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?

Hey, you do you!

Of course! 😘

@Perfect28 Can I ask you why you never believed in it? I’m thinking maybe some of us who believed in it / or still do - were reading the same teen magazines.

@ClearMoth thank you for that. That’s very well written and precise. I think I’ve never actively reasoned myself out of it, or searched out why I don’t believe in it anymore. This helps. And obviously I have never come out as a disbeliever either to my friend.

It was probably more banter than actual belief (I thought) More a sort of ‘let’s see if these rules apply to x person.’ Like a trick. Oh gasp whoa 🤯 mindblown that relationship didn’t work out because like a typical Scorpio male he got possessive! Whooaaa (I’m not possessive and my husband is a Scorpio too and also not the least bit possessive) but good old confirmation bias.

I think because it has been around for a very long time it will continue - even if people are writing in saying that they have zero astrology skills and wrote those horoscopes, it will continue. My friend is a true believer maybe and I never realised.

Or maybe it is also just a descriptive summarisation of people when we communicate? She relates friends to me, “xxx and you are so much alike the Scorpio determination ! “

Feels like women maybe got taught this through teen magazines and horoscope specials (!!!) because the guys don’t give it much weight at all.

A sun-sign magazine forecast, which e.g. tells you that as a Capricorn it will be a good week for romance, is like a weather forecaster saying 'it will rain in Europe somewhere next week, or it might be sunny'.
So totally overgeneralised as to be useless.

A full reading of your natal chart (based on place, date and time of birth, preferably to within 5 minutes), is something else entirely.

It is not a science though. It is a spiritual/psychological/occult art.

I think most of the women in my life are into astrology or other spiritual beliefs like mediums. I think I’m far too logical to entertain any of it seriously and think most of it is just money making bullshit. But, I don’t pretend to have all the answers either. If it helps them make meaning of their existence then who am I to say otherwise, I just nod and smile when they’re giving me advice about poking myself in my third eye.

Honestly, astrology or religion or crystals.....all the same
Dealing with the sides related to spirituality

My friends and I used to like reading our horoscopes in cosmo when we were about 16 but that's as far as it went. I don't know a single person who is even remotely interested in their horoscopes now.

I know plenty of people who are interested in it , but only on a superficial / bit of fun level really.