[N]either this nor that supposition is worthy of the name of an astronomical hypothesis, but rather that which is implied in both alike. - Johannes Kepler

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back. I can give myself up to the sacred frenzy, I can have the insolence to make a full confession to mortal men that I have stolen the golden vessel of the Egyptians to make from them a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of the land of Egypt. If you forgive me I shall rejoice; if you are angry, I shall bear it; I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen.

God gives every animal the means of saving its life—why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?