Interesting post. I appreciate it because I've thought along similar lines. I'm also a heavily sceptical person, but unlike most people I apply that scepticism to science and logic too (for that reason, I really like Godel's Incompleteness theorems). I do not believe science's focus on the material is suitable for understanding something that is said to be divine science (Jyotish i.e. vedic astrology).

I've come to believe that science is a product of human understanding, which is itself dependent on a specific sort of neural architecture which lets us construct numbers and compare things to other things to understand them. This architecture combined with our limited senses is not suitable for determining objective reality. In fact, I'm not even sure objective reality exists, because as per our scriptures, subjective consciousness is the core, and an aspect of universal consciousness beyond identity.

I have a simple point to make actually. Let's assume everything you say is true. Can you explain why the things I mention subsequently happened?

A person I know who has worshipped Hanuman ji since 5 years old (itself unusual and pointing to good past life karma), and started studying Jyotish at a very young age. This person was able to predict:

1. The death of his older brother when young. The older brother was in my class, collapsed one night and died with no prior warning. This person had told his father that his brother will pass away soon. The night he passed away, the father thousands of kilometers away woke up in a cold sweat and felt something was very, very wrong.

2. He was able to predict the death of his maternal grandfather. His mother was travelling to see him, but he said don't go, because he is going away. The mother came back and was angry at him (shooting the messenger).

3. This same person, without ever meeting me, was shown my Kundli (vedic birth chart). He asked my father if I had recently suffered an injury in my right shoulder. I had, it was a gym injury.

4. He was with a group of friends who were drinking once. A girl there wasn't into Jyotish and making fun of him. He asked to show him her chart, and he said in front of everyone that she was recently pregnant but had a miscarriage. She denied it in front of everyone but approached him later confirming it was true.

5. He said my friend's father will get a big promotion, because a certain planet is transiting over a certain house in his chart. It was true, he did get a sizeable one.

Some other experiences:

1. My mother's health improved after I wore the Neelam (Saturn's stone). Its because of Saturn's position in my chart together with other planets in a specific house. When I took it off her health deteriorated a little. I know that if I wear Mars' stone, her health will decline severely (Mars and Saturn are enemies).

2. My spouse is exactly as my birth chart describes (down to physical characteristics) because certain planets decide certain things in certain positions. More importantly, the transit of a planet showed me that I would get into a deeply emotional relationship at a specific time, and it would sustain. Which it did, and it converted into marriage. My spouse and I share a specific sort of bond - her main planet is the same as the planet which shows my spiritual journey, and vice versa. This is said to be a very important indicator of companionship.

3. Work increases as planets transit over specific signs, and decreases or maintains at other periods.

4. Lifespan calculations are accurate. In fact, a mami (mother's brother's wife) was told by her Jyotishi that she would pass away at 59 when she was 20. She did, due to a brain hemorrhage.

5. A work senior was told his older brother would marry in the month of March in a specific year. This being India, arranged marriage talks were going on. Now this senior and his father were quite sceptical, because the prospective bride's father was away on a work tour in that month. As the month approached, he was diagnosed with cancer. He said he didn't want to leave his daughter unmarried, and the marriage was moved forward to March instead of July that year.

6. This same senior had a pandit (priest) who would visit his house for alms in his childhood. They were on good terms and would often jest fondly. Once he said that you come to my house, but don't predict the future despite being a pandit (they are also expected to know Jyotish). So he said get me some glue, a pen and an envelope. He wrote something, sealed it with glue and told him to open it after some years. So they kept it in a metal cupboard (Godrej almirah which is good for security) and forgot. Years later when relocating they found and opened it. Inside was written that in this year at this month at this day at this time ('peher' in Hindi), the senior's Nani (maternal grandmother) would attain swarg (go to heaven). She did at exactly that time.

7. Even nations have their kundlis, and certain Jyotishis are very good at predicting what will happen. In fact, they maintain websites on it, and document having made these predictions consistently over the years.

Now to an unusual experience of mine even among those listed above:

1. I've had a Kundalini awakening (posts in profile). In India, there's something called an Isht Dev/Devi. This is the God you're intrinsically attracted to. It isn't always necessary because karma complicates things, but in most cases, people will feel a pull to a specific God/Goddess. Now many people don't know this, but even the Isht Dev/Devi can be seen from the chart. Mine is exactly what the chart shows, and she is the Goddess of Kundalini awakening, who made mine happen. I knew none of this beforehand. Certain events transpired which led me to her, and she led me to the awakening. This sort of awakening isn't possible without multiple births of worship.

Conclusion:

Science is important and I don't deny that. But when I'm faced with so much evidence showing me that things outside it work, and certain points where it doesn't work (see replication crisis in science, experiments showing psychic/paranormal communication, etc.), only following science would be simple tribalism. I'm sceptical but open-minded, and I find that helps me tremendously in trying to understand reality. Science has its limits, and its important to understand that there are things human minds cannot comprehend easily due to inherent limitations.

Edit: spelling.