Well,
let me ask you a question – is gravity true. And if it is why can’t I see it. Or say do RADIO WAVES (used in mobile phone networks) exist. Or say how does money transfer electronically from one bank account to another when there’s no physical displacement of currencies. All of these have to be experienced. For people who don’t understand the science behind it its nothing less than magic. Radio waves existed since WWII. And the 1st mobile phones were invented in the 1960′s. It took almost 30-40 years for the technology to commercialize. Even in the 80′s and early 90′s even the concept of a personal phone was laughable.
Astrology is going through the same treatment right now. There are a lot of people who understand it and benefitting from it. And there are others who are questioning it.
I have been an amateur practitioner for almost a decade. And I got into this because of a personal tragedy (I had lost my healthy 34 year old elder brother to a heart attack that happened while he was taking a nap on a late Sunday morning in dec 2008 after brunch). Medical science failed to give me answers. It rattled the he’ll out of me. Astrology was the one which came to my rescue. And I didn’t go to some astrologer for a reading. I learnt it myself to understand it and to decide for myself whether it made sense or not. I am a fairly educated person (a computer science engineer and a double MBA) with an extremely rational and pragmatic approach to things. And in my experience astrology has always worked for me and for the people who have come to me (close friends and family) seeking assistance.
Over the years I have predicted marriages timings, child birth timings, changs in career prospects, health issues and even death (and unfortunately and as absurd ut may sound this was for my own mother).
So in my experience it works.