astrology

astrologia divination Divination about human affair affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial body|celestial bodies. (defdate)
c. 1390, (w), Canterbury Tales, Harleian manuscript:

a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye ….

For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.

Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.