This is far too big a question to deal with here, but there are several ideas about how or why Astrology works, as well as one or two about why it's nonsense or why people believe in it.
The medieval idea of "influence" (flowing in -- of power or forces) is not nowadays so popular and most prevalent ideas seem to be based on symbolic equivalence. Some people (see Robert Schmidt) hold that astrology, which developed in Hellenistic Egypt, was originally viewed as the language spoken by the great being of the universe, which we learn to understand, through a particular grammar of stars and signs etc. Others see it as a form of symbolic clock in which the markers of the heavens indicate the nature of the time and place.
And there are plenty of other ideas out there too.
It is astrology.
Science, as astrology is not a science. Nobody adheres to defined parameters and nobody measures the results empirically. You can but no astrologer does it. Plus all say that a successful prediction is one that is avoided so if you fail you then succeed, get it? In any actual science if your experiment fails it fails; it is not then proof your theory is a law. Astrology is notastronomy.
Nicolas Copernicus was mostly known for his astrology. He was also a mathematician, a physician, a translator, an artist, a diplomat, an economist.... But he was more well known for his astrology because he discovered heliocentrism ( theory that the sun is stationary at the centre of the earth).
There is no patron saint of astrology.
The Avalon School of Astrology
I don't believe in astrology. Astrology and astronomy used to be the same science.
Karma has written: 'Astrology of the ancient Egyptians' -- subject(s): Astrology, Egyptian Astrology
The Astrology of Personality was created in 1936.
Secrets of Astrology was created in 2000.
Marc Edmund Jones has written: 'The essentials of astrological analysis' -- subject(s): Astrology 'How to Live With the Stars' -- subject(s): Astrology 'The Guide to Horoscope Interpertation' 'Man, magic, and fantasy' -- subject(s): Fairy tales, Symbolism in fairy tales, History and criticism, Psychoanalysis and fairy tales 'How to Learn Astrology' -- subject(s): Astrology 'Astrology, how and why it works' -- subject(s): Astrology 'Sabian Manual' -- subject(s): Occultism, Sabian Assembly 'Astrology' -- subject(s): Astrology 'George Sylvester Morris' 'Horary Astrology' -- subject(s): Horary astrology, Problem solving, Miscellanea 'The Sabian Symbols in Astrology' -- subject(s): Astrology 'Problem solving by horary astrology' -- subject(s): Miscellanea, Astrology, Problem solving, Horary astrology 'Guide to Horoscope Interpretation (Quest Book)' -- subject(s): Horoscopes 'The Marc Edmund Jones 500' -- subject(s): Horoscopes, Astrology 'Gandhi lives'
James Vogh has written: 'Arachne rising' -- subject(s): Astrology, Zodiac 'Astrology and Your Health' 'The cosmic factor' -- subject(s): Astrology and health, Medical astrology 'The thirteenth Zodiac' -- subject(s): Astrology
Alan Leo, conceived William Frederick Allan, (Westminster, 7 August 1860 - Bude, 30 August 1917) was an English soothsayer. Alan Leo was a seriously productive essayist and proofreader. On normal he finished a book like clockwork, as well as altering his prophetic information