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LOL.
Astrology, ultimately etymylogically derives from... astron, meaning 'star' in Greek.
It literally means 'study of the stars'.
hahahah!
But uh yeah, it is essentially impossible to 'steel man' astrology, because pretty much every practitioner of it has their own cust version of it, similar to... how one is supposed to use or read Tarot cards.
Then you've got a whole cottage industry of cranks, cranking out either 100% or 90% made up bullshit as their own spin on how astrology 'works'.
Like, historically, you can trace various sort of family trees of actual astrological doctrines, but in the last 50 years, so many people have made up so much nonsense that you basically have to take any particular astrologer and ask them what they believe, because they won't agree with another one, or they'll just tell you that part of astrology is that it is a personal, mystical experience and practice, so there will be 'reasonable variation of opinion' amongst 'experts'.
It is delusional narcissist nonsense that functions as an identity for people who have not otherwise managed to build or acquire one.
There are a lot of similarities between, and sometimes direct crossover with, actual literal cult leaders, and 'very serious' astrologers.