“Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
The perfect quote to stop criticism of astrology while at a party with a glass of wine in one hand and a soggy cracker with decorated cream cheese in the other. If the quote doesn’t do the trick, then shove the soggy cracker up the critic’s nose.
Madame Zombra always believes in the direct approach.
Direct to be sure. And I’ve noticed recently an uptick of “attitude” in Madame Z’s “tone.”