• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    My favorite thing is that astrologers are working with a ‘zodiac’ of stars which is so old, the stars have changed position in the sky and their zodiacal charts aren’t even accurate if you just up.

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      2 years ago

      I mean… there is sidereal astrology, which does account for the precession of the equinoxes. And tropical astrology has explanations and justifications to be how it is. It’s not just “oh dumb astrologers don’t even know the stars changed!”. Like, their whole thing is looking at stars and stuff. They sure know it.

      If you are actually interested or curious, here is a thread with explanations (it’s unfortunately on Reddit): https://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/wr1iok/tropical_astrology_explanation/?sort=top

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        2 years ago

        Like, their whole thing is looking at stars and stuff. They sure know it.

        They just don’t care 🌚

        Also, with how popular astrology now, I’d wager that more than half astrologists don’t know it and only care about some cargo cult attributes