Now, can we think that the star-grouping over any particular birth can be the cause of what stands already announced in the facts about the parents? Either the previous STAR-GROUPINGS were the determinants of the child’s future career or, if they were not, then neither is the immediate grouping. And notice further that physical likeness to the parents – the Astrologers hold – is of purely domestic origin: this implies that ugliness and beauty are so caused and not by astral movements. Enneads III,1,5
Again, there must at one and the same time be a widespread coming to birth – men, and the most varied forms of animal life at the same moment – and these should all be under the one destiny since the one pattern rules at the moment; how explain that identical STAR-GROUPINGS give here the human form, there the animal? Enneads III,1,5