Do you know women who believe in horoscopes?

[PicnicBunny]

My friend is a Pisces. Okay, we’ve been friends for decades and when we were younger we were fascinated, as were most of the other women friends - especially because of the relationships with dating and making new friends angle. I’m a Scorpio.

I don’t put much thought into this kind of stuff anymore. But my friend is really driven by it still. She’ll meet a man and feel off because he’s a Sagittarius! Or another Gemini! And will expect me to agree. I don’t anymore tbh. I wouldn’t say she’s a typical piscean either but she’ll explain her own behaviour like, oh, you know I’m a piscean like your big sis and so you probably understand. We just […insert some trait eg being too generous and kind until they blow a fuse..]

I will try and reply with logic. Boundaries etc. oh, could you have possibly […] and her reply will be all pisceans are just this way. I don’t get out much anymore but people can’t still be reading horoscopes to understand the world?
She’s actually really smart otherwise. Brilliant job independent, confident go-getter if perhaps a little unlucky in love. But that’s because she’s a piscean of course.

Do you think horoscopes are still relevant? Or friends who do?

no

I’m glad I left all new age, esoterism, spirituality behind after years of cognitive dissonance

Never been happier

I am Pisces too and do read horoscopes 🤣 know what she means about geminis 🤣

Mumbo jumbo rubbish

Sag is a great match for Pisces, much better than a bloody boring Taurus or a manipulative Gemini!

*misses point of thread

I read horoscopes. I don't base my life around them. I'll tell you something though, I wouldn't touch a Scorpio man with a barge pole now 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don’t know anyone who takes any notice of them. As a teen in the 90s it was very popular, but I thought they had seriously gone out of fashion. Then I joined tik tok and star signs are everywhere in there! Must be getting popular again?

@Merlott

Well there you go - I’m Taurus and I think everyone I know would say I’m far from boring.

It's seems bizzare to make life choices based on the relative position of giant balls of rock and gas.

I like to read them in my parent’s TV guide. If it says something positive I like to believe it but no I wouldn’t make a major life change based on it.

No!

It would be a huge red flag to me too if someone did.

Like all 14 year old, I was into it in the 80s. I'm a typical Aries... but then I learnt about confirmation bias and realised I was also a typical whatever else too.

Background, upbringing and life experiences? Yes. How the planets were aligned when you popped forth into the world? No.

It's nonsense.

Yep, but she is also into all sorts of other crap (believing something will happen and it will - whether you out the effort into it or not - 14 years later none of it has happened but she still believes.. 🙄).

Oh, and into all this nonsense to do with Egyptian pyramids.

I don’t think I could handle having a friend like that. I thought horoscopes were 2 minutes of fun for people that read them, something to laugh at. I did read them in magazines occasionally as a teen, they’re not something to live your life by and I haven’t heard anyone mention them for years. I don’t even know what star sign my partner or kids are. 😬 You must be more patient than me to listen to her.

I had a birth chart reading a while ago that was disturbingly accurate, I went in as a complete non believer and came out baffled.

Whilst I would never live my life by horoscopes, and never think about them, I do occasionally listen to the reading I had and wonder how it was so bloody accurate!

It marked a turning point in my life though, the things I was told, so I suppose on some level I’ve believed and found great comfort in it!

No, I tune out if my SIL people start waffling on about them. Thankfully none of my friends are like this.

I used too when I was a teenager, until my exdh pointed him and his dad share the same birthday so something that could be aimed for him is completely irrelevant for his dad and it put it into perspective for me.

When we were kids, yes. We'd all look at our horoscopes in the teen mags back then.

As an adult, no. In person I mean. I read online and come across adults who believe in it but I don't personally know anyone.

As a teen in the 80s, I was into this. Then I grew up. If teenage TikTokers are into this trend, fair enough but adults (although Russell Grant has probably made a packet off it).

Fairies, Tarot, horroscopes, magic, Pyramids - were all trends with my friends and younger family members.

If a friend were scanning her eye over a horoscope, fine, but if she genuinely believes it, then I find that weird, but each to their own. She'd still be my friend. I have friends who are religious and I respect that. I mean, they believe a fictional man walked on water and could magic up food. Religion as led to conflict, war and crazy dictators. Your friend's interest is harmless in that sense.

I’m pleased someone has highlighted the difference between popular sun sign horoscopes found in magazines and an in depth reading of a full natal birth chart.

To me the whole New Age thing is pure escapism.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. The mass of a 80kg midwife has a greater gravitational force on a new-born than Jupiter. The mother even more so.

Nope. You put a horoscope in front of me and I’ll read it just for fun, but I wouldn’t base any decisions off of it!

I don't care much about it. I find it funny that you have a sun sign and a rising sign. So I'm cancer rising and Libra sun, which means I'm 50% emotionally disturbed. The other 50% sits and talks to herself in the mirror. Utter bollocks but entertaining nonetheless. Who remembers septic peg? Can't remember which comedian did it.

Tik tok has many, many people who really (seem to) believe in astrology. And who are determined to have people caring what house Mars is, whether they have ‘12th house placements’ and what their mercury sign is.

The somewhat absurd result of this is videos about what will happen with the full moon in X or something no longer being ‘retrograde’ directed at ‘anyone with Capricorn placements sun/moon/rising’ which must be something approaching 1/4 of the entire population since all those can be different in anyone.

Apparently the minutiae of where Chiron is (what even is Chiron?) in your chart matters but you can still tell people with ‘major earth placements (sun/moon/rising)’ that they’re all going to have something happen in their life. That must be a huge proportion of people.

I find it fascinating how earnest all this is on tik tok. So it keeps showing me ever more bonkers woo crap. 🤣

You may have guessed that I’m not a believer.

Well if she likes astrology she might benefit from knowing that Sun sign that everyone goes by means very little and that she should look into a man's entire birth chart. Planets like Venus, Mars and Moon as well as asteroids like Eros, Lilith, Chiron and Juno are far more important in compatibility than the Sun sign.

I see astrology believers like religion followers. To some, their beliefs make no sense but if it's important to them and isn't harming others, leave them be.

My whole department! They were discussing their wonderfully positive horoscopes fairly lightheartedly one day, when I deliberately did something conventionally considered to be unlucky. Along the lines of walking under a ladder. I clearly had misread the room, because the outrage that resulted! There was a general crossing of fingers, chucking of salt etc, followed by re-consulting the horoscopes (including mine) to prove that what I had done had been predicted. They were quite cross with me