Okay, let me get this right.....we have gone from being told that we now have twelve planets in the solar system to being told now that one of the planets isn't one.....
Not only am I thoroughly confused,I am disgusted. Humans are so bloody arrogant! How the hell do we know what constitutes a planet?! For all we know, there's life on some bloody asteroid out their in the Kuniper Belt (I know I spelled that wrong, but I am flustered!) And to boot, scientists have been spending way too much time and money arguing over this stupid piece of pseudo-knowledge! Aren't there more pressing things to be concerned with?!
Okay I will stop ranting. It is actually too trivial a thing to get so wound up about. Truly, the only ones I think I can trust are the astrologers! I believe they have about 10 planets now, and a couple of other bodies they consider signifigant enough to give space to on a detailed natal chart. Astrology is based on the concept, upheld by Einstein himself I might add, that other celestial bodies exert force upon us. It has truth to it, because space is not a void, as was once thought. Molecules may be further apart than say in a dense body such as your own, or this planet, but they are none the less there. If one bothers the surface of the water, are not the vibrations of that motion felt elsewhere within that body of water? Of course they are: basic physics. It goes to stand that though they might be minute, the motions of the planets, etc., around the sun affect the sun. That's how most of the other planets found in our galaxy have been tracked down: they cause a wobble in their star's movement. Oh yeah, that means we should include in such a reading which way the wind was blowing the day you were born, and if there were any earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, but let's be at least a little sensible! Have you ever actually seen a natal chart?! They are tough enough to interprete!
Seriously though, I wish science would get on with more important things than "he said, she said." What an incredibly trivial abuse of what should be considered brilliant minds!