The statements made to help you understand yourself are true no matter who you are, what planets were in which constellation, where the Sun is, etc. That is why they seem so powerful because they are universal.
Chrom, I don't understand how planet alignment and the other related parts of astrology could predict someone’s future or tell about coming or past events.
Along with universal truths or what ever you want to call them, throw in some intuition.
I recently spoke to a very intelligent woman with a PhD in education. She was asking me most of the questions one would ask to tell me what might happen to me and why things happened in the past. I didn’t have the necessary answers (time of birth) so she dropped the subject.
I asked about magneto hydro dynamics and sunspots, if any astrology models included those events. She said no. BTW this lady is skilled when it comes to why things happened or might happen in the future. I say she has intuition. She embraces Astrology.
My line of thinking; what influences events on the Earth: Earth first, too many effects to list. Sun for light, heat, gravitational forces, solar winds, sunspots, MHD, Moon for gravitational forces, some light.. Venus???? I never investigated that subject. Mars???? I never investigated that subject. Jupiter, it caught some space junk that might have hit the Earth. Gravitational forces that influence something on Earth, I don’t know because I never investigated that option.