodies at the moment of one's birth indeed says something about what one is, according to Whitehead's metaphysical theory. But, what is not grounded by that theory is the typical way in which it is translated into practical advice. So, it is actually in theory, but not in practice, that Astrology has the greater intellectual credibility.