[yovav (OP)]

Do planets rule our destiny?

[Kryptid]

Only the planet Earth, because we live on it.

[Colin2B]

Do planets rule our destiny?

If they were to collide with earth, then yes.
If you mean as in astrology, then no, that mythology has no place in physics.

[alancalverd]

Absolutely.

By the time the sun has entered your birth sign 100 times, most people are dead.

[evan_au]

Yes, to some extent...
if your Phd depends on a particular instrument making it to Mars, and the lander crashes (as many have)...

[yovav (OP)]

If they were to collide with earth, then yes.
If you mean as in astrology, then no, that mythology has no place in physics.
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No, I do not really mean astrology.
But also not to a state of collision with the ground.

[yovav (OP)]

Only the planet Earth, because we live on it.

And there are no interactions with other celestial bodies that might affect our sphere?

[yovav (OP)]

Absolutely.

By the time the sun has entered your birth sign 100 times, most people are dead.

Can celestial bodies be affected by our human interactions in this world?

[Colin2B]

And there are no interactions with other celestial bodies that might affect our sphere?

The moon and other planets cause extremely small changes to the earth’s path around the sun.

Can celestial bodies be affected by our human interactions in this world?

Our interactions are extremely small compared to the planetary scale, so no.

[evan_au]

Can celestial bodies be affected by our human interactions in this world?

Maybe our human activities can make small changes to small celestial bodies...

The DART space mission is intended to demonstrate a capability to divert any asteroids that are found to be on a collision course with Earth.
- The amount of diversion would be small, but over 100 orbits, that makes the difference between an impact and a miss.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test

[alancalverd]

The moon determines tides. The sun has some tidal effect, and also makes wind and rain happen. The angle of the earth's axis relative to the sun determines seasons. If it all hangs together nicely, you get a good crop and plenty of fish. If the planets don't align nicely, you get droughts, hurricanes and floods. Long-term it all evens out, but in any one year, every person's fate depends in some way on these planetary motions.   

[yovav (OP)]

If it all hangs together nicely,

Are we likely to find that this situation is related to human relationships?

[Bill S]

Are we likely to find that this situation is related to human relationships?

As far as we know, we live in a finite Universe.

There is an obvious cyclicity. Therefore, it would seem reasonable to assume that there is a finite number of possible cycles.

There is a finite number of people who can populate a finite Universe.

People have different personalities and characteristics.  There must be a finite number of these.

If everything else is cyclic, the distribution of these characteristics may also be cyclic.

Astrologers may have spotted this duel cyclicity and attempted to link the two in a causative way. Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc.

Marks for imagination, rather than science, please.

[Kryptid]

Are we likely to find that this situation is related to human relationships?

Only in the sense that weather and food availability impact how we feel, where we go and the probability of certain kinds of accidents and disasters. The gravity itself is going to have no measurable impact on us.

[alancalverd]

If it all hangs together nicely,

Are we likely to find that this situation is related to human relationships?

Eventually, if we keep reproducing and finding cures for disease, we will run out of potable water (i.e. rain) and start killing each other for access to the habitable bit between high tide and desert.

[yovav (OP)]

Marks for imagination, rather than science, please.

I understand you, but I mean science and not astrology.
If we examine ourselves we can say in some way that the universe is within us.
Where did the gold come from? The iron we have in our blood? The calcium found in the bones?
It all came from those stars who are factories for making elements.
We are basically stardust, so it is not delusional that a change in our molecules will cause a change in the celestial bodies.
Of course this is just my hypothesis that is not empirical.

[Kryptid]

We are basically stardust, so it is not delusional that a change in our molecules will cause a change in the celestial bodies.

Based on what reasoning? Just because a car crashes, that doesn't mean it will somehow affect the factory where it was made hundreds of miles away.

[yovav (OP)]

ventually, if we keep reproducing and finding cures for disease, we will run out of potable water (i.e. rain) and start killing each other for access to the habitable bit between high tide and desert.

I mean the same molecules that we are made of, the same molecules that came from the death of the stars and supernovae.

[yovav (OP)]

Based on what reasoning? Just because a car crashes, that doesn't mean it will somehow affect the factory where it was made hundreds of miles away.

I loved the answer.
You are right, as if there is no justification for making a causal argument.
At the same time today when we begin to notice that our world is the result of desires, thoughts and intentions, then also perceptions change, beginnings of new paradigms undermine the old perceptions.
And at the same time I agree with you that there is a missing element here that will connect it to something that could be close to the same touchstones of scientific research.

[Kryptid]

You are right, as if there is no justification for making a causal argument.

So why even propose that there is one?