What do you think of astrology?

[camelliavi]

Posting in AIBU for traffic. Not the mystic meg astrology, but birth charts, rising, sun, moon etc. I'm a Scorpio rising, Virgo cusp/libra sun and Taurus moon- after looking up what they meant they're strangely accurate just curious to know!

Total BS

Goodness. I remember aged 13 raising money for school funds being Gypsy Meg. In a tent with drapery. I was amazingly vague but surprisingly accurate, apparently. Half was prior knowledge and gossip and half was asking people what question they wanted to ask me. That was always a give away and they didn't mind a vague answer - looking back at it now, they just wanted to work out what was really worrying them and be reassured or directed.

I did it again the next year by popular demand.

Obviously the horoscope pages in the papers are made up. Everyone knows that.

But there is deeper astrology, incorporating all the planets and placements in a particular person's chart. Astrologers dont say, Mars moving into into your third house causes arguments. Only that it mirrors it.

It's not rational, no. Living a life isnt rational either. Emotions, psychology, love, they're not rational, but they are the intangibles life is made of.

The non rational is a fundamental part of a happy life.

We need supports for our physical health. That's the realm of science, and thank goodness for it.

But we also need supports for our mental health. That's what the materialists and rationalists dont understand. Or think they understand, but dont understand why everyone isnt as ruled by the physical here and now as they are.

So this where belief systems come in. Whether or not psychics can find the missing treasure under lab conditions is totally irrelevant. It's like trying to measure what shape Tuesday is - it's a category mistake.

Belief systems help people through the harshness of life. Subjectivity is enough proof for that, for the individual person.

Your leg might be fine - But why would you kick the crutch out from someone else?

I only dabble for friends and family but the charts have shown things that no one could possibly forecast.

Friends divorce taking nearly 5 years from the day he left to when she would be free of him.

The final court hearing was set for March and friend said to me that at least she would be free of him well before the new year well before her horoscope had said it would happen.
Then came lockdown and it is probably going to be next year before it is all sorted. Probably sometime around the date I said her chart said years before.

My own chart said something was going to happen. I sort of knew who and what it referred to but the person I asked about it out right lied to me.

I couldn’t understand why my chart was saying one thing and I was being told something else.

Finally got the truth earlier this year. After questioning the person again and again.
They wondered how I knew.

If I hadn’t questioned I would be still be living in ignorance and having my bank account drained. Just wish I had been more forceful earlier.

Pisces sun, Libra moon and Gemini rising here. Some of it is pretty accurate for me, I don’t think there’s any more evidence that god exists but millions believe that.

It's utter bollocks but whatever makes you happy and doesn't hurt anyone.

As far as I can see it does hurt people if they don’t take at least a cursory glance at their chart

Taken another day the Brexit vote could have had a different outcome
If DC had looked at his chart for 23rd June 2016 then he would have realised that maybe that day wasn’t going to get him the outcome he wanted.

This is such depressing reading, particularly the people arguing that "oh no that type of astrology is bullshit but this type is scientific". What are you talking about? Scientific? By what metric can you possibly call any of that scientific? I was really hoping this stuff would have died out much more by now. Do you believers also believe in healers, psychics and crystals and all that jazz? Interesting quote in an article discussing why women might believe this stuff more than men:

"This could be considered a side effect of a male-dominated society. Dr. Phil Zuckerman, an author and sociology professor at Pitzer College,writes inPsychology Todaythat since men tend to globally dominate roles associated with power and privilege, women accept the "psychological comfort and institutional support of religion."

For a more scientific dive, Dr. Saad speculates that, like with religion, women subscribe to astrology more because of an external locus of control."

I have never called astrology scientific but those that have looked into it do find it strikes a chord.

Don’t know about psychics as having been 3 times over the years and all 3 times I have been refused a reading I wouldn’t be able to tell you.

Not sure about crystals as never looked into them.

I will continue to do my chart from time to time as although I lost a lot of money because of someone’s lie if I hadn’t kept on and got the truth then I would be looking at having no money at all now

To me it is a guide rather than an instruction manual