Actually, this planet affects my life every day.
We’re all using gold from a supernova right now to look at this
How could they? They’re not real and the earth is flat
Not true, I will travel to view a solar eclipse, therefore at least one star is affecting my life.
So… Jupiter pulls the barycenter outside Sol… but this has no effect on our lives… interesting. How’s this possible that we’re insulated from any influence?
Men will mock astrology then wear dirty panties week to week so their favorite sports team will win.
Magic thinking is in all of us. It makes more sense to view the sky and seasons as affecting your personality than half the luck, karma, prayer bullshit half the people mocking this stuff do
Personally I think there is reason in astrology. Animals literally have babies at a specific time of year, this habit predates fucking mammals themselves.
So babies born in winter might have a different temperament than those born in summer it makes sense to me evolutionarily. More than any other magic think I can think of.
edit: panty wearing magic thinking sports boys triggered
You’re logic be like: I’m an irrational guy => everyone is irrational => my kind of irrational is better than their kind of irrational because reasons.
or you know the more normal, awareness of magical thinking and still able to enjoy really normal things without being a dick lol
I’m not a dick.
I also describe people who disagree with me as panty wearing magic thinking sports boys.
on a post mocking astrology typically a woman/queer hobby?
What? Wow. That’s very sexist.
I’m with you. In ye olden times, hitting different development milestones during points of the year with different resource availabilities probably had an effect on personalities, and once a pattern is observed people like to make up a story to explain it. If you aren’t letting it rule your life it’s a bit of harmless fun. Like a lucky number or color. People are too protective of their own irrationalities while denouncing other’s.
Crazy to me that people make it their life’s mission to shit on others for the most random things
Narcissistic personality disorder’s a “fun” area of psychology to explore. The way they put down others to keep themselves comparatively above others in their fragile egoic minds, like entering social-domination mode for their perceived survival is a constant compunction for them, unable to distinguish from their inner world that other people really exist beyond just a means to their own petty ends, and will never honestly introspect on it.
Not to be that guy… But stars and planets definitely have the potential to affect all of our lives, just not in any positive w-- the sun goes supernova
Or, rather than supernova (or ballooning to a giant, in a few billion years) just the flares and corona mass ejections.
Which in turn are influenced by (for one) Jupiter’s influence on the sun cycle.
The stars and planets affect the lives of astronomers every day though.
I know what it means but… Uh… It’s technically quite wrong.
If a star does a Gamma Ray burst right in Earth’s path we’ll all be pretty strongly effected.
That’s not even going over that Earth is a planet and the Sun is a star, both which are effecting us on a daily basis.
And the sun is gravitationally effected by other stars which in turn effects Earth which in turn effects us…
If that happens, the debate would be moot because we’d all be vaporized, or we’d be sent back to the stone ages, depending on how far away the star is.
The dose makes the poison.
We’re being hit by gamma ray bursts from far far away all the time.
If they fall on earth, they do.
Also the sun probably has the most influence on us than any other thing in our lives.
Forgot about that.
You won’t be saying that when Earth drifts into the path of a gamma ray burst.
Space weather. Mhmm.
a capricorn made this smh
I’ve read before that astrology can actually be a good indicator of personality IF the person actually believes in astrology in the first place. It becomes a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where the person models their personality after whatever they’ve been told they’re supposed to be like. Astrology seems to just use alot of universal personality traits that probably anybody could manifest at some point in their life. So then a person who believes in it probably internalizes a few specific traits as “their” personality and after awhile just turn to that trait automatically.
No idea how true it actually is, but it seemed to make some amount of sense. It could potentially be useful if you’re dealing with a person who believes in astrology, but it’s such a random thing that it’d be just as useful to study Myers-Briggs personality types.
I first got intrigued to investigate astrology, while disbelieving it as utter bunk, when someone correctly “guessed” (asserted with certainty) what my sun sign was, from my personality/behaviour. I have since gone on to be able to fathom several other people’s sun signs from not only their behaviour, but their appearance[1].
But for sure, there are feedback loops.
Prediction or projection? Ever the feedback loop quandary.
[1: You can literally see it. In shorthand, by faces alone (though there are many other clues)…:
- Aries, you can see the aries glyph on their face, in the eyebrows.
- Taureans have a T on their face with a more flat eyebrow.
- Gemini have the twins facing each other on their face.
- Cancerians have a “moon face”, sometimes can see a crab-like appearance too to help distinguish from Librans.
- Leos have a lion-like nose/mouth/jaw protrusion/carving.
- Virgos have the tell tale “large cheeks”. [Edit: Heart shaped “spade faced” too.]
- Librans have “lightbulb head” (and a softness of features).
- Scorpios have a scorpion like severity to their face. (Like Capricorns, hard to describe)
- Sagittarian (I think the easiest to spot) have a rectangle forehead.
- Capricorn’s kinda goaty, kinda see it in the severity in their eyes, and a sharpness of features (like cheekbones).
- Aquarius I find harder to spot by their face (because of uniqueness), best clue, lower top eyelids, I often mistake for Taureans.
- Pisces are best detected in the eyes that look like two fish jumping out of the water towards each other.
And if you then couple appearance with personality traits, it gets easier to see/guesstimate. Some people manage to tune their sight to see it constantly, effortlessly, whereas some people “never” see it, much like magic eye pictures. Then of course, there’s rising sign and moon sign (or stelliums) that typically next have the biggest influence on appearance, which may be worth enquiring if guessing sun sign incorrectly, to see if you were seeing those other influences. Once you know what to look for, sometimes it stands out strikingly obvious.]
Love the subtle Myers-Briggs roast you slipped in there!
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.
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
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
