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The ancient Chinese astronomers called the five major planets by the names of the Five Elements. Venus is Metal (gold); Jupiter is Wood; Mercury is Water; Mars is Fire; Saturn is Earth. The position of the five planets, the sun, the moon and comets in the sky and the Chinese zodiac sign at the time a person was born determine the destiny of a person's life according to the Chinese astrology. A laborious system of computing one's fate and destiny based on one birthday and birth hours (known as 紫微斗數) is still used regularly in modern day Chinese astrology. The twenty-eight Chinese constellations (宿 xìu) are quite different from the eighty-eight Western constellations. For example, the big dipper (Ursa Major) is known as 斗 dǒu; the belt of Orion is known as 參 shen, or the "Happiness, Fortune, Longevity" trio of demigods. The seven northern constellations are referred to as xúanwǔ (玄武). Xuan Wu is also known as the spirit of the northern sky or the spirit of Water in Taoism belief.

Astrology is not the same as astronomy. Astronomers are often dismayed at being confused with their counterparts in astrology, and vice versa. Because they regard it as not adhering to standards of the scientific method mainstream Western scientists commonly dismiss astrology to be a pseudoscience.

Astrology was once deeply intertwined with astronomy, and a clear divergence between the two dates back only to the time of Galileo. He was one of the first to use the scientific method to test objective statements about the heavens.