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astrology

The non-scientific study of an alleged relationship between the positions of the sun, moon and planets in the twelve Zodiac signs and personal physical, mental, spiritual and emotional well-being and the events that occur in a person’s life.

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More subtlety and perhaps more effectively, Montaigne takes the argument of judicial astrology to its extremes consequences, showing that astrological knowledge would itself be understood as a product of the domination of the stars.

Scientia Stellarum: Montaigne on astrological knowledge (A note on the apology for Raymond Sebond)

And Pico did specify judicial astrology (astrologia divinitricem) in the title.

Pico and the historiography of Renaissance astrology

Most importantly, as he argues, official opposition to judicial astrology -- interpreting the movements of the heavens to predict events -- paralleled attitudes toward magic.