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And musicians tend not to be born under Mars. These findings are the result of research on more than 16,000 famous Ceople by a French hus-and-and-wife team, Michel and Francoise Gau-quelin. For years, their work has been dismissed by many scientists as the usual astrological mumbo jumbo. Approval Now, however, it has been given the seal of approval by the eminent London University professors Hans Eysenck and D.J.B. Nias in a new book, Astrology: Science or Superstition.

Neither the authors nor the Gauquelins are quite sure how or why the position of planets influences people's characters and destinies. But they do come up with one fanciful theory that a genetic characteristic may make a child "choose" to be born when a particular planet has just risen or culminated. In this mysterious pro cess, the planets are somehow acting as "celestial midwives," they suggest. Incredible? Yes, but surely the evidence they offer requires some explanation. The Gauquelins divide the passage of the planets across the sky into 12 sectors, roughly similar to the traditional astrological houses.

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