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What is the difference between numerology and astrology?

numerology | astrology |

As nouns the difference between numerology and astrology

is that numerology is the study of the purported mystical relationship between numbers and the character or action of physical objects and living things while astrology is divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.

numerology

Noun

(numerologies)
  • The study of the purported mystical relationship between numbers and the character or action of physical objects and living things.
  • astrology

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body, celestial bodies.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales , Harleian manuscript:
  • a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye […].
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 274:
  • For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
  • * 2012 , The Guardian , (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
  • Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.

    Synonyms

    * , astromancy

    See also

    * astronomy