Astrology... How it works

I have always wondered what the roadside rusty palmists in saffron do for a living. For who is a fool to pay them for some thing like astrology. Also, u don't know who are the customers of thousands of astrology related sites on the internet that provide you with horoscopes (career, love, marriage etc) at an unreasonable price of $--. Who would be foolish enough to consult these people. If they can predict future, why don't they become betters on horse races and win billions?
But I did get the answer today, though not verbally. It was one of the moments of frustration that don't seem to leave me of late. 'Oh Smarak! Stop it. Is this why you have opened up this blog? So that you can use it as a bosom to cry upon? Will your tensions ever reside?'. This is what you will think, but the last Q even I have been asking myself. Will my tensions ever reside...in recent future?This Q led me to search for astrology related sites on Google...and I got galore. Now I understand how the astrologers and tarot readers make business. They heavily rely on uncertain and not-so-confident people for their living. If I, a student at India's best tech school, can fall for this in a small moment of despair, why can't a businessman or politicians. I have even heard that politicians have personal astrologers, an analogy to personal secretaries!I present wish is just that some astrologer posing as a genuine one, comforts me of my future!